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Is your Dog drinking pharmaceutical drugs? Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water, we learn that drinking water now comes complete with drugs in the mix. 
Pharmaceutical drugs have been found in the drinking water that is supplied to millions of Americans was recently revealed in an investigation.
The concentrations at this time are considered to be small but who can be guaranteed we are not drugging our pets when we give them tap water.  The long term effects of pharmaceutical drugs to our dogs and cats or birds for that matter have yet to be determined.  Over 24 major cities water supplies from California to New Jersey tested positive for drugs such as:
Ibuprofen, Aspirin, Antibiotics, anti-depressants, and drugs for high cholesterol, asthma, epileptic seizure drugs, Viagra, female estrogens or hormones and heart drugs and medications.
Drugs – drugs and more drugs are in the water than ever before.  People take lots of pills these days in America from all ages of young girls taking birth control pills to men taking Viagra, and all the drug takers in between as we are over medicated.  
Most of a drug you take gets flushed down the toilet along with your money and ends up in rivers and lakes.  In turn this water is used to provide drinking water after a purification process which unfortunately is not removing the drugs.
Some people even flush their pills down the toilet which is worse.  Drug companies should be taking responsibility for the safe disposal of their own drugs and again there are no laws requesting them to do so.

In northern New Jersey, you can get a hit of angina medicine right out of the tap, and in Tucson, Arizona you can have some free antibiotics in your H2O.

The Federal government does not have testing in place for drugs in your tap water, and there are no safety limits. Cities like NYC, Miami, Boston and Chicago have no testing for the 9 million people that are using tap water for drinking.

In New York City the health department reports that New Yorkers are getting a free hit of estrogen, anti-convulsing medication, mood stabilizers and tranquilizers.  So if you drink tap water in New York City you may either fall asleep often or grow breasts.

Water treatment facilities are not capable of removing the drugs, even with high levels of chorine used to clean the water. If your using tap water it now contains supposedly minute, or small amounts of these drugs. Fish are being affected by it so are pets and what is worse than that is the high levels of bleach or chlorine which is a carcinogen used to clean water.  Stronger concentrations of chlorine is used because the water is that dirty that more is needed to ensure the public safety.  Although the chlorine will kill you first.

In Europe, drinking water is filtered with carbon, or ozonated to remove harmful pharmaceutical drugs at their treatment facilities.  This process actually the ozone can eliminate viruses also.  These two types of treatments should be used in keeping drugs out of drinking water in North American water treatment facilities.

Tip of the Day:

Use Filtered water, reverse osmosis, pure mineral water and if that isn’t available boil the water, let cool and keep in the refrigerator for your dog.

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Written By:  Teri Salvador

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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5 Responses to “Hidden Drugs in a Dog’s Drinking Water”
  1. Denise says:

    I heard about all the residue drugs in water several months ago but never thought about dogs and cats. It would affect them twice as fast. I am lucky to still be on well water but no matter what it’s a serious issue for all of us. Great article!

  2. Teri says:

    I agree totally -governments have been lacking in taking action on protecting the health of people and their pets. This is not very well known to most people – and we need better quality management of our water supplies due to the numerous ways water is polluted today. Thanks for your comments.

  3. TheAntiHype says:

    The more I hear about what goes on in this world that Governments clearly know about – the more I’m appalled. They preach at the public about this and that and proceed to “cover up” major issues or at least “not publicise” these factors that can and probably will have long term implications on not just animals but humans too.

  4. Teri says:

    How true Diana, people are trying to do everything they can to stay healthy, and now perscription drugs in our water supply must be filtered with carbon or ozone ( another word for oxygen) to purify it further as they do in Germany. We mus tell our local governments that the water quality is just not good enough, and the drug companies should also be part of the clean up costs.
    Thanks for your comments

    Teri

  5. Diana says:

    How true this is Teri. I have a large water filter under the kitchen sink and our refrigerator also has a filter. I opted to do this instead of buying bottled water because of the huge problem that empty plastic water bottles is creating in our environment.

    Diana

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