Bottled Water Isn’t Safe from Drugs Either
Posted by Chad Norman March 13th, 2008 .
You probably already know that drinking bottled water is one of the least green things you can do. I’ve blogged about this before, and I haven’t had even a sip of bottled water since June 2007.
At any rate, one of the big stories this week is how pharmaceutical drugs are showing up in our nation’s drinking water. This isn’t a surprise - not only are we the most medicated civilization in history (yet, somehow the sickest too), but we’ve been told for years to put leftover prescription medications down the toilet.
I have a feeling there have been a few bottled water fans feeling vindicated by this news, but wait - not so fast. The FDA, who regulates the bottled-water industry, has no standards for pharmaceuticals in bottled water. This is good for the manufacturers, because most bottled water comes straight from the tap (which we’ve just learned is already contaminated with drugs).
Save your money, your life, and your planet - drink tap water!
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If the tap water is put into the bottles then what is safe to drink anymore?
We drink tap water around here. Coffee, tea everything is made with the Charleston local water supply.
So, tap water is potentially filled with pharmaceuticals no matter where you drink it from. Ho do we protect ourselves?
We have stopped buying drinking water. I would buy 6 gallons of distilled water every week or so. I stopped because of the fact our apartment complex has no recycling and taking it all to the recycling center was a pain.
I still take cardboard boxes from food, newspapers, etc, but taking dozens of bottles was making me feel very guilty about what I was doing to the planet.
We use cloth bags for groceries and buy locally grown food whenever possible. The shoes I bought just today each were encased in a biodegradable shoe bags. (Thank you Earth Shoes).
We are trying very hard to help, but what do we do about the water?
I drink tap water too - and I’m not going to stop. I wrote this post to point out that this does not mean we should all start buying bottled water (as some would suggest). Drinking local tap water supports the system that brings us clean, free, fresh water every day. Drinking bottled water supports a system that brings us closer to the privatization of our water supplies - yikes! I’m not personally worried about trace amounts of drugs in the water.
Drink tap water!
For those living in Mt. Pleasant:
Mount Pleasant Waterworks’ source water is the Middendorf Aquifer which is unlikely to have any modern day contaminants since the water drawn from this aquifer is contained in a confined layer two thousand feet deep and protected from surface contamination.
Clean drinking water is becoming much more of an issue.Since installing my own Reverse Osmosis system, I have noticed a huge difference. My coffee and ice tea taste sooo much better. We test the local water regularily, and it makes me glad that ours is purified. DuPure has just introduced a new whole house water treatment system called EcoPur. This not only takes viruses, bacteria and harmful chemicals out of the drinking water, but it keeps them from your skin as you shower. Did you know your skin absorbs contaminates?
As summer temperatures rise, I notice the water tastes worse and worse.
More bacteria grows with higher temperatures and this means more chemical treatment by the water authorities. We provide free water analysis.
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