Website review: The Associated Press: AP Probe Find...
TapwaterJ discovered this in Environment
•14 reviews since Mar 9, 2008
environment, health
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slocum77a rated 4 months ago- very scary.
- psogle rated 4 months ago
- drugs in drinking water. what are you consuming?
- akstumble rated 4 months ago
- The problem is larger than buying bottled water because it comes from the same source (thats the real bad news) and it's not as regulated as tap water - go figure.
- ScarySquirrel rated 4 months ago
- I still live.
- uglybetty977 rated 4 months ago
- This makes me ill
- birdiepoo rated 4 months ago
- This is a must read for everyone....come on ppl, we need to be taking care of the earth. it does not take a genius to know that if the wild life suffers, we suffer.
- sagesomethyme rated 4 months ago
- How very reassuring! 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. Human waste isn't the only source of contamination. Other veterinary drugs also play a role. Pets are now treated for arthritis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, allergies, dementia, and even obesity -- sometimes with the same drugs as humans.
- gavinski rated 4 months ago
- I don't know what to make of this article: drinking water is full of chemicals from pharmaceutical drugs taken by humans and animals. On the one hand it's scary. On the other hand, as Goatboy77 's review points out, 'I'll bet someone in DC has been asking "How can we scare more people into buying bottled water?"' And maybe that thought is even scarier. I wonder what the actual action of such diluted doses would be. There is now consensus (See New Scientist) that homoeopathy's effect is due to more than just placebo. Might this extremely dilute dosage work in some kind of homeopathic way? The article suggests that there have been damaging effects on fish - including feminization of male fish - so it may indeed be harmful, but it then goes on to say that far too few studies have been done and this is far from conclusive. There's so much crap in our seas and rivers these days, that it must be extremely hard to come up with conclusive evidence that this is due to pharmaceuticals. I remember reading once that scaremongering can have a negative effect on people becoming more environmental. There's so much fear that people just put their hands up and go: 'Holy shit, we're screwed.' How to find the right balance? One sensible precaution, of course, would be to increase use of herbal and natural medicines. Then it would be the pharmaceuticals, and the governments who make so much from them, who'd be freaking out.
- pankajsapkal rated 4 months ago
- Seems shocking, doesn't it? That we are beginning to get antidepressants, anticonvulsants, antibiotics, etc in our drinking water? Well, it was bound to happen - sooner or later. We make all these synthetic and unnatural molecules without studying how they will biodegrade into harmless molecules after passing out of the body. We get polar bears turning aggressive, we get people acting crazy, and we still keep pushing these molecules into the environment. The short-sightedness of our species never ceases to amaze me. Do we have any clue whatsoever on how to clean up this stuff? We forget that while you can throw trash out of our homes, the planet earth has no trash bag to throw its garbage into.
- Perko rated 4 months ago
- "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your
hard-core Commieunregulated pharmaceutical company works." --maybe Jack D. Ripper had a point after all. - "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your
