Are You Ill From Your Drinking Water?
10 Sep 2009Have 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 they use these terms? The reason for this is nearly all tap water is very contaminated with cesspool levels of heavy metals, nasty viruses, germs, and embalming fluid. Check out the list below to see what is commonly found in the majority of municipal drinking water.
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 study that was recently published in the Journal of American Public Health estimated that 40% of the gastrointestinal diseases in homes are picked up via the water that is delivered from the faucet at the kitchen sink.
What can be done, you might ask?
That is definitely a valid question. There are a variety of methods that can be used to purify water today. Many of these methods have a variety of 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!
Lately, reverse osmosis filtration has become very popular. It is a very powerful method of cleansing water in its own right. While it effectively removes almost every contaminant from the water, including the very elusive and ubiquitous fluoride, it also removes the beneficial alkaline minerals. The removal of the alkaline minerals will often result in a depletion of mineral salts.
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.
Then there are ionizing machines, and these are excellent in many respects, doing almost everything that leads to good healthy water – apart from removing the dreaded fluoride! These units remove all acidic constituents, whilst delivering alkaline water deep within the body’s tissues. A good choice, but again, what are your preferences?
It often comes down to a compromise of a number of variables to have healthy, clean, and pure drinking water. By far the best option would be to install a small tank to collect water from the roof of your house and the run it through a quality alkalizing machine. Even a good dual stage carbon filter would work.
It ends up being nothing more than a personal preference. Remember, if you are able to keep the fluoride out of your mouth, you’re doing better that many others.
To good health!
