Everyone has heard about global warming and how it is going to "destroy" us all. However many people don't know about drugs that are supposed to help you can actually harm you. Humans consume 235 million doses of antibiotics each year. Most of those people never finish their subscription because they "feel" better. While taking the drugs for a limited amount of time may help a person feel better, the sickness might not actually be gone. So what these people do is take there left-overs and throw them in the toilet and flush it. Out of sight, out of mind right? Guess again. Those pills take a wonderful journey to the water treatment plants where they are basically spread throughout the entire water supply. This water is used for irrigation, watering plants, and/or drinking. These drugs in the water may cause no problems or very minor problems, but the next time you have a cold you will find out that cure-all pill is no longer as effective because your body has small amounts of it present all the time and adapted to it.
These drugs can and do impact the life of humans, vegetation, animals, and wildlife. As mentioned earlier the drugs may reduce effectiveness in humans. They may also cause mutations in vegetation and animals. Some drugs used as anti-depressants will change a persons serotonin levels, serotonin can also cause aquatic creatures such as frogs, fish, etc. to spawn early and could destroy the cycle of a frogs life and thus ruining wildlife.
In today's society more and more water tests in rivers, streams, and lakes are going positive for drug contamination. We need to stop this problem now before it is to late. For further reading on this subject you can go to these sources: http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/06/02/16/pharmaceutical-pollution-what-it-is-and-how-pharmaceutical-pollution-threatens-your-health.htm or http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20000401/fob1.asp
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