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Drinking Water Contaminated by Excreted Drugs a Growing Concern

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"With aging boomers, the amounts of pharmaceuticals which are being consumed are going up between 10 and 15 per cent a year, in North America."

Drinking water contaminated by excreted drugs a growing concern

by Kelly Crowe, CBC News, 22 September 2014

Researchers finding excreted drugs in drinking water

If we’re taking it, we’re also drinking it: painkillers, blood thinners, hormones, chemotherapy agents, even cocaine and amphetamines.

Whatever goes into us, also comes out of us, through our own biological effluent, every time we flush the toilet. The excreted drugs pass right through most sewage treatment processes and end up in rivers and lakes, and then in our drinking water.
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