News Brief: Will Biodegradable Drugs Save Our Water?

Recent studies indicate that even highly treated effluent contains microcontaminants. A new study suggests that the solution to protecting water resources might lie not in a new wastewater treatment process, but in designing better drugs.
News Brief: Will Biodegradable Drugs Save Our Water?
Photo by Sage Ross (ragesoss.com), from Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

A team of researchers from Leuphana University in Germany is tackling the problem of pharmaceutical pollution in water resources. Because recent research has shown that even highly treated effluent contains trace micropollutants — typically from pesticides, pharmaceuticals and...

Please login or register to view TPO articles. It's free, fast and easy!


Discussion

Comments on this site are submitted by users and are not endorsed by nor do they reflect the views or opinions of COLE Publishing, Inc. Comments are moderated before being posted.