The Planet May Still Be Paying For The Cold You had last winter. If it was a bad one, you probably took medicine. Maybe you rinsed the little dosing cup in the sink every time you used it. Maybe you finished the bottle and threw it in the trash. What you surely did several times a day was go to the bathroom-perhaps more than usual if you were taking care to drink plenty of liquids-and some of that medicine passed straight through you. What all this means is that while you were taking your cold medicine, so was your local water supply.
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