[SBD1]

It appears that they have not learned their lesson. In addition, things have gotten worse since that irrigation water is reclaimed and supposedly recharged before it is sent to the San Diego water supply.

Would you be suprised to know that certain areas on San Diego were on a mandatory boiling water warning in the first week of August?

Nobody seems to want to connect the dots regarding our recent E. coli "boiling water" alert and the spinach contamination of E. coli in the news.

Are we not the city that has the largest agriculture-to-urban water district in the country?

Doesn't that water come from the agriculture upstream?

Shouldn't that E.coli have been detected further upstream before it got to San Diego?

If the spinach was washed in early August and packaged for shipment, wouldn't that fit into our E. coli timing?

[Jeff Chandler]

100 years from now school textbooks will tell about all the people sickened by food-born bacteria in an era when people were superstitious about food irradiation.

[Sarajevo]

I am a trial lawyer who has built a practice on food pathogens.

Now, that sounds like a sh*tty job.

This may prompt some readers to consider me a blood-sucking ambulance chaser who exploits other people’s personal tragedies.

Aren't all lawyers?

[Milwaukee_Guy]

Thanks for posting the article!

Looks like the smoking gun has been discovered. If the watershed is so polluted one has to boil water, it only makes sense that the produce was being grown in a veritable cesspool.

With the unhealthy farming practices so prevalent in that region, how on earth can it be changed and remain economically viable?

Will it change at all?

[hershey]

Proximity to Mexico not mentioned and one quarter of their population, the poorest and least educated are here. If they have the barest notion of hygiene, it's blind luck. We have to educate a whole lot of people picking fresh fruits and vegetables. Probably in Espanol. Mexico's problems with pollution, filth, disease near the Rio Grande are no secret. (They don't bother wasting money on stuff like that.)

[raybbr]

ping

[tubebender]

I thought the spinach was grown and packed in Monterey County on the Calif central coast?