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| Almost HALF of world's rivers contain dangerous levels of prescription drugs including antidepressants, antihistamines and painkillers, study warns |
| 2022-06-23 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Define dangerous. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 From the article: The sites with the highest levels were situated in Africa – with a river in Nairobi having the highest levels of all the sites, according to the researchers. 'The locations with the highest mixture HQs were situated in Africa and were primarily associated with three sampling campaigns (Lagos in Nigeria, Nairobi in Kenya, and Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) where garbage disposal, sewage discharge points, dumping of raw sewage by exhauster trucks, and pharmaceutical manufacturing activities were observed,' the researchers wrote. In Asia, the highest levels were in Lahore, in South America they were in La Paz, and in Europe they were in Tubingen. There’s a cute little map at the link. All the American samples are marked as being in the lowest measurement categories. But I wasn’t going to swim in the Nairobi river, nor drink unbottled water there anyway. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-06-23 23:04 |
| #5 And Clive Cussler's Celtic Empire? Surely a (plot give-away redacted) is a simple fiction story, right? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-06-23 16:38 |
| #4 If we were serious about cleaning up this planet the UN would put fines and other things on third world polluters. Since we've never done that I can only assume the Un and the environmental movement are full of dung. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-06-23 16:36 |
| #3 When "a third" is redefined as "half". And when "the world" is used to describe the Third World. And, finally, when dumping untreated sewage into rivers is ignored to create a panic over prescription medicines (which likely aren't available solely by prescription outside the developed nations). |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-06-23 08:49 |
| #2 On a more serious note, I remember reading Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague(1994). IIRC, a sobering discovery (then) was that bacteria could exchange 'bundles of immunity responses' cross species and that "...they discovered antibiotic resistant bacteria on algae rafts in the center of Chesapeake Bay". (!) |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-06-23 00:43 |
| #1 "Dangerous" if you don't give the Daily Mail more 'clicks' ? |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-06-23 00:37 |