Tons of released drugs taint US water | Seattle Times Newspaper — This is reported because we do not have enough to worry about already.
U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals
into waterways that often provide drinking water – contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium is used to make ceramics and treat bipolar disorder; nitroglycerin is a heart drug and also used in explosives; copper shows up in everything from pipes to contraceptives.
Found by Aric Mackey.
Hmm, antiseptics phenol and hydrogen peroxide – account for 92 percent of the 271 million pounds identified is & H2O2, which isn’t a persistent environmental hazard.
Honestly, these Plutocrats were all put into power by corporations and have since the 1870′s.
Why would anyone with a shred of reality think they would protect us or fix it.
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Shit, that’s why drinking tap water causes those 4 hour erections!!!
And I just thought I really liked water.
YAWN… this news is so old, that it predates the Internet!
One suspects that the paraphrase “consistently overlooked”, means “conveniently ignored”, in this context. Communities sharing deep well water tables with pharma, chemo, petro and nuke industries, should not be tapping those aquifers.
You wouldnt believe MOST of the lies and changes that happen..
Burying Chemicals in the ground, that will eventually end up in the water basin, or be found Leeched into the soil where you walk around and your kids play.
Phoenix’ is one of those places.
In the Beginning of locating locations for radioactive materials..the requirements were FAIRLY high…
Over the years, those requirements have DROPPED.. The basic requirement is containers that will last about 100 years, on Nuke materials with a 1/2 life in the THOUSANDS of years..
Hooray … the old site format. I don’t mind change, but make it a change for the better.
Things will get more interesting as the mercury from thrown away energy saver bulbs starts leeching into our drinking water from landfills.
Hooray for a Greener Earth!
Also use of birth control pills puts lots of hormones in the water. But in that case politics trumps science, so it’s ignored.
Hated the new site then it started to grow on me. Now I feel like something’s missing, though it’s GREAT to see it all working and not all wacked out.
So what’s a Plutocrat? Is that Pluto the planet, rock, piece of ice, what? Since scientists don’t agree on the relatively simple science of looking through telescopes and seeing what’s there in the distance (ref: 2006 vote change on whether Pluto is a planet or not) how do you expect science to effectively figure out what’s in your water and what planet it came from, I mean, what plant, I mean what factory?
For the general public, the thing they don’t tell you is that the drugs are coming out of the drug consumer every time they use their toilets, or ground if they do it in their yards, which all flows into the rivers, streams, lakes, underground aquifers, and wherever they are testing downstream of supposed factory causes. Then there’s all those chemicals housewives and househusbands and maids use from that “family company” and others that go down the drain, for example, caustic toilet cleaning products, and detergents and many other chemicals. Even washing the car, and rain falling down on TAR on the roads, which is where all these drugs are derived from, coal tar.
Look it up for yourself.
Too bad we can’t think about stopping this from the get go and not take every little thing our doctors would like to prescribe us.
And it is really too bad about the ignorance on this blog that CFLs and medication can’t be recycled or at least disposed of properly.
No worries… those factories will eventually all end up next door to your old IT job.
glad to see the ols site back, at least until the new one is simplified and fixed.
Or maybe I’m only hallucinating this site because I drank tap water this morning.
#9
“Also use of birth control pills puts lots of hormones in the water.”
That’s why my niece and her friends starting developing breasts at the age of 9 and had first menstruation at 10 or 11.
Pretty f*cked up.
But, oh well what can we do about it after all…
Just sit and watch things crumble.
this article is a trial ballon to help justify
the upcoming designer water shortages due
this summer.
its as old as industry itself.
ignore it. -it’s a distraction.
-s
-ps, cant wait till they release the estrogen
studies linked to GM soy..
(tho its trying to be blamed on people
dumping birth control pills down
the toilet etc)
anyone notice how almost ALL food
stuffs have some soy component in them now?
(due in part to many contries banning US GM
soy) -gotta put all that soy somewhere..
(not to mention the some 52% of Brits with soy
allergies some 5yrs after we introduced GM soy to them) -any Brits here know if you guys banned US soyebeans yet?
to name one..i mean come on, -why is there soy in solid albacore tuna canned in water??? -or why the F’k is it in tomato paste..??
the pussification of America (and the world?)
is underway..
(may george carlin rest in peace, -with a grin)
(sorry for the tangent)
-s
No duh.
The detectors keep getting more sensitive, so of course they’re finding all these ‘new’ chemicals in the water.
You watch. We’ll get a device that can find a single molecule of something, and they’ll start finding it in EVERYTHING.
Doesn’t mean a thing.
#14 Two to the Head:
“That’s why my niece and her friends starting developing breasts at the age of 9 and had first menstruation at 10 or 11.”
Yeah, well, I highly doubt that. It’s pretty well known that time before menses and caloric intake is an inverse relationship.
A more likely explanation is that a diet high in calories is the cause of your niece’s ‘problem’.
Otherwise, why aren’t boys experiencing abnormal sexual maturity from these hormones?
The old blog is back
Thanks for listening to us!
Where’s the War on Drugs when you need it?