Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source | Full text | Cocaine in surface waters: a new evidence-based tool to monitor community drug abuse

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source | Full text | Cocaine in surface waters: a new evidence-based tool to monitor community drug abuse: "Cocaine in surface waters: a new evidence-based tool to monitor community drug abuse
Ettore Zuccato1 , Chiara Chiabrando1 , Sara Castiglioni1, 2 , Davide Calamari2 , Renzo Bagnati1 , Silvia Schiarea1 and Roberto Fanelli1
1Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy
2Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Sciences, University of Insubria, Via Dunant 3, 21100 Varese, Italy

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2005, 4:14 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-4-14"

study testing sewage water for illegal drugs... but also many pharmaceuticals can pass through current water treatment plants and pose an unrecognized dosing of populations dependent upon recycled water. This is one of the problems that the "City Ship" seeks to address by supplying each "Pod" a "toxic toilet" (as opposed to the "Green toilet") for those taking pharmaceuticals. This would prevent the recycled water system from becoming contaminated by pharmacueticals and known illnesses, which are better treated as medical waste within the buildings "toxin drain" system.