Did you read this story about how trace amounts of drugs are in our drinking water?What do you think about it?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080309/ap_on_re_us/pharmawater_i

Answer 1

Antibiotics, hormones, aspirin, IBU, psychotropic--terrible! We and all creation are zooming down a very slippery slope to destruction, but first severe mutations and brain dysfunction that will cause terrible incidents.

Answer 2

It befuddles me.  I will continue to drink water though.

Answer 3

yeah

Answer 4

I stopped dumping my excess drugs in the toilet.  Now they go into the garbage.

Answer 5

Nothing surprises me anymore.

Answer 6

It's right there in the article.  People are peeing the drugs back into the water supply.  The problem is basically being caused by the failure of the human kidneys to filter 100% of all foreign materials.  It's gross, but there's nothing that can be done about it, short of everyone stopping their medications - or not peeing.

Answer 7

i think its funny how people will freak out over things like this.

Once something is made, like a drug it doesn't just disappear. It makes perfect sense that when we pee it goes in to are water supply. It's just another type of pollution.

Sad but true.

Answer 8

I live in one of the areas mentioned. That's Southern Nevada. But, it's a scare story which doesn't tell the whole story. It does not say that these trace antibiotics and such are in the drinking water which goes through your tap. It only levels this claim against water which has not yet been treated by water authorities. However, I never drink water from the tap here. Our chief source of water through our water district is from Lake Mead. The lake sits on top of a piece of geography which was once known as Alkali Flats. That tells you all you want to know about the hardness of the water here. I drink bottled water and use the same for coffee as well.