Pharmaceutical Contamination of Water Supplies

Curated by

Glen Kerby

Founder, I Drink Living Water

“Antidepressants, hormones, painkillers, antibiotics — trace concentrations of the pharmaceuticals we swallow end up in the wastewater and back into the supply. Downstream researchers have documented fish changing sex in affected watersheds, a signal that the biological effects aren't hypothetical. This body of research names a contamination stream that most utilities aren't even testing for yet.”