Obama...Clamp Down on Pharma Pollution in Waterways

Mankind seems to have lost respect for the natural order of things.

This recession does do one good thing. It does make us question every purchase as a need or a want and so we consume less of everything. I urge us all to look for companies like Simply shoes that want to make a profit but instead of it being at the expense of the environment; it is done with care for it.

Corporations lure consumers itno the next great thing because it makes their life simpler or easier and then we forget to check under the hood and kick the tires. We just aimless believe that the corporations would not do anything illegal or that the EPA or other governments would crack down on them. However if the US does by some protest by us does crack down, these guys just move to other countries that need the jobs or income too much to care about it.

This staggering amount of toxins coincides with the unprecedented & barely regulated influence Big Pharma now has in our healthcare system, our gov't & medical schools. People are consuming massive amounts of medications - Rx & OTC - often unnecessarily.

Omnipresent advertising of Rxs & kickbacks to MDs has accelerated their use while natural, homeopathic & holistic healing has been abandoned & intentionally smothered. Shortsighted greed is leaving us with a long-term ecological disaster as these chemicals now reenter the food chain.

Women on the pill are urinating huge amounts of pharma-toxins into our water supply every day.

If you doubt this, do proper research and you'll find that it's factual.

Obama should stop this pill use while he's at it; it's been horribly damaging to our society.

And we are told that we should consume lots of water when we want to detox!

Water treatment plants are not able to clean all of the pharmacuticals in our water because the technology doesn't presently exist.
In farming areas, most of the drugs come from the dosing of livestock with anti-biotics and hormones. Everywhere else, it comes from the drugs flushed and poured.
Most pharmacies now have a bin that you can drop unused meds in, but there are no set laws in place regulating what is done with them.
Chlorine is the only chemical that does a good job of disinfecting the water. Flouride, on the other hand is a poison, as I'm sure you all know.

Just a note....if your currently use anti-bacterial soap, quit.
The chemical in it that makes it anti-bacterial, is also being found in our lakes and streams.
Soap is soap and studies have shown that anti-bacterial soaps have no noticable effect.

wow never really realized that our water contained all of this. so have a drink of water and get a buzz at the same time.. No thanks

This is outrageous! No wonder people are developing drug resistant infections because not only the meat, but thye water contains antibiotics!
As for as I am concerned the capitalist system only works if it is regulated in a strong manner and deviatiions from the regulations are rigorously enforced with huge fines or jail time for the CEOs who allowed them to happen.
GW Bush's Laissez-Faire capitalism has been a failure and Ronald Reagans was also with the S and L crises.

A caller on C-Span this AM said that lobbiests should only be able to lobby the legislatures at their offices and by signing a log to enter and not after office hours at all.
This sounded really good to me because a record would be created and there would be no alcoholic dinners to soften up the easily bribed legislatures.

Believe it lookatmypix! Years ago, I contacted my local newspaper to get them to investigate the fact that as Hospice Nurses, It was our POLICY when attending a death, to take ALL medications and flush them down the toilet!! There is NO system in place for this horrible crime. Once a RX leaves the pharmacy, they won't take it back.

Sometimes these people had HUGE amounts of meds. So many that we had to boil them, melt them and then flush them. Of course, the main concern was narcotics. But, since the person was no longer alive....they wanted them all destroyed.

btw, I was contacted by a reporter all hyped up and ready to meet with me. He canceled the day after and would never respond to my emails again. Just another cover up on the citizens of America.

Don't get me started on the Hospitals. I have watched people pour liquid CHEMOTHERAPY down the sink every day.

This is outrageous. I cannot believe what I read.
I knew about public water being contaminated at some level. I never expected to be cleaned and treated properly by fluoride and chlorine which can actually make it worse. Never IMAGINED of containing drugs at high levels though.
I look at this world and i truly do not know if we will ever be able to restore nature's balance, whatever damage we have done is now irreversible. However what we can do now is stopping this process of self-destruction or at least slowing it down as much as in our power and willingness.
It's nervously funny, I have used I-ching readings to the question of what will happen to our planet Earth in 2012 and the answer was "exhaustion", with a picture of an arid land that looked like an empty hell.
I wish Obama will make this world a better place.