Our Rivers and Lakes Contain a Scary Number of Pesticides and Pharmaceuticals

Kendra Pierre-Louis
,
 Popular Science
and
 Alternet.org
April 13, 2017

And they only tested for a fraction of the 85,000 known chemicals Pexels Rivers across the United States tested for the presence of pesticides... and caffeine From pesticides to caffeine, chemicals that affect living organisms are making their way into the nation’s rivers and streams. That's the conclusion reached by a pair of complimentary studies by…

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