Pharmaceuticals in the water tell us Americans are over-medicated and recycling each other´s pee
Dan Brawner
March 12, 2008
Symptoms may include drowsiness, stomach cramps, itching, runny nose, vomiting, vertigo, mild euphoria, flaking skin and fear of spiders. Consult your physician. Tap water may not be right for you.
A startling new Associated Press story has revealed that drinking water coming out of millions of faucets in homes and businesses all over America contains a disturbing assortment of pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, steroids, sedatives and sex hormones. Pharmaceuticals in the water are blamed for "feminizing" male fish. (Could this explain Hillary´s appeal among certain diluted Democrats?) It seems that so many folks are taking medications these days that some of the drugs not absorbed by the body end up back in the water supply. And this, if you ask me, is the real story that neither the Associate Press nor your local municipal water treatment facility will tell you. Yes, we are drinking other people´s pee.
We´ve been doing it for years, of course. When you think about it, water is not created or destroyed. It evaporates, falls as rain, ends up in rivers and lakes. People sweat, spit...and other stuff. Where do you think it goes? Well, duh? The water treatment plant in Iowa City used to get its water directly from the Iowa River. Back in the ´60, the foul-smelling water had a reputation for being "chewy". Now, they get water from deep aquifers, including one that dates back to the Jurassic period. In other words, dinosaur pee. Yum.
The Earth´s ecosystem is like a bigger version of that device they have on the space shuttle, the Regenerative Environmental Control and Life Support System–which is a fancy name for "pee recycler". The multimillion-dollar machine collects condensation from the spacecraft walls (sweat), along with the astronauts´ urine, purifies it and turns it back into drinking water. After you´ve had your last spacewalk of the day, after you´ve deployed your last spy satellite, after you´ve inspected your last Integrated Truss Structure, you´ve worked up a powerful thirst. Now it´s Miller time! Well, not exactly.
And it´s not just bodily fluids that are recycled. Food, wood, metal–everything eventually is absorbed and re-used. Even air. American astronomer Harlow Shapley figured out that everybody breathes in about 30,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of the gas argon with every breath. Argon never breaks down. So after a few minutes, the argon that was in your lungs has spread around your neighborhood. After a year, some of it has circled the earth and an estimated 15 of those original molecules end up right back in your own nose...along with argon that has been up the nose of Hitler, John the Baptist, Britney Spears, a duck from Peking and a tyrannosaurs rex that once lived in Texas.
Okay, so we´re all sort of sharing each other´s medications and, um, other stuff. It only illustrates that everything on earth is part of every other thing that is, was and ever will be. That´s the sort of thing I think about when I can´t sleep at night–because of all those people, gulping down Starbucks coffee all day and contaminating the water supply with caffeine!
A startling new Associated Press story has revealed that drinking water coming out of millions of faucets in homes and businesses all over America contains a disturbing assortment of pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, steroids, sedatives and sex hormones. Pharmaceuticals in the water are blamed for "feminizing" male fish. (Could this explain Hillary´s appeal among certain diluted Democrats?) It seems that so many folks are taking medications these days that some of the drugs not absorbed by the body end up back in the water supply. And this, if you ask me, is the real story that neither the Associate Press nor your local municipal water treatment facility will tell you. Yes, we are drinking other people´s pee.
We´ve been doing it for years, of course. When you think about it, water is not created or destroyed. It evaporates, falls as rain, ends up in rivers and lakes. People sweat, spit...and other stuff. Where do you think it goes? Well, duh? The water treatment plant in Iowa City used to get its water directly from the Iowa River. Back in the ´60, the foul-smelling water had a reputation for being "chewy". Now, they get water from deep aquifers, including one that dates back to the Jurassic period. In other words, dinosaur pee. Yum.
The Earth´s ecosystem is like a bigger version of that device they have on the space shuttle, the Regenerative Environmental Control and Life Support System–which is a fancy name for "pee recycler". The multimillion-dollar machine collects condensation from the spacecraft walls (sweat), along with the astronauts´ urine, purifies it and turns it back into drinking water. After you´ve had your last spacewalk of the day, after you´ve deployed your last spy satellite, after you´ve inspected your last Integrated Truss Structure, you´ve worked up a powerful thirst. Now it´s Miller time! Well, not exactly.
And it´s not just bodily fluids that are recycled. Food, wood, metal–everything eventually is absorbed and re-used. Even air. American astronomer Harlow Shapley figured out that everybody breathes in about 30,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of the gas argon with every breath. Argon never breaks down. So after a few minutes, the argon that was in your lungs has spread around your neighborhood. After a year, some of it has circled the earth and an estimated 15 of those original molecules end up right back in your own nose...along with argon that has been up the nose of Hitler, John the Baptist, Britney Spears, a duck from Peking and a tyrannosaurs rex that once lived in Texas.
Okay, so we´re all sort of sharing each other´s medications and, um, other stuff. It only illustrates that everything on earth is part of every other thing that is, was and ever will be. That´s the sort of thing I think about when I can´t sleep at night–because of all those people, gulping down Starbucks coffee all day and contaminating the water supply with caffeine!
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