Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S.

[Kidlicious]

Just say no to drugs.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10...iref=hpmostpop

AP) -- A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

[BeBMan]

Well, I can think of a lot of possible replies to this.....it's just too easy

[Julian Delphiki]

I've heard that hormones in water cause strange things in frogs nowadays.

[Riesstiu IV]

Where Kid gets his anti-psychotic medication.

[LordShiva]

Frogs

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by JulianD
I've heard that hormones in water cause strange things in frogs nowadays.

Yes, and fish. In fact, it's a big danger to most animals, since animals eat other animals and plants.

[Dinner]

I'm guessing this has to do with sewage treatment standards not being high enough. Now days you just have to treat sewage and then you can dump it into a river with the next town down stream drawing water out of the same river. It's well known that drugs and hormones are in urine.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I'm guessing this has to do with sewage treatment standards not being high enough. Now days you just have to treat sewage and then you can dump it into a river with the next town down stream drawing water out of the same river. It's well known that drugs and hormones are in urine.

I think that they don't know how to treat the water effectively yet. Filters for example aren't effective.

[LordShiva]

I'm guessing this has to do with an over-medicated population.

[BeBMan]

It's all the matrix anyway.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I'm guessing this has to do with an over-medicated population.

I'm sure this is part of it as well.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I'm guessing this has to do with sewage treatment standards not being high enough. Now days you just have to treat sewage and then you can dump it into a river with the next town down stream drawing water out of the same river. It's well known that drugs and hormones are in urine.

They are measuring parts per trillion. I Doubt there is much that can be done about that.

[Elok]

Parts per trillion? I can't be bothered to click on the link to confirm that, but it sounds pretty insignificant if true.

[Whoha]

To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.

Of the things to complain about in water, this isn't one of them.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Elok
Parts per trillion? I can't be bothered to click on the link to confirm that, but it sounds pretty insignificant if true.

Why not go into your neighbors medicine cabinet and start taking random medications then?