Drugs from the Water Tap

Water quality problems continuously haunt the residents of DC. To be able to drink the water with a degree of safety we filter our tap water and then distill the filtered water. Hopefully this process works with everything that's in the water, including drugs.

From CBS...

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 AP 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 in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.

In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas - from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, Ky.

I don't care how small the concentrations are. Is it too much to ask that our water not be contaminated with various drugs!

Check of the video from MSNBC...