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carnicerodegiles
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| elchrist wrote: | How true is the following statement?:
The water supply is filled with small amounts of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals. |
What water supply are we talking about?
I know that for the most part, surface raw water (lakes, rivers) has a bunch of conatminants like E. coli, and other harmful organic matter. Since the Imperial Valley gets its water from the Colorado River, there is a small possibility of the above being true. A lot of towns along the Colorado discharge their treated sewage into the river. Raw sewage has almost every type of waste in it, so there is a possibility that the Imperial Valley's water supply has some residual medical waste.
As far as I know, it is illegal to dump medical waste into a sewer system. |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 03 Feb 2006 04:49 PM Post subject: |
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| carnicerodegiles wrote: | | elchrist wrote: | How true is the following statement?:
The water supply is filled with small amounts of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals. |
What water supply are we talking about?
I know that for the most part, surface raw water (lakes, rivers) has a bunch of conatminants like E. coli, and other harmful organic matter. Since the Imperial Valley gets its water from the Colorado River, there is a small possibility of the above being true. A lot of towns along the Colorado discharge their treated sewage into the river. Raw sewage has almost every type of waste in it, so there is a possibility that the Imperial Valley's water supply has some residual medical waste.
As far as I know, it is illegal to dump medical waste into a sewer system. |
The claim is actually from 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know 2. There's a copy of the sampler on the site and this chapter continues to claim that the contamination doesn't exactly come from illegal dumping by bad evil corporations, but from consumer waste.
According to the book, the EPA states, "No municipal sewage treatment plants are engineered for PPCP removal." ("PPCP" stands for "pharmaceuticals and personal care products.")."
Other claims include a study in 2003 that fish in Texas were found to have Prozac in their brains and livers. |
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