| The continuous influx of toxins into our water | | | | each chemical agent exponentially. |
| supply system has dramatically lowered our | | | | The so-called safe level of each of the chemicals |
| drinking water standard. Instead of being able to | | | | present in your water could be dwarfed once this |
| provide us with a guarantee of purity for our | | | | chemical reaction occurs, meaning that each |
| drinking water, the Environmental Protection | | | | chemical could in reality reach a level far beyond |
| Agency has now come up with a list of allowable | | | | what has been deemed safe. The current drinking |
| limits for toxic contaminants in our water supply. | | | | water standard does not take this factor into |
| Aren't these the people who are supposed to be | | | | account, nor does it figure in that a good majority |
| protecting us from harmful contaminants in our | | | | of the population weighs less than 150 lbs. How |
| water? | | | | much does your pre-school age child weigh for |
| The truth is that the EPA and the water | | | | example? |
| treatment facilities they oversee are powerless to | | | | You have to realize that the EPA is just covering |
| halt the overwhelming number of contaminants | | | | their bases when it comes to the standards for |
| now present in our drinking water. It is estimated | | | | "safe" levels of contaminant, and that they are |
| that all 80,000 industrial chemicals currently in use | | | | not protecting you. Did you know that there are |
| are present to some degree in our reservoir | | | | over 2,000 chemicals currently in our water |
| system, and the water treatment facilities simply | | | | supply that are listed as carcinogenic, and that |
| aren't equipped to handle them. So now we are | | | | these very chemicals are being blamed for the |
| stuck drinking water that the EPA admits is | | | | meteoric rise in the cancer rate since the |
| polluted, but deems safe anyway. | | | | beginning of the industrial revolution? |
| The new drinking water standard is based on how | | | | What you have to do is raise your own drinking |
| much of each individual chemical contaminant in | | | | water standard by only drinking water that has |
| our drinking water a 150 lb. man can ingest | | | | been run through a multi layered filter system. A |
| without suffering an ill effects. The problem is that | | | | home water purification system that features an |
| when you consume a glass of tap water, you are | | | | activated granular carbon filter and multi media |
| rarely if ever being exposed to a lone chemical | | | | block for chemicals, a sub micron filter for |
| agent. Studies have shown that in many regions, | | | | parasites that survive the disinfection process, |
| there are measurable levels of between 5 to 9 | | | | and an ion exchange to trap toxic heavy metals |
| different chemicals in each glass of water drawn. | | | | will definitely do the trick. |
| Even if the level of each of these 5 to 9 chemical | | | | I hope this article has convinced you of the |
| contaminants is within the range deemed safe by | | | | absolute need for you to get the best water filter |
| the EPA, these measurements do not take into | | | | available for you and your family. The current |
| account a specific reaction that occurs whenever | | | | drinking water standard is not working, so take |
| two chemicals interact. When chemicals come into | | | | the necessary precautions to guarantee the |
| contact, they each begin to "feed" off the power | | | | water you are drinking is as pure as possible. |
| of the other. This can increase the potency of | | | | |