More Hidden Drugs in Your Dog’s Drinking Water

photo credit: Paul L. NettlesThe concentrations at this time may be small but who can be guaranteed we are not drugging our pets when we give them tap water.

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, and heart drugs.

Drugs – drugs and more drugs are in the water than ever before. People take lots of pills each day in America from all ages of young girls taking birth control pills to old men taking Viagra, and all the drug takers in between we are over medicated. Most of it gets flushed down the toilet along with your money and ends up in rivers and lakes. 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, but the do not and again there are no laws.

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. So much 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. These two types of treatments should be used in keeping drugs out of drinking water.

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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