The birth control pill, patch and other estrogen-filled birth control products enter into our wastewater via the urine of women who take these dangerous steroidal hormones. Scientists have discovered that this synthetic estrogen is having devastating effects on our fish population. In 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey performed a study in the Potomac River and found that 80 percent of the male smallmouth bass had intersex characteristics—these male fish were growing female reproductive parts. This terrifying reality is also contaminating our municipal water supply, posing hazards to anyone who drinks it. In New Jersey, traces of birth control hormones and other prescription drugs were found in municipal tap water in 2003.
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