{"id":13464,"date":"2011-01-30T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/13464\/drug-store-tap-water\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T21:13:12","slug":"drug-store-tap-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/13464\/drug-store-tap-water\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drug Store in Your Tap Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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By<\/strong>:<\/td>\nmarthamagenta<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong>:<\/td>\n01\/30\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n \"\" <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The Drug Store in Your Tap Water<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
Go To Original<\/a>
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You
\ndon\u2019t have to eat cattle who have worn trenbolone ear implants to end
\nup with the growth stimulating androgenic hormone in your body reported
\nthe Associated Press in 2008.<\/div>\n
Water taken near a Nebraska feedlot
\nhad four times the trenbolone levels as other water samples and male
\nfathead minnows nearby had low testosterone levels and small heads.<\/div>\n
Nor
\ndo you have to see a doctor to imbibe a witch\u2019s brew of prescriptions
\nlike pain pills, antibiotics and psychiatric, cholesterol, asthma,
\nepilepsy and heart meds in your drinking water, says the AP. Free of
\ncharge.<\/div>\n
Other \u201cbiosolids\u201d found in drinking water include
\nanti-fungal drugs and the toxic plastic, Bisphenol A, from some bottled
\nwaters which people ironically drink to avoid tap water.<\/div>\n
While
\npharma and water treatment professionals routinely deny the existence of
\nprescription drugs in public waterways and drinking water \u2014 easy to do
\nwhen they are not tested for anyway! \u2014 Mary Buzby director of
\nenvironmental technology for pharma giant Merck was a little more candid
\nin 2007.<\/div>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt about it, pharmaceuticals are being
\ndetected in the environment and there is genuine concern that these
\ncompounds, in the small concentrations that they\u2019re at, could be causing
\nimpacts to human health or to aquatic organisms,\u201d she remarked at a
\nconference in 2007, says the AP.<\/div>\n
And if we need a second opinion
\nfrom the antibiotics found in Tucson drinking water, sex hormones in San
\nFrancisco drinking water and seizure and anxiety meds in Southern
\nCalifornia drinking water, there\u2019s the animals themselves.<\/div>\n
Fish
\ncaught near wastewater treatment plants near five major US cities had
\nresidues of cholesterol, high blood pressure, allergy, bipolar and
\ndepression drugs reported Discovery news in 2006.<\/div>\n
Male fish in the
\nestrogen-saturated St. Lawrence River around Montreal are developing
\novaries, reported Daniel Cyr, at Quebec\u2019s National Institute for Science
\nResearch according to the Independent Post in 2008.<\/div>\n
And now fish in the same area are showing signs of the antidepressant Prozac in their systems says the University of Montreal.<\/div>\n
(And
\nthat\u2019s not counting the feminized frogs with both female and male sex
\norgans which are increasingly found in US waterways and even suburban
\nponds, an ominous \u201ccanary-in-the-water\u201d trend that indicates serious
\necological damage say scientists.)<\/div>\n
When scientists studied hybrid
\nstriped bass exposed to Prozac at Clemson University, SC they found the
\nfish maintained a position at the top of the water surface, sometimes
\nwith their dorsal fin out of the water unlike the fish not on Prozac who
\nremained at the bottom of the tank. Staying near the top of the water
\nand maintaining \u201ca vertical position in the aquaria\u201d could increase the
\nbass\u2019 susceptibility to predators and decrease their survival reported
\nthe researchers. Nor did the bass eat as much as non-Prozac fish.<\/div>\n
A
\nsimilar loss in survival behaviors has been seen in shrimp exposed to
\nProzac who are five times more likely to swim toward light than away
\nfrom it, making them also more susceptible to predators reports the
\nSouthern Daily Echo News.<\/div>\n
\u201dCrustaceans are crucial to the food
\nchain and if shrimps\u2019 natural behaviour is being changed because of
\nantidepressant levels in the sea this could seriously upset the natural
\nbalance of the ecosystem,\u201d says Dr Alex Ford, from the University of
\nPortsmouth\u2019s Institute of Marine Sciences.<\/div>\n
For years public health
\nofficials have told people that just because the bass and other fish in
\ntheir waterways are contaminated with chlordane, PCBs and methylmercury
\ndoesn\u2019t mean the drinking water is unsafe. But the prescription drugs
\nlevels in fish are precisely because<\/em> the drinking water is unsafe.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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