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1 Yr Supply in California Reservoirs; Bacteria Make Meds in Wastewater Outflows
Startling Footage of California Reservoirs Shows Devastating Impact of Epic Drought. The CA-DWR wrote on Facebook that Folsom Lake measured at 34 percent of capacity, Lake Oroville at 35 percent and Lake Shasta at 45 percent. Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a professor at UC Irvine, estimated that California’s reservoirs have only about a one-year supply of water remaining.
Bacteria Making Meds in Wastewater Outflows. When researchers tested wastewater before and after treatment at a Milwaukee-area treatment plant, they found that two drugs – the anti-epileptic carbamazepine and antibiotic ofloxacin – came out at higher concentrations than they went in, suggesting the microbes that clean our water may also piece some pharmaceuticals back together.
