| We are dealing with a very serious problem when | | | | our water, and things really begin to look scary. |
| it comes to groundwater pollution, and it is going | | | | Of course, a lot of these chemicals more than |
| to come back to haunt those that do not take | | | | likely contributed to getting the cancer rate to |
| effective action to protect themselves. The | | | | where it is now. |
| water in our reservoirs is teeming with toxic and | | | | The reason that we now have to take steps to |
| carcinogenic chemical agents, and there is simply | | | | protect ourselves from the danger presented by |
| no way for the water treatment facilities to do | | | | groundwater pollution is that as the contaminants |
| anything about it. They simply don't have the | | | | in our water changed our methods of filtering did |
| equipment necessary for keeping us safe. | | | | not. The filtering system still in use at the water |
| When we first endeavored to clean up our water | | | | treatment facilities is primarily designed for |
| we did not have to deal with the same things | | | | demineralization, and is incapable of stopping the |
| that we do now. Back then the most important | | | | flow of chemical contaminants from heading |
| thing was to be able to filter out the sand, silt, | | | | directly to your home. |
| and sediment from the water, and to disinfect in | | | | Because they are designed to block particulates |
| order to lower the incidence of waterborne | | | | the filters being used are incapable of blocking |
| diseases. Our chosen weapon for disinfection was | | | | anything that is of equal or lesser molecular |
| chlorine, and as it turns out it is just another one | | | | weight than water. Not only does this allow |
| of the chemicals that is killing us. | | | | chemicals to flow through, but also those |
| There are nearly 80,000 different chemical agents | | | | microscopic organisms that sometimes manage to |
| that have contributed to groundwater pollution, | | | | survive the chlorine disinfection process. You have |
| but only one of them is present in every glass of | | | | the power to protect your family from these |
| water that we drink. Many experts have sited | | | | potentially deadly contaminants. |
| chlorine as the single biggest cause for the | | | | All that you need to defend yourself against the |
| alarming rise in the rate of cancer. The beginning | | | | threat posed by groundwater pollution is install a |
| of the cancer rate's meteoric climb just happened | | | | home water purification system. This countertop |
| to coincide with the beginning of the chlorine | | | | or under counter appliance should be a dual |
| disinfection process. | | | | chamber unit that features four distinct |
| When chlorine was first introduced into public | | | | contaminant filters. Activated granular carbon, a |
| drinking water the rate of cancer stood at a 1 | | | | multi media block, an ion exchange, and a sub |
| out of 50, but after little more than a century it | | | | micron filter are all you need to be safe. |
| now sands at 1 out of every 2.5 people. Chlorine | | | | This multi layer defense is the perfect solution to |
| is bad enough, but add in the fact that now there | | | | your groundwater pollution problem. |
| are more than 2,000 other carcinogens present in | | | | |