drugs in your tap or drinking water  

We do have a Brita system on the faucet in our kitchen. However, I doubt it will filter out the residual traces of these drugs they have found.
If the huge commercial city filters don't do the job, I doubt any filter we can purchase will either.
It is scary and I read the same article.
Years and years from now they may finally find out the long term affects of the slow poisoning we are receiving.
I wonder if bottled water is safer or if it also contains residual drugs?
I wonder if there is a filter or chemical process that can remove the trace drugs from the water.

I'm glad you posted this winterose! I was watching the local news last night and right before they went to commercial the news caster had mentioned this. Somehow, I managed to miss the rest of it though. Yeah, it is a little scary...and if anything a little gross. I buy bottled water, so I very rarely drink from the tap. The water here smells like bleach...how unappealing is that? I'm going to continue on with my bottled water...and will probably buy a filtration system sometime soon.

These are times when I am thankful that I have a good, deep well for my water. I don't have to worry about what is getting into the city drinking water.

Don't forget about when people have not taken thier meds or they expire and they flush them down the toilet because that is what they are told to do so no one goes through your trash to get them out.

I only lived where we had town water once...and a few years after I moved my nephew got horribly sick from drinking that water!

But I can't imagine well water is much better. The only difference is (assuming your own family are the only ones on the property) the traces of whatever will be from things your family already takes. Not that that's much consolation considering a mother's birth control could be in her son's drinking water or Dad's viagra in the d aughter's water...

My question would be whether or not the home filtration systems take these things out. If they do, I predict a big upsurge in the sale of home water purification systems. My question for you is is your mom"s system a reverse osmosis system? Ihave heard those are the best. I am no expert.

I don't have a filtration system, but i mainly use bottled water. But i think i will get a filtration system, this is scary, to think we drink all these traces of many different drugs!!

I live in Georgia and Atlanta was one of those cities. I am not effected by it because I live in a different city with a separate water source than Atlanta but, that did freak me out. I don't drink tap water. I drink bottled water. My hubby drinks the water from our fridge which is filtered.

But, I cook with our tap water. I have to wonder how much of these impurities are boiled out. And, I did used to live in Atlanta for almost 3 years. So, I wonder what kinds of effects we may have from back then.

This world is a scary place to live. But, I believe that you could do everything in your power to protect yourself from the known threats and still miss so many unknown threats. We all have to die someday and, most of us are not going to die from natural causes, unfortunately. I chose to live my life and enjoy enjoyment. I will let fate trace my steps the rest of the way.

I also saw the article, it was many major cities. Only one city is too much. We have enough problems, and then we have to drink the left over illnesses of others. I think people should buy a Brita, or call Ozarka, or Culligan because next time it might be worse. We have to have water, whether in bottle or from the faucet, so I think it is time for water inspectors, if they some we need more. Randomly testing every month or twice a month. This Is Our Life!!

I personally have no problems with tap water. The thing to remember is that, in order for these medicines to affect us, they have to be in high enough doses, at any single time. There is no way you will get a full dose of viagra, or any other drug, from tap water. However, it does make one wonder, what if a toxin powerful enough to kill you with just a miniscule amount, were to end up in our drinking water......

Yes Doll

I only drink filtered water

My pitcher and filter cost me $20

The filter last 2 months.

New filter costs $10

That's $5 a month

And it's Shaklee so I can trust it

Lots cheaper then bottled

and healthier

xoxoxoxoxox