Good news on using recycled sewage treatment plant water for irrigating crops
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 12:01
in Biology & Nature
A new study eases concerns that irrigating crops with water released from sewage treatment plants an increasingly common practice in arid areas of the world fosters emergence of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria that cause thousands of serious infections each year. The research appears in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology.