Although we're currently not in lawn care season, every year thousands of homeowners, commercial property owners and local governments spray chemicals to preserve lawn and garden aesthetics. There are numerous other ways to get rid of weeds, and keep a flourishing lawn and garden many of which require a little bit of manual labor. However, instead of taking an hour or so to rip up weeds most people decide to use chemical sprays which kill weeds.
We all love having a lush garden, however there is a heavy price we pay for spraying these chemicals to our health. Pesticides are toxic, and are in fact biocides which are designed to attack the biology of living organisms. They do not discriminate in their act of killing. More than half of pesticides on the market have been tested to be carcinogenic.
Here, in Watertown, the town is built on an aquifer. The towns' water comes from under ground. So, everything that is leaked into the ground ends up in the water we use in our homes.
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So, we have double the risk of being exposed to the risks of pesticides. Not only are we in contact with them by lazily lying out on the lawn on a summer day, but we are also using contaminated water every time we open our drains.
