Evening all, first of all read this from Associated Press, one of the two major agencies who supply all our national papers with their material (the other one being Reuters).

Scared that you're going to grow breasts, become addicted to tranqulisers, or die as a result of drugs in drinking water? Well let's put this into perspective.

"the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion."

# One part per billion (ppb): Denotes one part per 1,000,000,000 parts, one part in 109, and a value of 1 × 10–9. This is equivalent to 1 drop of water diluted into 250 chemical drums (50 m³), or one second of time in approximately 31.7 years.

# One part per trillion (ppt): Denotes one part per 1,000,000,000,000 parts, one part in 1012, and a value of 1 × 10–12. This is equivalent to 1 drop of water diluted into 20, two-meter-deep Olympic-size swimming pools (50,000 m³), or one second of time in approximately 31,700 years.

"Water providers rarely disclose results of pharmaceutical screenings, unless pressed, the AP found. For example, the head of a group representing major California suppliers said the public "doesn't know how to interpret the information" and might be unduly alarmed."

Unless you're a homeopath you have nothing to worry about, besides if only we had some organ to remove toxins and impurities from things we ingest...

An absolute disgrace from AP.