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[W610]Whats In The Water
by Re Writer, Re
Before you drink another glass of water from your kitchen tap, think about the source of the water. Your local water supply has done its best to purify the water before it came to you, but rules governing water purification can vary. When the local municipality received the water, it would have been full of pesticides and other chemicals, as well as industrial sludge and disease- bearing pathogens. The water that gushes from your kitchen tap started out this way! Even if your water comes from natural sources, you may still want to check the levels of contaminants in it.

Years ago, there was no need to worry about toxins from chemical waste and industrial sludge. The Romans and the Mayans just piped their water overland using aqueducts and that was the municipal water distribution! In more recent history, we too, took our water for granted.

We were understandably proud of the fact that our water was pure and drinkable. While there are regulations in place, these are fallible, and two strong water contaminants (chlorine and fluoride) may be part of the chemical prescription used to purify it.

Nowadays, even in North America, we have heard of injury and deaths due to contaminated water supplies. Water is a large part of our life, accounting for nearly three-quarters of the human body mass. It is an essential part of living as without it, we are dead.

We are told that drinking copious amounts of water may improve our health, but if we continually drink water containing contaminants we could become susceptible to many illnesses, from asthma to Parkinson's disease. Very few of us have ever initiated our own water test, so it would seem that we trust the local government. Yet, the move to bottled water has increased in the last decade and many of us have large quantities of water delivered to our home.

For a while carrying bottled water was 'cool'. Lately, however, certain insights have jaundiced the love affair with bottled water. For instance, one famous company was found to be bottling 'fake' water (taken from a tap!) Recently we were informed of the possibility that the chemicals from the plastic bottle containing our pure bottled water could actually leach into water!

There is one alternative left and that is water that is filtered within your home. These need not necessarily cost huge amounts of money. A whole house filtration system can cost a thousand dollars, but if you consider that you only drink the water from your kitchen tap, then a small attachment at the sink is less than one hundred dollars. Most water filters specify which germs they remove, all of them remove lead and chlorine, and three on the market remove E-coli.

Whichever action you decide to take, either an up to date water test, a kitchen tap filtration system or a whole house filtration unit, your action will help to sell your house more quickly if you can assure a prospective buyer that your home has pure water.


Over the last few years, we have seen many new stories concerning the hazards of tap water.  We have also learned that our reliance on bottled water is damaging the environment.  The solution to both problems is an in home water purifier.

What's in the water'  Drugs, hormones, chlorine, lead, industrial pollutants, chlorine by-products, tiny organisms known as cysts and around 2000 different cancer causing chemicals.  Believe it or not, there is a home purifier water system that can reduce the level of these contaminants by 99.99%.

We are lucky in this country, because we know that drinking our tap water will not usually make us immediately ill.  In order to insure public safety, most treatment facilities use chlorine to "disinfect" the water.  The first job that an in-home water purifier must do is remove chlorine.

Why'  Well, number one, it doesn't taste good.  It doesn't smell good, either.  But, worse is the fact that people with chlorinated water that do not use a home purifier water system have an increased incidence of several different types of cancer, including breast and bladder cancer. 

Actually, it is believed that showering in chlorinated water is worse than drinking it, so "whole" home water purifier systems are become increasingly popular.  The number of available shower head filters is growing, as well.

There is a detectable level of chloroform gas in many homes around the country.  The cause is, you may have guessed it, showering in unfiltered chlorinated water.  When chlorine interacts with biological (living) material, chloroform gas is formed as a by-product.  A shower filter can help, but in order to be 100% safe, you really need a whole home water purifier.

Drugs and hormones are in the water because of the way that we recycle water.  Everything that goes down the drain eventually ends up in the water supply.  So, by using a home purifier water system, you are not only helping yourself, but everyone else. 

If we all used a home water purifier, the quality of untreated tap water would likely improve.  It would take many years to see a difference, of course, but the treatment facilities alone are just not able to tackle the job.

Some companies are advertising RO or reverse osmosis, saying it's the latest technology in water filtration and a good choice for a home purifier water system.  The truth is that RO has been around for fifty years.  The systems deliver de-mineralized water, rather than a "balanced" mineral content.  Ion exchange filters are actually newer technology and they balance the mineral and pH levels.  RO is also very expensive.  The starting price for an RO home water purifier is $10,000.  That's not a typo...ten thousand dollars.

You can get an excellent whole home purifier water system for less than a thousand.  You can get shower filters for around $60 and kitchen units for even less.  Just be sure to check out the product performance data sheet, before you buy.  Make sure that you are getting what you pay for.  Today, everyone needs a home water purifier, but we don't need to pay a fortune.   

Article Source : Health Care In Pa

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