Are Water Filters Necessary?
Never before has there been as great a need for water filtration, not only at home, but more importantly when away from home. America’s tap water is, in some cases, highly contaminated with toxic chemicals including heavy metals, organic compounds, chorine and other chlorinated compounds, pesticides, and virtually thousands of other known harmful contaminants. EPA reports show that US water supplies do contain over 2500 cancer causing agents.
In today’s society, especially in America, we use or are exposed to approximately 80,000 toxic chemicals every day. With, over 1,000 new toxic chemicals being developed every year, it is more important than ever to make sure the water we use is safe. We are learning the hard way that all these toxic chemicals are finding their way into our drinking water supplies. There is no “new water” because the planet simply recycles old water over and over, and as we use more and more synthetic chemicals, the levels in our water supply will increase proportionately. It is important to make sure you keep ahead of this curve and use water filters whenever you can. Not just at home or when it is convenient, you must filter your water all the time!
Our water treatment facilities, that have been in use for decades or in some cases a hundred years or more, were not designed to remove, detect, or filter synthetic chemicals or heavy metals like lead. Get a Level 2 or greater water filter bottle, and you no longer have to worry about lead. Municipal water treatment is the same it has been for well over 100 years: The water flows through sand to remove visible particles, and then chlorine is added to kill most of the bacteria. Nothing is done to filter for synthetic chemicals! Does that sound like something you want your family to drink?
When at home, you must make sure you have some kind of installed system or at very least a refrigerator system. But unless you never leave your house, you must also make sure you have enough portable water filters when you are away from home and traveling. How many times do you find yourself drinking from a water fountain at the gym or in the park because you are thirsty? Take a quick drink from the garden hose when you are out in the yard? What do you drink when you go traveling to other cities or countries?
Keep a water filter bottle at work, and one in your car. Make sure you have one in your gym bag. Most importantly, get your kids hooked on drinking pure water right now, it really will save their life!
