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Let's take a look at the WHO's document titled "Guidelines for drinking-water quality: fourth edition incorporating the first and second addenda"! Here's a quote from chapter "8.5.3 Chemicals from agricultural activities": "As a general principle, efforts should be made to keep the concentration of pesti- cides in water as low as possible, and to not allow concentrations to increase up to the guideline value or health-based value." Here's s a quote from chapter "8.6 Pesticides used in water for public health purposes": "The control of insect vectors of disease (e.g. dengue fever) is vital in many countries, and there are occasions when vectors, particularly mosquitoes, breed in containers used for the storage and collection of drinking-water. Although actions should be taken to prevent access of vectors to or breeding of vectors in these containers, this is not always possible or may not always be fully effective, and use of mosquito larvicides may be indicated in certain settings." Here's s another quote from chapter "8.6 Pesticides used in water for public health purposes": "Dichlorodiphenyltrichlorethane (DDT) has been used for public health purposes in the past. It is being reintroduced (but not for water applications) in some areas to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes." Here are a few quotes from chapter "12.2 Pesticides used for vector control in drinking-water sources and containers": Quote 1: "The diseases spread by vectors are significant causes of morbidity and mortality. It is therefore important to achieve an appropriate balance between the intake of the pesti-cides from drinking-water and the control of disease-carrying insects. Better than establishing guideline values are the formulation and implementation of a comprehen-sive management plan for household water storage and domestic waste management that does not rely exclusively on larviciding by insecticides, but also includes other en-vironmental management measures and social behavioural changes." Quote 2: A quote from subchapter "Permethrin": "Adding permethrin directly to drinking-water for public health purposes is not recommended by WHO, as part of its policy to exclude the use of any pyrethroids for larviciding of mosquito vectors of human disease. This policy is based on concern over the possible accelerated development of vector resistance to synthetic pyreth-roids, which, in their application to insecticide-treated mosquito nets, are crucial in the current global anti-malaria strategy." Quote 3: A quote from subchapter "Pirimiphos-methyl": "Based on the above calculations, pirimiphos-methyl is not recommended for dir-ect application to drinking-water unless no other effective and safe treatments are available. If pirimiphos-methyl is applied directly to drinking-water, consideration should be given to using alternative sources of water for bottle-fed infants and small children for a period after its application, where this is practical." Quote 4: A quote from subchapter "Pyriproxyfen": "WHO has assessed pyr-iproxyfen for use as a mosquito larvicide in drinking-water in containers, particularly to control dengue fever. The recommended dosage of pyriproxyfen in potable water in containers should not exceed 0.01 mg/l under WHOPES." Quote 5: A quote from subchapter "Temephos": "Temephos is an organophosphorus insecticide that is used mainly as a larvicide to control mosquitoes on ponds, marshes and swamps and midges, black flies and other insects in public health. It is also used for mosquito control in potable water in con-tainers. It is specified for use as a vector control agent in drinking-water sources by WHO under WHOPES. Formulations for control of vectors are specified by WHO, and only those approved by WHOPES should be used for this purpose. The recom-mendation for the use of temephos in potable water is that the dosage should not exceed 1 mg/l." Quote 6: A quote from subchapter "Temephos": "Consideration should be given to using alternative sources of water for small chil- dren and bottle-fed infants for a period after an application of temephos, where this is practical." Source: See pages 195, 205, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489 and 490 on the following link: https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/352532/9789240045064-eng.pdf?sequence=1 Did you know that the term "virus X" was mentioned already in 1949? Check out the article "DDT poisoning and elusive virus X; a new cause for gastro-enteritis" from 1949!!! Here's the link to the article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18113629/ Interesting, isn't it? So, could the history repeat itself or could the elites repeat their scenarios? In 2023, the WHO published the document titled "Operational manual on indoor residual spraying: control of vectors of malaria, Aedes-borne diseases, Chagas disease, leishmaniases and lymphatic filariasis", where they say that "In some areas, the use of DDT may be warranted." Source: See chapter 3.3.2.2 in the aforementioned document Link: https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/375978/9789240083998-eng.pdf?sequence=1