What is in your drinking water?
This is an interesting study. I was just thinking last week, why did people instruct me to throw my old prescriptions down the comode?? Couldn't remember why, something about drugs becoming resistant if they were exposed thru trash and harming local wildlife??
I don't know but I do know deciding not to throw my old RX's down the toilet anymore because I had one thought, How do we get our drugs out of the water supply once we throw it in there. Surely, we do not have enough knowledge to clean the water that throughly.
Well, I have my answer as soon as a week later, According to KCal 9 News in California and yahoo.com.
WE are now finding drugs in our water supply public and some bottled. I think now we know why some antibiotics are not working any more and it looks like some cities are highly tranquilized as funny as it may sound this is not funny, I am looking for a new source of pure water! Check out the list of Citites below and what was found in their water? Unbelievable! Got clean water anyone! Let me know!
A little water cocktail- Cheers!
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"KCAL 9 last night and they said there was caffeine, acitometophine, codeine, etc. in the water and bottled water. I found this on yahoo today:
"AP probe finds drugs in drinking water By JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writers Sun Mar 9, 1:00 PM ET 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 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080309/ap_on_re_us/pharmawater_i_4 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080309/ap_on_re_us/pharmawater_watersheds Drugs found in watersheds of 28 areas
Here's the list of the 28 areas with pharmaceuticals detected, with the number found and some examples. Arlington, Texas: 5 (unspecified drugs)
Atlanta: 10 (including caffeine, sulfamethoxazole, diltiazem, acetaminophen, trimethoprim, cotinine and paraxanthine)
Cincinnati: 4 (gemfibrozil, ibuprofen, sulfamethaxazole and ethinyl estradiol)
Columbus, Ohio: 15 (including azithromycin, erythromycin, roxithromycin, tylosin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and caffeine)
Concord, Calif.: (unspecified drugs) Denver: (unspecified antibiotics) Detroit: (unspecified total; including carbamazepine, caffeine, cotinine)
Fairfax, Va.: 8 (erythromycin, lincomycin, trimethoprim, tylosin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and sulfamethoxazole) Indianapolis: 2 (caffeine and cotinine)
Las Vegas: 9 (including sulfamethoxazole, atenolol, trimethoprim, meprobamate, phenytoin, carbamazepine and gemfibrozil)
Long Beach, Calif.: 9 (unspecified drugs)Los Angeles: 9 (unspecified drugs)
Louisville, Ky.: 2 (ibuprofen and naproxen)
Milwaukee: 1 (cotinine) Minneapolis: 3 (acetaminophen, caffeine and cotinine)
New York City: 16 (including atenolol, trimethoprim, carbamazepine, ibuprofen, estrogen, acetaminophen and diazepam)
Northern New Jersey: 13 (including acetaminophen, carbamazepine, codeine, dehydronifedipine, erythromycin, lincomycin and sulfadimethoxine)
Oklahoma City: 12 (including acetaminophen, fluoxetine, gemfibrozil, ibuprofen, iopromide, sulfamethoxazole and iopromide)
Omaha, Neb.: 2 (caffeine and sulfamethoxazole) Philadelphia: 63 (including amoxicillin, aspirin, atorvastatin, bacitracin, diclofenac, phenytoin and fluoxetine)
Prince George's-Montgomery counties, Md.: 3 (caffeine, carbamazepine and cotinine) Riverside County, Calif.: 9 (unspecified drugs)
San Diego: 12 (clofibrate, clofibric acid, ibuprofen and nine unspecified)
San Francisco: 1 (estrone) Santa Clara, Calif.: (unspecified drugs)
Southern California: 9 (including atenolol, phenytoin, fluoxetine, gemfibrozil, meprobamate, naproxen and trimethoprim)
Virginia Beach, Va.: 4 (fluoxetine, estradiol, acetaminophen and ibuprofen)
Washington, D.C.: 5 (monensin, ibuprofen, caffeine, carbamazepine and sulfamethoxazole)
