http://www.cnn.com/2...1.ap/index.html
Even the lowly earthworm, and fish and other building blocks of our environment are being affected. You and your pets after you take medicines expel residuals into the water system. Modern treatment systems are not designed to remove pharma drugs. EPA doesn't even have good methods to detect and test for them. Worse yet, long term studies haven't even been fully completed to determine affects, but they know the effects are there affecting breast cancer cell growth, changing the sex of species such as fish, and on and on.
Human nerve cell damage can occur over time.
This is probably much worse than any global warming scenario might be, IF we think man-made garbage might even affect global warming. (FWIW : Man only causes 2% of the GHG, so the science behind GHG is quite skeptical at best.)
The implications of pharma in water are wide reaching and potentially game changing far sooner for our society.
As far as I'm concerned, filtered rainwater may be your best bet.
Edited by nimblebear, 10 March 2008 - 10:17 AM.