Is Your Drinking Water Clean? No It Isn't.

By Peter Abertoning

An extremely important factor for your health is you diet, and this includes what you drink. A vital factor in your health is the cleanliness of the water you drink, and most Americans aren't drinking clean drinking water if it comes from the tap.

There's no doubt that clean drinking water is essential for optimum health. Right now there are huge problems in Zimbabwe caused by contaminated drinking water. Cholera. And there's many other diseases and other things that can contaminate our water, and it's essential to our health that we are drinking clean water.

There is no cholera in the US, but that doesn't mean that our drinking water supplies are clean. In fact there are hundreds of different contaminants that can be found in our drinking water, and although they won't kill us fast like cholera will they are still damaging to our health over time.

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.

That's lead. In our drinking water. How could there possibly be lead in our water when we're supposed to have world leading clean water supplies?

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 says that there is no level of lead in water that is safe, especially to children.

And it starts with lead, but there are hundreds (some estimate thousands) of other contaminants that can be found in our water. We certainly aren't drinking clean water.

So what do you do to make sure that you and your family have clean water to drink? How do you get the purest drinking water possible? Should you buy bottled water, for instance?

The FDA says that "Companies that market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public." That's because there is simply no government regulation requiring bottled water to be safer than tap water. And studies have even shown that some bottled water is just tap water. And you pay more for bottled water, for the same quantity, than you do for gas.

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 bottled water isn't the answer to clean drinking water what do you do if the thought of drinking lead and countless other contaminants repulses you? You find a good water filter to use. A water filter is much cheaper and more environmentally friendly than bottled water and produces water to extremely high standards of cleanliness. A high quality water filter will filter the lead out, along with the other contaminants, including chlorine, that you find in your tap water.

How can you be sure? Because the best drinking water filters are tested to rigorous standards by independent bodies that make sure that the results that are claimed are actually achieved. If you look at the data for the best water filters you can see every contaminant listed, and before filtering and after filtering levels stated. The best drinking water filters are achieving filtering levels above 97% for just about all serious contaminants, including some you've probably never heard of.

One example for you. There is bromochloroacentontrile in our water. What is it? What does it do to you? Have you even heard of it? It doesn't matter at all if you use the best water filters money can buy, because 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. - 31376

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