The purity of water should be a top priority but in many places untreated or partially treated water is dumped into our waterways daily. The cost of upgrading to process and treat is something that many big cities can't or won't commit to. Who pays? Us, not in money, but with our health. The entire eco system and everything that feeds from it is also greatly affected. The sad part is we become the filtering system when we consume this water, not only that, we cook with it and we bathe in it.
There are very dangerous chemicals in tap water that are not removed at municipal treatment plants, not in lethal amounts, but toxic they are, even in small amounts. One ounce of pure PCB'S is enough to kill 1000 people. I'm talking about chlorine, weed killers, traces of prescription drugs, lead, gasoline additives, industrial solvents, pesticides, herbicides, THM's, VOC's and others. When you look at that list is it no wonder cancer and other degenerative disease is killing people?
Some people would say that is just over reaction or speculation, the facts show otherwise. Many studies and many deaths later have removed any doubt. Disease starts at the cell level, when you consider that there are 30 trillion cells that make up a human body all it takes for cancer to develop is to deform a few of these cells.
Some of these cells can become compromised and toxic directly from ingested toxins as found in water, food, skin care products and in the air we breathe. Immune systems that are weak cannot defend against compromised cells from toxins and the groundwork is laid for many disorders and disease to develop, it all starts from small amounts over a period of time.
Take Chlorine for example. According to the U.S. Council of Environmental Quality, "Cancer risk among people using chlorinated water is as much as 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine". Chlorine a very dangerous toxic chemical. It is used in very small amounts to treat water against bacteria and even in such small amounts cells can become very toxic. Chlorine, once known as mustard gas, was used as a weapon and killed thousands of troops in the first world war.
By Robert Dixon
