The public has every right to know the quality of its water and every right to fully understand the risks and benefits of modern agriculture. Do agriculture's benefits outweigh the public right to clean water? Is farming that does not pollute water even possible?

Industrial agriculture, not manufacturing, gas drilling or mining, is the largest contributor to America's water pollution problem.

I needn't remind you that Oklahoma is a stronghold for climate change deniers like Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe. But Oklahoma could be poised to redeem itself, taking on the unsustainability of industrial agriculture.

The particulates from our own medicated bodily fluids are so fine that there are no water processing plants in the world that can trap them.