Tap Water Toxins.

We Need WATER to LIVE.

Water is incredibly important to the human body. The average adult human body is 55-60% water. A baby’s body is closer to 75%. Two crucial organs in the body, the brain and the lungs, are 70% and 90% water, respectively. The quality of the water you drink greatly impacts your  health.

The quality of the water is lowered due to our poor environmental habits.

Now high-quality drinking water can be difficult to find. While the argument is made that tap water is among the best water available to us, a series of testing for the ingredients in our tap water would tell almost anyone that it is certainly not of high quality.

Recent analyses of municipal drinking water have shown that, despite government regulations, there are still many dangerous contaminants present in our water. There are many chemicals that are not regulated and there is no legal specifications to restrict what amount of certain chemicals can be in the water. This means that certain chemicals can be found in any given amount.

To make matters worse, many municipalities in Canada and the United States,Australia,Pacific and Europe voluntarily add fluoride to their water supplies without the consent or vote of the citizens as  most citizens and government officials are drastically misinformed about fluoride.

The Safe Drinking Water Act sonly regulatessome potential water contaminants. In the US alone, over 60,000 chemicals are used that can find their way into water supplies. Many of them have been identified as possible carcinogens. Current estimates suggest that there is more than 2,100 known chemical toxins present in U.S. tap water. Cities with older pipelines also face problems as chemicals leach from the lines as the water travels.

What’s in our tap water?

1. Fluoride
fluoride used in water fluoridation practices is a mix of a number of highly toxic chemicals, including radioactive chemicals, that are formed during aluminum and fertilizer production. The substance is considered a class 4 hazardous waste product by the EPA and it is illegal to dump anywhere in the environment.

U.S. government has mandated that fluoride be added to the water supply to prevent dental problems. What we don’t realize is that we are still dumping this waste product into the environment, but under the guise of a “health practice though  current research has shown that fluoride has been shown to:

• damage tooth enamel,
• increase fracture risk,
• suppress immune and thyroid function,
•  increase cancer risk and
• disrupt the function of the pineal gland.

 

2. Chlorine
Classed as  a disinfectant as it effectively kills microorganisms. The trouble is that chlorine does not know when to stop killing organisms, which leads to toxic effects for the body. Chlorine has been identified as a leading cause of:

• bladder cancer,
• rectal and breast cancers,
•  asthma,
•  birth defects and
• premature aging of skin.

3. Radioactive Contaminants
Fukushima nuclear accident & radioactive fallout from Japan has been detected in drinking water supplies throughout the United States. Radioactive iodine-131 was detected in drinking water samples from 13 U.S. cities along with radioactive cesium and tellurium isotopes.

4. Drugs
Pharmaceutical drugs are consumed in great numbers & find their way into  water after being flushed or discarded via urine.   Anything from antibiotics and birth control pills to painkillers, antidepressants and other psychiatric medications are showing up in most municipal water supplies.

5. Hexavalent Chromium
An Environmental Working Group report revealed that hexavalent chromium, a chemical identified as “probably carcinogen by the EPA,” is present in high concentrations in 31 U.S. cities.

6. Lead, Aluminum & Heavy Metals
The result of the corrosion of pipes in  plumbing systems. Lead consumption has been linked to severe developmental delays and learning disorders in children. Aluminum and other heavy metals have been linked to nerve, brain and kidney damage.

7. Arsenic
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, it is estimated that as many as 56 million Americans drink water containing unsafe levels of arsenic