You’ve probably already seen the headlines about prescription drugs in drinking water, if not here’s a link to azcentral.com. I imagine this may drive more people to bottled water who may not realize it’s usually just tap water. I’d be curious to know if the R/O or whatever extra filtering they do reduces the amount of drugs? Somehow I doubt it, but if you know send the info over.
Here’s a prescription drug disposal pamphlet from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. I couldn’t find any information on any drug take-back programs in Arizona, if you know of any let us know and we’ll post it up.
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March 10th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
The article below has a blurb saying that reverse Osmosis does remove most drugs, but also leaves 2 gallons of polluted water for every 1 gallon cleaned. That doesn’t sound like a good solution to me.
“One technology, reverse osmosis, removes virtually all pharmaceutical contaminants but is very expensive for large-scale use and leaves several gallons of polluted water for every one that is made drinkable.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/03/09/national/a091634D19.DTL
May 6th, 2008 at 7:25 am
[...] few weeks back prescription drugs showing up in tap water was in all the headlines. Today I noticed a article on azcentral.com saying that the City of Phoenix has done extensive [...]