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Last month both NBC's Tom Costello and CBS' Nancy Cordes covered an investigation by the Associated Press that found that trace elements of pharmaceuticals end up in our municipal water supplies. Curiously, Sharyl Attkisson reported on the same phenomenon for her Follow the Money investigation on CBS, but because her beat is money not the environment, she completely ignored its public health consequences. Attkisson was only interested in the fiscal implications of the rule by the Food & Drug Administration that nursing homes must dispose of pharmaceuticals for its patients when they happen to die or leave or have their prescriptions change. Attkisson showed us how pills are shucked out of their bubble wrap and flushed by the handful down the toilet. The discarded drugs may be worth $378m annually but their entry into waste water treatment did not interest her.
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