Oh oh, looks like our good friends are spiking the water supply with continine and other prescription drug goodies.
Being a very visual type person, I'm a big fan of movies that are loaded with action, explosions and crazy, unexpected scenes. Within my library of films, there are plenty of old, classic zombie flicks for that very reason. If you watch enough of the old zombie classics, you'll quickly notice one motif. People usually get screwed over by drinking the water.
In some parts of the United States, drinking tap water is seen as a worse sin than stealing the Pope's hat and sneaking a scrog with your girlfriend inside the Vatican, Eurotrip style. When I first moved to California, I was treated to very dirty looks for regularly chugging the tap water. A good friend once told me, "Dude, that's like making out with Courtney Love after she returns from a Tijuana coke party."
Getting DirrrrrtyWell, it seems the bottled water drinking portion of our society may have been right all along. In recent and alarming news, the Associated Press (AP) did a surprise investigation on the
quality of drinking water suppy in several metropolitan areas. The results of it may just leave a Courtney Love taste in your mouth.
According to the five month AP survey, US drinking water is a cocktail of antibiotics, anti-convulsants, sex hormones, emotion/mood stabilizers and maybe Mick Jagger secretions. The water supply of the 24 US metropolitan areas were surveyed during this time, and the results were consistently bad. This has scientists concerned and questioning the long term effects of medication being present in the water supply.
Immediately a savvy consumer should go, 'But isn't wastewater thoroughly cleaned and processed?' The answer to that question is yes, it is, but the ongoing problem is that certain drug residue CANNOT be adequately removed from water by standard methods. So you take a prescription drug, it races through your system and gets out-processed, and you excrete the residue as waste. That drug residue makes its way back to the drinking water supply and does not get filtered out.
The OutlookIn our prescription and drug happy society, you can imagine the outcome; the level of drug residue and hormones in the water is increasing. Then you add in the drug-taking habits of your favorite rock band, and we have a very major problem.
Now an important thing to consider is that concentration and type of contaminant in water is key. We can consume many things, without harm, due to the chemical nature of a given substance. In short, analyzing trace elements, drugs and substances in water has to be done in an extensive case by case basis. As of now researchers and scientists are a bit peeved because they don't adequately know what 'levels' of the varying drugs in the survey can be harmful to humans over time. There will also need to be official studies conducted under more controlled, accurate and precise measure and methods.
This new study by the AP will surely spark additional official investigations into the watersheds that were surveyed. In our society that is heavy on consumption and abundant in forced supply, we have to watch out for these types of things. The public regularly consumes FAR more toxins, GM food, and trace elements than realized (we may have to do a book review of
Fateful Harvest).
That said, today when you get a bit thirsty remember this little AP survey. Make sure to spread news to friends and coworkers about this as well. Consumers need to beware these type of things, especially when it comes to food consumption. Far too often companies, industry and even farms get busted for food violations and yet the case, investigations and punishments get hushed and brushed under the proverbial rug. Without proper public voice and concern in these issues, it's only a matter of time before we're all prozac-addicted zombies carrying the love child of Courtney Love and Mick Jagger, all just from drinking a cup of water.
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ShoutWire: Internet News for the MassesHere are a few of the highlighted locations and drugs in their water (source, Associated Press):
Atlanta: 10 (including caffeine, sulfamethoxazole, diltiazem, acetaminophen, trimethoprim, cotinine and paraxanthine)
Columbus, Ohio: 15 (including azithromycin, erythromycin, roxithromycin, tylosin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and caffeine)
Denver: (unspecified antibiotics) - Xxoozero, you have something to do with this?
Las Vegas: 9 (including sulfamethoxazole, atenolol, trimethoprim, meprobamate, phenytoin, carbamazepine and gemfibrozil)
New York City: 16 (including atenolol, trimethoprim, carbamazepine, ibuprofen, estrogen, acetaminophen and diazepam)
Northern New Jersey: 13 (including acetaminophen, carbamazepine, codeine, dehydronifedipine, erythromycin, lincomycin and sulfadimethoxine)
Milwaukee, cotinine
Philadelphia, 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts
Southern California: 9 (including atenolol, phenytoin, fluoxetine, gemfibrozil, meprobamate, naproxen and trimethoprim)The list goes on, and you can find more under additional reading.
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