[Greenbuilding] toilets, now municipal water treatment

[susannah]

At 09:22 AM 12/27/2006, John Messerschmidt wrote:

>Wouldn't any antibiotics or prescription drugs that you may be taking pass
>into the urine that you are spreading on your crops?

Did you get an answer to this?  The answer is yes.  It is becoming a 
big concern because drugs are not removed in municipal water 
treatment either, resulting in high concentrations of hormones (from 
birth control pills), tylenol, etc. in output water.  That's causing 
high mutation rates in fish, for example.  The municipal systems were 
just set up to deal with bacteria, not chemical contaminants.  So, 
depending on what meds you are taking and whether you are downstream 
from any cities, the hose bib water may or may not have less of these 
chemicals than your pee :).  


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