Tons of released drugs taint US water | Seattle Times Newspaper — This is reported because we do not have enough to worry about already.
U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals
into waterways that often provide drinking water – contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium is used to make ceramics and treat bipolar disorder; nitroglycerin is a heart drug and also used in explosives; copper shows up in everything from pipes to contraceptives.
Found by Aric Mackey.
Hmm, antiseptics phenol and hydrogen peroxide – account for 92 percent of the 271 million pounds identified is & H2O2, which isn’t a persistent environmental hazard.
Honestly, these Plutocrats were all put into power by corporations and have since the 1870’s.
Why would anyone with a shred of reality think they would protect us or fix it.
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Shit, that’s why drinking tap water causes those 4 hour erections!!!
And I just thought I really liked water.
YAWN… this news is so old, that it predates the Internet!
You wouldnt believe MOST of the lies and changes that happen..
Burying Chemicals in the ground, that will eventually end up in the water basin, or be found Leeched into the soil where you walk around and your kids play.
Phoenix’ is one of those places.
In the Beginning of locating locations for radioactive materials..the requirements were FAIRLY high…
Over the years, those requirements have DROPPED.. The basic requirement is containers that will last about 100 years, on Nuke materials with a 1/2 life in the THOUSANDS of years..
Hooray … the old site format. I don’t mind change, but make it a change for the better.
Things will get more interesting as the mercury from thrown away energy saver bulbs starts leeching into our drinking water from landfills.
Hooray for a Greener Earth! 🙂
Also use of birth control pills puts lots of hormones in the water. But in that case politics trumps science, so it’s ignored.
Hated the new site then it started to grow on me. Now I feel like something’s missing, though it’s GREAT to see it all working and not all wacked out.
So what’s a Plutocrat? Is that Pluto the planet, rock, piece of ice, what? Since scientists don’t agree on the relatively simple science of looking through telescopes and seeing what’s there in the distance (ref: 2006 vote change on whether Pluto is a planet or not) how do you expect science to effectively figure out what’s in your water and what planet it came from, I mean, what plant, I mean what factory?
For the general public, the thing they don’t tell you is that the drugs are coming out of the drug consumer every time they use their toilets, or ground if they do it in their yards, which all flows into the rivers, streams, lakes, underground aquifers, and wherever they are testing downstream of supposed factory causes. Then there’s all those chemicals housewives and househusbands and maids use from that “family company” and others that go down the drain, for example, caustic toilet cleaning products, and detergents and many other chemicals. Even washing the car, and rain falling down on TAR on the roads, which is where all these drugs are derived from, coal tar.
Look it up for yourself.
Too bad we can’t think about stopping this from the get go and not take every little thing our doctors would like to prescribe us.
And it is really too bad about the ignorance on this blog that CFLs and medication can’t be recycled or at least disposed of properly.
glad to see the ols site back, at least until the new one is simplified and fixed.
Or maybe I’m only hallucinating this site because I drank tap water this morning.
#9
“Also use of birth control pills puts lots of hormones in the water.”
That’s why my niece and her friends starting developing breasts at the age of 9 and had first menstruation at 10 or 11.
Pretty f*cked up.
But, oh well what can we do about it after all…
Just sit and watch things crumble.
this article is a trial ballon to help justify
the upcoming designer water shortages due
this summer.
its as old as industry itself.
ignore it. -it’s a distraction.
-s
-ps, cant wait till they release the estrogen
studies linked to GM soy..
(tho its trying to be blamed on people
dumping birth control pills down
the toilet etc)
anyone notice how almost ALL food
stuffs have some soy component in them now?
(due in part to many contries banning US GM
soy) -gotta put all that soy somewhere..
(not to mention the some 52% of Brits with soy
allergies some 5yrs after we introduced GM soy to them) -any Brits here know if you guys banned US soyebeans yet?
to name one..i mean come on, -why is there soy in solid albacore tuna canned in water??? -or why the F’k is it in tomato paste..??
the pussification of America (and the world?)
is underway..
(may george carlin rest in peace, -with a grin)
(sorry for the tangent)
-s
No duh.
The detectors keep getting more sensitive, so of course they’re finding all these ‘new’ chemicals in the water.
You watch. We’ll get a device that can find a single molecule of something, and they’ll start finding it in EVERYTHING.
Doesn’t mean a thing.
#14 Two to the Head:
“That’s why my niece and her friends starting developing breasts at the age of 9 and had first menstruation at 10 or 11.”
Yeah, well, I highly doubt that. It’s pretty well known that time before menses and caloric intake is an inverse relationship.
A more likely explanation is that a diet high in calories is the cause of your niece’s ‘problem’.
Otherwise, why aren’t boys experiencing abnormal sexual maturity from these hormones?
The old blog is back 😀 Thanks for listening to us!
Where’s the War on Drugs when you need it?
More wine please!
17,
THEN GO TO THE NEAREST river, and throw a BUCKET in the deep end, and take a slug.. NOT off the top..OFF the bottom of the river.
#22:
I wouldn’t drink the sludge off the bottom of any river even if this were pre-industrial times.
271 million pounds is not that much after it’s diluted.
Cancer rates dropping and life spans are increasing. Explain it.
23,
“271 million pounds is not that much after it’s diluted.
Cancer rates dropping and life spans are increasing. Explain it.”
271 mill isnt the answer…Multiply buy 100 year of that much per year. Then look to the Island of CRAP called JUNK in the pacific as big as texas.
Lower cancer and longer life??
Just means They are doing a good job of hiding it.(in someone ELSES yard) ASK about the trash being hauled away from NEW YORK and other states on the East coast..
#11 Dood…Pluto-crats are like that Monopoly Guy or Mr. Peanut. You know…spats and a monocle are de rigueur for those guys and John C. Dvorak as he counts his money from the No Agenda li-berry.
Plutocrate is:
HE who dies with the most money wins..By hook or crook..By good or Evil, By Illusion or making you give it to them out of NEED/WANT/TAXES…
“That’s why my niece and her friends starting developing breasts at the age of 9 and had first menstruation at 10 or 11.”
Yeah, well, I highly doubt that. It’s pretty well known that time before menses and caloric intake is an inverse relationship.
Otherwise, why aren’t boys experiencing abnormal sexual maturity from these hormones?
Moran. Because they’re FEMALE hormones, like estrogen. Same stuff they give to chickens.
Even though I think Obama wants to change Washington and try and make our public survants really serve the public. I think big business has run Washington for some time and I really don’t see things improving. Most of our lawmakers are in it for themselves and to get pork projects for their State. They could care less about the rest of the country. As we have seen, both parties ignore their spending habits and still think the taxpayer is a bottomless finacial base for this spending.
The EPA is more concerned about global warming these days and our FDA seems to forget that its their job to protect our food chain. Our SEC spends money going after people like Martha Stuart while Bernie Madolph pillages American dreams. I can only imagine what great plan they will have for our healthcare system.
FDA, EPA, and the dept of ag, are so under funded and TOOTHLESS, that any fines are a SLAP on the wrist. The fines dont even amount to 10% of a corps profits..
AND the IRS is so BAD on Major corps, they couldnt figure out the MATH from there OWN documents..AND they cant/wont cross reference ANYTHING SPENT..
#27:
“Moran. Because they’re FEMALE hormones, like estrogen.”
First of all, you spelled ‘moron’ wrong. I never attack people by correcting their spelling – unless it’s someone calling me a ‘moron’ and spelling it ‘moran.’
That you call them ‘female’ hormones means you probably don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m no scientist, but if there’s so much estrogen in the water supply, where’s the evidence that it affects other people? It doesn’t seem like women are getting hot flashes any later than they normally do, for example.
Are they? Dunno. But everyone always pulls out this ‘girls maturing earlier’ thing as conclusive proof that there are dangerous levels of estrogen in the food supply. But, they conveniently ignore the calorie theory.
It’s like, kids are eating thousands of more calories a day and there’s absolutely no question that girls mature earlier when they eat more. That’s why I don’t believe that some trace chemical in the water or milk (hormones are undetected in milk, akaik) causing this.
But all the nuts at the whole foods store will use boobies on 11-year olds as evidence that we’re on our way straight to hell. They sickeningly exploit the sexual nature of this, like, ‘they’re stealing our children’s innocence!’ As if big Ag is some kind of child molester. Puh-leze.
Raving lunatics, all of them. Then they point out that *their* little girls don’t hit menarche until high school. Yeah, well that’s because they’re on a restricted calorie diet of seeds and twigs – nothing to do with the ‘hormones’ in food.
I’m just so sick of hearing this thing repeated.
#24:
“Lower cancer and longer life??
Just means They are doing a good job of hiding it.(in someone ELSES yard) ASK about the trash being hauled away from NEW YORK and other states on the East coast.”
I know there’s a bunch of garbage buried. I know that some of it leaches into some of the water. But every time I hear people bleat about how THIS IS ABSOLUTELY GONNA KILL US! I can’t help trying to FIND these dead people.
Where are they?
We’ve been using and burying plastics for a couple generations now. Same thing with cordless phones. And hormone-treated food. And CRTs. The list goes on.
Yet, no one is dying. People are living longer and they’re getting cancer less often. The way these nuts rant and rave, we should all be walking around with big face tumors and giving birth to menstruating three-year olds.
I don’t see it. Sorry.
First of all, you spelled ‘moron’ wrong. I never attack people by correcting their spelling – unless it’s someone calling me a ‘moron’ and spelling it ‘moran.’
Ya learn somethin’ new every day. And by “ya” I mean “you”.
Personally I prefer the Bugs Bunny term “maroon”, but “moran” is kind of traditional.