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Master Taran
03-09-2008, 07:50 PM
AP probe finds drugs in drinking water (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080309/ap_on_re_us/pharmawater_i)
Angakuk
03-09-2008, 10:16 PM
We have our own well and we have a home distiller. I wonder if distilling the water removes pharmaceutical contaminents.
Master Taran
03-09-2008, 10:26 PM
Not being a chemist, I wouldn't know. But I would think that it would change the substances in the water. :chin:
Dingfod
03-09-2008, 10:58 PM
We have our own well and we have a home distiller. I wonder if distilling the water removes pharmaceutical contaminents.Probably, but a carbon (charcoal) filter would do better.
godfry n. glad
03-09-2008, 11:01 PM
We have our own well and we have a home distiller. I wonder if distilling the water removes pharmaceutical contaminents.Probably, but a carbon (charcoal) filter would do better.

Ergo, run your distilled water through a carbon filter.

Or, better yet, stop distilling water and start distilling whiskey. :innocent:
Angakuk
03-10-2008, 01:13 AM
We could always run it through a carbon filter and a reverse osmosis system, and then drink whiskey instead. Maybe with a water chaser.
Garnet
03-10-2008, 01:31 AM
There ya go.
ChuckF
03-10-2008, 01:40 AM
Harper's had a really interesting article a couple of months ago on waste reclamation technologies. One of the possible future applications they mentioned was reclaiming pharmaceuticals from waste water. Very neat stuff.
Garnet
03-10-2008, 01:47 AM
OK, now I'm squicked.
godfry n. glad
03-10-2008, 02:37 AM
What?! You wouldn't buy "pre-used" laxatives?
Garnet
03-10-2008, 02:41 AM
More squicked.
Corona688
03-10-2008, 02:43 AM
Heh. It's not like all the water on earth isn't "pre-used".
Qingdai
03-10-2008, 04:41 AM
Yeah, that's what I thought. You could be drinking Napoleon's pee right now!
I am a bit more concerned about caffeinated fish.