Advice On Water
posted on 04/26/2009
We pay more per gallon for water than we do for a gallon of gas. Americans spent more than $15 billion dollars on bottled water last year and is going to be $16 billion this year.
Bottled water is often just tap water anyway and some of it is downright unhealthy for us. As for me and my house, we have purchased our last bottle of water out of necessity. If we're out and about and happen to be thirsty, I still would rather buy bottled water than a soda. I do know that the bottled water industry has less than one government employee keeping an eye on the industry. That means the one person who is in charge also has other duties. Scary isn't it?
Two million people die each year from water borne diseases and most of them are children that are under 5 years old. As we waste money on a resource that comes free from our tap there are millions upon millions of people worldwide who can't find clean drinking water and are dying daily by the thousands.
In the United States millions of people are drinking water from their taps that has rocket fuel in it. It is also estimated that between 500,000 to 7 million people each year get sick from tap water contaminants. One study showed that possibly 40% of 'stomach viruses' and 'flu' symptoms are not from viruses or bacteria from food but actually from the water we drink. Our water treatment systems remove raw sewage and paper products but leave behind pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, oils, rocket fuels and pesticides.
ATRAZINE
Atrazine is a weed killer used widely in the U.S., especially on corn. It is also the number one contaminant found in our drinking and surface water. What does Atrazine do if ingested? I'm glad you asked. Atrazine has been linked to an increase in Prostate, Breast and Ovarian cancers in those who have ingested it. It is also know to feminize frogs that were given the pesticide. With no males around the species would die out in nature. Low sperm counts in humans are caused by Atrazine as well.
Atrazine is sold by a European company to the United States but has been outlawed and banned in the very country where it is made because all the problems with it. Not only is it's use banned in that country but also in Finland in 1993, Norway in 1990, Sweden in 1989, Austria and Denmark in 1995, France in 2003 and Germany and Italy in 1991. Now the entire European Union has banned it's use but in the U.S. where the dollar is king and the consumer, crap; we continue to use it to the detriment of everyone. Happy drinking.
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Nero321 says:
(209d 21h 43min ago)
Thanks for the information. It sure does seem like our government has it's head .... and that companies care more about making money than they do us people.
RickJames says:
(209d 21h 22min ago)
From tobacco to trans fat and now water --- America is a great place but some of our industries (cigarettes, water, banking, petroleum) SUCK big time.
SexyShannonfromPA says:
(205d 9h 1min ago)
I was watching Bill Nye on the Green channel and he did a show on the backyard. He said the atrazine was causing frogs to mutate and have both male and female sex organs.
JulianneO says:
(203d 20h 32min ago)
I'm going to boil my water and bottle it use empty milk cartons to fill. I'm not wasting anymore $$ - Thanks Asahd
SuiteLife says:
(200d 18h 55min ago)
I saw FLOW and I still buy bottled water but not any brand made by Nestle. It is disgusting what they have been allowed to get away with. Nestle really only cares about the money. People's lives are being damaged and nobody is doing anything about it. I'm glad you thought to share this info because I didn't.
velvet says:
(90d 17h 41min ago)
Very enlighting article, As for me and my family we will be boiling water to drink from now
Very enlighting. Didn't know we spend money for someting that is not better than tap!
Velvet
Asahd2 says:
(70d 15h 45min ago)
Velvet, boiling your water isn't necessarily the best way to go. It actually concentrates the bad things in water. I bought a Brita filter for my kitchen sink and it lasted me from July until now. The light is amber in color so I know it will be red soon and time to replace it. I paid $30.00 in July for months of healthy water.