Is There Viagra In My Drinking Water?

A good reason why sales of bottled water will continue to be strong:

A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.

Comedian Lewis Black has a funny rant about bottled water:



In light of this new revelation, however, how did pharmaceuticals get into our water supply? I believe it's a conspiracy: that bottled water companies are intentionally spiking our water supply with drugs in order to boost sales. Paranoid? Maybe. It's a scene straight out of Dr. Strangelove, where General Jack D. Ripper believes there's a communist conspiracy afoot to "sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."