Could there be drugs in your drinking water? You live in the US, that can’t e can it? When you drink a glass of tap water you couldn’t be drinking drugs? Lets see.
Perhaps we can 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 even if there are 2100 toxic chemicals in the water that doesn’t necessarily mean that there are drugs in our water. But there is other evidence of drugs in water. Antibiotics especially.
We start in’99 with Ashley Mulroy, a West Virginia high school student who decided to do a high school project on contaminated water. For 10 weeks she took water samples from the Ohio river. And had them tested for 3 antibiotics, penicillin, tetracycline and vancomycin. She found them in all samples.
So she decided maybe it was a good idea to test tap water for the same antibiotics. Same result.
Now why not consider 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.”
How about from the MSNBC website: “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.”
USA today has said: “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?
There is no clear evidence, but we seem all to be a part of a huge experiment on drinking small amounts of pharmaceuticals each day.
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.
Is bottled water clean pure drinking water? No, much of it is no cleaner than tap water and some is tap water.
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.
The worlds best water filters will remove hazards like antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, lead, heavy metals and much more from your water. So you need to use the best water filter that money can buy so you’re safe from drinking antibiotics and other “toxic chemicals”.
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