The Associated press is running a multipart series that reveals that a vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans; in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas — from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, Ky. (AP)
The reason is that medications that treat humans and animals pass through our bodies and eventually get passed into drinking water through sewage. These minute traces aren't a medical dose, but more of an unknown cocktail of hormones and compounds over a long period of time.
The report doesn't mention York at this point, but it goes without saying that since we all share the same planet, use pharmaceuticals, and the cycles of supply water and sewage cross paths in similar ways here as in other parts of the country, there are bound to be some traces of pharmaceuticals in drinking water here either in well and/or municipal supplies.
I can't wait to find out what's in York County's water? Anyone have any ideas? I also read a while back that chemicals from cigarettes end up in our drinking water. People who drop their cigarettes on the sidewalk or throw them out their car windows are to blame for this. The rain washes them into the gutters and sewer grates, and they eventually end up in the water supply.
Thank you to every cigarette smoker who is polluting my water supply. Because of you, we can keep our hospital cancer care centers going strong for decades.