After a recent study detected minute quantities of pharmaceuticals in the city’s upstate water supply, the City Council has announced an emergency hearing to investigate the reports. The Associated Press study found sedatives in water nationwide; in New York, traces of 15 different drugs (“for aches, infections, seizures and high blood pressure; hormones for menopause; the active ingredient in a popular sedative; and caffeine") turned up. Presumably the drugs entered the water supply via sewage......

New Yorkers have been proud of its drinking water (heck, the city even started advertising its benefits last year), but will the discovery of "barely measurable pharmaceuticals" in tap water change all that? The AP conducted a survey of drinking water all around the country and found traces of drugs everywhere, including Los Angeles, Kentucky and NJ. In New York City, medicines likes "drugs for aches, infections, seizures and high blood pressure; hormones for menopause;......