How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water Anyways?

Wondering how pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? You’ll probably be just as shocked as I was when I found out.

Well for starters, there are large animal farm operations that dump thousands of gallons of contaminated waste water into our environment every day. Many of them give the animals different kind of drugs to prevent diseases and make their muscles bigger, which ultimately becomes the meat we eat.

On top of this, waste water treatment plants release BILLIONS of gallons of contaminated waste water into the environment on a daily basis. And because these plants cannot remove most synthetic and volatile organic chemicals (SOCs and VOCs), some end up being pumped back into our homes.

Unfortunately, we are all guilty of adding pharmaceutical drugs in drinking water. Most people think that once we consume any kind of drug that it all gets absorbed and used by our body, then just disappears. Sadly to say though, this is not the case.

When we ingest pills or other types of drugs, only some of it is absorbed by our body. The rest just travels through our body and is flushed down the drain when we go to the bathroom. Then when it gets to the treatment plants, it never gets removed!

So what does this mean for you? It means that traces of all different kinds of drugs like antibiotics, mood stabilizers, sex hormones, birth control pills, and medications for asthma, high cholesterol, epilepsy, mental illnesses, and heart problems could be found in the water you drink!

And the whole situation is very unfortunate because the more prevalent and the more dependent we become on pharmaceutical drugs, the worse the whole situation is going to get.

So what can you do to remove pharmaceutical drugs from your drinking water? The easiest thing would be to install a quality water filtration system in your home. Just make sure that it’s able to remove VOCs and SOCs.