Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a settlement yesterday with five health-care facilities that flushed pharmaceutical waste into the New York City watersheds.

Cuomo reached agreements with the two hospitals and three nursing homes — located north of the city — that disposed of painkillers, antibiotics, antidepressants, hormones and other pharmaceuticals through toilets and sinks, his office said.

The flushes potentially put about 9 million people’s drinking water at risk, Cuomo said.

Although such facilities are allowed to flush many — but not all — drugs, the nursing homes and hospitals, nonetheless, agreed to stop disposing of all drugs in that manner, Cuomo said.

Instead, facilities will give the drugs to waste management facilities, he said.