Genesis of antibiotic resistance VI: monitoring of water quality for antibiotics, its metabolic breakdown products in the Texas Clean Rivers Program by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and also by the Texas Water Development Board (986.6)

Abstract

Established in 1991, the Texas Clean Rivers Program (CRP) is a non‐profit regulatory program for managing and/or monitoring water quality issues at the watershed level, within the river basins in Texas. A systematic data query for antibiotics, their metabolic breakdown products (Chemical intermediates, Parent ‐ Daughter Transition Compounds), and antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens on surface water quality monitoring database [http://www.tceq.texas.gov/waterquality/clean‐rivers/data/samplequery.html], collected under a TCEQ‐approved quality assurance, conforms to the provisions of NELAP (National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, July 2008). Storet queries for “Antibiotics” “Metabolic breakdown products of Antibiotics” , “Antibiotic Resistant bacterial pathogens”, and Antibiotic Resistant bacterial pathogens in fish tissues”, in the data base: http://www.tceq.texas.gov/waterquality/clean‐rivers/data/storet.html for the period of 2000 ‐ 2012 shows no data on file for said queries. Similar data queries in the TWDB database at http://www.twdb.texas.gov/groundwater/data/index.asp shows no data on file. The implication on lack information or scant information on said quires, and also most recent theoretical projections on “Antibiotic Resistance in the United States in 2013 by Center for Disease Control and Prevention is a serious public health concerns. Lack of data analysis from the Water Quality data supporting the CDC&P claims shall be presented in the Experimental Biology of 2014. Grant Funding Source: Professional Developement Funds from SWTJC, Eagle Pass