Tag: pharmaceuticals

William H. Schlesinger
April 7, 2022 William H. Schlesingerenvironmental health, faculty, lakes and streams, waste, water, water pollution

Drugs in your drinking water

Not all pharmaceutical compounds can be removed by traditional methods of treating wastewater.

Bill Schlesinger
September 17, 2019November 26, 2020 Bill Schlesingerenvironmental health, faculty, lakes and streams, waste, water, water pollution

When you flush

It is a lot to ask the microbial population in a septic system to break down chemicals that they have never experienced in nature, let alone those designed to inhibit their activities.

Bill Schlesinger
August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 Bill Schlesingerenvironmental health, faculty, lakes and streams, waste, water, water pollution

Whither your water

It gives me pause to see proposals now before government agencies to relax the standards for discharge and stream protection

Bill Schlesinger
January 30, 2017 Bill Schlesingerbiogeochemistry, environmental health, faculty, lakes and streams, waste, water, water pollution

Your Water on Drugs

It is likely that the organisms in many streams across the U.S. are bathed in a weak solution of birth control pills, caffeine, hypertension blockers, and lithium.