Sewage Treatment Plants May Contribute to Antibiotic Resistance Problem

Science Daily has reported on a study that seems to have evidence that indicates that water discharged into lakes and rivers from municipal sewage treatment plants may contain significant concentrations of the genes that make bacteria antibiotic-resistant. That’s the conclusion of a new study on a sewage treatment plant on Lake Superior in the Duluth, Minn., harbor that appears in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology.