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Could some bad Urine Analysis Testes the pills in the water beening discussed on the news?

Could someone been turned down from a job, from consuming over the years the chemicals in the water that resulted in a bad urine analysis .

Public Comments

1. No..the amount in the water is way to small. Drug tests dont read that small of an amount.
2. No. Urinalysis measures specific chemical compounds found in large quantities that would be a positive marker for drug use/abuse.
3. No. The studies said the concentration of these pills is in parts per billion (really really small amounts). If the amount you are taking in each time is tiny, the amount you are urinating out is going to be tiny too. Scientists are wondering how taking in those chemicals over the years may actually affect your own body though. This news story isn't actually that new. Three years ago I remember coming across an article about how estrogens from females taking birth control pills are ending up in water supplies, and they are wondering how it will affect the genders in the fish populations. (Of course, I'm wondering about the fertility in the human male population as well as a possible increased risk in hormone-related diseases in the female population.)
4. No. The news article was about drugs in parts-per-billion concentrations. The water itself would have too low a concentration of drugs to reach the level of sensitivity used for employment drug screens. They are purposefully designed to be fairly insensitive to limit the number of false positives. I even have some question about the validity of the report on those grounds and would like to see the raw data.