Pharmaceutical residue

Jesus was the first to conquer death, and He is the ruler of all earthly kings. Christ loves us, and by his blood he set us free from our sins. Since the sewage treatment I understand, does not test for pharmaceutical residues, I wonder how much of the pharmaceuticals from up country can be delivered to the city water supply so that minuscule amounts may be regularly, inadvertently, consumed.

Since the smallest airborne pesticides are more effective at causing distant problems from the spray site, than larger ones, what does our water offer? Invercargill City Council water services manager Alister Murray replied

The Invercargill water supply is not regularly tested for the presence of pharmaceutical residues nor pesticides.

Random tests have been made, for the presence of pesticides, the results of which were that if pesticides were present then they were below that detectable by laboratory test methods to detect pesticide presence.

Invercargill’s water supply is monitored in accordance with the New Zealand Drinking Water Standard which classifies the presence of harmful substances into four categories of risk.

In priority order, the first category relates to contamination by bacteria, usually associated with faecal material.

The second relates to those substances that are present in the water supply concentrations in exceedance of half the maximum acceptable value.

The third relates to substances that are not known to occur in the drinking water supply at more than half the maximum acceptable value.

The fourth relates to substances that are known not to be likely in the drinking water supply. The Ministry of Health dictates which priority to test, currently the Invercargill supply is required to test for priority 1 and 2 only, neither of which includes testing for pesticides nor pharmaceutical residues.