Excerpt: For instance, thyme and sage spike during Thanksgiving, cinnamon surges all winter, chocolate and vanilla show up during weekends (presumably from party-related goodies), and waffle-cone and caramel-corn remnants skyrocket around the Fourth of July.

The Puget Sound study is one of several ongoing efforts to investigate the unexpected ingredients that find their way into the global water supply...

Of all the flavors trickling downstream, artificial vanilla dominates the sound, Keil said. For instance, the team found an average of about six milligrams of artificial vanilla per liter of water sampled....

For instance, in a 2008 study scientists discovered a byproduct of cocaine in 22 of 24 samples of drinking water at a Spanish water-treatment plant—despite a rigorous filtering and treatment process...

Some of the drugs that mimic hormones, such as birth control, may also throw off an animal's endocrine, or hormone-regulating, system. Some male fish in the U.S., for example, have been growing female parts due to exposure to estrogen in the water...


Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...er-cocaine.html


Drink Up!!

 

Ah yeah Spain has a big cocaine problem.

 

gotta die of something...

 

 

I'm willing to bet more humans constantly breathe in air that is worst than the water they may drink.

 

i wouldn't doubt that theres all sorts of crap in the water. i'm talking about drugs, i mean in the hospital when people "waste" a drug ie: morphine or dilaudid and some tablets they'll throw it down the drain instead of the specified container just because it saves some time. so i'm not surprised to find some weird shit in out drinking water

 

they also pee and poop in the toilet which ends up in the water supply. Farmers fertilize crops and their animals crap all over the place which eventually gets flushed into creeks, streams and rivers and into the ground water.

If it goes in, it comes out and that means it ends up in the water eventually.