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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Large quantities of drugs are excreted by humans and domestic animals, and are distributed into the environment by flushing toilets and by spreading manure and sewage sludge onto and into soil. The only solution to such a problem would be prevention. The first study that detected drugs in sewage took place at the Big Blue River sewage treatment plant in Kansas City in 1976. Since 1992, researchers in Germany, Denmark and Sweden have been measuring CA and other drugs in rivers, lakes, and the North Sea.