Surely There Can’t Be Drugs In Your Drinking Water?
Is it possible that there are drugs in your drinking water? Surely it’s not possible that when you drink a glass of water you’re drinking drugs? Lets take a look at the possibility that there are drugs in drinking water in the US.
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 maybe it was a good idea to test tap water for the same antibiotics. 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.”
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.
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?
And nobody knows, it really isn’t clear.
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.
You need to protect yourself and your family. Drink pure water to protect yourselves from drinking water contaminated with pharmaceuticals.
Bottled water isn’t pure water, in many cases it’s no better than tap water, and can be worse.
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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