Fuck this, you FDA wankers
 

271 million pound of waste drugs dumped into your drinking water each year and they think this is a gross under estimate ? WTF ? no wonder i never get sick :321GFY And the FDA don't give a fuck !

"Two common industrial chemicals that are also pharmaceuticals -- the antiseptics phenol and hydrogen peroxide -- account for 92 percent of the 271 million pounds identified as coming from drugmakers and other manufacturers. Both can be toxic and both are considered to be ubiquitous in the environment.

However, the list of 22 includes other troubling releases of chemicals that can be used to make drugs and other products: 8 million pounds of the skin bleaching cream hydroquinone,( Butt Bleach ?) 3 million pounds of nicotine compounds that can be used in quit-smoking patches, 10,000 pounds of the antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride. Others include treatments for head lice and worms ( nice ).

Residues are often released into the environment when manufacturing equipment is cleaned."

We piss alot of pharms out of our bodies every day. A lot of those chemicals never make their way out of the water before it cycles back around and comes back out of your tap. Most city water supplies will test positive for traces of all varieties of pharmaceutical chemicals and illicit drugs. You don't even need to figure in the drugs that are just dumped.....

It is sick, it is fucked up, and it is shit we are doing to the planet in general. Fuck the amount of medications people dump into the water supply even at a household level are fucking sick and most water cleaning facilities can not clean it out.

I just would not direct your hate at the FDA. There are others that are supposed to be in charge of water and pollution.

the best thing to do is probably get a water distiller

the water tastes better from them anyways

Yet alas distilled water also does not contain the trace elements and such we need. I also can not stand the taste of distilled water at all - it has no tastes at all, may as well be drinking sterile water.

that's a myth anyways, because you get all those trace minerals and such in your food anyways, and if you are concerned you can always get an electrolyte supplement and a multivitamin

you should try fresh distilled water right out of a distiller, it is not like the plastic bottled stuff, the lack of impure tastes actually makes it "taste" the best of all

I have tasted it right out of a distiller and never even bothered to try the plastic bottled stuff that I have only purchased in the past for lotion making.

hmm, I guess it is all individual then, I find distilled to 'taste' the best of all, and it is great for mixing drinks or making tea or coffee with too

Yes would be individual.
Water quality does indeed effect tea and coffee a great deal and with tea especially I would tell many to filter their water if needed or perhaps even go with distilled if their water is crappy.

Water itself though varies greatly by area and region. I know where I plan to retire to later on in life, the first thing that drew me to the place was the taste of the water.

Yeah this BS has been going on for yeeeeears...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n3920454.shtml

doesn't really surprise me honestly