They Spilled Hazardous Chemicals and Didn’t Tell Anyone for FIVE MONTHS! On March 17th, 2023, ABC News reported that a cleanup was underway for 400,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked from Xcel Energy, a nuclear power plant in Monticello, Minnesota. However, the leak happened in November of 2022, and the people in the surrounding communities weren’t notified until March 2023, a full five months later! An Xcel Energy spokesman said
Your Water Filter Isn’t Enough According to a survey conducted by the Water Quality Association in 2019, approximately 77% of American households use some form of water treatment or filtration, including filtering their tap water. But the most common form of water filtration is activated carbon, which is ineffective in removing the most dangerous contaminants. Which Water Category Do You Fall In? When it comes to drinking water, most Americans
What is a Heavy Metal? The technical definition of a heavy metal is a metallic element that’s dense. These elements include lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, chromium, nickel, and more. All of these heavy metals occur naturally and get introduced into our drinking water through processes such as volcanic explosions and the erosion of rocks. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) sets national standards for drinking water quality and establishes maximum
A major group of industrial water contaminants are known as PCBs. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, are a group of chemicals that were widely used in industrial and commercial applications until they were banned in the 1970s due to concerns about their toxic effects on human health and the environment. That was back when the EPA still had some teeth! PCBs were popular because they were slick, durable, and heat
Earlier this year, we wrote about the $698 million dollar judgment against Monsanto for poisoning Oregon water with glyphosate. This article got a strong response from many of our customers so we did some more digging. Here is what we found: The Deadly Legacy of Monsanto Monsanto, now owned by Bayer AG, manufactures a chemical called glyphosate, which is a broad-spectrum herbicide that many people and businesses use to control
Feeling Too Old is Not Normal Did you know that sometimes our chronological age does not match our biological age? Sometimes our bodies are older than our number of years alive. This happens when we don’t take care of ourselves and our bodies break down faster than they should. In a new report released by the National Institute of Health, they discovered that drinking enough water will help us age
Nuclear and Rocket Testing, Mining Operations and More Threaten Our Water A recent report has concluded that radioactive contaminants are getting into drinking water all across the United States. At least 70% of Americans are exposed on a daily bases, that’s 170 million people! If you don’t have a multi-stage water filter or a water ionizer, now is the time to seriously consider getting one. Toxic Spills Leach Into Our
PCBs Are Forever Chemicals Roundup and Other Popular Products Contain PCBs If you have ever used Roundup to kill weeds in your yard, you were contributing to a massive problem and may not have known it. Roundup contains forever chemicals known as PCBs. They call them forever chemicals because they will never break down. Once they get inside our air or water, they will always be there causing damage to
Carbonated Beverages Attack Our Bodies with Oxidation If someone offers you a bit of the bubbly this holiday season, you may want to say no. We all know that drinking alcohol is bad for us for obvious reasons. But many don’t consider that carbonation can cause health problems as well. Meanwhile, alkaline ionized water gives our bodies exactly what they need to perform at optimal levels. Here’s why. Carbonation Attacks
Cold Weather Increases Nitrogen and Sodium Chloride in our Drinking Water One question that has come up in the last couple of weeks is how does winter affect drinking water quality? Winter affects water quality in two ways. One is that it increases the amount of sodium chloride in our water. Sodium chloride is what is used to salt the roads to keep them free from Ice. The second effect
