Here’s a thought: the tap water you drink could be making you ill. Recent research has shown that an estimated 19 million Americans could be getting sick each year from chemicals, bacteria and parasites found in our drinking water.
No wonder millions of people are switching over to an alkaline water system given this shocking revelation. Certainly, if you knew just how inadequate current water treatments are and what actually gets through this basic treatment process and is delivered to our home taps, you’d be considering alternatives too.
The Safe Drinking Water Act, passed in 1974, granted the EPA the authority to regulate contaminants that may affect our health. The EPA regulates only 91 contaminants that could pollute our waters and if that doesn’t sound shockingly inadequate to you, consider that there are 60,000 types of chemicals that are used in the country today! So that means that if any of those tens of thousands of unregulated chemicals gets into our water supply, The Safe Drinking Water act means that no-one bats an eyelid, despite the fact that most of these chemicals are toxic to humans.
If that is no bad enough, in 2009 the New York Times ran a article stating that 20 percent of water treatment plants in the United States have violated the measly EPA ‘standards’ set for safe drinking water. This means that since 2004, almost 50 million people have consumed unsafe drinking water. “It’s not uncommon for people to drink tap water laced with 20 or 30 chemical contaminants.” said Jane Houlihan, senior research director for the Environmental Working Group. “This water may be legal but it raises serious health concerns.” Who knows just what you’ll find in your own tap water.
We regularly check the back of food items that we are going to be eating to see what they contain and whether it is healthy for us to consume. We should do the same for our tap water. Unfortunately, what we are likely to find doesn’t make pleasant reading. Here’s some of the common contaminants found in drinking water from a non-alkaline-water-system:
Lead – Extremely poisonous and dangerous to young children and pregnant mothers in particular, lead gets into our water supply from the use of old pipes. Some companies even add lead to the water as a sterilizer.
Chlorine – Another thing that is used to sterilize drinking water is chlorine. Too much of this chemical can cause cancer, recent studies have shown.
Other common pollutants: arsenic, bacteria, hormones, prescription drugs.
All stuff that you don’t want to be putting inside of you regularly, and which you can avoid entirely with a good alkaline water system for your home.
So it is pretty clear that Government regulations are simply not providing the protection to our drinking water that you’d expect from a developed country. Protection from the chemicals and pollutants that are monitored is not strenuous enough, and you are also vulnerable to a whole host of other potentially dangerous chemicals that aren’t monitored on top.
The best way to avoid drinking potentially polluted water every day is to get a good alkaline water system for your home – a good water ionizer machine can be fitted to your counter-top taps and can deliver to you not only water free from most contaminants through a robust water filter, but water that is also extremely healthy for you at the same time.
A good alkaline water system consists of a water ionizer machine with alkaline water filters. This can deliver antioxidant packed alkaline water straight to your taps which – when consumed over a sustained period – gives tremendous benefits to your well-being. The healing antioxidant water reduces cell damage in your body, and the water is more easily absorbed, helping you flush out the toxins in your tissues.
And that’s exactly the kind of properties you need if you’ve been drinking polluted tap water for too long.
To your health,
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