Traces Of Drugs Found In Drinking Water - Meds lurk in drinking water

Usually when I blog about water, it's because of the shortage in the face of too much high-density development that will place further excessive demand, which will cause water rates to skyrocket and become the new "oil". (What people go to war over.)

But here is a story that has hit just about every news wire today. (One universal story all the different news sources have in common.) Haven't really seen one story get such widespread coverage recently, so here's a post with a bunch of these stories to give you an idea:

Traces Of Drugs Found In Drinking Water
from knbc.com - Local News
Experts say they don't know what it means that many Americans get tiny amounts of medicines in each glass of tap water.

Meds lurk in drinking water
from MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines
**ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MARCH 10** Duane Moser, an assistant research professor with Desert Research Institute, collects water samples from the Las Vegas Wash in Henderson, Nev., Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The nation’s drinking water supplies are not as pristine as might be expected — traces of pharmaceuticals are all too common, an Associated Press investigation finds.

Drugs in Drinking Water?
from KTLA The CW | Where Los Angeles Lives - News
An Associated Press investigation has found a vast array of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans.


AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water... from Drudge Report

What's in your water: Drugs?
from Eyewitness News: #1 in Southern California
An investigation found pharmaceuticals in the drinking water of millions of Americans.

Feeling Chill? Your Tap Water is Drugged
from LAist by Zach Behrens

Water supply drugged in Los Angeles and other areasAfter a 5-month investigation, the Associated Press found that Los Angeles drinking water has traces of Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications. "To be sure," the AP noted "the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose."

Across the nation, the report found tainted water supplies in 24 major metropolitan areas, five of those in California:

* Los Angeles: 2 (meprobamate and phenytoin)
* Long Beach: 2 (meprobamate and phenytoin)
* Riverside County: 2 (meprobamate and phenytoin)
* San Francisco: 1 (estradiol)
* San Diego: 3 (ibuprofen, meprobamate and phenytoin)
* Concord: 2 (meprobamate and sulfamethoxazole)
Extra, Extra: I'm On Drugs!
...Angeles tap water was the best tasting in the world? Turns out that our delicious H20 might have been sprinkled with delicious drugs. The AP found that a multitude of pharmaceuticals, like antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones, have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans including w...

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