The US is Full of Hard Water Did you know that approximately 85% of the US has hard drinking water? This means it has a high concentration of dissolved minerals, primarily calcium and magnesium. There’s a scale that measures the hardness and softness of water. The amount of dissolved minerals is measured by grains per gallon. It is considered soft water if your water has less than one grain per
You’re Drinking Sex Hormones, Antibiotics, Mood Stabilizers, and More Pharmaceutical drugs in our tap water are a real and growing concern. According to Associate Press, at least 41 million Americans are exposed to these drugs daily! These pharmaceutical drugs include antibiotics, anticonvulsants, mood stabilizers, and sex hormones. To be fair, the concentrations of these drugs are small. They’re measured in parts per billion or trillion which is far below a
Contaminated Drinking Water in More American Homes It’s been a rough few years for rainfall, especially on the West Coast. Terms like “severe drought” and even “mega drought” have been thrown around to describe the dire conditions. The Colorado River, which snakes through the Grand Canyon, might completely dry up. Can you imagine seeing the Grand Canyon without the Colorado River? Then there’s Lake Mead, one of our largest water
