Surely There Can’t Be Drugs In Your Drinking Water?
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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.
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 what does toxic chemicals mean? Does it mean drugs? Either way it doesn’t matter, it’s scary. But there is plenty of evidence of drugs in our drinking water. Especially antibiotics.
As strange as it may seem there is evidence of drugs in drinking water from’99 from a West Virginian high school student. Her name is Ashley Mulroy and she decided to do a high school project on contaminated drinking water. She took water samples from the Ohio river and tested for 3 different antibiotics (penicillin, tetracycline and vancomycin). She did this for 10 weeks and found them in all samples.
So as she had found antibiotics in river water she tested her tap water. Same result.
Lets now take a look at 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.”
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.”
There are municipal standards that require testing for germs and removal of germs from our municipal drinking water before it is allowed for public use, so it’s safe. But there is no requirement that water for public use be free from drugs.
Clearly there are drugs found in drinking water in the US, the question is how much, and what risks does this pose to your health if you drink unfiltered water?
Who knows?
There is no clear evidence either way, however it seems clear that the presence of drugs in drinking water in the US makes us all a part of a huge experiment on the effects of drinking small quantities of pharmaceuticals over an extended period of time.
So how can you protect yourself and your family from drinking water contaminated with drugs? You need to drink pure water.
Now contrary to what you believe bottled water isn’t pure, much of it is as bad as or worse than tap water. Some is tap water.
But if there are those 2100 toxic chemicals (according to the Ralph Nader Institute) in the water you drink (and shower in and cook in), there are ways to purify your water.
The best water filters in the world will remove up to 99.99% of nasty “toxic chemicals” like antibiotics, or lead, or pesticides, or heavy metals, or chlorine or others that you may be drinking now. Make sure you’re using the best water filter that money can buy, so you’re safe from drinking antibiotics and more.
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