This Is Kinda Scary...

[ND_Ownz!]

Wowzers

Area Tap Water Has Traces of Medicines
Tests Find 6 Drugs, Caffeine in D.C., Va.

The Washington area's drinking water contains trace amounts of six commonly used drugs that typically turn up in wastewater and cannot be filtered out by most treatment systems.

Area Tap Water Has Traces of Medicines - washingtonpost.com

 

[goldandblue]

well they are just making sure everyone in the area is healthy! But when you read down a little it says, "The drugs discovered in testing over the past two years typically get into the water supply because they pass through a user's body and are flushed downstream" that's not cool at all.

 

[Sureal]

Are you telling me that I'm drinking toilet water when I drink from the faucet?

 

[grantphilly]

sounds tasty...."Hey Roy can you get sick from drinking piss? Yeah. Even if its your own? Yeah." KingPin is a great movie!!

 

[stonebreakerwasgod]

That's not scary, you should see the picture of the colon I stole.

 

[IrishGrizz]

Now that is sick and wrong.

 

[SoCalDomer]

you know, with the high price of prescription medications, we should actually be thankful we get those additives for free!

 

[goldandblue]

Are you telling me that I'm drinking toilet water when I drink from the faucet?

Anything that hits the sewer line.

 

[IrishGrizz]

At leasst when you drink beer, its processed, boiled and cooked and flavor is added. I am swearing off water. Beer only.

 

[SoCalDomer]

what do you think they start with to make beer?

 

[goldandblue]

shitty water.....

 

[IrishGrizz]

But then they do tha magic stuff to it and voila- no shitty aftertaste!

 

[SoCalDomer]

but it's not about taste. the whole point is there are certain substances that cannot be pulled out of the wastewater that eventually becomes drinking water. sorry, you're getting meds with your beer.

 

[IrishGrizz]

I know, SoCal that you are right. I was just trying to make a funny. Its too depressing to think about, otherwise.

 

[SoCalDomer]

my bad. i wasn't sure you were making funnies.

 

[IrishGrizz]

That is a sure sign that you aren't! (when someone else isn't laughing.)

 

[MirageSmack]

Are you telling me that I'm drinking toilet water when I drink from the faucet?

All water is recycled. The amount of water on earth stays the same, it just moves around in one form or another. So yeah, it surely has been in someone's toilet before.

I actually work at one of the companies on the list. I probably shouldn't say the name, but I live in Louisville, and I work for the Water Company, so I think you can figure it out. One of the 3 chemicals in our water was cafeine, so this should up water consumption in the morning, eh?

You actually have to test and treat each drug separately, so that would cost $$$$. Our drugs were measured in parts per trillion (PPT). One PPT is equivalent to something the size of a small aspirin in the size of an olympic size swimming pool. Just sayin.