| It seems sometimes as though not enough | | | | be done in order to slow the death toll caused by |
| people are paying attention to the reports of the | | | | these microbes. |
| hazardous ingredients in tap water. Even if you | | | | Chlorine was the chemical of choice for removing |
| don't think that there is a problem with the | | | | the microbial ingredients in tap water, but what |
| content of your water you would be wise to | | | | was not realized at the time was that its use |
| heed the warnings that the health officials are | | | | would come back to haunt us. The cancer rate at |
| giving you. The water in our reservoir system is | | | | the time that chlorine was introduced to the |
| simply not fit for us to drink. | | | | water supply was one in every fifty people. Over |
| There are literally tens of thousands of pages of | | | | the last 100 years that number has climbed to an |
| reports that state that there are any number of | | | | alarming one in every 2.5 people. |
| the 80,000 or so chemical agents which are used | | | | There are many scientists, and medical |
| in this country every day in our reservoirs at any | | | | professionals that now believe that despite the |
| given time. None of these chemical contaminants | | | | large number of other carcinogens that are |
| are healthy for us to ingest, but some are far | | | | present in our water, chlorine is almost solely |
| worse than others. Do you have any idea how | | | | responsible for the meteoric rise in the cancer |
| many of the identified chemicals in our water | | | | rate. You need to take steps in order to ensure |
| supply are carcinogenic? | | | | that this and other hazardous chemicals are kept |
| Of all of the harmful ingredients in tap water | | | | out of the hands of your family. |
| there are roughly 2,100 of them that are known | | | | To stave off the toxic ingredients in tap water |
| to cause cancer in humans. Of these chemicals, | | | | you will be required to purchase, and install a |
| the worst offender is perhaps the one that we | | | | home water purification system that utilizes all of |
| have depended on for more than a century to | | | | the filters that you need to be safe. Your system |
| protect us from the ills in our water. Chlorine is | | | | requires the use of an activated granular carbon |
| the only carcinogen in our water that we are | | | | filter, a multi media block, a sub micron filter, and |
| guaranteed to ingest every single time that we | | | | an ion exchange. A system featuring this four |
| take a drink. | | | | pronged protective package can be had for as |
| Chlorine disinfection was introduced during the late | | | | low as $125. |
| 19th century as a way of eliminating the danger | | | | You need to take the harmful ingredients in tap |
| that is posed by the large number of waterborne | | | | water very seriously, because if you don't then |
| diseases that we faced. People were dying in | | | | the health of your family could suffer for your |
| record numbers due to the bacteria, and parasites | | | | inaction. |
| that were present in our water. Something had to | | | | |