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Article: California has highest level of pharmaceuticals in its waters, agency says.
- Article from:
- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2002
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Byline: Teri Sforza
SANTA ANA, Calif. _ Some of it can be traced to the kitchen: The coffee maker on the counter. The tea pot on the stove. The anti-bacterial soap on the sink.
But most of it can be traced to the intimacies of the family powder room: The shower stall lined with fragrant shampoos and skin moisturizers. The medicine chest ajumble with Tylenol, birth control pills, heart medications.
Ultimately, the piece de resistance of indoor plumbing _ the porcelain toilet, which conveys the common chemicals coursing through the human body to sewers, which eventually release them to streams and rivers in torrents of treated effluent.
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