and you thought transgendered fish in the Potomac were bad
It's a no-brainer, really.
When you ingest a medication, and excrete traces of it through the usual process and plumbing, it goes into the waste-water stream if your house is connected to a public sewer. Then it wends its way to the water-treatment plant, where solid material is skimmed, the water is treated to sterilize and render it inert, and there's tons of filtration involved in all this. Membranes, reverse-osmosis, yada yada.
The one thing they cannot remove is traces of pharmaceuticals. Metals? Yep. Acids and bases? Why not. Just neutralize those fuckers.
It makes me wonder if some of the depression and general ennui we're culturally accustomed to at this point (never mind all the obvious triggers, such as Dumbyah, Cheney, corporate welfare, et al), could be traced to trace prescription meds in the water supply.
Don't assume bottled water is safe, by the way. Here's a very short blurb that piqued my attention. In my possibly shrill and undiluted opinion, anyone who tells you the amounts are too low to have any effect is purposefully ignoring the precautionary principle, and doesn't understand body burden. Besides, they wouldn't be able to prescribe and sell these meds...
Bottoms up!
When you ingest a medication, and excrete traces of it through the usual process and plumbing, it goes into the waste-water stream if your house is connected to a public sewer. Then it wends its way to the water-treatment plant, where solid material is skimmed, the water is treated to sterilize and render it inert, and there's tons of filtration involved in all this. Membranes, reverse-osmosis, yada yada.
The one thing they cannot remove is traces of pharmaceuticals. Metals? Yep. Acids and bases? Why not. Just neutralize those fuckers.
It makes me wonder if some of the depression and general ennui we're culturally accustomed to at this point (never mind all the obvious triggers, such as Dumbyah, Cheney, corporate welfare, et al), could be traced to trace prescription meds in the water supply.
Don't assume bottled water is safe, by the way. Here's a very short blurb that piqued my attention. In my possibly shrill and undiluted opinion, anyone who tells you the amounts are too low to have any effect is purposefully ignoring the precautionary principle, and doesn't understand body burden. Besides, they wouldn't be able to prescribe and sell these meds...
Bottoms up!
Posted by Sara | 8:30 PM |
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