| The need to have water purification equipment | | | | these carcinogens doesn't have anything to do with |
| installed in every home has never been greater, as | | | | it. |
| the condition of our water supply just gets worse | | | | Disinfection chemicals have probably had help in |
| and worse. Ever since the beginning of the industrial | | | | causing the cancer rate to rise to where it is today, |
| revolution we have been feeding our rivers, lakes, | | | | because there are more than 2,000 other |
| and streams a steady and ever growing diet of | | | | carcinogenic substances present in our water as well. |
| toxins. With roughly 80,000 industrial chemicals in use | | | | Even if these chemicals are present only in small |
| today the problem is only going to keep getting | | | | traces, two or more chemicals intermingling raise each |
| worse. | | | | others potency exponentially. I would personally |
| Faulty containment systems, improper handling and | | | | advise home water purification equipment as a |
| disposal, septic tank leakage, and farm runoff are the | | | | cancer preventative. |
| main contributors to the pollution in our reservoir | | | | What most people don't realize is that our potentially |
| system. | | | | harmful chemical disinfectants do not remove all of |
| Pharmaceutical companies have added to the pollution | | | | the biological contaminants from our drinking water. |
| of our water supply by recommending that out of | | | | There are chemical resistant types of parasites |
| date pharmaceuticals be disposed of by flushing them | | | | referred to as cysts, and the presence of these |
| down the toilet. We even disinfect our water with a | | | | parasites puts you at risk of disease. Toxic heavy |
| substance used as a chemical weapon back in World | | | | metals in the water also pose a threat to your |
| War I. | | | | health, and measures should be taken to keep from |
| The reason that we began adding chlorine to the | | | | ingesting them as well. |
| water processed by municipal water purification | | | | The only way that you can be reasonably sure that |
| equipment was that the equipment itself was | | | | your family is safe from the effects of the |
| incapable of straining out microscopic parasites and | | | | chemicals, pharmaceuticals, microbes, and toxic |
| bacteria. Waterborne diseases were running rampant | | | | metals in our water is home water purification |
| at the time, and chlorine was found to be the most | | | | equipment. A simple tap water purifier featuring |
| effective method of reducing the incidence of | | | | activated granular carbon, sub micron technology, and |
| disease. There is a dark side to using chlorine and | | | | ion exchange will significantly reduce your risk. This |
| chloramines to disinfect our water however. | | | | trio of filters can reduce contamination in your water |
| It is a known fact that chlorine and chloramines are | | | | by up to 99.99%. |
| carcinogenic, but it has been argued that because | | | | The purchase and installation of home water |
| they dissipate in the water that they are relatively | | | | purification equipment is one of the smartest moves |
| harmless to humans. Evidence has shown that since | | | | you can make. Your water will be safer for you to |
| the introduction of chemical disinfection the rate of | | | | drink, and it will taste better as well. There is no |
| cancer has skyrocketed in every industrialized nation. | | | | downside to tap water purification. |
| It is sincerely doubtful that the daily ingestion of | | | | |