The 5 Biggest Health Risks Found In Drinking Water

According to the Mayo Clinic the average person in made up of 60% water, and needs to consume 2 liters, or just over 8 glasses of water to stay healthy. Every system in your body is dependent on water - the problem is that most people are not nourishing their body with clean, safe drinking water. If you’re not using a quality home water filtration system here’s what could be lurking in your drinking water.

• Human Feces
• Chlorine
• Rust & Sediment
• Prescription Drugs
• Chemicals / Farm Run Off / Corporate Waste

Feces

Right now many areas are pushing to introduce “recycled water” into the public drinking supply. That might sound harmless until you learn that “recycled water” is the waste that gets flushed down the toilet. The methods in place to separate the water from the human excrement include the use of chemical disinfectants. In parts of Southern California alone around 5 million people drink from regional aquifers partly recharged with treated waste water.

By comparison, drinking water laced with human feces is a small health risk compared to the more serious chemicals, and toxic substances found in your public water supplies listed below.

Chlorine

Chlorine is used by municipal water systems to remove microorganisms from water. There’s only one problem, chlorine is poison! While it’s safer than having pathogenic organisms in the water, it isn’t truly a safe ingredient in your water. The National Cancer Institute believes that those of us who consume chlorinated water have a 93% increased risk of many cancers, in part because it combines naturally with organic matter in water to make trihalomethanes—molecules that contribute to the formation of cancer.

Rust & Sediment

Even if your local water treatment facility did manage to remove 100% of all contaminants from your drinking water (which is highly unlikely) you could still be at risk. If you were to go down into your basement, remove one of your water pipes, and look inside, you would likely find rust, lead, and other sediment built up on the inside of your water pipes. There’s also the potential for contamination coming from the pipes that bring the water from it’s source into your home, which you have no control over.

Prescription Drugs

Reported in the January 30, 2007 issue of the LA Times, there’s a new threat facing every water supply in the developed regions of the world. Prescription Drugs are now being detected in our water supplies. After being ingested, excreted, and flushed down the drain these drugs are not being filtered out by water treatment facilities. What that means is you could be getting a small dose of 1000’s of different drugs including, Prozac, Valium, uppers, downers, steroids, and all the other drugs you see stacked up behind the counter of your local pharmacy with every glass of water you drink.

The thought is frightening. What’s worse is that there are no government standards restricting any of these drugs from being in your drinking water!

Chemicals / Run Off / Corporate waste

It’s almost universally agreed upon that big corporations really don’t care much about anything except making a profit, and nothing hurts profits more than following environmental guide lines. The problem is that the fines these corporations face for not properly disposing of waste (assuming they get caught) are not enough of a deterrent to keep them from doing it.

In 1978 a massive oil spill leaked 17 million gallons of oil into the ground beneath a Brooklyn New York Neighborhood Despite residents reporting a disproportionate amount of people being diagnosed with cancer, and even filing a class action lawsuit against the Big oil companies responsible, the oil still has not been fully cleaned up.

What You Can Do To Make Sure Your Drinking Water Is Safe

It’s almost impossible to remove 100% of every possible type of contamination from city water, but by using a home water filtration system you can greatly improve upon the quality of the water you consume. You have to be careful when selecting a water filter for your home. Many of the water filters being sold are relatively ineffective, and overpriced. After researching www.WaterFilterResearch.com found that Aquasana water filters provide consumers with high quality drinking water, and cost much less than comparable units.