| Using water purification at home is probably the best | | | | A long time ago, it was decided that chlorine was to |
| thing you can do to improve the quality and longevity | | | | be used to disinfect all public water supplies and kill |
| of your life. Drinking pure, healthy water is important | | | | most of the bacteria and parasites in it. Even though |
| on so many levels, and it's used in virtually every | | | | chlorine can be harmful to your health, it was a trade |
| function of the body. More importantly, a water | | | | off that seemed logical. But then just two decades |
| purification system at home will filter out all the | | | | after this decision was made, the present prevalence |
| harmful chemicals, cysts, chlorine, lead, and other | | | | of cancer and heart trouble began. |
| contaminants that end up in every glass of water | | | | It's not been found that people who drink water with |
| you drink. | | | | chlorine in it for long periods of time have a 93% |
| Thanks to agricultural and lawn runoff, pollution, | | | | higher chance of having cancer at some point in their |
| sewage leakage, floods, and other natural | | | | life. Before we started heavily using chlorine and |
| catastrophes, virtually every kind of chemical and | | | | synthetic chemicals, people had a 1 in 50 chance of |
| substance we poor down our drains or use in our | | | | having cancer. Now, 1 out of 3 people are expected |
| society eventually ends up in our public water supply. | | | | to have cancer sometime in their life. |
| Today, we have created and use over 80,000 | | | | I could go on and on about all the contaminants |
| different synthetic chemicals. And on average, we | | | | found in tap water and the dangers they pose on |
| create about 1,000 more each and every year. | | | | society. But the point I'm trying to make is this: Since |
| It's also estimated that over 98% of all homes in the | | | | we cannot control what's being released into the air |
| U.S. have plumbing systems that contain lead in their | | | | we breath, or what's being used to grow and |
| pipes, fixtures, and soldering joints. This is a big | | | | produce the food we eat, doesn't it just make sense |
| reason why lead is the number one environmental | | | | that we take control over what's in our tap water? |
| threat to our children. Its even come to the point | | | | Especially when it's as easy as taking part in water |
| where there are traces of prescription drugs | | | | purification at home! |
| (antibiotics, anti-depressants, birth control drugs, etc.) | | | | Be aware though that not all water purification |
| in our tap water supplies now! | | | | systems are created equal. Although most of them |
| If that's not enough to convince you that water | | | | are marketed as state-of-the-art systems, they |
| purification at home is a necessity, this very well will... | | | | really aren't at all. |