You Can Have Drinking Water

We can all remember the days of high school chemistry class and learning the basic components of water, H2O: 2 hydrogen molecules attached to 1 oxygen molecule. Because our bodies are composed of 70%-80% water. We must continually consume water to survive. We are facing a serious problem of a shrinking supply of safe drinking water due to constant contamination with chemicals pharmaceuticals and other substances. Adding to the problem we’re faced with government and corporate take over of the bottled water system. Corporate mass producers benefit from the highly consumed formerly natural resource needed to survive. Affordable drinking water is becoming difficult to obtain however there are things we can do.The Environmental Protection Agency has set standards as many as 80 dangerous substances that may be found in our water and pose health risk to humans. EPA standards are claimed to be safe and protect everyone even young children. The question becomes is the consumption of toxins at any level really safe. And, what happened to the countless other contaminants found in our drinking water? According to the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG’s) two-and-a-half year investigation, tap water in 42 states is contaminated with more than 140 unregulated chemicals that lack safety standards. detected 260 contaminants in water served to the public. One hundred forty-one (141) of these detected chemicals – more than half – are unregulated; This means public health officials have not set safety standards for these chemicals that millions of us drink everyday. Affordable drinking water is becoming difficult to obtain however there are things we can do.
Many people are now turning to bottled water. Sales are in the billions of dollars. Corporate officials now state that flavored water is the great growth industry. By 2007 the sales of bottled water jumped to over $11 billion. We are learning that bottled water is no more safer for health than the water from your tap. The purity standards for bottled water are no higher than those applied to tap water – in some instances they are lower or less rigorous. Chemicals such as phthalates can leach from plastic bottles. Studies show these chemicals can disrupt testosterone and other hormones. There are no regulatory standards limiting phthalates in bottled water. The bottled water industry waged a successful campaign opposing the FDA proposal to set a legal limit for these chemicals. Convenience seems to be the only advantage offered by bottled water. A better option may be to filter your on water supply. reverse osmosis is often among the best possible choices for water purification. Reverse osmosis, as its name suggests, works in reverse of the principle on which living cells operate. In natural cell osmosis, a membrane separates two concentrations of liquids, one concentration on the inside of the cell and another on the outside. The pure solvent passes from one side of the membrane to the other until the two sides are equalized in terms of the concentration of the solute/liquid mix. A reverse osmosis filter depends on pressure to work. One side of the member is pressurized so that the solvent is forced to pass through the membrane. The molecules of the solute are too big to pass and thus remain behind. When applied in drinking water applications, what this means is that water with high concentrations of salts or other minerals can be easily stripped of the solute and made palatable for human consumption.

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