"Water treatment plants near drug makers are getting heavily drugged.

Wastewater treatment plants taking discharges from nearby pharmaceutical manufacturers have 'substantially' higher concentrations of drugs in the water, according to a new national study.

In the most extreme example, an anti-fungal drug was found at levels 3,000 times higher at a treatment plant near a drug maker compared to treatment plants that don't accept drug maker discharge.

'Unfortunately, this is pretty typical,' Jose Lozano, director of The Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility's Environmental Laboratory in New York, told EHN."

Brian Bienkowski reports for Environmental Health News May 21, 2018. [2]