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I read a hypothesis that it's birth control going to waste water facilities, and then getting back into the drinking water supply. From what I read a charcoal f
by stevenmays 6y ago
I read a hypothesis that it's birth control going to waste water facilities, and then getting back into the drinking water supply. From what I read a charcoal filter lessens the effects - which I believe gets filtered through a normal refrigerator filter. Please verify this information first, it's all conjecture and hypothesis.
- kibwen 6y agoBirth control pill usage is slowly but inexorably declining as younger demographics start to favor IUDs more; IUDs were virtually unknown circa 2000 but today they're about equal in popularity. If true then we would expect the above trend to reverse within 20 years.
- tachyonbeam 6y agoModern IUDs release hormones.
- kibwen 6y agoThey release progestin, not estrogen. And even then they seem to release a 3-7x lower volume of hormones per day than pills. I also would ask for a source on the relative popularity of the hormonal IUDs vs the non-hormonal copper ones; I haven't seen any source provide that sort of breakdown.
- tachyonbeam 6y agoProgestins suppress testosterone too. I don't have stats but I believe hormonal IUDs are the most popular form nowadays.
- WA 6y agoCopper IUDs still exist for several reasons and they work pretty well without hormones.
- mobilejdral 6y agoBirth control pills these days are a fraction of what they were back in say the 50's. Women on HRT take 20,000 times the estrogen that is found in a estrogen birth control for example.
- worker767424 6y agoWe don't directly recycle treated wastewater into drinking water much in the US. The closest you get is treated water being released into a river, and a city downstream uses it, there's a lot of dilution going on in-between. You'd also expect someone to notice it not affecting cities with water supplies that aren't downstream from wastewater treatment.