Drinking water or poison?

Recent news form AP different dangerous Drugs found in drinking water. As the report says 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.

To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.

But the presence of so many prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.

These drugs get into the water everyday. As we take pills and other medicines, our body absorbs the required materials and rest of it are wastes and ends up at our toilet. Then its dumped into the ocean water. Then the ocean water is filtered and used as drinking water. But most of the treatment plants doesn't purify all the drugs.

But this is really concerning all the people. As we don't know all the bad effects of this problem. This could be a disaster or will be safe in the future.

"We know we are being exposed to other people's drugs through our drinking water, and that can't be good," says Dr. David Carpenter, who directs the Institute for Health and the Environment of the State University of New York at Albany.