Dethlev Cordts

Uranium is a highly toxic heavy metal, particulary to children. Since more than 80 years phosphate fertilisers are used in the worlds agriculture. It is well known, that uranium is a part of phosphat fertilisers that derive from the oceans sediments. In the time from 1950 to 2010 In Germany the farmers put more than 13.000 tons of uranium on the soils. Germanys drinking water is under threat because this kind of uranium (uranly ions) is highly soluble in water.

Dethlev Cordts

(Gefährliches Trinkwasser) Germany, 2010, 44 min, German Director: Dethlev Cordts, Production: Dethlev Cordts for NDR German TV Latin American Premiere From 1951 to 2005 at least 13,000 tonnes of uranium have been proposed on German fields. Phosphate fertilizers were dirtied with an average of half a pound of uranium per tonne. The confederation of industries agrarian and the farm association do not take a serious view on that. The natural uranium deposits in our grounds are much higher, than the additional load by the fertilization. Besides, they hide that the so-called "natural uranium" is already integrated since millenniums firmly in the crystalline structures of the rock, the uranium from the fertilizer, however, is very slightly water-disolvable and movable and can reach very...