subject: Drinking Water Safety - Why Your Drinking Water is Not Safe Anymore [print this page] Author: Ray Hamilton Author: Ray Hamilton
Are you worried about drinking water safety? To be honest, we should all be concerned about the quality of what comes out of our drinking water faucets. You may have got used to the chlorine smell and changing taste of your water and believe that the municipals are taking drinking water safety seriously, but the truth is they don't have the resources. Due to the latest technological advances, we can choose to use home filtration to make sure the drinking water faucets only provide safe and pure water and help us to avoid waterborne illness and long term health problems. The accounts of water related illness are on the increase and many municipals add to this problem further by using chloramine instead of chlorine to disinfect the supplies. This stays in the water for longer and being so toxic, it leaches out lead from the pipes and fittings and the increased lead levels end up in your supply. Drinking bottled water is no better and actually has less regulation than the tap variety but costs more per gallon than gas for your car. It also adds to the landfills with over 60 million plastic bottles used each day in the US alone. The other concern from a drinking water safety standpoint with the bottled type is that the longer it sits in your fridge, the more contaminated it gets from the chemicals in the plastic, namely BPA. The best solution is to use a quality home filtration system and bottle your own water, preferably in glass bottles, for when you go out. If you were to think in terms of cost, a good home filtration in my opinion will cost around $100 - $120 and if you regularly drink bottled water you would spend around $20 a week. The equivalent cost from bottling your own would be less than $2 a week. It could pay for itself in a couple of months. In addition you get guaranteed healthy contaminant free water flowing from your drinking water faucets to help keep your family safe as the best remove many of the harmful chemicals including chlorine and THM's which can lead to cancer. If you research some more you will come to realize that all is not well with our water and that it is down to us as individuals to take the necessary steps to protect ourselves and our families from this worsening situation.About the Author:
Ray Hamilton is a dedicated advocate and researcher of the incredible benefits of safe, clean, healthy filtered water. Take a moment to visit his site now at www.healthy-filtered-water.com and discover which products he recommends after extensive research.
