Monday 7 September 2009

Fish full of . . . Cocaine? Our Poisonous Wastewater

There is a lot of hand-wringing this week at the Royal Society over the questionable state of our water. With new research showing everything from pharmaceutical estrogens, to illicit drugs and dangerous disinfectants streaming through treatment facilities and right back into the environment (possibly back into your drinking glass), these top-notch scientists are calling for better research methods and more attention to the problem of water contamination in their latest publication.*

*Royal Society (Great Britain). Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 367 (1904). (London: Royal Society, October 2009) .

Image: *Leanda - Flicker

1 comment:

Louis@Antenna said...

Are there any facts and figures that really stand out from the report?