Drinking Water Safety - Don"t Be Tricked Into Thinking Your Drinking Water is Safe
Concerned about drinking water safety?Everyone should be concerned about what is flowing out of their drinking water faucets.
When it comes to drinking water safety, we are lucky in many ways.
As a society, we have the technology to protect the general public from waterborne illnesses.
As individual homeowners, we have the ability to protect ourselves from the long term health risks associated with trace contaminants.
All that anyone has to do is install filtration systems on their drinking water faucets.
Just yesterday, I was reading about how citizens of Minneapolis are concerned about their drinking water safety.
Their water comes from the Mississippi River and apparently the taste and smell varies with the season.
Residents describe the taste and odor as "funky", right now.
But, city officials assure them that there is nothing harmful coming out of their drinking water faucets.
That may be so, but why would anyone put up with the "funky" taste and odor.
Point-of-use or in-home systems are easy to install and relatively inexpensive.
I know that a lot of people drink bottled waters, because they think it is safer and usually it tastes better.
But, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, there is no guarantee of bottled drinking water safety or purity.
The industry is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
They are not required to provide anything safer than regular tap-water.
In fact, some of the standards are even lower than what public treatment facilities must meet.
And, if they bottle and sell within the same state, no testing is required.
So, in effect, it could be exactly the same as what comes out of your home's drinking water faucets.
If you have a high quality filter on your tap, then your tap-water will be safer and taste better than anything that comes from a plastic bottle.
While it sits in the plastic, the waters absorb chemicals that affect the taste and odor.
Some of those chemicals, BPA for example, are health hazards.
That's why you are starting to see plastic containers on the market that are labeled "BPA Free".
The best choice, for many reasons, is to buy an effective system and bottle your own at home in glass containers.
From a strictly financial standpoint, buying bottles and bottles of water at the grocery store every week is expensive.
A family of four will go through a case every other day.
So, in a week, you will spend about $20.
If on the other hand you install a filtration system on your home's drinking water faucets, an equivalent amount of for a week would cost about $1.
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The best system, in my opinion, costs $125, so in less than two months, it has paid for itself.
From a health standpoint, the best systems will remove chlorine and its cancer causing by-products.
Don't believe they cause cancer?Then why are governments around the world currently assessing the medical costs associated with cancers caused by THM exposure.
Look up "trihalomethanes" on PUB MED, you'll see.
When it comes to drinking water safety, we are lucky in many ways.
As a society, we have the technology to protect the general public from waterborne illnesses.
As individual homeowners, we have the ability to protect ourselves from the long term health risks associated with trace contaminants.
All that anyone has to do is install filtration systems on their drinking water faucets.
Just yesterday, I was reading about how citizens of Minneapolis are concerned about their drinking water safety.
Their water comes from the Mississippi River and apparently the taste and smell varies with the season.
Residents describe the taste and odor as "funky", right now.
But, city officials assure them that there is nothing harmful coming out of their drinking water faucets.
That may be so, but why would anyone put up with the "funky" taste and odor.
Point-of-use or in-home systems are easy to install and relatively inexpensive.
I know that a lot of people drink bottled waters, because they think it is safer and usually it tastes better.
But, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, there is no guarantee of bottled drinking water safety or purity.
The industry is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
They are not required to provide anything safer than regular tap-water.
In fact, some of the standards are even lower than what public treatment facilities must meet.
And, if they bottle and sell within the same state, no testing is required.
So, in effect, it could be exactly the same as what comes out of your home's drinking water faucets.
If you have a high quality filter on your tap, then your tap-water will be safer and taste better than anything that comes from a plastic bottle.
While it sits in the plastic, the waters absorb chemicals that affect the taste and odor.
Some of those chemicals, BPA for example, are health hazards.
That's why you are starting to see plastic containers on the market that are labeled "BPA Free".
The best choice, for many reasons, is to buy an effective system and bottle your own at home in glass containers.
From a strictly financial standpoint, buying bottles and bottles of water at the grocery store every week is expensive.
A family of four will go through a case every other day.
So, in a week, you will spend about $20.
If on the other hand you install a filtration system on your home's drinking water faucets, an equivalent amount of for a week would cost about $1.
26.
The best system, in my opinion, costs $125, so in less than two months, it has paid for itself.
From a health standpoint, the best systems will remove chlorine and its cancer causing by-products.
Don't believe they cause cancer?Then why are governments around the world currently assessing the medical costs associated with cancers caused by THM exposure.
Look up "trihalomethanes" on PUB MED, you'll see.
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