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Saskatchewan ![]() Uranium mining in the north affects a lot of the water, but the theme in the south was agriculture and animal farming. Both are heavily sprayed with herbicides, fungicides and pesticides, and, as they say on the label, they are designed to kill. Every animal watering hole is laced with it. They would even close the Trans-Canada highway to use it as a runway for their spray plane. No wonder Saskatchewan had the highest infant mortality in Canada and the highest M.S. rate in North America. In the province of Alberta, in the Lethbridge region alone, grain farmers import 20,000 kg of 2,4-D every year. Now they are finding it in tap and rain water, to the surprise of Alberta's Minister of the Environment, who stated: "We thought it would just evaporate." |