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(AP) Asinine Drinking water may have all sorts of drugs like lithium and nitroglycerin dumped in. You'd think we'd be an awful lot healthier, wouldn't you?   (hosted.ap.org) divider line 71
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puffy999 [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 05:08:08 PM  
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Kumana Wanalaia [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 05:53:39 PM  
But Marge, maybe I'm not getting enough (reads label) ... Estrogen.

 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 05:56:02 PM  
Do you know what's in the water that you drink?

Well, I do!

And it's... a - maz - ing!

 
CitizenTed [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 06:09:25 PM  
They way I see it, why stop with fluoride? Why is dental health more important than mental health? I say let's douse the water supply with Acetycholinesterase inhibitors and a sprinkling of thorazine. Our children will have nice white teeth and maybe they'll stop acting like babboons in the restaurant.

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 06:22:52 PM  
You know that all the vitamins, prescription drugs, illegal drugs and everything else you put in your body comes out through your urine and into the water, right?

 
bostonowns 2009-04-19 06:26:40 PM  
do brita and PUR filter pharmies in my water?

 
kippyj 2009-04-19 06:26:42 PM  
I agree with Citizen Ted, but I think we should do a trial run on children between the ages of 14 and 17. After that they start to behave normally again, for the most part. I'll offer up my 15-year-old for the initial trials. She's pretty much abominable right now.

 
number_seven 2009-04-19 06:27:59 PM  
Sub is begging the question. We are in the healthiest time in our history. At least in the developed nations.

Very few localities have had as good a drinking water as we do in the US right now. (Rome pops to mind as the canonical exception. It's water is delicious and has always been so. Damn Romans.)

While this is an issue that must be addressed, fear is not the answer here. Concern, tied together with the willingness to act, is enough.

 
kidsizedcoffin 2009-04-19 06:30:34 PM  
Water?? Like, outta the toilet?

 
Karma Chameleon 2009-04-19 06:30:58 PM  
I've also heard being born comes with a 100% mortality rate.

 
Drubell 2009-04-19 06:33:48 PM  
Obligatory "There's dihydrogen monoxide in my water!"

 
Jaakobi 2009-04-19 06:34:04 PM  
number_seven: (Rome pops to mind as the canonical exception. It's water is delicious and has always been so. Damn Romans.

Yeah, lead is quite delicious I heard.

 
lewismarktwo 2009-04-19 06:35:41 PM  
CitizenTed: They way I see it, why stop with fluoride? Why is dental health more important than mental health? I say let's douse the water supply with Acetycholinesterase inhibitors and a sprinkling of thorazine. Our children will have nice white teeth and maybe they'll stop acting like babboons in the restaurant.

Because, unlike fluoride, those other chemicals are not essentially free toxic waste byproduct of various industries looking for a nice place to dump them.

 
QingdaoBeerIsGood 2009-04-19 06:37:26 PM  
Ahh, mercury, finest of the transition metals.

http://mercurylounge.ytmnd.com/

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 06:38:27 PM  
number_seven: (Rome pops to mind as the canonical exception. It's water is delicious and has always been so. Damn Romans.)

Lead makes a nice, sweet water.

 
H_is_for_Heretic 2009-04-19 06:39:14 PM  
vernonFL: You know that all the vitamins, prescription drugs, illegal drugs and everything else you put in your body comes out through your urine and into the water, right?

One time on Oprah they a Q&A day (sample question: "How does the internet work?") and one woman stood up to ask if the water that she flushes down the toilet ever touched the water that came out of the sink. This woman was like, 40.

/wonder if any cities still provide fluoride-free water dispensers

 
styckx [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 06:40:40 PM  
This is a repeat from 1995, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, and 08..

/move along now.

 
smrtone 2009-04-19 06:41:11 PM  
They said "taint".

 
snags 2009-04-19 06:41:58 PM  
Don't forget birth control!

 
nuclear_asshat 2009-04-19 06:44:17 PM  
bostonowns: do brita and PUR filter pharmies in my water?

No.

kippyj: I'll offer up my 15-year-old for the initial trials. She's pretty much abominable right now.

Let's see....my sister was a complete biatch from about 13 to 22. So you'll get your normal daughter back in about 7 years?

Hang in there.


As for water, if you want water that has nothing in it, probably the best bet is a distiller.

 
byzantinebobby 2009-04-19 06:45:20 PM  
It's a Commie conspiracy Mandrake.

dyn.politico.com

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 06:46:56 PM  
H_is_for_Heretic: One time on Oprah they a Q&A day (sample question: "How does the internet work?") and one woman stood up to ask if the water that she flushes down the toilet ever touched the water that came out of the sink. This woman was like, 40.

I'd have loved to have given her an accurate answer.

"Well, the odds of that are almost zero. However, if your water is drawn from a river source, chances are, you DO have someone else's feces coming in contact with the water you drink."

 
GregGates 2009-04-19 06:53:39 PM  
3.bp.blogspot.com

 
xuanzhiyouxuan 2009-04-19 06:54:23 PM  
We might getting closer to the PKD ideal of societally enforced, psychologist aided acid trips on all citizens of a certain age.

 
BobaFeet 2009-04-19 07:02:13 PM  
bostonowns: do brita and PUR filter pharmies in my water?

No. You need a filter that does reverse osmosis or go to a store where you can fill 5 gallon bottles with filtered water (Culigan, etc). Reverse osmosis gets rid of the pharma waste, mercury, lead and flouride. And flouride IS toxic in the doses we get.

 
Jarhead_h 2009-04-19 07:03:25 PM  
It's not a conspiracy, those are hidden.

This particular eugenics program has a damned monument carved in granite out in the middle of an open field in Georgia.

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img9.imageshack.us

The water-supply is the easiest way to reach a mostly urban and suburban population.


New study links water pollution with declining male fertility - 19 January 2009
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/news/news_archive/2009_news_item_02.html

Evolution under threat as 'gender bending' chemicals are turning males into females
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092638/Evolution-threat-gender-bending - chemicals-turning-males-females.html

Third of male fish in rivers are changing sex
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-396612/Third-male-fish-rivers-changing- s ex.html

Why ask people what they think if you then do the opposite, wonders Philip Johnston.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston/4903616/The-consul t ation-with-only-one-answer.html


Population Reduction 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k1RzFsvn7E&eurl=

Population Reduction 2012 part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG-FCd7Psik&feature=related

 
number_seven 2009-04-19 07:06:22 PM  
puffy999
Jaakobi

True, but the difference in the water in Rome, which was drinkable, but had lead in it, as opposed to almost anywhere else (Paris, London, etc.), which tasted bad and had ALL kinds of deadly organisms in it, is dramatic.

And the water was still used in the other places; just not drunk. Which meant it could still infect you.

But that's a side issue to my main point, which is that we are in a golden age of clean, drinkable water these days.

 
Oldiron_79 2009-04-19 07:09:37 PM  
Mandrake, you can start by making me a drink of grain alcohol and rain water.

 
namegoeshere 2009-04-19 07:14:54 PM  
number_seven: puffy999
Jaakobi

True, but the difference in the water in Rome, which was drinkable, but had lead in it, as opposed to almost anywhere else (Paris, London, etc.), which tasted bad and had ALL kinds of deadly organisms in it, is dramatic.

And the water was still used in the other places; just not drunk. Which meant it could still infect you.

But that's a side issue to my main point, which is that we are in a golden age of clean, drinkable water these days.


Read this book. (new window) It's quite interesting.

 
number_seven 2009-04-19 07:18:00 PM  
namegoeshere

You're right. That does look interesting.....

 
earthworm2.0 2009-04-19 07:21:39 PM  
The adverage glass of water you drink from the tap has traveled through seven people before it gets to you.

I dont remember where i heard that, but it doesn't sound unreasonable to me. And I dont believe that the water treatment comany is going to try filtering out all the stuff we pee out.

 
OMG Socialism 2009-04-19 07:23:42 PM  
Oldiron_79: Mandrake, you can start by making me a drink of grain alcohol and rain water.

That is a slippery slope. Before you know it, you're denying women your essence.

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 07:23:44 PM  
earthworm2.0: The adverage glass of water you drink from the tap has traveled through seven people before it gets to you.

I dont remember where i heard that, but it doesn't sound unreasonable to me. And I dont believe that the water treatment comany is going to try filtering out all the stuff we pee out.


Depends on where the water comes from.

High mountain lakes? Probably not. Aquifers or wells? A bit more likely, depending on a variety of things. Rivers? As I pointed out, that's more likely (and the further you go downstream, the more people have likely urinated in your water).

 
Mongo cut wood 2009-04-19 07:37:07 PM  
Jarhead_h Quote 2009-04-19 07:03:25 PM
It's not a conspiracy, those are hidden.

This particular eugenics program has a damned monument carved in granite out in the middle of an open field in Georgia.

img15.imageshack.us

img9.imageshack.us

The water-supply is the easiest way to reach a mostly urban and suburban population.


New study links water pollution with declining male fertility - 19 January 2009
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/news/news_archive/2009_news_item_02.html

Evolution under threat as 'gender bending' chemicals are turning males into females
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092638/Evolution-threat-gender-bending - chemicals-turning-males-females.html

Third of male fish in rivers are changing sex
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-396612/Third-male-fish-rivers-changing- s ex.html

Why ask people what they think if you then do the opposite, wonders Philip Johnston.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston/4903616/The-consul t ation-with-only-one-answer.html


Population Reduction 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k1RzFsvn7E&eurl=

Population Reduction 2012 part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG-FCd7Psik&feature=related

Thanks for that post.

Pantheism: Nature First before man. The religion of nature worship. I wonder if PETA are members of this religion. They seem to believe that Nature First (like Manifest Destiny) justifies murdering 90% of the population.

The World Pantheist (new window)

 
Smidge204 2009-04-19 07:42:35 PM  
bostonowns: do brita and PUR filter pharmies in my water?

You fool! Those filters add drugs to the water! They're in on it!

Only a home made high-pressure triple-stage distillation rig will do.
=Smidge=

 
Day_Old_Dutchie 2009-04-19 07:44:53 PM  
Drinking water may have all sorts of drugs like lithium and nitroglycerin dumped in. You'd think we'd be an awful lot healthier, wouldn't you?

I like it. I'm not gonna crack.
I miss you. I'm not gonna crack. I love you.
I'm not gonna crack. I kill you. I'm not gonna crack.

(Then you eat a shotgun.)

 
gonzoliga [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 07:45:12 PM  
Heeeeey, El Paso! The city is crazed by lithium.

Well, actually, not crazed. Seriously medicated, it would seem. It's the third-safest city in the US with a population over 500,000, which is saying something compared to the insanity across the river in Ciudad Juarez.

Besides that, lithium-soaked contractors never appear on time to fix your rock wall or put in your new native-plant-landscaping-with-native-fish-koi-pond.

Why are fish ponds so popular among the nouveau-middle class in El Paso, anyway? It's not like you can just go out there and fish a few out and grill them with Hatch chiles.

 
ghare 2009-04-19 07:47:34 PM  
This thread brought to you by the American Association of Water Purifier Hucksters.

 
doglover [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 07:53:19 PM  
gonzoliga: Heeeeey, El Paso! The city is crazed by lithium.

Well, actually, not crazed. Seriously medicated, it would seem. It's the third-safest city in the US with a population over 500,000, which is saying something compared to the insanity across the river in Ciudad Juarez.

Besides that, lithium-soaked contractors never appear on time to fix your rock wall or put in your new native-plant-landscaping-with-native-fish-koi-pond.

Why are fish ponds so popular among the nouveau-middle class in El Paso, anyway? It's not like you can just go out there and fish a few out and grill them with Hatch chiles.


It's not? The need to call me to build the next pond, then. The kettle bog is the epitome of pond design. With modern equipment, you can get a nice bass pond with the footprint of a store bought one instead of a peaty death trap for Iron Age bean kings.

 
SuperTramp [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 07:55:15 PM  
April 19, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- The Chicago Tribune is reporting that residents in south suburban Crestwood may have been supplied with tainted drinking water for two decades.

A Tribune investigation found officials were using a contaminated well at least 22 years ago to supply water to Crestwood residents. The well was shut off for good in December 2007 after tests by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

 
Poochner 2009-04-19 07:57:50 PM  
CitizenTed: They way I see it, why stop with fluoride? Why is dental health more important than mental health? I say let's douse the water supply with Acetycholinesterase inhibitors and a sprinkling of thorazine. Our children will have nice white teeth and maybe they'll stop acting like babboons in the restaurant.

I had to go and look up what on earth would make you want to put nerve gas in water. Seems like almost everything is "dual use."

 
SuperTramp [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 08:05:16 PM  
gonzoliga
Heeeeey, El Paso! The city is crazed by lithium. Well, actually, not crazed. Seriously medicated, it would seem.

From years of personal, bipolar experience (not the north and south variety) drugged out on lithium, it's the closest I can imagine to a full frontal lobotomy. No despair, but no joy either. A middle-of-the-road, plodding-along a flat road feeling, without hills or valleys. No desire for even a "two-minute hate, which may have frightened George Orwell.

 
loonatic112358 [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-04-19 08:07:26 PM  
Drubell: Obligatory "There's dihydrogen monoxide in my water!"

it is the major cause of all drwonings, an active ingredient in water pollution, and causes soil errosion

/waters from personal well
//need to test the water here anyway

 
Podna 2009-04-19 08:10:47 PM  
byzantinebobby: It's a Commie conspiracy Mandrake.

First thing I thought of, trying to get our bodily fluids !!

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 08:16:16 PM  
byzantinebobby: It's a Commie conspiracy Mandrake.

Minds, precious bodily fluids, bones, teeth, skin, hair.....but the Commies were the first to go, so that theory's out.

It's space aliens?

 
we_hates [TotalFark] 2009-04-19 08:24:24 PM  
Don't joke, this is serious (new window).

 
Britney Spear's Speculum 2009-04-19 08:32:22 PM  
Came for the "rainbow in my sprinkler water" tin foil hat lady references

Left disappointed.

 
HowlingPook 2009-04-19 08:39:03 PM  
I used to install and work on dialysis water purification systems. The water in most municipalities routinely contains all kinds of crap so they flood it with chlorine which converts to chloramines and renders the water (according to the EPA) safe to drink. That's why tap water tastes flat and bleachy if you local water source is a lake or river. Home reverse osmosis systems are cheap as long as long as you stay with a 3-5 gal/24 hours unit. Install a water softener in front of it for soft feed water and you have great shower and clothing/dishwater plus the RO membrane and carbon filter will last for years. Sears and Culligan try to peddle all kinds of extra cost stuff; look in your local Yellow pages under water treatment and find an independent commercial dealer. Those are the best people to deal with. I bought my system used from a company that services restaurant ice machines and have had great service.

 
j0ndas 2009-04-19 08:58:34 PM  
Actually, drug companies are probably just a drop in the bucket. The REAL problem is run-off from farm land, which generally contains high levels of nitrates (fertilizer), pesticides (the alternatives to DDT are massively toxic), and herbicides. Drinking water from farming areas contains high enough levels of pesticides to significantly impact sperm count in men, for instance, and I can only imagine what it's doing to your internal organs.

Drug factories are few, farmland is practically everywhere.

 
JewZeppy 2009-04-19 09:01:30 PM  
You forgot Perchlorate (new window)

 
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