Great Lakes Contaminated With Pharmaceuticals
Tracking pollution in theGreat Lakestakes more than monitoring goo spilling out of factories or oil gushing from a pipeline.The International Joint Commission recently highlighted a subtler source of contamination lurking in medicine cabinets throughout the region. Pain medicine, birth control, anti-depressants and other pharmaceuticals make their way into theGreat Lakesthrough municipal water systems and stormwater runoff. (ASHLAND CURRENT, 12/19)
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