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Most people turn to bottled water as a first alternative to drinking
unfiltered tap water.
However, we are quickly discovering that bottled water is
not the healthy drinking water we want, it is extremely inconvenient, and it
is very expensive.
The new FDA specifications, which are nearly identical to
the Environmental Protection Agency's requirements for municipal water, are
designed to ensure that bottled water is as safe as that from the tap.
Many people are amazed to find that these are the only
guidelines/regulations for bottled water. In fact it has been found
that countless consumers who have paid dearly for store-bought water were in
fact buying tap water in a bottle.
According to Hamilton & Witney's Nutrition, problems of
infrequent testing for contaminants and sporadic inspection of processing
plants must be solved before bottled water can be assumed to be as sanitary
as even regular U.S. tap water.
At this time, bottled water companies are not required to
test for cryptosporidium, even though bottled water sources often are just
as likely to have crypto contamination as any other drinking water source.
In 1985, California citizens appealed to the state with
complaints about the occurrence of illness secondary to the consumption of
bottled water.
The Assembly Office of Research prepared a report, for
the California State Legislature, which outlined over 123 episodes of
contamination that was discovered in bottled water.
This report not only exposed many instances of inadequate
hygienic practices at bottled water production facilities, but also
addressed specific chemicals and contaminants which were found in the
bottled water products which were tested.
For these reasons more and more people are turning to
water filtration systems for their homes and offices.
In fact, it has been estimated that within the next ten
years, 43% of the American population will have a drinking water treatment
system in their homes.
This is a step in the right direction, but the most
crucial step is to make sure that your water filtration system is
certified to do
what the manufacturer claims.
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Coronaries/Cholesterol/Chlorine, By Dr. Joseph M.
Price, M.D. - "Chlorine is the greatest crippler and killer of modern
times. It is an insidious poison."
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The Environmental Defense Fund - "Although
concentrations of these carcinogens are low...it is precisely these low
levels which cancer scientists believe are responsible for the majority of
human cancers in the United States."
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Health Freedom News, January/February 1987 - "The
drinking of chlorinated water has finally been officially linked to an
increased incidence of colon cancer. An epidemiologist at Oak Ridge
Associated Universities completed a study of colon cancer victims and
non-cancer patients and concluded that the drinking of chlorinated water
for 15 years or more was conducive to a high rate of colon cancer."
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St. Paul Dispatch & Pioneer Press, December 17, 1987
"Long-term drinking of chlorinated water appears to increase a person's
risk of developing bladder cancer as much as 80%," according to a study
published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Some 45,000 Americans are diagnosed every year with bladder cancer."
And, "Chlorine itself is not believed to be the problem. Scientists
suspect that ...the actual cause of the bladder cancers is a group of
chemicals that form as result of reactions between the chlorine and
natural substances and pollutants in the water."
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Dateline NBC, September, 1994 - "It was a
startling realization...Milwaukee was being poisoned by its own water.
More than 400,000 sick. More than 4000 so sick, they were hospitalized."
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New England Journal of Medicine - "Cryptosporidium is
common in water supplies and can infect people at a very low dose."
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USA Today, March 30, 1995 - "Parasite in Water is
Widespread."
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David Ozonoff of the Boston University School of Public
Health - "The risk of disease associated with public drinking water has
passed from the theoretical to the real."
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Los Angeles Times, July 28, 1994 - "Study Finds Peril
in Water Supply."
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Oregonian, Friday, June 2, 1995 - "Two environmental
groups say the data link 1200 deaths and 7 million cases of illness
annually to contaminated water."
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USA TODAY, September 27, 1993 - "120 Million May Get
Unsafe Drinking Water."
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USA Today, September 27, 1993 - "A Natural
Resources Defense Council report out today documents more than 250,000
violations of drinking water laws in 1991-92."
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Carol M Browner, Administrator of the USEPA
"This study is another in a series of wake-up calls that tell us we can no
longer take for granted that our drinking water is safe all the time."
And, "Too many systems fail to meet basic public health standards."
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Wall Street Journal, June 14, 1994 - "EPA Proposes
Tougher Rules Covering Water."
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EPA, 1987 - "The EPA estimates that over 40 million
U.S. residents use water that contains lead in excess of 20 parts per
billion, Source: "Lead And Your Drinking Water."
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New York Times, Headline, July 6, 1985 - "Tests
Find Significant Lead Levels in U.S. Water"
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USA Today, Wednesday, October 21, 1992 - "Unhealthy
levels of poisonous lead have been detected in 130 water supplies serving
32 million people, an unprecedented new EPA study says." "We're talking
about the No. 1 health problem facing us," says Daisy Alfred, health chief
for Cleveland, one city whose water systems exceed limits."
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USA Today, May 12, 1993 - "Drinking water supplied to
30 million people in 819 cities contains unhealthy levels of lead," the
EPA said. Children are especially susceptible to lead poisoning, which can
impair mental and physical development.
New York Times, October 18, 1994 - "Drinking Water in
Midwest Has Pesticides."
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