Probing Question: Are drugs in our water harmful?
Some medications are so prevalent, people jokingly suggest they should be added to the water supply. OK, consider it done. Detectable levels of common pharmaceutical medications have been found in drinking water in the United States and Canada.
Public awareness of this issue spiked after a well-publicized 2008 Associated Press article, but researchers have known for decades that the drugs we throw away or put into our bodies wash out into the water supply, said Albert Jarrett, professor of biological engineering at Penn State.
"Technology has advanced so far that we can now detect things in our water that up until recently we were not able to detect," Jarrett said. "Ten or 15 years ago, we were happy to talk about parts per million; then it became parts per billion. Now it has become parts per trillion."
some drugs which are necessary for proper growth are body are not harmful but the one having pesticides are much more dreaded.
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