3. ASHA-S RIPANDA
Information acquired: 2025
ASHA-S RIPANDA is an academic who published a paper in 2022 entitled Contribution of Illicit Drug Use to Pharmaceutical Load in the Environment: A Focus on Sub-Saharan A. ASHA-S RIPANDA published this work as part of a team: Ripanda, Asha S. Here is a description of this work: Illicit drug abuse and addiction are universal issues requiring international cooperation and interdisciplinary and multisectoral solutions. These addictive substances are utilized for recreational purposes worldwide, including in sub-Saharan Africa. On the other hand, conventional wastewater treatment facilities such as waste stabilization ponds lack the design to remove the most recent classes of pollutants such as illicit drug abuse. As a result, effluents from these treatment schemes contaminate the entire ecosystem. Public health officials are concerned about detecting these pollutants at alarming levels in some countries, with potential undesirable effects on aquatic species and increased health hazards through exposure to contaminated waters or recycling treated or untreated effluents in agriculture. Contaminants including illicit.