What could be even worse than the pharmaceutical waste is the fact that some people are pushing for legislation that would require all U.S. public water supplies have fluoride added to them. This, despite the fact that fluoridation of public water has long been rejected or banned in many other parts of the world (incl. most of western Europe), and has been repeatedly rejected in the past by most individual U.S. communities when given the chance to vote on it.
Even if you are of the thinking that fluoride is a good thing to put into your body, since when is the public water system fair game to use as a delivery system for something that is considered a medication or health supplement? And if you do think it is a benign and beneficial substance, please check further into it, and you might change your minds.