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What happens to wildlife swimming in a sea of our drug residues?

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Salon

Publication Date
2021-08-18

Fish hooked on meth? It's a catchy headline that made the rounds a few weeks ago, but it represents a serious and growing problem. Our rivers and streams have become a soup of hundreds of drugs — mostly pharmaceuticals — that come from the treated water released from wastewater facilities.

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https://www.salon.com/2021/08/17/what-happens-to-wildlife-swimming-in-a-sea-of-our-drug-residues_partner/