It has been known for quite a while that our water is polluted with pharmaceuticals. Here is a story giving more details on the issue. The drugs pass through humans, farm animals, and even our pets and get into our sewage systems, rivers and aquifers. Yes, everything from hormones to antibiotics to cholesterol-lowering drugs to pharmaceuticals for heart and mental health, and in many places around the world, not just in the United States. Also, don’t expect your bottled water to be free from contamination, because it’s just now being lightly tested for in our water supplies, and no method has been developed to remove them yet. The quantities are small, but, scientists simply do not know the long-term effects of being exposed to these drugs on a daily basis. They do know the harmful effects of amphibians being exposed to certain feminizing hormones, the defects in the males being born to these species. We’d better get cracking!

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