| The people in industrialized nations such as this one | | | | toilet. |
| take the purity of our water for granted, often | | | | This is the disposal method recommended by some |
| ignoring published and aired reports of the growing | | | | unthinking person in the pharmaceutical industry, and |
| levels of chemical and biological contaminants in | | | | most hospitals and pharmacy's follow this advice. |
| drinking water. | | | | Don't be fooled into thinking that you are safe from |
| What they are ignoring is the fact that the rivers and | | | | the threat of toxins and carcinogens just because |
| lakes that are our primary sources of drinking water | | | | you primarily drink bottled water. |
| have become so contaminated that even many of | | | | The threat of pharmaceutical and biological |
| the fish that live in them carry high levels of toxins. | | | | contaminants in drinking water is far outweighed by |
| Decades of dumping pollutants into our waterways | | | | that posed by nearly 80,000 industrial chemicals in the |
| without thought of the possible consequences have | | | | groundwater system. |
| left us with a water supply that is not fit to drink | | | | Most of these chemical agents are toxic to humans, |
| from. | | | | and well more than 2,000 of them have been |
| For most healthy individuals, the contaminants in our | | | | positively identified as being carcinogenic. |
| drinking water don't' pose any sort of immediate | | | | The chlorine used to disinfect your water is present |
| threat. | | | | to some extent in every glass of water you drink. |
| It takes years of accumulating traces of toxins and | | | | People tend to think that they are somehow taking |
| carcinogens in your soft tissue before you begin to | | | | better care of themselves by drinking pre-packaged |
| have any real problems. | | | | water products, not realizing that what they are |
| It is a common belief that the chlorine disinfection | | | | drinking is tap water with a fancy label. |
| process kills all of the bacteria and parasites in our | | | | Virtually none of the bottled water sold really comes |
| water, but this is not true. | | | | from a spring. |
| The biological contaminants in drinking water that we | | | | In order to truly outsmart chemical, pharmaceutical, |
| have to be careful of are chlorine resistant pathogens | | | | and biological contaminants in drinking water, what |
| known as cysts. | | | | you need is a high quality tap water filter. |
| For most people ingesting these pathogens results in | | | | This product is three filters actually, with an activated |
| one to two weeks of flu-like illness, but for those | | | | granular carbon filter, a sub micron filter, and an ion |
| with immuno-deficiencies these pathogens can be | | | | exchange working to keep the levels of |
| deadly. | | | | contamination as low as possible. |
| There is also now the problem with pharmaceuticals | | | | One of these purifiers can remove up to 99.99% of |
| turning up in measurable levels. | | | | all contaminants present. |
| Some of the traces of pharmaceutical drugs that are | | | | Put a quality tap water filter between the chemical, |
| found in our reservoirs are unused portions excreted | | | | pharmaceutical, and biological contaminants in drinking |
| from the body, but most get there through the | | | | water, and you will never have to worry about the |
| practice of flushing expired medication down the | | | | quality of what you are drinking. |