Comments on: Tucson Water’s free sex-change plan http://www.friendsofarley.org/2005/12/13/tucson-waters-free-sex-change-plan/ Re-Elect Steve Farley as Arizona LD28 State Representative in 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:38:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Gretchen Wagenseller http://www.friendsofarley.org/2005/12/13/tucson-waters-free-sex-change-plan/#comment-121 Gretchen Wagenseller Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:22:47 +0000 http://www.friendsofarley.org/2005/12/13/tucson-waters-free-sex-change-plan/#comment-121 Also, I was amazed when I heard former Congressman (Louisiana) Billy Tauzin offhandedly mention on C-SPAN during a committee that Prozac has been found in fish in rivers in the U.S. Amazed not that Prozac had been found, but amazed that a Congressman was mentioning this on television. [Mr. Tauzin presently heads the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), revolving door in action.] See website below. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/drugs/2005-04-25-drug-lobby-cover_x.htm The U of A Environmental Engineering Department presently is involved in a large research project studying these "estrogenic" or "endocrine disrupter" compounds. The [U.S., I believe] Geological Survey in Tucson also has done quite a bit of research in this area, sampling groundwater wells in the vicinity of the Santa Cruz River. Our treated wastewater, which is released to the Santa Cruz, percolates down into the ground and groundwater below. Some websites of interest re this subject are shown below. http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/EDC/projects/edc_dw.htm Also, I was amazed when I heard former Congressman (Louisiana) Billy Tauzin offhandedly mention on C-SPAN during a committee that Prozac has been found in fish in rivers in the U.S. Amazed not that Prozac had been found, but amazed that a Congressman was mentioning this on television. [Mr. Tauzin presently heads the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), revolving door in action.] See website below.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/drugs/2005-04-25-drug-lobby-cover_x.htm

The U of A Environmental Engineering Department presently is involved in a large research project studying these “estrogenic” or “endocrine disrupter” compounds. The [U.S., I believe] Geological Survey in Tucson also has done quite a bit of research in this area, sampling groundwater wells in the vicinity of the Santa Cruz River. Our treated wastewater, which is released to the Santa Cruz, percolates down into the ground and groundwater below. Some websites of interest re this subject are shown below.

http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp
http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/EDC/projects/edc_dw.htm

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