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Streams of medicines: how Switzerland cleaned up its act – podcast

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72% Informative

Switzerland is leading the world in purifying its water of micropollutants, a concoction of chemicals often found in bodies of water that look crystal clear.

They include common medicines like antidepressants and antihistamines, but have unknown and potentially damaging consequences for human and ecosystem health.

Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay how a public health disaster in the 1960s spurred the government to act.

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