Comments on: Probe: Pharmaceuticals In Drinking Water

Widespread Trace-Level Contamination Found In U.S. Water Supply, AP Investigation Shows

For myself, I never forget that we live in a capitalist culture..... Somebody, somewhere needs to sell some water filter technology.

[kofiananimus]

I presume that this is a compounding problem, we''ll keep adding pharmaceuticals to the water supply without removing previously added ones, and the percentage of pharmaceuticals in the water supply will keep increasing until it is no longer "trace" amounts.
Not only is it a deregulation problem and an EPA problem , it is a doctor overprescription problem, and ultimately a problem with stupid humans who choose not to take good care of their bodies... better self care = less drugs needed = less drugs in the water. Your choices affect my life. Stop being dumb-***** people!
No thank you on the Brave New World mandatory drugs.

[joyous88]

Just a little more good ol''

conservative republican deregulation at work here

you can always trust a republican businessman , right?

[usbrit-2009]

To give some perspective; 1 ppt is equivalent to 1 millimeter in a distance equal to 2.5 times the distance to the moon. Not very significant.

It''s interesting that the "experts" who decry homeopathic treatments (where vanishingly small amounts of a drug give efficacy) think that ppt''s of the same drugs are significant in drinking water.

[usbrit-2009]

I blame the manufacturers of scientific equipment, HP, Perkin-Elmer, Varian etc. - if they hadn''t invented machines that can detect ppb or ppt''s no-one would give a $h!t about this.

[erasmus6]

So in the U.S., the water, c-r-a-p etc., from your toilet goes back to your water supply???? WOW. I am sure glad I don''t live there.

We have been told for years not to put pills or anything down our toilets but it isn''t because it is going back into our water supply. It goes through a treatment plant and then out into the ocean.

Toilet water shouldn''t be recycled back into the same place you are getting your drinking water.

We are told to take our pills back to the pharmacy where they dispose of them but they are not disposing them down the toilet.

[beehive21-2009]

This is a BS story if it were true, no one would never get sick as they''d be full of Vit. C.

[barbaraf4]

"This is a pretty interesting article. Too bad it didn''t tell us the proper way to dispose of unused prescriptions drugs."Posted by vermonter52
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I agree. Every prescription or OTC medication should have instructions on the package for proper disposal. I once took some meds to a pharmacist and asked him to dispose of them since flushing them down the toilet was the only way I knew - he suggested that I do just that, because if he took them, that is what he would do with them.

[colvinatch]

"A *** hormone was detected in San Francisco''s drinking water" .....that explains everything!

[barbaraf4]

This is what our global society has come to. There is simply no way to avoid adverse attacks to your body. They come through what you eat, drink, breathe, or apply to your body. It doesn''t matter if it is in the form of heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, or biologics you are in danger. If you think I''m kidding, read up on the allowable ratio of insect body parts in your cereal.

[vermonter52]

This is a pretty interesting article. Too bad it didn''t tell us the proper way to dispose of unused prescriptions drugs.

[donbl1]

Obviously, this has to be a right wing conspiracy? Oh, that is Clinton''s line....

The concentrations can not be significant because there is still too much urban violence.

[MIpapaof4]

So with all of this *** in our water, when one goes to get a drug test now, you can blame it on the water, if you fail it. Myself, I drink good ole well water. I know what is in it and how much. The Department of Health checks it every year, just so we know. If more people knew what was really in the water you drink, most would probably not drink it. But I don''t know what else you can drink with out having water in it. Than God I live in Michigan, GO BLUE, with all the fresh water around us. No city water for me.

[charlottegibbs]

This is not too surprising to me, especially in the city of Richmond. I have seen dirt in my dishwasher and dishes after running it, so there is no telling what else can be found in the water. I don''t drink the tap water and don''t allow the young children to drink it unless it is filtered. Even still, I don''t know how clean it is. Something should be done to protect the citizens, we pay plenty of taxes but don''t get the services we need.

[gkeawe]

Perhaps the contaminated water is also affecting the bee and bat populations! makes me wonder!

[dredre2k]

"This is a great reason to drink coke or pepsi either regular or diet."

Nope, Pepsi and Coke also use municipal tap water. You''re screwed either way...

[nothappyatall]

"Consider this....Twelve percent of American couples are unable to conceive. "

GOOD!, given the overpopulation problem in this country from soaring 150 million to 300 million since 1950 any decrease in fertility is a blessing, too bad it''s not more like 75% instead of just 12%
Till there are no unwanted babies *ADOPT*!!!

[extremophil]

Posted by pamelita1357 at 09:42 AM : Mar 10, 2008

I don''t know what you''ve been drinking....but you should try water.

[nothappyatall]

California suppliers said the public "doesn''t know how to interpret the information" and might be unduly alarmed."

So they get ''alarmed'', then EDUCATE them what the numbers MEAN dont HIDE the truth!

"And bottled water isn''t any better than tap water."

Wrong in part, ''spring'' water may be filtered tap water, but DISTILLED water made by boiling water and collecting the STEAM, and then filtering that is the cleanest water you can buy or make.

You can buy a home water distiller that sits on the countertop and makes up to several gallons of pure clean water a day- free of florides, clorine, rust, lyme, pesticides, bacteria, bad taste and drugs.
Expect to pay around $400-$600 or thereabouts depending on brand and size for one, they should be stainless steel.

[pamelita1357]

Don''t think this is important? Estrogen is now in our drinking water, and obviously has been for a while. Consider this....Twelve percent of American couples are unable to conceive. The number of children being born with both male and female *** organs tripled in the last decade. More and more men seeking breast-reduction surgery. Testicular cancer in 2000 is four times higher than 1950. Just because we are not seeing three headed babies born with marked bottles of pharmaceuticals in their hand doesn''t mean this information is not relevant or important. Everyone drinks water, every day, in some form. Whether directly from the tap or in their cooking. What if you are already ill and you are adding this cocktail to your already weakened system? What if you have a liver ailment and that compromises your ability to filter out these unwanted drugs? What if you are 50 plus years old and have been bathing your body in these drugs every day for fifty years? I don''t know if this story was "designed" to scare me, I don''t really care. That fact that there is no where in the world that I can go to get pharma-free water is scary. The fact that its been going on for decades and is just now given national press is scary. The fact that by not knowing, I have not been able to make a choice in what I put in my body is scary.