***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]

This is why I filter all of my house and then my drinking water is run through an ionized water filter machine. Chlorine in the shower is absorbed through your skin and lungs. Read up on the detrimental effects of chlorine. Not to mention all these other chemicals and pesticides.

[NautyOne]

lol......I guess it's only us rats that drink from the sewer.  Thanks for the explanation---duck--why am I still confused??  oh, well.  At least someone got a good chuckle out of my stupidity........gotta go to the bathroom and get a drink of water.  Good day all..........:-)

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

[duckandcover]

Llke I said I work in this field and assist in the design of these systems for municipalaties.  Generally speaking, everything you flush goes to a treatment plant and gets turned into reuse water.  It's too dirty to drink but clean enough to let back out to nature.  They either spray it out into a field where it trickles through the earth and get further cleaned up eventually making it's way back to the aquifer.  Or they pump it to ponds (often on golf courses) Or they have (im many communities) specific re-use water lines strictly for watering your grass.  This is getting very popular in places like Florida.  Or they further treat it to better than drinking water standards and put it into lakes rivers or the ocean.

None of this happens if you have a septic tank though.  That's a whole other prcess.

[Olyaddict]

I know in our town there is a Sewage treatment plant that takes raw sewge, treats it then pumps the "clean" water in the river. which goes down stream to the ocean. I'm sure a certian percent of that water is leaching into the underground aquafirs where we get our water from SO... i guess in a round about sorta way we are drinking *@!% Water!!

[duckandcover]

Here is a recent Pop-Sci article all about testing the sewage of a city for overall drug usage.  I work in the civil industry and can assure you that they could never get it back to a particular home.  Still some interesting results though.

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-02/your-sewer-drugs

[Chi_Chi_Lover]

I believe that all the water goes to a treatment plant and then it is purified. Have you ever smelled your water and it has a little bit of a clorine smell? It is purified at the treatment plants and you are safe. I won't drink it unless it comes from my fridge which has a britta filter on it.
Just stick with your bottle water. I give my dogs bottle water. Except our lab she drinks out of the pool and toilet. LOL  

Our recycle bind is always over run with water bottles each week.