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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, July 28, 2022) A report published in\u00a0Chemosphere<\/em><\/a>\u00a0finds\u00a0organophosphate (OP) insecticides<\/a>\u00a0readily contaminate drinking water resources, threatening human, animal, and ecological health. OPs have a wide range of biological uses\u2014from insecticides to flame retardants\u2014that make these chemicals ubiquitous, significantly contributing to ecosystem contamination. These compounds have a global distribution, with evaporation and precipitation facilitating long-range atmospheric transport, deposition, and bioaccumulation of hazardous chemicals in the environment. OPs are\u00a0highly toxic<\/a>, and residues are\u00a0consistently present<\/a>\u00a0in human and animal blood, urine, tissues, and milk. Considering\u00a090 percent<\/a>\u00a0of Americans have at least one pesticide compound in their body, primarily stemming from dietary exposure, including food<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0drinking water<\/a>, advocates maintain that current restrictions on their use must adequately detect and assess total chemical contaminants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Water is the most abundant and crucial chemical compound on earth, essential to survival, and the main component of all living things. Less than three percent of that water is freshwater, and only a fraction<\/a>\u00a0of that freshwater is groundwater (30.1%) or surface water (0.3%) readily available for consumption. However, ubiquitous pesticide use threatens to reduce the amount of available freshwater as pesticide runoff,\u00a0recharge<\/a>, and improper disposal tends to contaminate adjacent waterways, like rivers, streams, lakes, or underground watersheds. With rivers and streams only accounting for 2% of surface waters, it is essential to protect these vulnerable ecosystems from further degradation, including aquatic biodiversity loss and a decrease in water quality\/drinkability. Thus, researchers note, \u201c This study develops new knowledge in the field of monitoring and evaluation of drinking water quality. The developed method can facilitate water utilities to solve the pollution of OPPs in the world in drinking water resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using gas chromatography (GC), the study analyzes 385 water samples from eight water source sites for residues of two common-use organophosphate insecticides, malathion, and diazinon. Statistical analysis and a risk-modeling approach by an automatic Monte-Carlo procedure measured trends and changes in OP concentration and carcinogenic (cancer) risk. The study finds water resource sites with a lower pH (more acidic) and near agricultural areas tend to contain higher concentrations of OP residues. Moreover, the concentration of OPs in water resources differ during the seasons, with spring and winter concentrations much higher than summer or fall. Regarding carcinogenicity, malathion has a high cancer risk in all scenarios with concentrations above U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accepted limit of 1.0E-6, while diazinon has a high cancer risk in all scenarios, but low age population (e.g., children).<\/p>\n

Organophosphate (OP) insecticide<\/a>\u00a0use is widespread, while industry promotes the chemicals as having greater efficiency and lesser environmental persistence. However, OPs are a class of insecticides known to have adverse effects on the nervous system, having the same mode of action as nerve agents for chemical warfare. OPs originate from the same compounds as World War II\u00a0nerve agents<\/a>, producing adverse effects on the nervous system. Chemical exposure can cause\u00a0a buildup of acetylcholine (a chemical neurotransmitter responsible for brain and muscle function) and can lead to<\/a>\u00a0acute impacts, such as uncontrolled, rapid twitching of some muscles, paralyzed breathing, convulsions, and, in extreme cases, death. The compromise of nerve impulse transmission can have broad systemic impacts on the function of multiple body systems. In addition to being highly toxic to terrestrial and aquatic organisms, human exposure to\u00a0organophosphates<\/a>\u00a0can induce endocrine disruption, reproductive dysfunction, fetal defects, neurotoxic damage, and kidney\/liver damage. Exposure can increase vulnerability to deadly diseases, including\u00a0COVID-19.<\/a>\u00a0Moreover, OPs are one of the leading causes of\u00a0intentional poisoning<\/a>\u00a0globally, as pesticide toxicity makes them potentially lethal substances.<\/p>\n

This study represents one of the few to implement the Monte-Carlo (a simulation of multiple risk scenarios, as distinct from EPA\u2019s standard single-point risk estimates) approach to assess the carcinogenic risk of OPs after considering various factors such as chemical concentration distribution, variability, and uncertainty. Although most OP uses in the U.S. are now agricultural, toxicity experts<\/a>\u00a0recommend a ban on all OPs for agricultural use. EPA and the World Health Organization (WHO) consider over\u00a040<\/a> OPs that are moderately or highly hazardous to human health. EPA classifies some commonly used OPs like malathion, a popular mosquito control, and tetrachlorvinphos, a common flea and tick killer in pet collars and shampoos, as probable carcinogens. in August 2021, adopting a position that had be advanced by the agency in the waning days of the Obama Administration. States, including Hawaii, California, New York, and Maryland, had already adopted planned phase-outs of chlorpyrifos use, to different degrees, in agriculture following evidence of neurotoxic effects on children. However, other OPs remain in use despite their notorious toxicity. Moreover, U.S. Geological Survey<\/a> (USGS) reports demonstrating that pesticides like OPs are ubiquitous in the aquatic environment and a pervasive contaminant of freshwater ecosystems (e.g., surface and groundwater), which serve as\u00a0drinking water sources<\/a>\u00a0for half of the U.S. population. The research concludes, \u201c[T]hese results are expected to help federal and local governments adopt new guidelines for water quality assessment to prevent drinking water shortages or waterborne diseases that endanger human health. Besides, this indicates that immediate actions must be performed to reduce these levels and to ensure the quality of the drinking water.\u201d<\/p>\n

The use of toxic pesticides should be phased out and eliminated to\u00a0protect the nation\u2019s and world\u2019s waterways<\/a>\u00a0and reduce the number of pesticides that make their way into your drinking water. Additionally, Beyond Pesticides has long advocated for\u00a0regulations that consider potential synergistic and additive threats<\/a>, to ecosystems and organisms, from admixtures of pesticides \u2014 whether in\u00a0formulated products<\/a>\u00a0or \u201cde facto\u201d in the environment. Unfortunately, current administration regulations fail to consider the environment holistically, thus creating a blind spot that limits our ability to enact widespread change that improves ecosystem health. However, advocating for local and state pesticide reform policies can protect you and your family from pesticide-contaminated water. Furthermore,\u00a0organic\/regenerative systems<\/a>\u00a0conserve water, nurture fertility, reduce surface runoff and erosion, reduce the need for nutrient input, and eliminate the toxic chemicals that threaten many aspects of human and ecosystem life, including water resources. For more information about pesticide contamination in water, see the\u00a0Threatened Waters<\/a>\u00a0program page and Beyond Pesticides\u2019 article\u00a0Pesticides in My Drinking Water? Individual Precautionary Measures and Community Action<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0Chemosphere<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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