The Queen endorses support for water research

Setting out to develop methods to protect the environment from the effects of hormones and similar chemical pollutants, researchers from the Institute of the Environment at Brunel University, were awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Further & Higher Education at Buckingham Palace earlier this week. Professors John Sumpter and Susan Jobling, who led the project, secured the award for the impact of their two decades of research, which uncovered a link between exposure to water pollution and sex change in male fish in UK rivers, as well as finding evidence that pharmaceuticals consumed by people are inefficiently removed by water treatment processes and pass into rivers and drinking water. Read more: http://j.mp/yeORJr

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1. 12 years ago the director of the Swiss institute for aquatique sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Zurich, Mr Zehnder, already published in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung,the change of sex of trouts due to hormones in the treated water from treatment plants. At the same time I was working with the university of Zurich and we found out and documented the change of sex of rats when they got sunscreen applies on a regular basis. So this story is definitely not new. Sorry

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   1. Thanks Thomas. Hmm, apparently new to the Queen. Perhaps you should send Buckingham palace/Brunell University a link to these findings? Can you share a link to them? we will then post to set the record straight.