| Have you ever used a water quality test on the | | | | pesticides at levels that present serious health risks. |
| water that comes out of your tap? Do you think it | | | | We estimate that 45,000 infants in these 29 cities |
| would pass the test? Many dangerous chemicals we | | | | drank infant formula reconstituted with tap water |
| use in today's society end up in our water supplies | | | | contaminated with weed killers." |
| from lawn and field run offs, from toxic waste | | | | I personally don't know of any parent who would |
| getting dumped into our rivers and lakes, and scores | | | | knowingly give their infant weed killer to drink, but in |
| of other ways. | | | | these cases the parents trusted the water quality |
| Even our water companies who do their own water | | | | test from their cities and believed they had healthy |
| quality test add chlorine to the water to kill the | | | | water. Unknowingly they were giving their children |
| bacteria. Killing the bacteria is a good thing, but it | | | | poison. |
| needs to be removed from the water before we | | | | Your water company is only required to test for |
| use it. | | | | around 120 toxins in their water, and certain types of |
| Chlorine was made to kill living things and our cells are | | | | weed killer aren't on the list. There are over 2100 |
| one of those things it will kill. Chlorine doesn't know | | | | toxic chemicals in our drinking water supplies that can |
| the difference between the good things and the bad, | | | | cause cancer, and not all 2100 are tested for. |
| so it will just go after all of the living organisms trying | | | | It is cost prohibitive for a city to test for all of them. |
| to destroy them. | | | | So what should we do? |
| So even though the H2O coming out of your faucet | | | | As consumers we need to purchase a home water |
| may have passed the quality test at the water | | | | filter to protect our health against the dangerous |
| company you still aren't getting pure healthy water | | | | substances not tested for. |
| when you turn on the tap. Those contaminates can | | | | We can believe the water quality test the companies |
| destroy your body over time. | | | | report to us, but just because they tell us what toxic |
| The Environmental Working Group Report, "Weed | | | | matter in the water they remove, that doesn't mean |
| Killers by the Glass" states, "Weed killers were found | | | | they have filtered out all the dangerous substances in |
| in tap water of 28 out of 29 cities tested. The | | | | our water supplies. |
| results of these tests reveal widespread | | | | Install a home water filter today. It is the only way |
| contamination of tap water with many different | | | | you can be sure of drinking pure clean healthy water. |