General Article Rising tide of drugs and medicines polluting EU waters

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Europe’s freshwaters are increasingly filled with pharmaceutical residues and other micro-pollutants, which are potentially harmful to human health and the environment, according to Friedrich Barth from the European Water Partnership (EWP), an industry-backed group.
‘One of the big problems in Europe will be micro-pollution – from pharmaceuticals, but also from pesticides and nutrients,’ said Barth, whose organisation brings together water treatment industries, governments, researchers and NGO...

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