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Drug waste creates highest disaster zone in Andhra [1]

PATANCHERU: When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they Drug-polluted stream in Andhra Pradesh Drug waste creates highest disaster zone in Andhra Pradesh were shocked. Powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.

Publication Date: 
27/01/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Water Pollution [3], Drugs [4], Drug Industry [5], Industrial Waste [6], Andhra Pradesh [7]
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