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Do you ever think about what happens when you flush the toilet? Most people don’t think twice about flushing the toilet. However, scientists all over are beginning to develop an increasing interest in sewage because as it turns out, sewage contains a plethora of information about a community of people and their waste habits as well as their personal habits. Now, scientists can conduct drug tests, in essence, on entire communities simply by analyzing their sewage. Yuck! Here’s what Popular Science Magazine had to say on the issue:

The approach is, in essence, a community drug test. By analyzing wastewater at treatment plants or at strategic spots throughout sewer systems, scientists can run extraordinarily accurate and anonymous tests on an entire population without ever asking anyone to hand over a cup of urine.

Some might speculate and say that this is somehow an infringement on a person’s right to privacy, but do you really want to claim your sewage? I’m sure that if any one of us had our personal sewage analyzed, it would be somewhat shocking to see how “wasteful” we actually are. When it comes to drug use, think about how often the police raid a drug house and the criminals inside, in a mad dash to get rid of the drugs, flush them down the toilet. Even the urine of a drug user that gets flushed down the toilet contains drugs. All of this makes you wonder, “what is it doing to the environment?” Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, however; supporters of wastewater testing agree that conducting a urinalysis of an entire city would give officials an opportunity to examine whether or not police efforts are decreasing drug use. I guess we’ll see what happens.

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