{"id":1286,"date":"2017-08-07T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:54:11","slug":"endocrine-pollutants-spike-in-u-s-rivers-during-low-flow-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Endocrine Pollutants Spike in U.S. Rivers During Low-Flow Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/514926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/ff\/Santa_Cruz_River_Sahuarita_Arizona_2014.jpg\/320px-Santa_Cruz_River_Sahuarita_Arizona_2014.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Cruz River just north of Sahuarita, Arizona. Photo by $1LENCE D00600D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pipeline leak that spilled sewage into Arizona&#8217;s Santa Cruz River is sealed, but another pollution problem persists \u2014 one many other American waterways share.<\/p>\n<p>Contaminants of emerging concern, or CECs, are chemicals from drugs and personal care products that most wastewater treatment plants don\u2019t filter out. Some, including estrogenic compounds from products like synthetic birth control, disrupt the hormones of aquatic wildlife, harming reproduction.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/514926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Streams Like Santa Cruz River See High Endocrine Pollutant Concentrations During Low-Flow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pipeline leak that spilled sewage into Arizona&#8217;s Santa Cruz River is sealed, but another pollution problem persists \u2014 one many other American waterways share. Contaminants of emerging concern, or CECs, are chemicals from drugs and personal care products that most wastewater treatment plants don\u2019t filter out. Some, including estrogenic compounds from products like synthetic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Endocrine Pollutants Spike in U.S. Rivers During Low-Flow Periods<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,47,84,82,3,32,33,13,49],"tags":[1309,1311,1308,1310,1312,1314,1313,1241,1307,1242,1160],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-fishing","category-genetics","category-health","category-science","category-sports","category-swimming","category-technology","category-water-issues","tag-birth-control","tag-contaminants-of-emerging-concern","tag-estrogen","tag-feminization","tag-gila-river","tag-infrastructure","tag-oak-creek","tag-salt-river","tag-santa-cruz-river","tag-verde-river","tag-wastewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}