Will filtering help?
When we take prescription and over-the-counter drugs we excrete them and their byproducts in our urine. This is the primary way medications get into our drinking water.
- Waste-water treatment plants and septic systems are not designed to remove pharmaceuticals and personal-care products, like lotions and cosmetics, from our water supplies.
- Municipal water systems discharge their treated water, with drug residues, back into their drinking water supplies or the surface-water sources they drew it from.
None of the commonly advertised pitcher and faucet water filters will remove pharmaceuticals or personal-care products from drinking water. They can remove odor and chlorine taste.
Reverse osmosis can remove some pharmaceuticals, but we don’t have a way to know which ones or how much. It also creates several gallons of waste water for each drinkable gallon it makes. This is not environmentally considerate, energy efficient or sustainable. It’s also expensive
- Scientists have not yet created technology to remove medications and personal-care products from our drinking water, for public water systems or home use.
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