Seriously, Your Water IS Contaminated by Larry Wardell
There is NO question
about it, the water we drink is definitely contaminated and we should be aware
that our reservoirs may be public health hazards.
It's not just our tap
water at home that is polluted; all the water we filter, even through our
municipal filtration plants, is contaminated. This observation may apply to our
reservoirs as well and that makes for a fairly grim picture. What is anyone
doing about it?
To the credit of those who govern our water supplies,
they are attempting to keep them clean. Unfortunately, politics plays a fairly
large role in why we don't have the kind of pristine water we really should
have. Witness big manufacturing plants that dump things into the water that
pollute it and then spend years trying to get out of penalties for pollution.
Witness also the government that prosecutes them giving them "extra time" to get
things cleaned up, while in the meantime, pollution continues to pour in our
waterways.
The problem is, there is too much money to be made by
ignoring or circumventing rules and regulations and whether or not we have clean
drinking water isn't a concern to those who pollute Parajumpers
. Before you drink another glass
of undistilled water, consider the risks you face every time you take a
drink.
Chloramine and/or straight chlorine is one of the leading links to
causing cancer. It's only recently that scientists have finally figured out what
long-term exposure to chlorine really means and the results aren't that pretty.
Sure chlorine is touted as a "necessary" bad thing to keep the evil crud at bay
in our water.
It kills things we don't even want to think about being in
our water. The truth here is that chlorine and its by-products, no matter what
you want to call them, encourage the production of free radicals in our bodies.
These in turn cause cell damage, not to mention heart disease.
But, it's
not just chlorine we need to be worried about. We need to be aware that for
every sip we take of undistilled water, that we may be swallowing the residue of
other people's drugs, both prescription and street drugs. Think birth control
pills and sex hormones, antibiotics, heart medications, anti-inflammatories and
other experimental drugs that flopped during their drug trials.
Where do
all the chemicals wind up? In reservoirs and in other above ground systems.
There is no way that our aging public treatment facilities are capable of being
able to remove all these man-made chemicals from our water. That means it
ultimately winds up in our taps.
Isn't there another way to get good
drinking water? The only water purification system capable of providing the
purest, freshest water is distillation; the only process that ensures water is
clean and safe to drink. No other water purification method is as effective as
distillation.
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