| Nature plays a role when it comes to toxins like | | | | The use of chlorine and other carcinogenic |
| mercury and other heavy metals, but humans are | | | | chloramines is necessary for reducing the danger |
| among the major causes of water pollution. We | | | | posed by the biological causes of water pollution. |
| have always treated the planet with a certain | | | | Parasites, cysts, and bacteria in our water have |
| level of disregard, as if we simply thought that | | | | long been the cause of widespread illness and |
| nothing we could do would be of any | | | | death from waterborne diseases. Chlorine |
| consequence. Now though, the way we have | | | | disinfection has kept millions of people alive who |
| treated our environment is coming back to haunt | | | | otherwise would have succumbed to these |
| us. | | | | diseases at some point. |
| Since the beginning of the industrial revolution we | | | | Chlorine has also claimed the lives of millions as |
| have unleashed 80,000 chemical agents into the | | | | one of the major causes of cancer, with the |
| environment, and now traces of these chemical | | | | cancer rate rising from 1:50 at the inception of |
| agents reside in our drinking water reservoirs. You | | | | chemical disinfection to 1:2.5 today. There are |
| may think that such miniscule amounts of these | | | | more than 2,000 other carcinogenic chemicals that |
| toxins cannot do you any real harm, but the truth | | | | are present in our drinking water as well, and we |
| is that even chemical traces can be detrimental to | | | | simply cannot continue ingesting these chemicals |
| your health over a long enough time line. | | | | and expecting not to get sick. |
| The manmade causes of water pollution are a | | | | In order for your family to be shielded from the |
| threat even in small doses simply because there is | | | | danger posed by all of the various causes of |
| typically more than one chemical agent at a time | | | | water pollution, you need to install a home drinking |
| in your water. It is a proven fact that when two | | | | water purification system as soon as possible. A |
| or more chemicals agents come into contact with | | | | high quality countertop water filter will only run |
| one another, the potency of each rises | | | | you about $125, but it will provide you with the |
| exponentially. This means that you are getting a | | | | protection of an activated granular carbon filter, a |
| far higher dose of each agent than you think you | | | | multi media block, an ion exchange, and a sub |
| are. | | | | micron filter. This is everything you need to keep |
| Some studies have concluded that you may be | | | | extremely harmful contaminants out of your |
| ingesting anywhere from five to nine chemical | | | | home. |
| agents in every glass of water that you drink. | | | | With 99% of the causes of water pollution being |
| You are definitely getting at least one chemical | | | | eliminated from your drinking water by using the |
| with every sip you take, and it is the carcinogen | | | | correct water filter, you can rest assured that |
| many feel is responsible for the incredible rise in | | | | you are doing your very best to preserve the |
| the cancer rate. Chlorine is meant to protect us, | | | | health of your family. |
| but it is taking a tremendous toll on our health. | | | | |