Whats in your Water?

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How antibiotics get into our water system

  • Pain Relievers
  • Birth Control
  • Caffeine
  • Perfumes

How they affect the environment

  • Ecology of Lakes
  • Ground Water
  • Animals
  • Plants

How Humans are Affected.

Many antibiotics that people take in become immuned to the drug and the antibiotic will no longer work to treat their problem. So with the contintuation of antibiotics being thrown away us humans are at a greater risk of being harmed.

How antibiotics affect the equatic life

Chemicals in the water are affecting the wild life and it is important we learn about how the antibiotics are affecting the equatic life. Fish are being harmed in a day to day basis and will continue to get worse with the continuation of us humans throwing away antibiotics.

What we can do

As humans we are the ones that are affecting the environment the worst by throwing away our antibiotics like they wont harm the environment. We need to work on helping people realize the affect of flushing the antibiotics into our watersystem. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/public-service-announcement-throw-your-drugs-away-safely-day/

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Refrences

http://www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/impact/2008/lgu/145_antibiotics_affect_water.html

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/food_safety/49083

http://www.purewatergazette.net/antibiotics.htm