Our medications are leaking into waterways — and may be changing fish behavior

Our medications are leaking into waterways — and may be changing fish behavior Enlarge this image toggle caption Cavan Images/Getty Images Cavan Images/Getty Images A fish walks into a pharmacy ...

It's the start of a joke – with echoes in reality. Sort of. Fish aren't being prescribed anti-anxiety drugs.



But they are experiencing the effects. That's because fish and other aquatic creatures are being affected by increasing levels of drug pollution – from human waste or pharmaceutical factory runoff – that then seep into our waterways. Researchers have found more than 900 different pharmaceutical ingredients in rivers and streams around the.

.. Jonathan Lambert.