Just too good to pass up...

This is certainly a banner day for environmental news. It reads like material for several SNL sketches! Now laboratory tests for drinking water in several urban areas show the following:

In Southern California, there are alarming traces of antiseizure and antidepressant medications in the water. These are common treatments for bipolar and depressed patients. So does this mean that EVENTUALLY (taking a cue from the earlier CO2 concerns) there will be enough meds in the water that NO ONE will be depressed? Or bipolar? Or does this just mean that the extras in the water will make people just a little MORE distressed who are already on contradicting meds from the drinkable ones? Can they cancel each other out and you're back to square one, after years of adjusting your meds to be stable?

And in San Francisco, there have been discovered alarming amounts of SEX HORMONES in the water. (Do you see the duct tape across my mouth?)
Twenty-five years of well, escalating activity in that particular department has made that fair city famous around the world. Now we must ask...is this hormone overload a RESULT or a CAUSE? never before in history have we had so many hormonally dissatisfied people concentrated in one geographical area. Is this a female or a male hormone (not addressed in the media!) Does this guarantee that our beloved SF will become only MORE intensely what it already is? Or will the entire water-swilling population soon be auditioning for Beach Blanket Babylon?

But this one is even sweeter: Testing from water sources around Washington, DC showed alarming levels of "at least six pharmaceuticals." So the next time you burst out, "WHAT ARE THOSE PEOPLE IN DC THINKING? ARE THEY ON DRUGS?!?"

The simple answer is yes. All they have to do is drink the water.

SO. If you live in my neighborhood and find all of this overwhelming and depressing, may i suggest that you draw a deep drink from local municipal water source. You'll feel better--science agrees.
Water: it's so much more than just hydration these days.