Things to worry about today number one: Drug Traces Common In Drinking Water

[koganbot]

According to AP story Drug Traces Common In Tap Water (title a bit misleading, since the drug traces may well be common in filtered and bottled water too; and by drugs they also mean hormones and the like, pharmaceuticals in general

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[carsmilesteve]

i think you'd have to drink a heck of a lot of water dearest...

[carsmilesteve]

ah, we'll all be dead by then anyway ;)

[koganbot]

Well, the argument is that everybody drinks water every day, so trace amounts over many years can have a real effect, and we just don't know what it is (but there's worry about fish and amphibians, and since these drugs are designed for humans and livestock, and have side effects, and often have strange effects when combined...).

[carsmilesteve]

but i think we're talking like fractions of parts per million aren't we?

at least there's no cholera in it...

[koganbot]

Well, they don't know if the levels are dangerous, actually. Not dangerous for one swallow, but for sustained consumption over years (and it's not as if we can choose not to ingest H2O).

[katstevens]

I hear you re: hormones - even normal fluctuations hit me up good and proper, artificial doses are actually unbearable for me. However I think other London-related health risks (eg air pollution, stress, terrorism) outweigh the hormone thing.

Hmmm. I don't doubt that dudes are more infertile these days because of hormones in drinking water, but if you think about it, if everyone's on the pill anyway then clearly they *don't* want to get preggers? I guess it's a bit much asking everyone who is trying to conceive to start chugging away on Evian though. I dunno.

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