Hey rooster, this isn't some Republican make-believe threat they use to get themselves elected. This danger is real and its here, now! You have access to the internet, go check it out for yourself. People have been dumping their unwanted prescription medicines in toilets for years, along with everything else they could flush or pour down the drain. Where do YOU think all that "waste" ends up? You think the poison we spread on our lawns, golf courses and farms just evaporates? What about the oil and harmful chemicals spilled on our roads that gets washed into our streams through storm sewers. True, some of the toxins get diluted to less dangerous levels but much of it ends up in our fresh water supply and, ultimately, in our bodies where we store it. The more we take in the greater the concentration in our bodies. EVERYONE needs to do their part in preventing toxins, including hormones, from getting into the water supply IN THE FIRST PLACE! Dispose of waste responsibly. Buy your products I don't know TheJoker, maybe they could have spent the money on clean air technology. Is the economy or jobs more important than the health of our population or environment?

I must of missed it. How does this help our economy? How does this create jobs?

I think our money could of been spent better.

The stimulus is for infrastructure projects. It's a construction contract that injects money into the economy and an investment in the future of specific communities.
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rooster, fine, you can drink the drugs-and-hormone-laced water, for all I care. I don't want my kids to drink it, thank you very much. This is a legitimate health concern for which unfortunately there are no good or inexpensive solutions besides exclusion. Calling that "fear" is putting your fingers in your ears.

So, how is this a "Stimulas?"

our country thrives on fear as noted in these comments.

I have an under-sink reverse osmosis filtering system ..........under $150......thats about the only thing that will remove hormones.

truth1---So, what do you drink?

No, not paranoid at all, its a fact that doesn't seem to get reported on.
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There have been thousands of fish found to have abnormal growths due to this...."nonsex" fish.
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Get yourself educated......

Jeez.....paranoid much?!?!?

........and don't think you are safe with bottled water either, they get that from a tap also...Its VERY difficult to remove hormones from wastewater.

I would really like to be able to go to a public drinking fountain and not have to worry about ingesting hormones because no waste treatment facility that I know of will remove this stuff from urine that is inevitably recycled back to the tap.

That wouldn't have been my first thought..... but truth1 that is a good point

I hope they're working on something that will remove stuff like birth-control pill hormones from flushed urine that poison fish and also end up in tap water.