推 headerson:謝謝大家阿 05/17 22:43
可能大家早就知道了，還是po給
在美國的同學看看
Addicted to Water
More chemicals than just H2O
Recently, studies have been popping up in the U.S. and Europe with some
very disturbing findings: discarded drugs are being found in the water
supply. And we're not talking about small amounts either. A nationwide U.S
geological survey sampling water in 30 states found that the total weight of
drugs and personal-care products that find their way into the environment
each year is equal to that of pesticides that end up in the environment
annually.
That's approximately 888 million pounds of drugs each year, or the
equivalent of three pounds per person per year for every man, woman and child
in the U.S. An awful lot of drugs. As much as 75% of the water tested
contained two or more drugs, and 13% of the water tested contained traces of
more than 20 different drugs! The drugs most commonly found in water include
painkillers, tranquilizers, anti-depressants, and birth-control pills, to
name a few.
Most of these drugs find their way into the water system by being flushed
down the toilet. Not only is this a convenient disposal method, but some
states have actually passed laws that force nursing homes to flush perfectly
good drugs down the toilet every week. If prescription medicine is
distributed to nursing homes and isn't used due to the death of a patient or
a change in prescription, the drugs can't be sent back to the pharmacy and
must be disposed of by flushing.
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