What's the Truth About Drugs in Our Drinking Water?

Author: R. Lee Cole
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I'm sure you've heard all the information recently about drugs in our drinking water. The question is how bad is the problem, and how bad is this for your health. And, if it's bad for your health, what can you do about it. Let's take these questions one by one.

First question: how bad is the problem of drugs found in US drinking water? I'm sure you've heard the news recently about drugs in our water system. Studies have recently found various types of drugs such as sex hormones, antibiotics, heart medicine, and chemotherapy drugs in several of our water systems. It wasn't just in one part of the United States that the drugs were found, either. Drugs have been found in US water systems from California to New Jersey.

What water providers say about the drugs found in US drinking water is that the amounts are negligible. There are "traces" of antibiotics in our water, for instance. These traces are measured in parts per billion. The idea is that these amounts are not enough to negatively affect our health. At least that's what the water companies say.

What scientists and health researchers say is that this problem hasn't existed long enough to say whether your health can be negatively impacted by ingesting trace amounts of these drugs year after year. In other words, no one knows, and you'll have to decide if drugs in our drinking water is something you need to worry about or not. Personally, I've made my decision. Which leads us to the third question. What can be done about this problem.

Unfortunately, the problem of drugs in our drinking water is not going away. Scientists are not really sure how these drugs get into the water systems, but one theory is that they come from human waste, which gets into the water system through recycling. Drugs make our lives better. They've saved and extended the lives of millions upon millions of people. So, the good news is that prescription drugs in our environment are not going away. The bad news is that prescription drugs in our environment are not going away!

In other words, you have to solve the problem of drugs found in US drinking water yourself! And here's what you need to do about it!

The only possible solution for you is to filter your water yourself at home. (By the way, bottled water is not the solution--in some respects it's worse for you than tap water.) If you want to get the prescription drugs out of your water, it must be filtered at home.

Now, all you need to do is to find out what type of water filter to buy. To do this, you need a good, informative website.

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R. Lee Cole is an avid health and exercise enthusiast who loves to make his research available to everyone via the Internet. Check out Lee's website for more information about this important topic.


Keywords: drugs in our drinking water, drugs found in US drinking water
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Date Submitted: 8/6/2008

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