Who Says Tap Water is Unhealthy?
"Each day, millions of Americans
turn on their taps and get water that exceeds the legal limits for
dangerous contaminants."
— USA Today, Special Report "How Safe Is Your Water?"
"Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water
is as much as 93% higher than among those whose water
does not contain chlorine."
— U.S. Council Of Environmental Quality
"We have known for a long time that chloramines can trigger, rather
than
cause asthma."
— Ralph Riley, head of the National Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group
"Each day in America, about 30 cases of rectal cancer may be associated
with THMs (chlorination by products) in drinking water."
— Natural Resources Defense Council
"U.S. drinking water contains more than 2100 toxic chemicals that
can cause
cancer."
— Ralph Nader Research Group
"Drinking water plants are old and out of date, and water supplies
are increasingly
threatened and contaminated by chemicals and micro-organisms."
— Natural Resources Defense Council
"The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to
be fixed."
— Carol Browner, U.S. EPA Chief
"The risk of disease associated with public drinking water has passed
from
the theoretical to the real."
— Dr. David Ozonoff, Boston University of Public Health
"More than 45 million Americans drank water supplied by systems
where the unregulated and potentially deadly contaminant, Cryptosporidium, was
found in
their raw or treated water."
— Natural Resources Defense Council
"Drinking water in the U.S. is among the top four public health
risks posed
by environmental problems."
— Former EPA Administrator, William K. Reilly
"Residues of 39 pesticides and their degradation products have been
detected
in the groundwater of thirty four states."
— National Academy of Sciences
"35% of the reported gastrointestinal illnesses among tap water
drinkers
were water related and preventable."
— Center For Disease Control Researchers
"USA Today; There's no telling precisely how many Americans get
sick each year from drinking bad water... I would say that the cases we learn
about are
the tip of the iceberg."
— Deborah Levy; Waterborne - disease Expert, Center for Disease Control
"Weed killers were found in tap water of 28 out of 29 cities tested...
the results of these tests reveal widespread contamination of tap water with
many
different pesticides at levels that present serious health risks... we estimate
that 45,000 infants in these 29 cities drank infant formula reconstituted with
tap water contaminated with multiple weed killers."
— Environmental Working Group report, "Weed Killers By The Glass"
"Each year in the U.S., lead in drinking water contributes to 480,000
cases of learning disorders in children and 560,000 cases of hypertension in
adult
males."
— U.S. EPA Report summary.
"Lead is the number one environmental health threat to our children."
— U.S. EPA
"The one thing we know for sure about toxins in our drinking water,
is that
the more we look... the more we find."
— Jacquelyn Warren, Council for the Natural Resources Defense Council
And the list goes on and on
The fact is that today in our industrialized society we use over 75,000 toxic
chemicals, and over 1000 new ones are developed each year. We have learned the
hard way that any chemical we use will eventually wind up in the water we drink...
there is no "new water," our planet just keeps reusing and recycling
the same water over and over. Our water treatment plants are not designed to
remove these synthetic chemicals, and as a result we find traces of health threatening
contaminants in most of our public water supplies.
70 years ago, before we had this multitude of chemical compounds in our environment,
1 in 50 people could expect to get cancer in their life time... today, 1 in 3
Americans... 1 in 2 males, will become cancer statistics! Cancer is a man made
disease, and almost completely preventable. The purity of our water is one of
the most important factors in the prevention of degenerative disease. With the
risk so great and the solution so simple... why take the chance?
In-home water
filtration is the easiest, most effective and most economical means of providing
safe, healthy water for you and your family.
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by the California Department of Health Services, the most rigorous certification
entity in the world, to remove greater than 99% of Alachlor, Benzene, Lindane,
TCE, THMs, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, VOCs, more than 97% of atrazine, and more
than 93% of MTBE. Benzene, Atrazine, MTBE, VOC, Cyst and THM removal is a combination
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pitcher filter!
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