| Our drinking water isn't safe. I'm not talking about | | | | However if you've got to the stage of researching |
| Zimbabwe here, where people are dying of cholera | | | | the various options for filtering or purifying your |
| from drinking dangerous contaminated drinking water, | | | | drinking water you may have found that selecting a |
| I'm talking about the US. Contaminated drinking water | | | | good water purification method, or water filtration |
| is why so many people are now turning to modern | | | | method, isn't as easy as it may seem. |
| water purification technology to ensure that they are | | | | Do you wish to go for a reverse osmosis water |
| drinking safe clean water. | | | | purification system? Maybe a sand filtered water |
| Are you surprised that our water isn't safe to drink? | | | | filtration system. How about a charcoal water filter or |
| If you are then you may also be surprised to learn | | | | a carbon water filter, or a ceramic water filter. |
| that our municipal water supplies are contaminated by | | | | Perhaps an ultraviolet filter or a magnetic filter, or |
| up to 2100 chemicals according to the Ralph Nader | | | | why not an ionizing water filter? |
| Research Institute. And up to 11 weed killers | | | | Or maybe you could just buy bottled water, despite |
| according to a study by the Environmental Working | | | | the fact that the evidence is that bottled water is no |
| Group. Or how about lead? Or how about chemicals | | | | safer than tap water. Millions do drink bottled water. |
| "known to cause cancer"? Or how about hormones | | | | Perhaps drink distilled water with all the good minerals |
| from various drugs that some of us take day to | | | | removed? |
| day? | | | | And do you need a whole house water filter, or |
| Sorry, am I scaring you? If not I should be, it's clear | | | | perhaps a faucet water filter? |
| that our water is contaminated, and that we drink | | | | Confusing isn't it? There's so many different water |
| this contaminated water daily if we drink regular tap | | | | purification technologies available that the consumer |
| water. It might not kill us from cholera as is | | | | can be spoiled for choice. And at the end of the day |
| happening in Zimbabwe right now, but it might | | | | all the consumer needs is the best water filter, |
| contribute to a slow decline by disease that afflicts | | | | however the filtration is achieved. |
| so many in our society right now. No one knows, but | | | | The good news is that it's perfectly possible to |
| I for one use modern water purification technology | | | | compare water filters. There are labs which can test |
| because I don't want to take any risks with my | | | | different water purification technologies for each |
| health. | | | | individual contaminant, and tell us how much of each |
| There's ample evidence about lead in our water, and | | | | contaminant is removed. So if you're worried about |
| the EPA has stated that lead in drinking water is the | | | | lead you can find out how well different water filters |
| number one environmental health threat to the health | | | | remove lead. |
| of our children. Lead is of course a heavy metal, and | | | | Good filters should remove over 97% of most |
| there are other heavy metals in our drinking water as | | | | contaminants. |
| well. | | | | So if you're worried about the quality of your drinking |
| So if this really is scaring you and you're beginning to | | | | water and you're thinking of using a modern water |
| worry about the safety of the water that you and | | | | purification you aren't alone. And there are ways to |
| your children may be drinking, you're not alone. Water | | | | compare both the efficiency of water purification |
| purification technology has come a long way over the | | | | technologies and the cost. |
| last decade, and there is a rush to using water filters | | | | And surprisingly it isn't the most expensive water |
| and water purification so that people can be | | | | filter that's the best. |
| confident that they are drinking pure water. | | | | |