Next time you fail a drug test, blame your drinking water

[Zimzum]

Maybe boiling your tap/bottle water first would be a good idea.. Very disturbing article about whats in our tap water (And even in our bottled water). Link to full article down below.

Here are some of the key test results obtained by the AP:

_Officials in Philadelphia 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.

_Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications were detected in a portion of the treated drinking water for 18.5 million people in Southern California.

_Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed a Passaic Valley Water Commission drinking water treatment plant, which serves 850,000 people in Northern New Jersey, and found a metabolized angina medicine and the mood-stabilizing carbamazepine in drinking water.

_A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water.

_The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested positive for six pharmaceuticals.

_Three medications, including an antibiotic, were found in drinking water supplied to Tucson, Ariz.

The situation is undoubtedly worse than suggested by the positive test results in the major population centers documented by the AP.

The New York state health department and the USGS tested the source of the city's water, upstate. They found trace concentrations of heart medicine, infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer and a tranquilizer.

Even users of bottled water and home filtration systems don't necessarily avoid exposure. Bottlers, some of which simply repackage tap water, do not typically treat or test for pharmaceuticals, according to the industry's main trade group. The same goes for the makers of home filtration systems.

Another issue: There's evidence that adding chlorine, a common process in conventional drinking water treatment plants, makes some pharmaceuticals more toxic.

Human waste isn't the only source of contamination. Cattle, for example, are given ear implants that provide a slow release of trenbolone, an anabolic steroid used by some bodybuilders, which causes cattle to bulk up. But not all the trenbolone circulating in a steer is metabolized. A German study showed 10 percent of the steroid passed right through the animals.

Water sampled downstream of a Nebraska feedlot had steroid levels four times as high as the water taken upstream. Male fathead minnows living in that downstream area had low testosterone levels and small heads.


Full story can be found here. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080309/ap_on_re_us/pharmawater_i)

[pisshead]

Drugs In Water Report Prompts Nationwide AlarmHearings set for April as consumers react with shock, full scale of crisis not realized Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet (http://www.prisonplanet.com/index.html)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A study conducted by the Associated Press which found that numerous pharmaceutical drugs have contaminated the water supplies of millions of Americans has provoked nationwide alarm, causing consumers and experts alike to react with shock, but the true scale of the problem may not be fully realized.
"A five-month Associated Press investigation has determined that trace amounts of many of the pharmaceuticals we take to stay healthy are seeping into drinking water supplies, and a growing body of research indicates that this could harm humans," states the report.
At least 13 different medications, from antidepressants like prozac to sex hormones have been discovered in the drinking water of 41 million Americans, a number likely to be far higher considering the fact that all water districts were not tested and some went to great lengths to keep their results secret.
Consumers nationwide reacted with shock to the reports without realizing that they were already being mass-medicated against their will in many water districts by way of sodium fluoride being added to water supplies without their consent.

New revelations of pharmaceuticals in water will only increase pressure on water districts to remove sodium fluoride or potentially on the flip side, accelerate the drive to add it before consumers have a chance to say no.
This is all the more prescient considering the fact that a recent Scientific American report (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/011508_fluoride_horror.htm) concluded that "Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift" as new evidence emerges of the poison's link to disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland, as well as lowering IQ.
The Philadelphia Water Department was flooded with calls from alarmed residents despite officials denying there was any risk, (http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20080311_Trace_amount_of_drugs_in_water_alarms_Phi ladelphia_residents.html)after the Associated Press revealed that traces of 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts had been found in city drinking water.
New York City lawmakers were similarly disturbed (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/100308Lawmakers.htm) by the new evidence, prompting questions as to why the problem was not divulged to the public earlier.
"This is very alarming," a member of the City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection, Peter Vallone of Queens, said. "Rather than sit back and be informed about this, New York City should have been proactive. I would hope we institute some sort of testing as soon as possible."
New York environmental organization Riverkeeper described the report as a "wake up call" (http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0310-11.htm)and demanded that the government immediately "conduct a federally funded national study that provides risk assessments for pharmaceuticals in our waters, and measures the potential human and aquatic health effects."

In Pittsburgh, the story resonated with local experts (http://www.wpxi.com/consumer/15556634/detail.html)who are concurrently studying the effects estrogen contamination is having on fish, where in some areas 85 per cent are found to be genderless.
Dr. Dan Volz from the University of Pittsburgh says the dumping of cleaning products and cosmetics down drains is contributing to the crisis.
Myron Arnowitt, state director of Clean Water Action, said, "We know that there is a problem in Pittsburgh, we don't have direct water evidence, but the fish are showing us something is wrong." Dr. Stanley States is the water quality manager of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, which serves 250,000 customers a day.
The Associated Press released more information (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gfFmv5O8WO4WPvcC6cq_KykMilMgD8VAMMLO0) from their study yesterday which confirmed that drug-contaminated water was having harmful effects on fish.
Pharmaceuticals in the water are being blamed for severe reproductive problems in many types of fish: The endangered razorback sucker and male fathead minnow have been found with lower sperm counts and damaged sperm; some walleyes and male carp have become what are called feminized fish, producing egg yolk proteins typically made only by females.
Meanwhile, female fish have developed male genital organs. Also, there are skewed sex ratios in some aquatic populations, and sexually abnormal bass that produce cells for both sperm and eggs.
There are problems with other wildlife as well: kidney failure in vultures, impaired reproduction in mussels, inhibited growth in algae.
Responding to the Associated Press report, Sen. Barbara Boxer, who heads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Frank Lautenberg, chairman of the Transportation, Safety, Infrastructure Security and Water Quality Subcommittee, promised oversight hearings to be held in April.
"Boxer, D-Calif., said she was "alarmed at the news" that pharmaceuticals are turning up in the nation's drinking water, while Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat who said he was "deeply concerned" by the AP findings, both represent states where pharmaceuticals had been detected in drinking water supplies, but not disclosed to the public," reports the Associated Press (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ipVx85Nbcbz3VNRF9_kzSkcCKukwD8VB3BI00).
In addition, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa., has asked the EPA to form a a national task force and report back to Congress.
"Like many Pennsylvanians, I was especially taken aback by the finding of 56 different pharmaceuticals discovered in the drinking water for the City of Philadelphia. [...] The AP report raises serious questions about the safety and security of America's water system," wrote Schwartz to EPA administrator Stephen Johnson.

[silkyblue]

thank you

this article is so not cool!!


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[dadogg]

I had that same article in my city:wtf:That must be some serious shit:mad:

[chrons]

It's not enough and will never be enough for you to ever fail a drug test. Now worries about that :thumbsup:

But yes, it is a bit disturbing in the LONG run of things...who knows if they are trying to control people with pharmaceuticals in water :wtf: crazy but who knows...

I know philly tested REALLY badly for pharms in the water, maybe thats why so many crimes and what not is going on there, think how much the average city person uses tap water for drinking/cooking/etc. overtime that's alot of water, and a lot of those pharms build up and who knows???

stick to Dasani :D

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