Membership Renewal & Shoreline Bundle & Soil Draw May 4th! Video: "How Can We Care for Our Lakes" and How Pesticides enter the Lake!

"How Can We Care for our Lakes", watch this video from Watersheds Canada https://youtu.be/1HXjEQSdeOA

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How do pesticides enter water?

Pesticides are chemicals that are used to control pests. When pesticides enter the environment, various chemical reactions and biological processes break them down over time into other chemicals. Those chemicals are called transformation products. Pesticides and their transformation products can move through the environment:

• within water

• attached to soil particles

• in the air

Pesticides may enter Canada's waters in many different ways. When pesticides are applied in agricultural, forestry and urban environments, they can travel by air (via spray drift) or by surface run-off and unintentionally enter a body of surface water, or they may move through soil to enter groundwater. Pesticides can also enter surface water through rainfall and deposition of dry particles such as dust. See Figure 1 above. Pesticides used indoors may enter surface water through wastewater discharge. Source: Water monitoring for pesticides - Canada.ca