Pharmaceuticals in Our Water Supply Are Causing Bizarre Mutations to Wildlife

By Greg Peterson, E Magazine
Posted on August 9, 2007, Printed on August 10, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/59305/

From inter-sex fish in the Potomac River to frog mutations in Wisconsin, federal officials are spending this summer studying the effects of pharmaceuticals such as pain killers and depression medicine on the environment, because the drugs have turned up in America's drinking water.

The cumulative effect of trace amounts of pharmaceuticals and personal-care products in the water on humans isn't yet known, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking preventative measures. Pharmaceuticals have already been linked to behavioral and sexual mutations in fish, amphibians and birds, according to EPA studies.