PHOSFATE

Cancer survivor and filmmaker Erik E. Crown joins local water activists to investigate accelerated cancer rates and other illnesses in central Florida communities, tracing the source to phosphate mining and the pollution of the state’s waterways by a multinational corporation. The residents of Bone Valley, Florida have cancer rates six times higher than the national average. This region of central Florida has the largest deposits of the naturally occurring chemical phosphorus, which is mined to make fertilizer. As the chemical is processed, using over 70 million gallons of groundwater, each ton leaves behind five times the amount of radioactive rock.

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