***WHY we Shouldn't FLUSH****

[NautyOne]

Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water
AP
Posted: 2008-03-09 21:42:14
Filed Under: Health News, Nation News, Science News
(March 9) - 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, an Associated Press investigation shows


Philadelphia: 56 pharmaceuticals or pharmaceutical byproducts, including medicines used to treat pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems

this is just the small of it.

Nauty...............

[GoingToMakeIt]

I still say flush and make some fishees happy. It's better than being tempted to take them again.

[avisg]

PS don't throw your medications down the toilet

[GoingToMakeIt]

Effects of chlorine on human health depend on how the amount of chlorine that is present, and the length and frequency of exposure. Effects also depend on the health of a person or condition of the environment when exposure occurs.

Breathing small amounts of chlorine for short periods of time adversely affects the human respiratory system. Effects differ from coughing and chest pain, to water retention in the lungs. Chlorine irritates the skin, the eyes, and the respiratory system. These effects are not likely to occur at levels of chlorine that are normally found in the environment.

Human health effects associated with breathing or otherwise consuming small amounts of chlorine over long periods of time are not known. Some studies show that workers develop adverse effects from repeat inhalation exposure to chlorine, but others will not.
Plants and animals are not likely to store chlorine. However, laboratory studies show that repeat exposure to chlorine in air can affect the immune system, the blood, the heart, and the respiratory system of animals.

Chlorine causes environmental harm at low levels. Chlorine is especially harmful to organisms living in water and in soil.

To me, it is safer to error on the side of safety.

[avisg]

i would drink city water without a 2nd thought

[CleandUP]

Well being a civil engineering student and having to learn a lot about waste-water treatment..anything that gets flushed is considered "sewage". Sewage water is controlled by the Clean Water Act. which contains NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System). Waste water is treated by plants in a variety of ways including chemical treatment like chlorine, bacterial treatment (bacteria consumes bad bacteria). When it gets released back into a river or is stored, it is 99.9% fresh and safe drinking water. Pills have no effect to the environment when flushed.  

[avisg]

your bottled  water  has not been tested for many things there regulations are not nearly as strict . The water that goes threw the water treatment plant  has strict regulations it must adhere to ..( my mom is retired  supervising chemist for our city's water department )she wont thouch bottled water.