Is the Water You Drink Making You Ill?

Have you ever wondered in the tap water in your kitchen could be making you ill? This idea is really not as far fetched as one might think? It’s really hard to tell with water since most of the municipal water looks the same, and unless further investigation is done you may never be sure of what lurks in this clear liquid.

It’s really not that difficult to find out what’s in your tap water. The information is freely available to the public and this article is merely a brief summary of this information. Research scientists no longer use the term “pure” when classifying drinking water. They classify the levels of contamination as either “acceptable” or unacceptable”.

Do you know why the terminology has changed? It’s because virtually ever bit of the tap water is heavily contaminated and contains cesspool levels of germs, nasty viruses, heavy metals, and embalming fluid. Below you will find a breakdown of the contaminants that are commonly found in municipal water supplies.

There are literally millions of kilos of chemicals dumped into our drinking water supplies each year, and this is only counting the 650 chemicals registered by the EPA listed as being toxic and deleterious to our health. This is not counting the “safe chemicals” that are also dumped in there for good measure.

Heavy metals, such as lead, arsenic and even high levels of mercury are found in many samples taken across the USA. Much of the time it doesn’t even matter if you by bottled water, as much of this is actually municipal water rebottled and then sold to us at a huge mark up!

Infectious diseases – A recent study has been published in the Journal of American Public Health estimates that 40% of all the gastrointestinal diseases in homes are picked up through the water delivered via their kitchen sink faucet!

What to do, you may ask?

Well, that’s a good question. There are many different methods of purifying water available in these modern times, but many of them have both pros and cons.

For example, carbon filtration is excellent for most contaminants across the board, and leaves the water tasting fresh and sweet. Unfortunately, this method of filtration fails to remove fluoride and some smaller viral contaminants. But for the most part, these are an excellent choice, as they are cheap, remove many of the organic volatiles, and virtually take out all of the chlorine – so no smell!

Another method that is growing in popularity is reverse osmosis filtration. This is a very powerful method of water purification. While it effectively removes nearly all contaminants from the water, including fluoride, it also removes some of the beneficial alkaline minerals. This can result in a depletion of mineral salts which are very important.

Distillation, another cleansing method that cleans virtually every contaminant, works in almost the same way as the reverse osmosis systems do. These systems work and work well, but in the long run, can lead to mineral depletion.

Ionizing machines are excellent in many respects. They do nearly everything that will lead to good clean water, with the exception of removing fluoride. These systems effectively remove all of the acidic constituents while delivering alkaline water deep into the tissues of the body. This is a good choice depending on your preferences.

Clean, healthy, pure drinking water comes down to a compromise taking in a number of considerations – the best option at the end of the day is to install a small tank and collect water directly from your roof, and then running it through a good quality alkalizing machine – or even a decent dual stage carbon filter will suffice.

At the end of the day, it’s a personal preference – but if you can keep the fluoride away from your mouth, you are doing better than most!

To better health!

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