Gothamist: Health Department on Drugs in Water: Just Say Yes

emilydickinson

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:37:38 -0500

Yeah, all those paranoid people? They're crazy! These are HELPFUL drugs in the water.

edEx

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:54:07 -0500

who cares?? there's cyanide in our water for health reasons...

Atomische

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:25 -0500

This is part of Bush's health/pharmacy plan.

GOP

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:37:27 -0500

It's not like the water we have today is any different from the water that was around millions of years ago. At some point in time the water was urine from a dinosaur or a mammoth or Hillary. I'm still drinking tap water. Fuck paying $1 for a small Poland Spring bottle.

rcltrh

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:12:54 -0500

Of course the reality of the big picture is we are all really drinking lots of people's mixed up piss cocktails. That's a nice thought. The bigger report of the countrywide analysis is that people far downstream of large municipalities like those along the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers (New Orleans being the major drinker) are drinking treated urine of all the states above them whose water treatment plants dump into those rivers. Remember that next Mardi Gras when you have the water. Yum :-)

SP

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:08:29 -0500

It's because of all the aging hippies and baby boomers who live around the Ashokan Reservoir, flushing their old meds down the toilet and putting their coffee grounds in their compost heaps.

smitty

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:03:31 -0500

The effect on the environment should also be a consideration.

REALITY CHECK

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:02:01 -0500

I wouldn't worry about it. Either way, you're screwed. If you drink bottled water, you're guaranteed to have weird chemicals in your water: http://google.com/search?q=water+bottles+trace+plastic

Rocknrope

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:56:33 -0500

Hell, the additives sound like what we already pay for in a bottle of VitaminWater.

MFer

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:37:09 -0500

Roger Clemens wants to know if HGH was found in the water--and could it explain the lump in his butt.

donner

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:31:06 -0500

(“for aches, infections, seizures and high blood pressure; hormones for menopause; the active ingredient in a popular sedative; and caffeine") So soon we'll all be almost super-human! And the sedatives and caffeine balance each other out... Sounds like a good deal to me...