Response To An Online Article

Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S.-http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1.ap/index.html

Although pharmaceuticals have been found in our drinking water, it is still safe to drink the water. The AP has tested certain areas of the U.S. including Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit, Michigan, to Louisville, Kentucky. These drugs are in are drinking water because the body only absorbs so much of it and then it passes through us and into the toilet where it is flushed away. But the big question is, well why don't treatment centers get rid of drug residue in our drinking water? "Officials in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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." That's' a lot of drugs in our drinking water, makes you wonder will it really effect us in the long run. We all have been drinking water for many years and this has never been the issue to get u sick. Why are investigators making such a big deal about it, i mean it may not be goo to drink all those pharmaceuticals but it hasn't killed us. These pharmaceuticals could probably help us with are help but we will see what scientist have to say after they have investigated the "Drinking Water" more....