You live in the US. Surely if you live in the US you couldn’t be drinking drugs when you drink a glass of tap water? Could you?
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.
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 she decided to test tap water for antibiotics, and got the 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.”
How about from USA today? “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.”
The municipal water authorities are required to test for and eliminate germs in our drinking water, but they are not required to either test for or eliminate drugs from our drinking water.
So you can see from the quotes that it seems clear, there are drugs in our drinking water. The question is, what are the health risks of drinking unfiltered water with drugs in it?
And nobody knows, it really isn’t clear.
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.
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 worlds best water filters will remove hazards like antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, lead, heavy metals and much more from your water. So you need to use the best water filter that money can buy so you’re safe from drinking antibiotics and other “toxic chemicals”.
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