Your Daily Poison - Pesticide Action Network UK
Your Daily Poison - Pesticide Action Network UK
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APPENDIX 6b<br />
PAN <strong>UK</strong> survey: pesticides in public drinking water supplies<br />
— worst offenders<br />
Percentage of samples (raw and treated, ie drinking water) in which specified pesticides<br />
were detected above the limit of detection.<br />
Water company Total pesticides Atrazine Isoproturon MCPP Mecoprop Propyzamide Simazine<br />
Bristol 64% 79% 15.7% 19.6% N/A 63.7%<br />
Essex & Suffolk N/A 31% 33% 25% N/A 54%<br />
Mid Kent N/A 40% 0 9% 0 31%<br />
Northumbrian N/A 27% 11% 2% 100% 24%<br />
South Staffordshire 79.5% 79.7% 7% 55.4% 0 59.8%<br />
Southern N/A 62.4% raw; 62.6% 5.5% raw; 1.2% 10.5% raw; 3.8% 4.6% raw 47.7% raw; 43.2%<br />
treated<br />
treated<br />
treated<br />
treated<br />
Sutton & East<br />
Surrey<br />
89% 85% 6% 14% N/A 34%<br />
Apart from Southern, water companies did not specify if pesticide detected in raw or treated water.<br />
the second <strong>UK</strong> pesticide exposure report 41
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