Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water
AP
Posted: 2008-03-09 21:42:14
Filed Under: Health News, Nation News, Science News
(March 9) - 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.
[b]In my City Philadelphia they find over 56 different kinds of drugs in the water. Wonder why I stopped drinking the tap water and drink bottle.[/b]
Whats in the Water
Philadelphia: 56 pharmaceuticals or pharmaceutical byproducts, including medicines used to treat pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems
New York City: Heart medication, infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer and a tranquilizer
New Orleans: Pain reliever naproxen, sex hormone estrone and the byproduct of an anti-cholesterol drug
Southern California Watershed: Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications
Washington, D.C.: Six pharmaceuticals
Northern New Jersey: Metabolized angina medicine and the mood-stabilizing drug carbamazepine
Upstate New York Watershed: Caffeine
San Francisco: Sex hormone
[b]I wonder if that has to do with all of the homosexuality going on in san fran[/b]
Tests were conducted in 35 of 62 major U.S. watersheds, the natural sources of most of the nation's water supply. Pharmaceuticals were detected in 28 of them.
[b]That is why it is important to pray for YHWH's Protection. HalleluYah.
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