A vast array of pharmaceuticals are being dumped into the United States’ water supply!

By Monday March 10, 2008


Pirate Girl says: “I love this water!”
 Associated Press – March 9, 2008:

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.



15 Comments
  1. the answer says:
    3/10/2008 at 5:15 am

    Mood stabilizers AND sex hormones? What do they expect they’ll even each other out?

  2. Calin says:
    3/10/2008 at 5:42 am

    Did anyone else read this and automatically think of Miranda?

  3. patrick says:
    3/10/2008 at 5:55 am

    I just read this story this a.m. The most shocking is that there is no standards for testing of level limits. Indeed it doesn’t appear that safe drinking water standards even touch upon this.

  4. McCullough says:
    3/10/2008 at 6:05 am

    Is this getting into the bottled water also? Since a lot of it is just filtered tap water.

  5. SparkyOne says:
    3/10/2008 at 6:10 am

    I told you so. The voices explained that it wasn’t the fluoride in the water!

  6. bobbo says:
    3/10/2008 at 6:21 am

    About a year ago there was a series of articles about some city in Europe being able to test the river water for illegal drugs. The trace amounts in the water varied directly with how many drugs were being consumed and excreted by the population.

    So, don’t know if trace levels relates to waste water, filtered water or just what==but probably there is more contamination from the plastic bottles and pipes used to transport the water anyway.

    Seems some fish were having trouble reproducing though because of drugs excreted by humans.

    Everything is connected.

  7. Dallas says:
    3/10/2008 at 6:34 am

    Finally, an affordable health care plan we can all live with. Thank you, George Bush!

  8. Li says:
    3/10/2008 at 7:58 am

    This story has been buzzing around the alt media for a while now. Thanks AP for finally getting with the story; I thought it was buried for good.

  9. The Monster's Lawyer says:
    3/10/2008 at 11:14 am

    So that’s why my mood changes every time I go to L.A. And my tits get bigger.

  10. Rich says:
    3/10/2008 at 2:18 pm

    Something must be done! Lord knows we don’t want Monster to have bigger tits.

  11. marty0577 says:
    3/10/2008 at 5:48 pm

    So when are they going to start dumping crystal meth into our water?

  12. Rick Cain says:
    3/10/2008 at 8:38 pm

    I kind of wondered why I have such severe mood swings!
    One day I’m drinking estrogen-laced water, the next day I’m drinking testosterone-laced water. It suddenly makes sense.


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