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Urine, not pills. Urine is filled with hormone and from what I've heard most water processing plants can't remove those completely. In fact, one of the pills i

Urine, not pills. Urine is filled with hormone and from what I've heard most water processing plants can't remove those completely. In fact, one of the pills is made of urine: "The estrogen-replacement drug Premarin, prescribed to menopausal women, is made from horse urine; in fact, the drug's name is short for PREgnant MARes' urINe". Since that the majority of female in the West are on birth control pills[1] that means that a lot of the urine in our water systems is in fact "pregnant urine". 1: "In the United States 98% of women have used birth control at some point in time and 62% of those of reproductive age are currently using birth control." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_birth_control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_birth_control

jxramos 9y ago
PRE MAR IN, that is tooooo hilarious. Reality really is stranger than fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarin
justadeveloper2 9y ago
I'm intrigued, but I suspect that the dilution of whatever millions of women can pee out is still in our favor luckily.
christinamltn 9y ago
Your conclusion isn't quite what your reference says. Hormones in the water supply are definitely a problem but the majority of women in the West are not on birth control pills. The 98% and 62% stats include all forms for birth control. The next line makes that explicit: "The two most common methods are the pill (11 million) and sterilization (10 million)." About 16% of childbearing aged women in the US use the pill [1]. Even if you add all methods that can be hormonal (some IUDs are, not aren't), it's only 27.8%. Almost 40% of childbearing aged women in the US use no birth control at all. For this discussion it doesn't matter that much. The quantities in the water supply that aren't being removed are a problem. In other contexts it might not be useful to think that nearly every woman who isn't a child or elderly is on the pill. [1] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-united-states https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-unit...
- Raphmedia 9y ago
  Sorry. You are right. That should have read "are on birth control" without the word "pills".

jxramos 9y ago

PRE MAR IN, that is tooooo hilarious. Reality really is stranger than fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarin

justadeveloper2 9y ago

I'm intrigued, but I suspect that the dilution of whatever millions of women can pee out is still in our favor luckily.

christinamltn 9y ago

Your conclusion isn't quite what your reference says. Hormones in the water supply are definitely a problem but the majority of women in the West are not on birth control pills. The 98% and 62% stats include all forms for birth control. The next line makes that explicit: "The two most common methods are the pill (11 million) and sterilization (10 million)." About 16% of childbearing aged women in the US use the pill [1]. Even if you add all methods that can be hormonal (some IUDs are, not aren't), it's only 27.8%. Almost 40% of childbearing aged women in the US use no birth control at all. For this discussion it doesn't matter that much. The quantities in the water supply that aren't being removed are a problem. In other contexts it might not be useful to think that nearly every woman who isn't a child or elderly is on the pill. [1] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-united-states https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-unit...

Raphmedia 9y ago
Sorry. You are right. That should have read "are on birth control" without the word "pills".