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Drugs Detected In Nation's Drinking Water

Drugs detected in nation's drinking water

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. To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe. But the presence of so many prescription drugs - and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen - in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.
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Water Drinking Nations Detected Drugs

It is interesting that the drugs that are given to people are making it into our drinking water by going through the waste system and back out into the drinking water system. So far only 42 cities have been found but hos many other cities are going to be effected soon?

Drugs Detected In Nation's Drinking Water Health & Special Psychology

Well it does make sense so many still flush medical items down the toilet and we do not filter them. Given how underground water bed are huge I am sure for every city found it is many around it that will be using that same water. Kinda scary.