Modern water piping has provided access to clean water and sanitation in the UK, but now there is a troubling issue. After decades of flushing medicine, antibiotics, and other pharmaceuticals down the toilet, the rivers and other bodies of water collecting the medicine-filled sewage is affecting the ecosystem.

Many fish in lakes and streams are becomes affected by the un-metabolized drugs making them sick or even changing gender. This worries scientists regarding not only other environment affects, but how it could affect humans should the water be reused without proper filtering of such chemicals. For more on this topic, please click here:: Drugging the Environment