Medications are being produced and consumed in ever-increasing numbers. With this rise in consumption, researchers are looking their presence in our drinking water, which means they make it all the way straight through the waste water system, into our water resources, straight through fresh water treatment, and at last into our home water supplies. These second-hand drugs include hormones, anti-cancer chemotherapy, birth operate pills, caffeine, antibiotics, heart medicines, painkillers, psychiatric drugs and others.
These medications not only come from consumers who excrete them from their bodies into the sewers, but from drug manufacturing companies, hospitals and clinics that discharge them into the sewers as well, along with being excreted from farm animals being treated with veterinary medications, where they percolate down into the ground and pollute private water sources.
All water finally is recycled water, even though it has been treated before reaching our homes. What was once waste water at last winds up in rivers, lakes or private aquifers where municipalities get their water for their citizens. These drug "left-overs" had their pharmacological effect on the traditional medication consumers, and in turn can have unwanted residual effects on the next man drinking recycled tap water.
Some of these second-hand drugs are endocrine disrupters. They cause hormonal effects which can lead to menstrual and reproductive abnormalities and breast cancer in women, and testicular cancer, infertility, feminization and gynecomastia (breast growth) in men. The presence of antibiotics in the water provide is feared will cause resistance of disease-causing bacteria to treatment.
Some might think I am being over-concerned, but the problem has the attentiveness of scientists both here in the U.S. And in Europe, where medication consumption is the highest. Of even greater concern, is that it is foreseen, that the amount of medications that will be produced and consumed in the future will growth by 20 times over current numbers. This will no ifs ands or buts growth the amount of second-hand drugs foreseen, to pollute our water provide in the future, and municipal utilities cannot take off them from our water even now.
None of us want to consume water that contains drugs that man else had already taken and excreted. If we need medication for treatment, we prefer to go to a drugstore, thank you. The only way to ideally deal with this dilemma is to be proactive and filter your own water to take off these drug chemicals, which also removes other contaminants such as microorganisms, chlorine, pesticides, petrochemicals, toxic metals and more.
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