Prescription Drugs... In Our Drinking Water?

This blog was created to inform the general public, nursing community, and other water consumers of alarming facts concerning the purity and safety of our drinking water, and to encourage safer disposal of unused drugs. Hundreds of active pharmaceutical drug residues contaminate our water by many different means, placing human health, wildlife, and our environment at risk. Think bottled water is a safe bet? Think again.
Twenty years ago, the EPA found that sludge from a US sewage treatment plant contained aspirin, caffeine, nicotine, and clofibric acid, but the findings were not deemed significant! European scientists have been at the forefront of research after traces of powerful drugs were found to be contaminating sewage, treated water, and rivers throughout Germany. The astonishing number of pharmaceutical pollutants found include antilipidemics, antibiotics, antiepileptics, hormones, analgesics, chemotherapy drugs, psychiatric drugs, and many others!
Our federal government has set no standards or safety limits for drugs in water, and results of independent investigations have remained largely unpublicized. Many scientists say that the synergistic dangers may be much greater than we realize and the evidence is compelling.
What can be done to clean up our water supply and reverse this dangerous problem?

· Seehusen, Dean A., Edwards, J. Patient Practices and Beliefs Concerning Disposal of Medications. (2006). <http://www.jabfm.org/cgi/content/full/19/6/542>

· Water Resources Research Center, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona.Pharmaceuticals In Our Water Supplies, July 2000 http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/awr/july00/feature1.htm


Have you ever heard of pharmaceuticals being found in our water?

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Drugs in our Water Turn Male FIsh to Female

Throughout America and across the world, pharmaceuticals in the water supply are wreaking havoc on wildlife. While the impact on humans is still uncertain, research shows that the presence of endocrine disrupters are causing hormonal chaos in several species of fish, as well as sentinel species that are at the foundation of the chain of life. Worldwide, the development of female egg proteins in male fish of several different species has been discovered, and the anomaly is becoming more and more common.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKhgg6TuFrc


http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/ppcp/studies/fish-expand.html






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Courtney said...

I was not aware of "Estrogen Mimickers." That is just highly disturbing that this has resulted in such changes in living creatures.

October 28, 2009
Anonymous said...

wow.. crazy facts.. didnt know chemicals could do that to the fish.. imagine what it could to our bodies

October 28, 2009
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