Drug overflow: pharmaceutical factories foul waters in India.(This Week)(contamination of Godavari river )

From: Science News | Date: August 11, 2007| Author: Barry, C. | Copyright information

Pharmaceuticals ranging from painkillers to synthetic estrogens can harm aquatic life when they enter waterways through human excreta, hospital and household waste, and agricultural runoff. Now, researchers have shown that there's another way for such drugs to get into the environment: A treatment plant in India that processes wastewater from pharmaceutical manufacturers discharges highly drug-contaminated water into a stream that feeds a major river.

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