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Let’s talk about How are Drugs Polluting the World’s Rivers?

By Kids of RMB 

All of humanity’s drugs have polluted rivers worldwide and posed a global threat to environmental and human health! Pharmaceuticals and other biologically active compounds are known to harm the environment and antibiotics are one of the greatest threats to humanity! Scientists measured the concentration of 61 active pharmaceutical chemicals at more than 1000 sites in 258 rivers and in 104 countries covering all the continents!

Only 2 places were unpolluted: Iceland and a Venezuelan village where the indigenous people don’t use medicine for their daily lives! These medicines end up in sewage systems or rivers when humans take them! Hotspots with high levels of medicine in water can be found in Lahore in Pakistan, La Paz in Bolivia, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, and Madrid in Spain!

Let’s stop medicine pollution and stop throwing medicine into global rivers to make our beloved earth a better place for humanity! There is no Planet B! We have to change ourselves and educate others about the impact of throwing medicines to make our Earth a better place to live for our future generations to come!

By Sri Nihal Tammana

Source: The Guardian

The Kai Tak river in Hong Kong had 34 different active pharmaceutical ingredients. Photograph: Robert Harding/Rex/Shutterstock


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