Importance of Water Quality
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If you’re like me, you’re very concerned with the drinking, cooking, and bathing quality of water. In fact, if you’ve found this site, then you share the serious concerns about the quality of water and its impact on our overall health.
As consumers and educated citizens, we’ve witnessed the huge trend of people turning towards natural health — the rise of the organic food moment, the backlash against pesticides, the booming sustainability trend and movement towards green, eco-friendly lifestyles. And now, we’re starting to wake up to the most important thing we can do for our health: drinking pure water.
The sad reality is, though, in an era of rising health consciousness, our drinking water purity is declining. Some comprehensive studies are now showing that there are over 2,100 toxins in our drinking water. These toxins include: chlorine, lead, chemicals that get into the water supply from large farming run offs, and corporate pollution.
And worse, new studies are showing there are drugs in our water supply; pharmaceuticals in water from humans flushing them down the toilet, and from industrial and farm waste run-off.
“E.P.A. reports show that U.S. water supplies contain over 2300 cancer causing chemicals…” – Ralph Nader Research Group
And consider that our municipal water treatment is done pretty much the same way as it has been for 100 years or more. We do not filter out all of the synthetic chemicals, drugs, and other contaminants that are now present in our water. Some of these contaminants have been linked to environmental problems, as well as diseases like cancer.
Global cancer rates are expected to increase 50 percent by the year 2020. (Source: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization (WHO).
While the research continues on this topic, one has to wonder how much of this can be linked to all of the chemicals in our water?
Our tap water is contaminated with chemicals, toxic heavy metals, drugs, chlorine and chlorine by-products, parasites, and thousands more harmful contaminants. That’s right–All of this stuff may be found in your tap water!
People think they are protecting themselves by drinking bottled water. But bottled water may be the biggest scam of all. Bottled water may be no more pure than tap water. In fact, it usually isn’t. And many large companies bottle plan tap water and turn around and sell it back to us making huge profits! There are no FDA standards that require bottled water to have better quality than plain tap water.
Even the FDA states: “Companies that market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public.”
And, if you’re environmentally conscious consider this: “It [the purchase of bottled water] causes millions of plastic bottles to be manufactured, transported and then disposed of in U.S. landfills, it’s killing our planet, and for no good reason…” - Eric Olsen, Natural Resources Defense Council.
So, what’s the solution if you want to protect the health of you and your family, and that of the planet? The answer is the use of a home water filtration system. But not just any filtration system. You see, there are significant differences between products. And more expensive does not necessarily mean better.
Let’s consider a few points:
The best selling systems out there right now are so-called “reverse osmosis” or “distillation.” These are actually not the optimal choice because although they can do a pretty good job of removing contaminants, they also remove the beneficial minerals that are vital for our health. Our bodies evolved to drink water with important minerals such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, and more. Nowhere on earth was de-mineralized water appear naturally.
Many systems to not employ multi-filtration. This effectively means that some of the worst toxic offenders are not filtered out, and you may still be drinking some of that bad stuff you are trying to avoid.
Many of us don’t consider the purity of the water that we cook food with, or the water we shower or bathe in. Remember: when you shower, the warm water opens up the pores of your skin and all of that water penetrates into it. Pure water is very beneficial for the skin and hydrates it. If you suffer from dryness, or any skin condition or disorder, it’s even more important that you are bathing in purified water.
Now, there are many well know brands and companies out there that produce good, decent products. But dollar for dollar, there is none better than Aquasana. They have been voted “Best Buy” by Consumer Digest magazine for several years running now.
And, because we are all on a budget, they have products for all budget ranges.
1. They sell products just for filtering shower water. Just a couple of the testimonials about this product include:
“The benefits are immediate and very noticeable!” - Dr. Alan Pressman/Health Talk Radio
“It’s like showering in natural spring water!” - Jonathan Antin/Celebrity Hair Stylist, Host of Reality Show “Blow-Out”
2. They sell water filters just for individual faucets, such as your kitchen faucet.
3. They sell individual glass bottle filters you can take anywhere that replace plastic bottled water.
4. And, of course, they sell a top rated whole house water purifier and filter.
Visit their site now (Click here) and find out why I, and tens of thousands of other educated consumers, consider Aquasana to be not only the best dollar for dollar buy, but the best products over all regardless of price.
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