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09/04/2018 / By Edsel Cook

What our poop is telling researchers: Wastewater studied to learn if drug manufacturers are a major source for contamination of waterways

You have probably heard about researchers investigating sewer water to find out all sorts of things about the health and drug habits of the people in that town or municipality. But it appears that a lot of the pharmaceutical drugs found in wastewater are directly coming from the drug manufacturers themselves, an article on Inside […]

06/09/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Chemists finally identify the molecule responsible for a carcinogen in recycled wastewater

Thanks to a recent study by California-based chemists, recycled water may become much safer for consumption. The researchers announced that they have tracked down the specific chemical molecule responsible for the creation of a highly potent carcinogen in treated wastewater, according to a ScienceDaily article. Formally known as N-nitrosodimethyalmine, NDMA is a cancer-causing byproduct of […]

06/08/2018 / By Edsel Cook

New polymer mat able to fish biologically harmful contaminants from water

There’s a new water treatment mat that acts like a miniaturized fishing net for water pollutants. Devised by Texan researchers, it can bait, hook, and destroy toxic chemicals in water supplies, according to a ScienceDaily article. Developed by the Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Center, the mat uses titanium dioxide to break down pollutants. It can be made as big or […]

04/15/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Make your laundry cleaner for the environment: Researchers designing ways to treat wastewater from washing machines

You can’t see silver nanoparticles in your clothes – not even with a microscope – but rest assured these tiny particles are present in many of your underwear, towels, socks, and other garments. Ranging in diameter from 1 to 100 nanometers, they are added to give clothes anti-odor and anti-bacterial properties. In fact, a quarter […]

09/11/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Great Lakes fish found heavily contaminated with antidepressant drug chemicals

A new study has found alarmingly high concentrations of human antidepressants in several species of fish in the Niagara River, an important conduit connecting Lake Erie with Lake Ontario. The researchers discovered the presence of antidepressants and their metabolites in brain tissue in fish such as smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, rock bass, white bass, white […]

07/30/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Cities dumping human sewage on farm land across America is contaminating the food supply and destroying the ecosystem

Since the EPA started promoting the “land application” of sewage sludge in 1993, millions of tons of this toxic biosludge have been spread on the farmland and public parks in our nation. It also sometimes makes its way to the organic compost and fertilizer section of your favorite garden supply store. What happens to it […]

02/22/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Everything you flush down the toilet ends up in your food: “Biosludged” film to expose the “greatest environmental crime” of biosolids

It was after reading the book, Science for sale: How the US government uses powerful corporations and leading universities to support government policies, silence top scientists, jeopardize our health, and protect corporate profits, by David Lewis, Ph.D., that Mike Adams, the founder/editor of Natural News first started looking into an issue which Lewis has been […]

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