I'll take a water with a side of Plavix and a Viagra chaser ......

[Stinky The Clown]

Drugs In The Water Supply
Pharmaceuticals Found Throughout U.S., But Effect Is Uncertain

By JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA And JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Associated Press
March 10, 2008

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.

In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas — from Southern California to northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, Ky.

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More here: http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-pharmawater0310.artmar10,0,6449264.story

[Subdivisions]

1. Yea, the Spitzer-capades kinda bumped this major, MAJOR

story from the country's attention today, though CNN was talking about this very early this morning before the Spitzer thing and all day.

[Dave_Fl_50]

2. I'll have a sparkling vallium

[Speck Tater]

3. The new national health care plan.

Drink two glasses of water and call me in the morning.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Sex hormones? So that explains Simon Cowell's.....

....MANBOOBS!!!!

[DainBramaged]

5. Ah, to have had Viagra in the Sixties

(sigh). THAT would have been fun.