{"id":33119,"date":"2026-04-03T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=33119"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:32:11","slug":"article70819081-ece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=33119","title":{"rendered":"U.S. agencies to monitor drinking water for microplastics, pharmaceuticals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EPA will now include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on \u200cthe \u2060sixth Contaminant Candidate List, which would mean they would start being tested \u2060and monitored under the Safe Drinking Water Act and receive funding for research<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/us-agencies-to-monitor-drinking-water-for-microplastics-pharmaceuticals\/article70819081.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.thehindu.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EPA will now include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on \u200cthe \u2060sixth Contaminant Candidate List, which would mean they would start being tested \u2060and monitored under the Safe Drinking Water Act and receive funding for research Source: www.thehindu.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute medical, legal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[18151,11811,13728,12891,23301,10949,4938],"class_list":["post-33119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-agencies","tag-drinking","tag-microplastics","tag-monitor","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-u-s","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33121,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119\/revisions\/33121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}