| Let's face it, drinking water safety should be of up | | | | lead. In fact, it's the number one environmental health |
| most importance. Is tap water really dangerous? Let's | | | | threat to our children, as it causes reduced IQs, |
| put it this way: the more we look into what is | | | | learning disabilities, behavioral problems, nervous |
| actually in our tap water, the more contaminants and | | | | system complications, attention span disorders, and |
| dangers we find. | | | | other unfortunate conditions. Lead treatment in city |
| Drinking water safety has become more of a | | | | supplies doesn't even make sense because most of it |
| concern for people from all around the world. This is | | | | comes from the lead pipes, solder joints, and fixtures |
| all with great reason too. In our society today, we | | | | found in home plumbing systems- which about |
| have created and developed more than 80,000 | | | | 98& of homes have. |
| different synthetic chemicals that are used from the | | | | The newest discovery concerning drinking water |
| agricultural and industrial sectors to individual use at | | | | safety is the finding of prescription drugs in tap |
| home. With agricultural runoff, pollution, floods, and | | | | water. Traces of antibiotics, birth control drugs, |
| other natural occurrences, all of these chemicals | | | | anti-depressants, and even caffeine have been found |
| (whether in trace or high concentrations) eventually | | | | in samples across the U.S. Take any of these? As |
| end up in our drinking water. | | | | they pass through and out of your body, they |
| What's worse is that many of these synthetic | | | | eventually end up in recycled waste water and then |
| chemicals can cause cancer. Before we started using | | | | drinking water. And out extremely out-of-date |
| all these chemicals and chlorine to disinfect water | | | | treatment plants are not designed to get rid of these |
| supplies, the average person had a 1 in 50 chance of | | | | drugs. |
| coming down with cancer. Today, 1 in every 3 people | | | | Fortunately though, unlike what is ultimately released |
| will have some sort of cancer throughout their life (1 | | | | into our environment and what is used in the |
| in every 2 males). | | | | processing and growing of our foods, drinking water |
| This drop in drinking water safety happened just two | | | | safety is something we CAN control. How? By |
| decades after we started using all these different | | | | investing in home water filtration systems. |
| synthetic chemicals and adding chlorine to our water | | | | Home purification systems don't have to be |
| supplies for disinfection. In fact, people who drink | | | | super-expensive either. In fact, I spend less on home |
| water with chlorine in it have a 93% more chance of | | | | filtration now than I did on bottled water in the past. |
| having cancer. In my opinion, once I heard drinking | | | | All I did was install point-of-use filters on my kitchen |
| water safety and cancer in the same sentence, I | | | | faucet and showers, and I provide me and my family |
| decided that tap water wasn't for me and my family. | | | | with safe, healthy and pure water for less than 9 |
| The other major threat that's in most tap water is | | | | cents a gallon! |