Read my latest flash, Venison, at 52|250.

When I was back in the US, I was grateful to once again be able to drink water from the tap without boiling it first, but recently there have been reminders that this may not be such a good idea. The story goes that medication not absorbed by the human body is excreted and then makes it way back into the water supply through treatment plants not designed to remove it. This is, on the whole, a reasonable hypothesis, but the troubling thing is that if some of these drug traces were added in an attempt to keep a population passive, we’d have no way to know it was being done intentionally.

On the other hand, given the great popularity of Vitamin Water in recent years, this does represent an opportunity for municipal water systems to earn a little extra cash for capital improvements. Cities with supplies contaminated with anti-anxiety drugs, for instance, could bottle it up and sell it across the country as Calm Water. Other cities could push Happy Water, Heart Water, and Insulin Water.

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