Last week in San Antonio I listened to a presentation by a USGS employee about emerging contaminants in our drinking water. It was rather disturbing and I have been thinking about this all week - everytime I grab a drink or turn on the faucet. His group in Fort Worth has been testing drinking water from water treatment plants for pharmaceuticals and other non-regulated chemicals. They found DEET in almost every water sample, also found caffine, codine, Fluoxetine (Prozac), estrogen & progestin, loads of antibiotics, and many other chemicals that I did not recognize.
Before you run for your bottled water, I'm not sure that it is much better. SHOCK! Bottled water is less regulated than your home faucet water and it has been sitting around in plastic bottles. What are we drinking? Does my Pur faucet filter help at all? Am I being paranoid? If you want more information check out this site. In the mean time, I'll be doing some research and let you know if find anything to calm my troubled mind.
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I'm interested in hearing what you find out. I am not surprised one bit what all they have found in water and that bottled water is no better, I've heard that before...then why do I feel better drinking it? I'm curious to know if water filters really work....looking forward to reading what you find out!
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