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    1. People who work with pesticides, live near farmland, or rely on private wells all carry more of the risk.

      Andreotti, Gabriella, Laura E Beane Freeman, Joseph J Shearer, Catherine C Lerro, Stella Koutros, Christine G Parks, Aaron Blair, et al. “Occupational Pesticide Use and Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma in the Agricultural Health Study.” Environmental health perspectives, June 2020. ‌Richards, R. Peter, David B. Baker, Nancy L. Creamer, John W. Kramer, David E. Ewing, Bruce J. Merryfield, and Larry K. Wallrabenstein. “Well Water Quality, Well Vulnerability, and Agricultural Contamination in the Midwestern United States.” Journal of Environmental Quality 25 (1996): 389–402 Moses, Marion, E. Spencer Johnson, W. Kent Anger, et al. “Environmental Equity and Pesticide Exposure.” Toxicology and Industrial Health 9, no. 5 (1993): 913–959

    2. Pesticide runoff is an environmental justice problem due to this fact.

      Moses, Marion, E. Spencer Johnson, W. Kent Anger, et al. “Environmental Equity and Pesticide Exposure.” Toxicology and Industrial Health 9, no. 5 (1993): 913–959

    3. Pollution then enters ordinary life all without anyone even noticing its there.

      Nixon, Rob. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    4. Chemicals may leave a field during a storm and after a long process, reappear through contaminated drinking water.

      Richards, R. Peter, David B. Baker, Nancy L. Creamer, John W. Kramer, David E. Ewing, Bruce J. Merryfield, and Larry K. Wallrabenstein. “Well Water Quality, Well Vulnerability, and Agricultural Contamination in the Midwestern United States.” Journal of Environmental Quality 25 (1996): 389–402

    5. Rob Nixon’s definition of slow violence as a violence that occurs over time, out of sight, and is dispersed across space fits the violence we see taking place in the river basin.

      Nixon, Rob. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    1. A chemical may be washed up on a field and resurface as a health concern later on

      Richards, R. Peter, David B. Baker, Nancy L. Creamer, John W. Kramer, David E. Ewing, Bruce J. Merryfield, and Larry K. Wallrabenstein. “Well Water Quality, Well Vulnerability, and Agricultural Contamination in the Midwestern United States.” Journal of Environmental Quality 25 (1996): 389–402

    2. its delayed effects that only reveal themselves with time

      Nixon, Rob. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    3. occupational exposure too.

      Andreotti, Gabriella, Laura E Beane Freeman, Joseph J Shearer, Catherine C Lerro, Stella Koutros, Christine G Parks, Aaron Blair, et al. “Occupational Pesticide Use and Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma in the Agricultural Health Study.” Environmental health perspectives, June 2020.

    4. This study looked at women in rural Wisconsin that were exposed to atrazine through well water.

      Mcelroy, Jane A., Ronald E. Gangnon, Polly A. Newcomb, Marty S. Kanarek, Henry A. Anderson, Jim Vanden Brook, A. M. Y. Trentham-Dietz, and Patrick L. Remington. 2007. “Risk of Breast Cancer for Women Living in Rural Areas from Adult Exposure to Atrazine from Well Water in Wisconsin.” Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 17 (2): 207–14.

    5. runoff becomes part of slow violence when environmental exposure is linked to health risks.

      Nixon, Rob. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    6. cancer risks, endocrine disruption, occupational exposure, and child health concerns over extended periods of time.

      Hendryx, Michael, Jamison Conley, Evan Fedorko, Juhua Luo, and Matthew Armistead. 2012. “Permitted Water Pollution Discharges and Population Cancer and Non-Cancer Mortality: Toxicity Weights and Upstream Discharge Effects in US Rural-Urban Areas.” International Journal of Health Geographics 11 (1): 9. , Mcelroy, Jane A., Ronald E. Gangnon, Polly A. Newcomb, Marty S. Kanarek, Henry A. Anderson, Jim Vanden Brook, A. M. Y. Trentham-Dietz, and Patrick L. Remington. 2007. “Risk of Breast Cancer for Women Living in Rural Areas from Adult Exposure to Atrazine from Well Water in Wisconsin.” Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 17 (2): 207–14. , New-Aaron, Moses, Zaeema Naveed, and Eleanor G. Rogan. 2021. “Estrogen Disrupting Pesticides in Nebraska Groundwater: Trends between Pesticide-Contaminated Water and Estrogen-Related Cancers in an Ecological Observational Study.” Water 13 (6): 790.

    1. large region it is connected to via interconnected streams, rivers, groundwater, and wells.

      ‌Richards, R. Peter, David B. Baker, Nancy L. Creamer, John W. Kramer, David E. Ewing, Bruce J. Merryfield, and Larry K. Wallrabenstein. “Well Water Quality, Well Vulnerability, and Agricultural Contamination in the Midwestern United States.” Journal of Environmental Quality 25 (1996): 389–402

    2. Once chemicals enter water systems, they will travel and in a manner that is difficult to trace as it is not damage that is visible to the naked eye

      ‌Richards, R. Peter, David B. Baker, Nancy L. Creamer, John W. Kramer, David E. Ewing, Bruce J. Merryfield, and Larry K. Wallrabenstein. “Well Water Quality, Well Vulnerability, and Agricultural Contamination in the Midwestern United States.” Journal of Environmental Quality 25 (1996): 389–402

    3. ider regional water system

      Bussan, Derek D., Clifford A. Ochs, Colin R. Jackson, Tarun Anumol, Shane A. Snyder, and James V. Cizdziel. 2017. “Concentrations of Select Dissolved Trace Elements and Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in the Mississippi River and Major Tributaries during the Summer of 2012 and 2013.” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 189 (2)

    4. water carries them off through agricultural runoff.

      Richards, R. Peter, David B. Baker, Nancy L. Creamer, John W. Kramer, David E. Ewing, Bruce J. Merryfield, and Larry K. Wallrabenstein. “Well Water Quality, Well Vulnerability, and Agricultural Contamination in the Midwestern United States.” Journal of Environmental Quality 25 (1996): 389–402

    5. Agricultural runoff is the result of water running over fields,

      Richards, R. Peter, David B. Baker, Nancy L. Creamer, John W. Kramer, David E. Ewing, Bruce J. Merryfield, and Larry K. Wallrabenstein. “Well Water Quality, Well Vulnerability, and Agricultural Contamination in the Midwestern United States.” Journal of Environmental Quality 25 (1996): 389–402

  2. Jul 2026
    1. Because the basin is connected by a large system of streams, rivers, groundwater, and wells, agricultural runoff becomes a much larger issue covering a region way larger than the intended one.

      Bussan, Derek D., Clifford A. Ochs, Colin R. Jackson, Tarun Anumol, Shane A. Snyder, and James V. Cizdziel. 2017. “Concentrations of Select Dissolved Trace Elements and Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in the Mississippi River and Major Tributaries during the Summer of 2012 and 2013.” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 189 (2)