Put it in a river in the UK!

Apparently endangered eels are becoming hyperactive due to the presence of cocaine in the rivers. It seems that cocaine is being flushed into rivers regularly enough for the traces in the water to cause severe harm to those creatures residing in the waters. Plenty of health problems are being foretold for fish according to a study by the University of Naples Federico II.

The researchers at the University put eels into water containing small doses of cocaine similar to the content of the rivers and observed them. Over the course of fifty days the fish had become much more active compared to the control group of eels in normal water. The drug was accumulated in the brain, muscles, gills and skin of the eels.

The European eels were trashing about in a manner that was not safe for them in the science project. Their primary survival urges seemed to be completely short circuited by the cocaine in their tissue. Not a good place to be if you are an endangered species to start with. Now may be a good time for people to become a bit more aware of just how easily water bodies in their vicinity can be polluted.