That cold glass of tap water you just downed before your morning jog may deserve a new name -- PharmaWater. Extensive investigative reporting by a team from the Associated Press has uncovered trace pharmaceuticals are swirling around in the drinking water of at least 41 million Americans.

No kidding. Your body does not absorb all the meds you take. Every time you go to the bathroom, you flush unabsorbed drugs right into the water system. Post-treated wastewater is released back into reservoirs, rivers and lakes, eventually returning to a drinking water treatment plant and into your faucet. Unfortunately, most treatments do not filter out the drugs.

The thought that I'm chugging even tiny amounts of others' expelled Prozac, Z-Pak, epilepsy meds or birth control pills is disgusting. The AP reports Philly officials found 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water -- meds for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, the list goes on and on. Please, this doesn't mean a glass of Philly tap water can replace the dose of ibuprofen I may need after the long jog I hope to enjoy along the city's gorgeous Wissahickon Creek in a couple weeks (we're visting family). But what does drinking low levels of pharmaceuticals across a lifetime mean for the human body?