Are You Thirsty?
If you answered yes to this question, you may change your mind after reading this report:
Prescription Drugs Found In Drinking Water
As stated within:
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
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Reading this kind of report makes one wonder if it is possible to truly live a healthy lifestyle. Sure, we can all make choices regarding our health, but it appears that more and more factors are out of our control. There is only so much that one can do to avoid such toxicities.
Ross
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yeah fresh water isnt free here
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What the other poster said. Avoid bottled water (which is frequently much worse than muni water supplies) and live in a place with a good watershed. Water quality, like air quality, is not the same everywhere.
And the minute quantities of the drugs found in that report are unlikely to have significant effects, anyway. I’d worry a hell of a lot more about pesticides and arsenic.
Is there not water filtration systems you can buy so that you can effectively drink tap water without any worries? I’d like to think that would be a pretty efficient solution… (I’d certainly prefer doing that than moving house!)
I recommend doing some research on distilled water or filtered rainwater rather than moving to an area with a
better water supply. There are plenty of water purifying
options out there.
Well, I thought I’d give my two cents on this. First of all, I am a general chemistry student and this topic has been discussed in our classroom a few times already. Chemical detection techniques have become so advanced that even the slightest trace of a chemical, even up to parts per billion or TRILLION, can be detected. Heck, you could probably name a metal or some harmful substance and it could be detected in water but when it is present in such SMALL amounts, it does not present a health risk. It is very likely that these news reporters have hyped up the whole ordeal by saying such and such chemicals have been detected in the water supply in order to get attention. However, based on what I know, that’s just my opinion.
The chemistry student has it. There’s not much of this stuff in the water. You’re getting more poisons from the containers your food is stored in.
That said, my dad works in water quality. If you’re gung-ho about getting really clean drinking water, you want a device called a reverse osmosis filter. It’s a molecular-level filter that delivers distilled purity at a lower cost. Super-clean water. Mine runs to a separate tap by my sink. They’re not super-cheap, but they’re out there.
But this is pretty low on my list of things to worry about…
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I have been using their system for 3 years, and it is amongst the highest rated filtration systems on the market and is reasonably priced.
Peace,
Andy
We use an E-Spring unit (www.espring.com), which is the only household unit that the EPA classifies as a water purification unit rather than a water filtration unit. We’re quite happy with the results.