Water Pollution– tag –

After medicines protect human health, some of their active ingredients and metabolites can pass through wastewater treatment and enter rivers. This article examines pharmaceutical pollution, combined exposure to antibiotics, ecological effects, antimicrobial resistance, and how the entire life cycle of medicine can be redesigned.

Removing PFAS from drinking water does not destroy it. The contamination moves into spent activated carbon, resins, foam, or concentrated wastewater—creating new challenges involving destruction, disposal, monitoring, and long-term costs.

PFAS compounds are being detected in rivers and groundwater across Japan. Known as “forever chemicals,” they cross administrative boundaries and remain in the environment for decades. What does this invisible contamination mean for drinking water, public health, and society’s responsibility for past industrial activity?

Groundwater quietly supports drinking water, agriculture, industry, ecosystems, and regional culture. Yet overextraction, pollution, urban development, and climate change are disrupting this invisible resource beneath our feet.