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 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - City leaders pressed Monday for less government secrecy and stronger action to deal with the presence of trace pharmaceuticals in drinking water supplies, as communities across the nation continue to voice unease over these contaminants.
"It really is time for the national government to step up and say, `This is the national standard.' When you don't do that, you get what you get — and this is unacceptable," declared Blondell Reynolds Brown, a city councilwoman.
Brown, who made her appeal during a City Council committee hearing, was referring to an Associated Press investigative series last month that detailed how minute concentrations of prescription and over-the-counter drugs have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, including those served by the Philadelphia Water Department.
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