Comments on: Drugs in Tap Water

By: Eileen Kauk

Eileen Kauk — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:00:47 +0000

Reverse osmosis is very acidic, and is called aggressive water. I am looking into carbon block filters, but they likely don’t remove pharmaceuticals. Leaches minerals from your body. Take meds to a pharmacy, they will dispose for you if you don’t know.

By: Fish on Prozac: This is Your Ocean on Drugs : Ecoscraps

Fish on Prozac: This is Your Ocean on Drugs : Ecoscraps — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:11:22 +0000

[...] year in the US, many of which end up in our ground water through patients’ excrement or from the pills being flushed down the toilet. According to Discover Magazine: The concentrations of antidepressants in the water—billionths of [...]

By: Kitchen Taps

Kitchen Taps — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:59:34 +0000

This is probably a very silly question… but how do you dispose of unused medication? We usually just add half used medication to the first aid box – do they go out of date? We would never flush them down he toilet or bin them but how are you supposed to dispose of them?

By: Lara

Lara — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:04:45 +0000

I was wondering what people have found for a reverse osmosis filter with UV light? I’ve done some searching online, but wondered if there were a brand that seems worthy of the purchase.

Thanks!
Lara

By: Fran

Fran — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:01:44 +0000

When I asked how to properly dispose of unused medication, our Wal-Mart pharmacy said to flush it down the toilet! I knew that was wrong, so I searched the internet for advice. I think I ended up throwing it in the trash. I just wonder how many pharmacists are telling people to flush meds.

By: Susan Vallee

Susan Vallee — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:59:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing Amber! That’s shocking. Why would you dump prescriptions down the toilet? This sounds like a great follow-up.

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:55:27 +0000

I also learned something very disturbing at a recent Earth Day Festival that is really adding to this problem. People are actually dumping their unused medications down the toilet instead of disposing of them properly! That means a ton of full strength medication is being put into our water systems daily…very upsetting!

By: Susan Vallee

Susan Vallee — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:01:01 +0000

I know! It makes sense though. We are ingesting all this medication, and it doesn’t just disappear when it enters the water treatment process. I find the APs study to be really disturbing – on many different levels. One thing that really bothered me was learing that underground aquifers are being impacted by this. I suppose this is due to leaching from septic systems.

Boiling water will kill bacteria and other “yucky stuff” but won’t filter out these chemicals.

By: Enterprising Energy

Enterprising Energy — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:19:56 +0000

I never thought about the types of contaminants that are in water. it is scary to think that any of these chamicals are in tap water that we drink and give to our young too.

does boiling water get rid of any of these chemicals (or does that just cook them up a bit)?