National Ground Water Contaminated

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National Ground Water Association Education Course:

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Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:44 PM

National Ground Water Contaminated

 

http://www.ngwa.org/education/pharmconf.html

 

The Country's Ground Water Source

A NGWA Conference

2nd International Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting

Chemicals in Water

 

October 9-11, 2001, Hyatt on Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sponsored by National Ground Water Association

And these co-sponsors

United States Geological Survey

Technical University of Berlin

Minnesota Department of Health

Pan American Health Organization

United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and

Development

National Risk Management Research Laboratory

Conference Supporter

Water Tech On-Line

Overview

Occurrence of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Ground and Surface Water

Occurrence and Fate of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Water

Analysis of Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Distribution and Effects on Wildlife

Treatment Technologies for Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting

Chemicals

Pharmaceuticals in Rivers and on Tap

Concerns over pharmaceuticals showing up in rivers downstream from sewage

plants have government agencies scrambling, now that several public water

systems have tested positive for drugs. Tap water in Wheeling, West Virginia

and the Ohio River tested positive for three common antibiotics according to

USA Today. Attend this conference to examine what some of the leading

scientists in the field are doing to understand the extent and

concentrations of numerous drug compounds in the United States, Canada, and

Germany. Learn new analytical technologies and what the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) requires about the environmental fate of new

prescription medications.

Drug Resistant Bacteria

One of the dominating concerns is the creation of " superbugs. " New strains

of bacteria which are resistant to antibiotics are common near major cities

and in rural areas and have been found in all 15 rivers from one study -

including the Mississippi, the Ohio and the Colorado.

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Wildlife

Disturbing evidence will be presented about effects on wildlife such as

sexual differentiation reversal in male fish after exposure to natural and

synthetic hormones and certain other EDC.

EDC can be natural hormones, pharmaceuticals such as birth control pills,

estrogen replacement products and other steroids, and hundreds of

organochlorine compounds found in pesticides and industrial chemicals like

PCBs. EDC's appear to be persistent in the environment and bioaccumulate,

and exposures are widespread throughout the entire globe. Correlative

evidence does exist for organochlorines, cadmium, tributyltin, alkylphenols,

and estrogen. Compounds in the complex mixtures from pulp and paper mill and

municipal effluents have been shown to be EDC. Actually paper mill effluent

has recently been determined to produce the male hormone androstenedione and

masculinized fish. Based on recognition of the potential scope of the

problem, the possibility of serious effects on the health of populations,

and the persistence of some EDC in the environment, research on EDC was

identified as one of the six high-priority topics in the EPA Office of

Research and Development Strategic Plan

Treatment Technologies for Pharmaceuticals and EDC's

Examine the state-of-the-art technologies for treating water containing drug

compounds and EDCs. You won't want to miss the exciting end to the technical

sessions, Session V: Treatment Technologies for Pharmaceuticals and EDCs.

Full Proceedings Provided

Each attendee will receive a full proceedings of the conference with

author's manuscripts on CD-ROM.

About the Sponsor

The National Ground Water Association (NGWA), founded in 1948, is a

nonprofit professional society and trade association for the ground water

industry. Our more than 16,000 member, from 70 nations, include the world's

leading ground water geologists and hydrologists, engineers, ground water

contractors, manufacturers, and suppliers of ground water-related products

and services.

NGWA is a leader in education, research, publishing, expositions, and

information dissemination. The association is supported by membership dues,

revenue from the sale of publications, exposition space, and education

program attendance.

For more information, visit the NGWA Web site at www.ngwa.org or contact an

NGWA representative at (800) 551-7379.