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Tap or Bottled, Whats in the water you are Drinking
Written by: MaryArticle Overview: An overview of the water Americans are drinking
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Tap or Bottled, Whats in the water you are Drinking
Tap or Bottled Water
What are you really drinking?
Our bodies are 75% water. We need water to survive. Is the water you’re drinking keeping you alive or causing disease.
An article in the L.A. Times by Alan Zaremco reported that scientists have devised a way to determine where someone has lived by testing a strand of hair. The method relies on measuring chemical variations around the country that are absorbed in the hair. This is good for forensic scientists but is it good for us?
Prozac River an article by Paul Rauber, reported that both male and female sexual characteristics are being found in fish downstream of sewage treatment plants. Trace substances are turning up in our waterways from bodily waste, and trace substances of pharmaceuticals. In a study in Portland Oregon estrogen, antidepressants, perfume, antibiotics and caffeine were found in the water. Some water companies have responded by adding fluoride, chlorine, and lye to make water healthy for us.
For those of you in California, lets follow the water. Las Vegas, NV. Dumps 58 billion gallons of treated sewage into Lake Mead, which flows into the Colorado River the source of California’s water.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit organization in Washington D.C., did a tap water probe. It revealed 141 unregulated chemicals flowing into homes in 42 states. Another 119 chemicals, a total of 260 containments altogether were found by the group in a 2-½ year study of more than 22 million tap water tests. Additionally several states also have run off from agriculture, industry, and pollution from sprawl and urban run off.
As more information became available more and more people switched to bottled water. It is convenient and safe, or is it?
First: The issue of the plastic. If not shipped or stored correctly toxins from the plastic can leach into the water.
Second: The disposal of the bottles. The landfills worldwide are overcrowded and the debris is leaching into the soil and ultimately the ocean. Currently we have an Island 1000 miles off the California Coast, 1000 miles north of Hawaii, it is 3 times the size of Texas and 300 feet deep. It causes serious problems for our birds and the marine life that supports them.
Third: What’s in those bottles? Harrison Kreimer in an article that appeared on www.newsrecord.ord reported that in 2004 Dasani bottle water was found to be bottled from the Municipal water supply. More recently Pepsi’s Aquafina Water also admitted to the same act.
According to CNN, consumers are spending 15 billion a year for water in a plastic package.
Did I mention that most of the waters we tested, both tap and bottled, are as acidic as soda pop but that’s another article.
For more information on what’s in your water. Visit my website: www.whatsinyourwater.com
Or email me at mary@raisingthebarr.com
Mary Barr
The Barr Association
Article Tags: agriculture industry, bottled water, chemical variations, chlorine, colorado river, environmental working group, estrogen, forensic scientists, l a times, lake mead, landfills, leach, lye, paul rauber, sewage treatment plants, sexual characteristics, tap water, trace substances, water companies, waterways
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