Friday, February 27, 2009

Are You Drinking Clean Water? Not If You're Drinking Tap Water.

By Peter Abertoning

One of the most important factors in the health of any person is their diet, and diet includes water. Despite the fact that you ought to be drinking clean drinking water the majority of Americans aren't.

Clean drinking water is essential for good health. Right now you may be reading about the Cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe. Cholera and many other diseases can be spread by contaminated drinking water, and it's essential that we drink the purest water to protect our health.

We're lucky in the US, we don't have to combat cholera. But Cholera isn't the only contaminant that can be found in our water, there are hundreds or even thousands of contaminants that are routinely in our water, and no effort is made to remove them.

Think about this. Lead is dangerous to us if we ingest it. Most people are aware of this. The EPA itself has stated that lead in our drinking water is the number one environmental health problem for our childrens health. Even low levels of lead in water can lead to developmental problems for children including learning difficulties and behavioral problems and more.

Is that possible? We're drinking water with lead in it? Isn't our water supposed to be clean?

There is a real problem with lead in our drinking water. How does the lead get into our water? Often right there in our house, because around 98% of household plumbing has lead in it around the joints where there is solder.

The EPA recognises that there is no safe level of lead in our water, that any exposure to lead is dangerous, especially to children.

And lead is just the start of the contaminants that we find in our drinking water that means that clean drinking water is just a dream.

So what is there that you can do to protect yourself and your family from drinking contaminated water? How do you make sure you're drinking clean water? How about bottled water?

And none other than the FDA has said "Companies that market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public." The reason is that the government doesn't set any standards for bottled water, so there is no requirement that bottled water be any better than tap water. Some bottled water is tap water put into a bottle, at a staggering price. Bottled water is a con.

And it takes oil to make bottled water, and for other reasons bottled water is an environmental disaster. All those bottles go into landfill.

So if you're worried about drinking lead, or perhaps drugs, or chlorine, or heavy metals or pesticides or herbicides or any other of the hundreds of contaminants that can be found in our water, what do you do? Bottled water is out. But there are excellent water filters and whole house water purification systems that are stunningly effective at filtering out just about all contaminants that can be found in your water. The best water filters filter 99.99% of chlorine for instance.

How can you tell if a water filter is the best? It's perfectly possible to test for how well a water filter works and independent tests are done on water filters, so you can check and compare one to another. And the very best drinking water filters should filter out over about 98% of contaminants in our water, including some you've probably never heard about.

Here's an example. Did you know there was bromochloroacentontrile in your tap water? Never heard of it? What in the world is it? How dangerous is it? It doesn't matter if you use the best water filter you know that over 97% of it is gone.

So if this article is beginning to open your eyes to the risks of drinking unfiltered tap water and bottled water you aren't alone. You have a right to be drinking clean water but you aren't. The way to make sure you are is to get the best drinking water filters it's possible to get and use it to make sure you're drinking clean drinking water.

And you'd be forgiven for assuming that the best drinking water filter was the most expensive, but it's not. Find out more about drinking water filters at my website. - 15634

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