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You may be alarmed to know that there are over two thousand toxic chemicals in tap water and many of them are very hard to remove. Discover what these chemicals are and the best way to remove them safely.
Our increasing dependence on chemicals for household and industry has led to thousands of new ones being used and created. For example, a recent study found evidence of pesticides, herbicides, chlorine, lead, VOCs, THMs, pharmaceuticals, prescription drugs and arsenic in the water supply.
Two or more pesticides were found in most of the drinking water samples from around the US!
These chemicals get into the water supply from what we pour down the drains, from agricultural runoff and from many other sources. This has led to a huge increase in the amount of degenerative diseases and especially cancer.
In the early nineteenth century, before the use of chlorine and pesticides, you had only a one in fifty chance of getting cancer. Today the figure is close to one in two.
Two of the worst chemicals in tap water are chlorine and lead because they are hard to remove and very toxic. In fact, the lead levels are now rising thanks to the municipals increasing use of chloramine to disinfect the supply.
Chloramine is a mixture of chlorine and ammonia but stays in the water for longer and leaches lead from the pipes.
Chlorine has long been used to clean the water but must be removed before you use it, despite what the municipals say. It is a fact that you have a ninety-three percent higher chance of getting cancer if you use chlorinated water.
The recent phenomenon of prescription drugs is also cause for alarm. Mood stabilizers, steroids, hormones like estrogen, cancer therapy drugs and many more are routinely found. Although the concentration is low, no one knows the long term effects and already fish are changing sex in our waters and rivers.
With the risk so great and the solution so simple, why risk it?
Home water filtration is the easiest, most effective and most economical way to remove the chemicals in tap water and have safe, healthy water for you and your family.
Only the best carbon block filters with a dual cartridge system and sub micron filtering can remove 99% of all of these chemicals in tap water.
The result is safe, healthy and great tasting water, as it should be.
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