This Is Messed Up: How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get In Drinking Water?

03-10-2009

Tagged Under : Drinking Water, Drugs Get, Pharmaceutical Drugs Get, Water

How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? And what can I do about it? These are all questions many households throughout America have been asking – and quite rightly so.

All hell broke loose when an Associated Press story broke, indicating that our water supply wasn’t as safe as we thought.

Probe Finds Drugs In Drinking Water.

An Associated Press study of 24 large metropolitan cities across America (40 million people) found a large variety of medication in their drinking water. Sex hormones, cancer drugs, antidepressants and antibiotics were some of medications found. Read more