Las Vegas Drinking Water - Contaminated With Drugs
Maybe many of you know already about the fact that prescription drugs have been found in the tap water of America. It’s scary…we knew that drinking water was contaminated, but now they added stuff you wouldn’t have thought possible…
How do the drugs get in the water? Here’s the scary part: waste-water is treated and then resent to us. That’s how the chemicals and drugs get there. Every time somebody takes a drug and then goes pipi, a small amount of that drug is eliminated through urine, and goes into the waste-water, to join other drugs that have also just been eliminated. Then the waste-water is treated (with chlorine - which makes the drugs more toxic), and voila! Back to us, in our cups, tea, soup, juice, or bottled water.
Even cows go pipi, and they are given muscle-building anabolic steroids, that they eliminate 10% of. Where does that go? In our water, of course.
A study shows the following 3 drugs having been found in the water of Las Vegas:
- Carbamazepine. An anticonvulsant and mood stabilizing drug, used primarily in the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder. It is also used to treat ADD, ADHD, schizophrenia and trigeminal neuralgia. Common side effects include drowsiness, motor coordination impairment and/or upset stomach. Carbamazepine preparations may also greatly decrease a person’s alcohol tolerance. Pregnant women taking carbamazepine put their fetuses at increased risk for teratogenic effects. It has also been linked to serious adverse cognitive anomalies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbamazepine)
- Meprobamate. Is used as an anxiolytic drug. It was the best-selling minor tranquilizer for a time, but has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepines. For treatment of anxiety disorders or for short-term relief of anxiety. Meprobamate’s mechanism of action is not known. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meprobamate)
- Phenytoin. Commonly used antiepileptic. It has been suggested that phenytoin causes a reduction in folic acid levels, predisposing patients to anemia. It may accumulate in the cerebral cortex over long periods of time. Recently phenytoin is suggested to be a human carcinogen. The FDA has also warned of an increased suicide risk for any patients treated with anti-seizure drugs. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenytoin)
Sad…
Sad…
Let’s hope for the best, and try to do our small part in making this world a better place for our children. Even if it’s just blogging about it. Raising awareness can help things change too.
read article about it here : http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-03-11-water-testing_N.htm
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13 March 2008, 1:01 amANCA:
Thank you so much for picking up on the story, it’s great. See, we’re already raising a bit of awareness
13 March 2008, 3:14 amSiva:
Scary to know drinking water has chemicals. There was a joke in JayLeno’s show last night, If someone took viagra and pipi, Now every one tasted viagra
13 March 2008, 3:38 amANCA:
Yeah…that’s right! You can’t even pipi anymore with a clear conscience! And the worse is you can’t trust bottled water either.
13 March 2008, 3:44 amnate:
I know fying into Vegas, there is that big field that has big pools of water going from brown to green to clear…..I guess they need to add a few more steps.
13 March 2008, 7:47 amANCA:
Yeah…reverse osmosis would really clean the water, but the process is too expensive and for every gallon of clean water you get like 4 of poluted water. I just wrote about the water in Vegas, but if you read the source article, it’s the same everywhere all over America
13 March 2008, 11:40 amdon:
I don’t know…
It all sounds rather calming.
13 March 2008, 3:44 pmANCA:
You probably had too much water to drink, that’s why you feel calm :))
13 March 2008, 4:27 pmThanks for stopping by, Don!
triathlete:
Worrying that 2/3rd of the world is covered in water. The so called “3rd world” has long had a problem with water. Now the most powerful country in the world..
14 March 2008, 2:16 amANCA:
Yes…I guess everybody has problems with drinking water. I think our only chance is for technology to advance quicker than pollution poisons everything. We have already the technology to use clean fuel, to use solar power, to clean out drinking water through reverse osmosis. I just hope this new eco-friendly wave of the future won’t be here too late. Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world were cars don’t pollute or use gas, where all our electricity is produced in non-polluting plants, using solar power for ex., where we find a bio-degradable alternative for plastic, a way to obtain 100% pure water… I know, I’m a dreamer,but I think it’s possible.
14 March 2008, 2:54 amJimi D:
Honestly Anca, this post is completely ill advised. Perhaps you should have made yourself alittle more aware of the actual situation rather than take the first jump of emotion over the publicized version. Posts like this are fueling the collective ignorance in humans I see everyday. There is no way the true advancement you hope for can be made when it has to break the needless gossip. Understand an issue before you try and teach others about it. Where do you think water comes from? The clouds don’t magically get it from space and then rain pours down a glass tube, free of life, through the mountains into your sink. The word pollutant is like the word weed. No plant is a weed except if it grows in a garden. The first step to clearing this problem of minute amounts of chemicals is to correctly throw away every bottle of aspirin in your mediciane cabinet and never purchase a single thing from the pharmaceutical industry. Ever again. If you are not willing to do that, just complaining.
14 March 2008, 4:46 amANCA:
Jimi, I appreciate you dropping by and commenting.
14 March 2008, 5:12 amI appologize if it seemed like I’m trying to teach about the subject, it was by no means what I wanted. It would be far, far too presumptuous of me to do that, I am no chemist or expert on this. And actually my intend was not to “fuel the collective ignorance”, but the exact opposite. Was merely a piece of news I picked up on, I guess the Paris Hilton gossip would be more entertaining, maybe I should stick to that.
Maybe the more people read about issues like this, the more will try to understand, even if I didn’t.. and somehow, at the time, I believed in the people’s right to know (even if nobody will do anything about it, either than complain).
I do appreciate your opinion!
Sy:
I never knew that! I was in Vegas several years ago and had I known, I would have spent the day drinking from the taps in the hotel room!
15 March 2008, 7:40 pmANCA:
:)) funny. Why not go to a cocktail waitress, tip her a dollar, and get a double shot of Jack? Gets you in the mood faster than tap water
16 March 2008, 1:47 amBlogsvine:
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19 March 2008, 8:27 amRobert:
Fortunately, it’s still funny.
31 March 2008, 2:51 amKaren | tap water purifiers:
This is a vicious cycle that we created and live in. Expecting the government or the new technology to come to our aid may be a bid too far in the future. We should find ways to protect ourselves now and clean out as much as if not all of the bad stuff from the water before feeding it to our body.
6 April 2008, 4:00 pmEileen:
I recently left one gallon of tap water in a white plastic container to add moisture to the air in our house. I emptied the water about four days later and noticed a red residue at the bottom of the container that I had to wipe out. Does anyone know what this might be?
13 May 2008, 12:41 pm