| The right tap water system can supply you and | | | | more chlorine byproducts (THMs) in their fat |
| your family with safe, healthy, filtered tap water | | | | tissue than women without breast cancer. |
| for less than 10 cents a gallon. More and more | | | | Lead is the second most common contaminant |
| people are getting a tap water system for their | | | | found in the tap water system. And even the |
| home in light of all the recent discoveries having | | | | EPA has stated that there is NO safe level for |
| to do with the health and safety of tap water (or | | | | lead in drinking water, and that it's the number |
| lack thereof). Here's why filtered tap water could | | | | one environmental health threat to our children. |
| actually save your life. | | | | This harmful metal can cause reduced IQs and |
| Our society regularly uses more than 80,000 | | | | learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and |
| different synthetic chemicals. It's inevitable that all | | | | reduced attention spans in children as well as high |
| of these will eventually end up in our tap water | | | | blood pressure, reduced hemoglobin production |
| system- through runoff, leaking sewers, pollution, | | | | (for oxygen transporting), and nerve system |
| flood, and improper use of household chemicals. | | | | damage in adults. |
| In fact, many of these synthetic organic | | | | The tricky part about lead in the tap water |
| chemicals (SOCs) aren't even filtered out of public | | | | system is that most of it is added from the |
| water supplies, simply because the technology in | | | | water main in the street and your faucet or |
| place is so old and outdated. These systems | | | | shower head. Over 98% of all homes contain |
| operate pretty much like a swimming pool filter- | | | | brass pipes, fixtures, and soldering joints that |
| they take out all the visible stuff and disinfect | | | | leave traces of lead in water. |
| with chlorine. And shockingly, these municipal | | | | The newest discovery found in the tap water |
| plants allow the use of more chlorine to disinfect | | | | system is traces of prescription drugs including |
| that what's recommended in swimming pools! | | | | antibiotics, birth control drugs, anti-depressants, |
| Most people don't understand the extent of how | | | | and even caffeine. Not only are many of these |
| chlorine and SOCs negatively effects our health, | | | | dumped in natural water sources because they go |
| especially in the shower where 2/3 of it's harmful | | | | bad, they also travel and pass through people's |
| effects are experienced (through inhalation and | | | | bodies, wind up in recycled waste water, and then |
| absorption). Just two decades after we started to | | | | in drinking water. |
| use herbicides and pesticides, and started to use | | | | Make no mistake about it. Using a filtered tap |
| chlorine to disinfect water, the prevalence of | | | | water system in your home will significantly |
| cancer and heart disease started. | | | | preserve your good health and well being. If you |
| Drinking chlorinated water instead of filtered tap | | | | don't, then you're only forcing your kidneys and |
| water gives you a 93% higher chance of | | | | liver do all the filtering. And the only way to get |
| developing some sort of cancer in your lifetime. | | | | the toxins and chemicals out of your body is |
| To add to this, a commonality in women with | | | | drinking pure, healthy water! |
| breast cancer is the fact they contain 50%-60% | | | | |