Drugs Making their Way into Waters
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Academic
A new research published in the Science Journal revealed that drugs are entering waterways through waste streams, which carry unused pills thrown by people or the drugs excreted by them.
It was discovered that fishes are also responding to these drugs in a much similar ways as humans. The drugs have reached waters as the water treatment plants are not designed to filter out the pharmaceuticals from the used water.
Consequently, the fishes are made to ingest these drugs passively. According to a research carried out by Micael Jonsson of Umeå University in Sweden, lab tanks with concentrations similar to waste water treatment plants downstream made the Perch swimming in it to lose its characteristic inhibitions.
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