Whilst many people focus on the importance of diet to their health, there is no doubt that drinking clean water is also vital to good health. And sadly for Americans, those who drink water from the tap aren’t drinking clean drinking water.
Drinking clean water is essential to our health from a number of different points of view. Right now thousands are dying of Cholera in Zimbabwe from drinking water contaminated with Cholera.
Just because there is no Cholera in the US doesn’t mean we have clean water. There is a multitude of contaminants in our drinking water, and although they won’t kill us as fast as Cholera, they can still, over time, add up to impact seriously on our health.
Here’s an example. Everyone knows that if we ingest lead into our bodies it isn’t good for us at all. None other than the US EPA has stated that lead in our drinking water is the number one health problem for our children, and that this can lead to learning and developmental problems and behavioral problems, and more.
That’s lead. In our drinking water. How could there possibly be lead in our water when we’re supposed to have world leading clean water supplies?
Lead contaminating our water is an ongoing problem. Lead comes from many sources, but the most common sources are from our pipes. It is estimated that around 98% of households have lead in their pipes. That comes from lead lined pipes or soldered joints in our pipes which contain lead. Most lead in our drinking water actually enters our water somewhere in the house.
And according to the EPA there is no safe level of lead in our water, especially to children.
And it starts with lead, but there are hundreds (some estimate thousands) of other contaminants that can be found in our water. We certainly aren’t drinking clean water.
So what is there that you can do to protect yourself and your family from drinking contaminated water? How do you make sure you’re drinking clean water? How about bottled water?
The FDA has said “Companies that market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public.” And there’s good reason for that statement. Simply because there are no government regulations that specify that bottled water should be any safer than tap water. And some bottled water is just tap water, and the price of bottled water is higher, quantity for quantity, than the price of gas. Bottled water is a fraud.
And bottled water is an environmental disaster, with countless plastic bottles manufactured to go into landfill.
So clearly drinking bottled water isn’t the answer to clean water. So what do you do if the prospect of drinking lead or any one of the other contaminants like drugs, pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, chlorine or more repulses you? You use a high quality water filter. The best water filters will remove just about all contaminants from the water you drink. The best filters will filter 99.99% of chlorine for instance.
How can you tell if a water filter is the best? It’s perfectly possible to test for how well a water filter works and independent tests are done on water filters, so you can check and compare one to another. And the very best drinking water filters should filter out over about 98% of contaminants in our water, including some you’ve probably never heard about.
Here’s an example. Did you know there was bromochloroacentontrile in your tap water? Never heard of it? What in the world is it? How dangerous is it? It doesn’t matter if you use the best water filter you know that over 97% of it is gone.
So if you didn’t know about the problems with drinking contaminated water you do now. You have a right to drink clean water but you’re currently drinking contaminated water if you drink tap water or bottled water. To make sure that you’re drinking clean water you need to find and use the best water filter that money can buy and remove the contaminants.
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