{"id":203593,"date":"2012-07-18T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=12533"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:11:10","slug":"video-tracking-drugs-in-the-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/07\/video-tracking-drugs-in-the-water-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Tracking Drugs in the Water Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engr.uconn.edu\/cee\/people\/facultymembers\/15-research\/37-allison.html\">Allison MacKay<\/a>, an associate professor of Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering at UConn, seeks to understand how common drugs, such as blood pressure-lowering medications, hormones and antibiotics, and other organic compounds enter the nation\u2019s waterways, disperse and change over time. While waste water treatment plants remove many contaminants\u00a0that we add into our tap water in our homes and businesses, conventional treatment methods fail to completely remove all of the\u00a0drugs that we use \u2013 and flush into the waste stream \u2013 every day.<\/p>\n<p>In this Engineering Horizons series video, Dr. MacKay describes how she and her colleagues trace the fate of these compounds\u00a0after they are released to the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Horizons series\u00a0was conceived\u00a0in celebration of engineering &#8212; a profession that encompasses a dizzying array of frontiers, from the nano-scale to vast systems.\u00a0 We hope that in watching these videos, you will be inspired, delighted and informed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0.<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E0nED4BB2wg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Allison MacKay seeks to understand how common drugs, such as blood pressure-lowering medications, hormones and antibiotics, and other organic compounds enter the nation\u2019s waterways, disperse and change over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":203253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 09:34:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224831,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203593\/revisions\/224831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/203253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203593"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203593"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}