It seems the phrase “Don’t drink the water” can now be applied to water in the USA. You might may recall cybrpunk being sick because he drank some water in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Well, what if you went to a restaurant in San Francisco and got sick too?

Apparently, prescription drugs are being distributed into the drinking water. How is this happening? Believe it or not, it’s coming from us. It may come from waste water treatment plants. Ask yourself how many medications you have that you flush down the toilet? A lot right? That’s right, guess what, a lot of waste water is purified, treated and then piped back into the drinking water. While the process gets rid of a lot of harmful bacteria and such that will make you sick, it doesn’t get rid of all the drugs that are in it.

You’re probably saying that you don’t drink the tap water, you drink bottled water. Guess what? Most of bottled water is still the same thing as tap water, except it’s filtered out numerous more times. And you guessed it, the drugs still aren’t filtered out.

What can we do? Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s an easy solution in sight. Since we can’t get people to even take some measure to saving energy, I’m pretty sure we’re not going to get people to stop taking as much prescription medication. Honestly. People are addicted to drugs. But that’s and entirely different story.

For more detail, read the CNN news article: Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S.