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Buck March 9th, 2008 - 4:43 pmWhat the hell are we doing?
AP probe finds drugs in drinking water
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.
Here are some of the key test results obtained by the AP:
_Officials in Philadelphia said testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems. Sixty-three pharmaceuticals or byproducts were found in the city’s watersheds.
_Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications were detected in a portion of the treated drinking water for 18.5 million people in Southern California.
_Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed a Passaic Valley Water Commission drinking water treatment plant, which serves 850,000 people in Northern New Jersey, and found a metabolized angina medicine and the mood’stabilizing carbamazepine in drinking water.
_A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco’s drinking water.
_The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested positive for six pharmaceuticals.
_Three medications, including an antibiotic, were found in drinking water supplied to Tucson, Ariz.
March 9th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
With the many ED drugs like Viagra flooding the market (pun intended), we men should be walking around with involuntary boners 24 hours a day soon. Are you really happy to see me or have you been drinking tap water again?
March 9th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Greeeeat.
March 9th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I’m always happy to see you, Bro!
*evil grin*
March 9th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Oops, maybe not….male fathead minnows had low testosterone levels and small heads….
March 9th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
and then there’s this……male fish are being feminized..
March 9th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Oh the tragedy. Oh the humanity. One of God’s creatures dons a purse and hi-heels and all of a sudden it’s a bad thing… we’re all going to hell in a hand basket.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
As Archie Bunker often said; “Whoop-de-doo!”
(laughs - j/k-ing!)
March 9th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Always happy to see you as well Buck.
March 9th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco’s drinking water.
The religious right could have a field day with this news. Not to mention “the terrorists should bomb San Francisco” O’Reilly.
The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested positive for six pharmaceuticals.
None of which fight off greed, hubris, narcissism, or cause common sense, morals or competence. However, some of the same drugs that are in the San Francisco water may be found running in some of the offices of closet gay Republican’s offices.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Wasn’t this a plot device in Dr. Strangelove?