Letter: Stop discharging drug-laced water into Lake Mead

Wednesday, April 14, 1999 | noon

Southern Nevada discharges 140 million gallons of treated sewage into Lake Mead each day, six miles upstream of our water intakes.

Neither conventional sewage treatment, nor "state-of-the-art" drinking water treatment can remove those drugs from the water.

Drugs typically are prescribed in excess. The human body excretes drugs it can't assimilate, and those end up in our toilets, then the sewage treatment plants and eventually in our drinking water.

Isn't it time we quit discharging sewage back to the lake just upstream of our drinking water intakes?

LARRY PAULSON

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