In America, a bottle of water now costs as much as a gallon of gasoline, and recent reports raise serious questions about the quality of bottled water.
Our Drinking Water may be putting our health at risk
• We know that pure water is essential to life. However, the industrial progress of the past 200 years came at great cost to our precious water resources.
• In America, a bottle of water now costs as much as a gallon of gasoline, and recent reports raise serious questions about the quality of bottled water.
• The agencies which regulate our public water distribution systems allow what are called “acceptable levels” of various pollutants in our tap water including chemicals and even human waste.
• Mostly, our communities use chlorine for public water treatment. Trihalomethines, by-products of chlorination, are suspected in causing cancer
• In the 21st century, a new group of contaminants threaten our very lives - microbes.
• We know that pure water is essential to life. However, the industrial progress of the past 200 years came at great cost to our precious water resources.