Reader Response
June, 2006
River Deep, Toxins HighYour article "Don't Drink the Water" (March) doesn't go far enough. The pharmaceutical residues in our water supply will have disastrous implications for the human species. When people and animals ingest antibiotics, up to 90 percent is excreted. While water-treatment methods remove all but a few parts per billion of these residues, the remaining few parts present in groundwater, lakes and rivers provide the perfect conditions to create antibiotic-resistant bacte...
