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Ground News - Global study finds the extent of pharmaceutical pollution in the world's rivers

A new study looking at the presence of pharmaceuticals in the world's rivers found concentrations at potentially toxic levels in more than a quarter of the locations studied. ....

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Drugs have dangerously polluted the world's rivers, scientists warn

Humanity’s drugs have polluted rivers across the entire world and pose “a global threat to environmental and human health,” according to the most comprehensive study to date.
Pharmaceuticals and other biologically active compounds used by humans are known to harm wildlife and antibiotics in the environment drive up the risk of resistance to the drugs, one of the greatest threats to humanity.
The scientists measured the concentration of 61 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) at more than 1,000 sites along 258 rivers and in 104 countries, covering all continents. Only two places were unpolluted Iceland and a Venezuelan village where the indigenous ....

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