Watered-Down Drugs

The Associated Press probed the US's drinking water and found traces of pharmaceuticals in almost every single city where water was tested. We've known this for years, though. Toxins in, toxins out. We take pills, we pee out chemicals, the treatment plants remove our urine and feces from the water, but not all the chemicals, and the "clean" water gets pumped back into our rivers, reservoirs, water tables. That same water then makes it back through the tap. Brilliant, isn't it? We're drinking a watery concoction the effects of which are "not yet understood."

We are a a highly creative species, always making things out of what we find on earth. The thing is the Earth is completely interconnected and finite. It's essentially a giant terrarium. Anything we create, anything we put into our terrarium, stays there for quite some time. It has nowhere else to go, so our chemicals, be they drugs or pesticides, perfumes or natural flavorings--they all end up stuck within our terrarium. They end up in our water, our soil, our oceans, our air. They find their way into the bloodstreams of animals, even the human ones.

Here's the whole article. Enjoy.