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Old 10th March 2008, 12:12 PM
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Default Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S...

Read this cnn article..

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1.ap/index.html

kind of scary.


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Old 10th March 2008, 07:07 PM
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Default Re: Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S...

It is kind of scary, for sure, when drinking water these things will surely pop up in the mind...sihi!
What we are going to do... does boiling the water helps to reduce some??

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Default Re: Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S...

i watched this news yesterday on good morning america ...what they said is normal water filter will not help in removing the drugs but reverse osmosis water filters can help in removing this drugs but again these filters i heard r pretty expensive
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Old 11th March 2008, 10:41 AM
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Default Re: Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S...

Hi sihi,
I happened to read this article yday..I stopped drinking tap water when we moved to LA county as the tap water is believed to contain soooo many contaminants..

But its disgusting and scary to find out abt thses reports..

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Its really scary esp having a baby at home and drinking this contam water.. Will boil water so that atleast some of the contam might be inactivated..
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