November
2009
There Isn’t Really Drugs In Your Drinking Water Is There?
You live in the US. Surely if you live in the US you couldn’t be drinking drugs when you drink a glass of tap water? Could you?
Lets start with a quote from the Ralph Nader Institute. “U.S. drinking water contains more than 2,100 toxic chemicals that can cause cancer.”
Now of course “toxic chemicals” may not include drugs, but it’s a pretty scary place to start the discussion. However there is plenty of other evidence that there are drugs found in drinking water in mainstream water supplies. Particularly antibiotics.
Strangely, some of the evidence for drugs in drinking water comes from a high school student. In’99 a West Virginia high school student decided to do a science project for school by testing for levels of antibiotics in rivers. Ashley Mulroy tested for the antibiotics penicillin, tetracycline and vancomycin in water by taking samples over a 10 week period from the Ohio river and having them tested. The antibiotics were found in all samples.
So she decided to test tap water for antibiotics, and got the same result.
Lets take a quote from the Environmental Health Perspectives website. “Roughly 100 pharmaceuticals have now been identified in rivers, lakes, and coastal waters throughout Europe and the United States.”
Why not have a look now at a quote from the website of MSNBC. “Traces of 56 human and veterinary pharmaceuticals or their byproducts ” like the active ingredients in medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems ” have been detected in Philadelphias drinking water.”
How about from USA today? “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.”
Municipal standards for drinking water require that germs be removed from drinking water before it is safe for general use, however there are no standards for removal of drugs, and no requirement that drugs are either tested for, or removed.
So you can see from the quotes that it seems clear, there are drugs in our drinking water. The question is, what are the health risks of drinking unfiltered water with drugs in it?
Who knows?
Yes no one knows, but as we are all drinking small amounts of pharmaceuticals every day so we are all a part of a huge experiment.
What can you do to protect yourself and your family from any risks to your health by drinking water contaminated by drugs? Drink pure water.
Bottled water isn’t pure water, in many cases it’s no better than tap water, and can be worse.
But you can remove those “2100 toxic chemicals” (according to the Ralph Nader Institute) from your drinking water. Or the water you shower with, or cook with.
But only the worlds very best water filters are good enough to remove such hazards as drugs in drinking water, or hormones, or lead, or pesticides, or herbicides or, well I think you get the picture. So get yourself the best water filter that modern technology can produce and be safe from those drugs found in drinking water that you may be using now.
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