{"id":699393,"date":"2021-08-18T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699393"},"modified":"2021-08-18T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:40:07","slug":"leaky-sewers-are-likely-responsible-for-large-amounts-of-medications-in-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699393","title":{"rendered":"Leaky sewers are likely responsible for large amounts of medications in streams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmaceutical compounds can harm the environment. However, in waterways that don&#8217;t receive treated wastewater, these pollutants aren&#8217;t expected to be present. Now, researchers have found that amounts of some medications carried by a stream in Baltimore were substantial, despite generally low concentrations over the course of a year. Because wastewater plants don&#8217;t impact this stream, the high loads are likely coming from leaking sewer pipes, they say.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/08\/210818084007.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Leaky sewers are likely responsible for large amounts of medications in streams<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmaceutical compounds can harm the environment. However, in waterways that don&#8217;t receive treated wastewater, these pollutants aren&#8217;t expected to be present. Now, researchers have found that amounts of some medications&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}