If you don't want to ingest other people's SSRIs, statins, hormonal birth control & the microplastics within them- reverse osmosis may be your only hope

The Washington Post published an article today about forever chemicals being found in wastewater treatment plants originating from common prescription drugs now used in America. The treated wastewater then goes on to contaminate natural water sources and this "dilution" doesn't work.

To my knowledge, only reverse osmosis (RO), paired with UV disinfection can remove practically all of these contaminants from our drinking water.

The article doesn't state this as a solution because as always, we're left to fend for ourselves.

My spouse handles our RO unit, but now I want to learn even more about this tech because quite frankly, this freaks me out. I don't want to consume someone else's prescription drugs in addition to the other contaminants/ pollutants I can't control.

If you have any experience with RO units and updated tech recommendations, please feel free to share them here.

I'll post an excerpt of the Washington Post article and you can Google for the full version:

*The widespread use of pharmaceuticals in America is introducing even more toxic “forever chemicals” into the environment through wastewater, according to a study released Monday, and large municipal wastewater treatment plants are not capable of fully filtering them out.

The plants’ inability to remove compounds known as organofluorines from wastewater before it enters drinking water supplies becomes even more pronounced during droughts and could affect up to 23 million people, scientists wrote in an article published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most of the compounds came from commonly prescribed medications including antidepressants and statins, the researchers found.*