Water Testing / Water Filtration
Chemicals, toxins and pathogens found in your drinking and bathing water
⚠️ What is in your drinking & bathing water:
🧪 Chlorine
Chlorine is universally used to disinfect water, killing bacteria and other microorganisms. But once it arrives in your home, chlorine can negatively affect your family's long-term health, comfort, and even personal appearance.
"Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine."
- U.S. Council Of Environmental Quality
✅ Solution: Shower filters and water filtration systems are relatively inexpensive and easy to install. You will find it well worth the effort.
⚡ Fluoride
Fluoride is associated with numerous health concerns:
- • Lower IQ
- • Alzheimer's disease
- • Damaged liver function
- • Kidney damage
- • Bone cancer and other cancers
- • Poisoning (especially children)
- • Bone fractures
- • Altered endocrine function
🧠 Aluminum
One study (McLachlan, et al. 1996) found a 250% increase of Alzheimer's disease in people drinking municipal water with high aluminum levels for 10 years or more.
💊 Pharmaceuticals
A 5-month Associated Press investigation revealed traces of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water supplies of 41 million Americans, including:
Key Findings:
- • 24 metropolitan areas affected (Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington DC)
- • Treatment plants unequipped to filter these contaminants
- • 40% of bottled water contains repackaged tap water
- • Solution: Nanofiltration and reverse-osmosis systems remove several drugs
⚠️ What may be in your drinking & bathing water:
🏭 Heavy Metals
🦠 Parasites & Pathogens
- • Giardia
- • Other parasites and microorganisms
💡 TIPS
🚰 Tap Water Testing
Municipal Water
Check your local water quality by calling the EPA's Drinking Water Hotline:
Private Wells
Test your water annually for:
- • Nitrates and bacteria (required)
- • Pesticides (location dependent)
- • Organic chemicals
- • Radon
🍶 Bottled Water
Purified water is better than spring water - purified water goes through processes to remove contaminants/bacteria, while spring water can be taken from just about any place.
Safety Check: View NRDC's Test Results on Bottled Water Contaminants
💧 Water & Your Health
"You will have transformed from a plum to a raisin in your 95 plus years. This is called age-related dehydration. Therefore, one of the most important anti-aging strategies is to remain well hydrated at all times."
⚠️ Mineral Water Concerns
The minerals in mineral water are inorganic and they crystallize in the body, both inside and outside the circulatory system.
Outside Circulatory System:
Causes problems such as arthritis
Inside Circulatory System:
Deposited in artery walls, contributing to atherosclerosis plaque formation
❌ Generally agreed this is not a good source of water