{"id":116267,"date":"2022-12-09T12:35:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/?p=116267"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:35:59","slug":"antibiotics-contamination-in-water-and-their-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/antibiotics-contamination-in-water-and-their-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotics Contamination in Water and Their Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Sakshi Kabra Malpani, <\/span>Publishing Associate: Researcher and Writer <\/span>at Save the Water\u2122 | December 9, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n After their discovery in the nineteenth century, humans use antibiotics more and more. <\/span><\/a>But, these antibiotics contaminate water, causing problems. These problems include continuous deterioration of the aquatic environment and human health. Therefore, researchers are intensifying their efforts to remove antibiotics from contaminated water.<\/span><\/p>\n Antibiotics are medicines that cure bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections in humans and animals either by killing the bacteria or by preventing them from growing and multiplying.<\/span><\/a> Sometimes, antibiotics are also used as growth promoters in animals. <\/span>Based on the nature of the source, antibiotics can be classified into three types:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Antibiotics move through several gateways to contaminate water. Humans and animals take antibiotics and then excrete them. The excretions reach the water sources and contaminate them. Most of our wastewater treatment plants cannot treat antibiotics completely. In such plants, after the treatment of antibiotics, they generate effluents, or fluids that leave the treatment plants, which cause soil and groundwater pollution. Poor disposal of unused or expired antibiotic medicines in water and soil also causes antibiotic water contamination. The waste products generated in industries during antibiotic medicine production also spread pollution in water.<\/span><\/p>\n Antibiotics are slowly decomposed in nature. <\/span>When humans and animals consume antibiotic polluted water, antibody resistant genes increase in them. <\/span><\/a>It results in reducing disease fighting capacity of individuals. Moreover, if an individual fell sick, then, antibiotic medicines would not be very effective. Antibiotic polluted water also affects aquatic plants and fishes.<\/span><\/p>\n Adsorbents<\/span><\/a> are the most common solution to this problem. Adsorbents are solid materials that contain many pores. Recently, researchers have come up with different, new types of cheap adsorbents which can remove various antibiotics from water effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n We can also help reduce antibiotic water pollution in our own small, simple ways.<\/span><\/p>\n By Sakshi Kabra Malpani, Publishing Associate: Researcher and Writer at Save the Water\u2122 | December 9, 2022.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12894,"featured_media":116268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,61],"tags":[179,197,226,427,547],"yst_prominent_words":[799,874,789,2031,2026,1502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116274,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116267\/revisions\/116274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116267"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=116267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are Antibiotics?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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How do Antibiotics Reach Water?<\/span><\/h2>\n
Harmful effects of antibiotics in water<\/span><\/h2>\n
What are Researchers Doing to Solve This Problem?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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What Can We Do?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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