| Mankind has got to take the blame as being the | | | | thousand other carcinogenic agents, and it could in |
| biggest causes of water pollution, and we also | | | | fact be the combination of various chemicals that |
| have to get more serious about preventing the | | | | are causing us to fall ill. |
| damage we have done from affecting our health. | | | | Some people argue that the chemical causes of |
| I know that mercury and other naturally occurring | | | | water pollution cannot be blamed for more of us |
| substances bear part of the blame for the | | | | falling ill, saying that we are only taking in trace |
| toxicity of our water, but these substances pale | | | | amounts of these carcinogens when we drink tap |
| in comparison with the tens of thousands of | | | | water. This thinking is flawed however, for if only |
| poisons that man has allowed enter our water. | | | | traces of two or more chemicals come into |
| The fact is that over the last hundred or so | | | | contact with one another, the two feed off of |
| years, we have put up to 80,000 different | | | | one another and become exponentially more |
| chemical agents into our streams, lakes, rivers, | | | | potent. |
| and oceans. These chemicals were invented in | | | | You need to face the fact that you are going to |
| order to help make our lives easier, but what | | | | have to take measures to protect yourself, or |
| they may end up doing in the long run is make | | | | you will risk becoming ill. Even if you don't believe |
| our lives shorter. It is not an exaggeration when I | | | | that the quality of our drinking water is that bad, |
| say that the toxins in our water are killing us. | | | | why would you take a chance by letting your |
| The man-made causes of water pollution have | | | | children drink it? If your assumption of safety is |
| helped to increase the cancer rate in just over a | | | | incorrect your family could suffer greatly, and it is |
| century from 1 case in every 50 people, to 1 in | | | | just not worth it. |
| every 2.5. The irony of it is that the chemical that | | | | My advice to protect your family from the |
| we depend on to protect us from contracting | | | | possible dangers posed by the causes of water |
| potentially deadly waterborne diseases may be | | | | pollution, is to install a drinking water purification |
| more to blame for this rise than any other. | | | | system in your home. A high quality unit featuring |
| Although necessary, chlorine may be our undoing. | | | | an activated granular carbon filter, a multi media |
| The reason that some scientists believe that | | | | block, a sub micron filter, and an ion exchange will |
| chlorine may be the primary cause for this | | | | remove 99% of the contaminant content of your |
| astronomical rise in cancer, is because this | | | | water. |
| chemical is the only one in the water that you are | | | | When dealing with the possibly deadly effects of |
| guaranteed to consume each time you open your | | | | the man-made causes of water pollution, wouldn't |
| tap. Of course, at the same time you could also | | | | you rather err on the side of caution where your |
| be taking in any number of the more than two | | | | family's health is concerned? |