In a recent study it has been found that Indian water streams contain high levels of antibiotics to treat almost 90,000 people in one stream. The water samples were taken from Patancheru treated water. This waste water is the drain of about 90 drug manufacturing companies.

These tests and researches have been lead by Joakim Larsson, an environmental scientist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and his team at Patancheru Enviro Tech Ltd. Plant. The shocking result showed that the water is abundant in Ciprofloxacin, a renowned antibiotic used for various disease treatments.

The so called treated water contained 21 antibiotics traces in it. These 21 medicines are used in general to treat ailments like ulcer, gonorrhea, chronic liver disease, hypertension, heart ailments, depression, and other such diseases. The water is undoubtedly harmful for health, which poor villagers are forced to drink; “We don’t have any other source, so we’re drinking it.” Klaus Kuemmerer, a chemist at the University of Freiburg Medical Center in Germany, an expert on drug resistance said, “If you take a bath there, then you have all the antibiotics you need for treatment,” “If you just swallow a few gasps of water, you’re treated for everything. The question is for how long?”

The problem is more serious because the medicines that are thrown as waste are not properly metabolized. The amount of dumping unused and expired medicines is very high, as they are annually flushed out by patients, medical stores, hospitals and manufacturers.

The problem of environmental pollution is very high in this regard also damaging human health at large.

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