Knowing what is in your tap water might make you stop and think: “should I be drinking this?” 
Is tap water really safe to drink?  There are all kinds of contaminates in tap water from parasites, viruses, to even lead and other heavy metals.  Drinking water that is contaminated can be very harmful to the body.  […]

After reading this you’ll think twice before drinking water when in another country.   Did you know?
 

Every 8 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease
50% of people in developing countries suffer from one or more water related disease
80% of these diseases in the developing countries are caused by contaminated water
50% of people on Earth lack […]

A year ago, if someone were to ask me how much I spent a week on bottled water it would have been between $50-60. That doesn’t sound like a lot but when you multiply that by 52 weeks a year your looking at between $2600-3120 a year. That is a lot of money!
Now I am […]

Bottled water and tap water where tested to see if one was healthier than the other.  The results came out: Bottled water and tap water are the same, and there were no differences according to the microbiologist that did the test.  Many scientists have run tests like this and all came out the same.  Bottled […]

There are many harmful health problems drinking polluted water. It can cause fatigue, infertility, and cancer. Also is can have parasites, heavy metal toxins like the intake of lead from drinking  tap water, and it weakens your immune system.  The benefits from drinking filtered water are healthier looking skin and helps the digestive system. Over all drinking unpolluted […]

1. Determine how much water you need. You’ve probably heard the “8 by 8″ rule, drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day but the amount of water a person needs varies depending on his or her weight and activity level. A better way to determine your specific recommended water intake is to divide your […]

For starters, 1.5 million barrels of oil in the US are used to make water bottles from polyethylene terephthalate each year. Not to mention that 86% of those bottles created are sent to landfills or incinerated serving no long term purpose and destroying our environment. Many times, bottled water is manufactured and shipped long distances, like the 1.4 […]

The bottled water companies are under fire by the same health conscious consumers who made it into a $15 billion industry. The consumer concern primarily deals with the environmental damage caused by the waste from over 38 million plastic bottles a year and the large amounts of energy and fuel costs that are required to bring the product to market. This […]

An estimated 60 to 70 percent of the bottled water sold in the United States is sold in ” intrastate commerce” (i.e., it is bottled and sold in the same state). For example, the large delivered 5-gallon bottles that are put in office or home water coolers are often intrastate waters, as are many of the […]

The question on everyone’s mind is tap water safe?  Well the answer is no.  Even though the water goes through “treatment,” you must think about the route the water goes through to come out of your faucet.  Through miles of pipes underneath the streets.  Do you think these pipes are totally clean?  The pipes are old and […]