Hi, To be honest I just stumbled across EA from a google search looking for suitable charities to donate a portion of money too concerning the locusts situation in the Horn of Africa. So I’ll say its a very impressive forum you have here and well done all for taking part, its great to see personally.
As to the topic at hand as a recent open university mature student one of my projects was on antibiotic resistance in the environment—specifically wastewater concentrations. There is a big problem with antibiotics being used in animal farming and the use in humans leading to environmental accumulations. Human use is often not metabolised by the body and excreted in active form where antibiotic resistance may develop in water treatment plants (WWTP) and water treatment sinks. In general our 1950s style sewage treatment isn’t very good at removing these, or other persistent pollutants as well.
Anyway I’m a big out of my depth for now, I wish I’d found you guys earlier on in my life, but will be keeping an eye out on this as things progress in my life. I hope some of the above is helpful.
Thank you for the reply, its good to hear the comment was appreciated. I hope this forum may help me continue my interest in environmental issues whilst searching for work and cleaning up after mental health issues the last few years. Its good to hear from you, sorry about the delay in replying to this.
Hi, To be honest I just stumbled across EA from a google search looking for suitable charities to donate a portion of money too concerning the locusts situation in the Horn of Africa. So I’ll say its a very impressive forum you have here and well done all for taking part, its great to see personally.
As to the topic at hand as a recent open university mature student one of my projects was on antibiotic resistance in the environment—specifically wastewater concentrations. There is a big problem with antibiotics being used in animal farming and the use in humans leading to environmental accumulations. Human use is often not metabolised by the body and excreted in active form where antibiotic resistance may develop in water treatment plants (WWTP) and water treatment sinks. In general our 1950s style sewage treatment isn’t very good at removing these, or other persistent pollutants as well.
One of the papers I found “Review of Antimicrobial Resistance in the environment and its Relevance to Environmental regulators”, Singer et al from NERC, wallingford, UK gave a really excellent background. I was deeply impressed as well by Switzerlands plans to upgrade half their WWTPs. Much of how much environmental contamination contributes seems largely unknown—I remember its the above NERC paper that lists heavy metals and other locally occuring conditions as co-factors although there are a few others.
Anyway I’m a big out of my depth for now, I wish I’d found you guys earlier on in my life, but will be keeping an eye out on this as things progress in my life. I hope some of the above is helpful.
This was a really good first comment! Welcome to the Forum, and I hope you continue to read and respond to posts. (I’m the lead moderator here.)
Thank you for the reply, its good to hear the comment was appreciated. I hope this forum may help me continue my interest in environmental issues whilst searching for work and cleaning up after mental health issues the last few years. Its good to hear from you, sorry about the delay in replying to this.