4 Chemicals Found in Tap Water That Can Harm Your Family's Health and Future Well-Being

4 Chemicals Found in Tap Water That Can Harm Your Family's Health and Future Well-Being

There's no question today that the chemicals found in tap water present a real danger to your health. With more chemicals being created and used each year, the situation is likely to get worse. Here are the 4 worst offenders that can only be removed by a handful of the best home filtration systems.

#1 Chlorine

Although this has been very successful in wiping out diseases like typhoid and cholera, one hundred years later it is still the main way to disinfect the supply.

The problem is that of all the toxic chemicals found in tap water, chlorine is one of the hardest to remove. Its by-products called THMs are known to cause cancer and drinking filtered tap water from the best systems is the only way to avoid it.

It is a fact that if you use chlorinated water, as most of us do, you have a 93% increased chance of getting cancer, compared to those who use non-chlorinated water (from a well or filter for example).

#2 Lead

Lead is a toxic substance and again linked to cancer and learning difficulties in children. It gets into the supply as it is leached from the old pipes and even the fittings in your home. These fittings typically contain 8-15% lead, even the brass ones.

What's even more worrying is that now many municipals are using chloramine (chlorine and ammonia) to disinfect the supply of 1 in 5 Americans.

This stays in the water for longer and as a result, it leaches even more lead from the pipes as it is also extremely corrosive.

#3 Pesticides and Herbicides

These chemicals found in tap water enter the water table from agricultural runoff and pose a serious threat. As these synthetic chemicals are molecularly smaller than water, they are hard to remove and slip through most filters, except for the carbon ones (more on that later).

In fact recently, tap water testing found two or more pesticides in the drinking water of 27 of the 29 cities tested in the US! In Fort Wayne, Indiana however they found 9 different types in a single glass of tap water.

#4 Prescription Drugs and Pharmaceuticals

With the rate of prescriptions rising at around 8% each year, this is becoming a modern menace. Around a third of the meds taken are unmetabolized and are flushed away and enter the system. Again, these are hard to remove and include mood stabilizers, cancer drugs, hormones, steroids, antibiotics and much more.

Already, due to the high hormone levels, some fish are changing sex and more and more men are experiencing enlarged breasts.

If you want to remove 99% of all of these toxins, the only type of filter is an activated carbon one, using a dual cartridge system and ion exchange.

Filtered tap water today provides the only way to protect your family from the ever increasing amount of contaminants in your supply.

Visit my website below if you would like to learn more about the types of water filtration systems that I personally recommend and use.

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