A little Prozac with your drinking water?

Pretty scary stuff happening but not surprising. Studies are showing the connection between prescription medicines such as birth control pills and Prozac and the wildlife downstream from water processing plants. I recall the Post writing a few articles earlier in the year about male bass in the Potomac carrying eggs and studies and it sounds like that is one of many problems around the country. Prescription drugs are simply not being filtered out of the water processing systems. What is going into the fish in the rivers is of course also going into Americans drinking water as well.

The toothless EPA, now an industry sponsored tool that has had little effectiveness ever since the radical changes by the GOP, is dithering about (like those tadpoles that have traces of Prozac) wondering what to do, apparently waiting for orders from industry who continue to do a stellar job with self-regulation and civic responsibility. Industry meanwhile is saying sure we can filter, but taxpayers are going to pick up the tab for filtering water from prescription pharmaceuticals. The administration has no issue with dumping more of a burden on the middle class if they give a damn about an issue but in this case, they don't so they won't. So who is looking out for the health and safety of Americans these days?