Yes, even in the US we have to think about what we are doing to ourselves, and our drinking sources........


"These emerging contaminants were hard to detect without the finely tuned equipment developed recently. The first nationwide survey, conducted in 1999 and 2000, found hormones in about 37 percent of the streams surveyed and caffeine in more than half.

The only testing in the Potomac, done in Washington in 2002, found low levels of caffeine, plus the insecticide DEET and chemicals produced when a body breaks down nicotine. There were also a few suspected endocrine disruptors, including chemicals found in hand soap and household cleaners.

As of now, little is done to test for these chemicals — either in river water or in drinking water. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not set standards, saying more research is needed to determine which contaminants are harmful and what levels are unsafe."


This was pulled out of an article from the washington post{via MSN} Link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6253193/

Now the question is....
Is all this 'unchecked' crap in many water supplies actually affecting the youth, pregnant mothers, ect.? Is this partially to blame for our young ones hitting earlier puberty, young girls developing earlier, and such..
Chew on this... all those fertility, or anti-pregnancy drugs, hormones for sex-changes that are washing out of the systems everytime they use the bathroom and is not being removed in the water treatment plants due to lack of testing/knowledge.. Your water filtration system doesn't remove them either.. So every drink of water you take, your also drinking your soap(dish and hand), hormones, other drugs/chemicals....
The hell with 'whats in your wallet'... It's now


"Whats in your water"!!!!!





But do any of you really care....

It's a communist plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.








That looks pretty stupid if you've never seen Dr. Strangelove.

I'm sure thier water is just as contaminated..

Probably more so than ours. I worry less about contaminants in my water and more about what is in our food. A lot of meat contains growth hormones. That would probably be a greater contributing factor to earlier maturation in adolescents. Of course, having a healthy diet also allows for earlier maturation; malnutrition tends to stunt growth, including sexual growth.

just drink Evian, clean water from the french Alps

Crazy to think about how the US only has about 280million people and uses 1/4 of the worlds resources. Just glad I'll be dead before they are all used up...

I will only drink water from the tap if I am dying for water and there is no other water around .... and even at that, I hate drinking it, and try not to drink much of it.