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[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Many of those medications cannot be filtered or even distilled out of our drinking water completely.

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Do you have a source for that? I've been looking and it seems like between charcoal filtration, reverse osmosis, and distillation, we can get nearly perfectly pure water. Not that it's a perfect solution to the problem due to the expense but it's there.

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At a glance, I can't seem to find a source. Maybe I'm wrong about it being impossible.

It seems being in-feasibly cost prohibitive to do perfectly, may be more accurate. Distillation without filtration misses a lot of stuff. Reverse osmosis is just force-filtering; It is cost effective, and does a dang good job for the cost, but leaves small amounts of stuff, and other stuff bypasses it. Charcoal filtering gets most of the really bad stuff well, like the "forever chemicals." Yet it can't get every type of pollutant, so distillation gets the rest. Charcoal filtering isn't very cost effective, especially at municipal water volumes. Disposal of the leftover contaminated charcoal is quite a cost too. Plasma techniques are super new, but seem promising.