A marine biologist has revealed raw sewage being dumped in the English Channel has left every marine species in the water “full of cocaine, amphetamines and MDMA”.
Traces of the drug routinely make their way into Britain’s waters after passing through users’ bodies, and could be altering the natural behaviour of some fish including whether they fight or take flight from danger.
Professor Alex Ford, working alongside Dr Tom Miller of Brunel University, has been investigating the impact of one huge sewage pipe in Hampshire’s Langstone Harbour which carries the waste of some 400,000 Portsmouth residents.
It’s pretty awful what we’re doing to our environment.
But the first part of the title reads like someone is making a sequel to Cocaine Bear…
Cocaine marinated crab sounds like a delicacy to me👀
My local water provider was releasing so much shit into the local nature reserve, that they have actually had to do something about it.
And that something is “building a big pipe so they can dump it directly into the Trent.” They’ve already hacked down a load of trees to make room for it.
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Something to ponder as you drink from a paper straw…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Traces of the drug routinely make their way into Britain’s waters after passing through users’ bodies, and could be altering the natural behaviour of some fish including whether they fight or take flight from danger.
Professor Alex Ford, working alongside Dr Tom Miller of Brunel University, has been investigating the impact of one huge sewage pipe in Hampshire’s Langstone Harbour which carries the waste of some 400,000 Portsmouth residents.
“One Australian study predicted duck-billed platypus were getting 60 per cent human equivalent dose of antidepressants through eating stream invertebrates.”
Water companies discharge waste into rivers and seas when sewers are overwhelmed by rainwater, with outlets known as storm overflows acting as relief valves when rain is particularly heavy.
In a 2018 biologists at the University of Naples Federico II put European eels in water containing a small dose of cocaine – similar to the amount found in rivers – for 50 days.
The drug accumulated on the brain, muscles, gills, skin and other tissues of the cocaine-exposed eels, researchers said.
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