"Each day, millions of Americans
turn on their taps and get water that exceeds the legal limits for
dangerous contaminants."
USA Today-Special Report, "How Safe Is Your Water?"
"Cancer risk among people
drinking chlorinated water is as much as 93% higher than among those
whose water does not contain chlorine."
U.S. Council of Environmental Quality
"We have known for a long time
that chloramines can trigger, rather than cause asthma.
Ralph Riley, Head of the National Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group
"Each day in America, about 30
cases of rectal cancer may be associated with THMs (chlorination by
products) in drinking water."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"U.S. drinking water contains
more than 2,100 toxic chemicals that can cause cancer."
Ralph Nader Research Group
"Drinking water plants are old
and out of date, and water supplies are increasingly threatened and
contaminated by chemicals and micro-organisms."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"The way we guarantee safe
drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed."
Carol Browner, U.S. EPA Chief
"The risk of disease associated
with public drinking water has passed from the theoretical to the real."
Dr. David Ozonoff, Boston University School of Public Health
"More than 45 million Americans
drank water supplied by systems where the unregulated and potentially
deadly contaminant Cryptosporidium was found in their raw or treated
water."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"Drinking water in the U.S. is
among the top four public health risks posed by environmental problems."
Former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly
"Residues of 39 pesticides and
their degradation products have been detected in the groundwater of 34
states."
National Academy of Sciences
"Thirty-five percent of the
reported gastrointestinal illnesses among tap water drinkers were water
related and preventable."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"There's no telling precisely how
many Americans get sick each year from drinking bad water... I would say
that the cases we learn about are the tip of the iceberg."
Deborah Levy, Waterborne Disease Expert, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
"Weed killers were found in tap
water of 28 out of 29 cities tested. The results of these tests reveal
widespread contamination of tap water with many different pesticides at
levels that present serious health risks. We estimate that 45,000
infants in these 29 cities drank infant formula reconstituted with tap
water contaminated with multiple weed killers."
Environmental Working Group Report, "Weed Killers by the Glass"
"Each year in the U.S., lead in
drinking water contributes to 480,000 cases of learning disorders in
children and 560,000 cases of hypertension in adult males."
U.S. EPA Report Summary.
"Lead is the number-one
environmental health threat to our children."
U.S. EPA
"The one thing we know for sure
about toxins in our drinking water, is that the more we look, the more
we find."
Jacquelyn Warren, Natural Resources Defense Council
And the list goes on and on!
The fact is that today in our
industrialized society we use over 75,000 toxic chemicals, and over 1000
new ones are developed each year. We have learned the hard way that any
chemical we use will eventually wind up in the water we drink. There is
no "new water," the planet just keeps reusing and recycling the same
water over and over. Our water treatment plants are not designed to
remove these synthetic chemicals, and as a result we find traces of
health-threatening contaminants in most of our public water supplies.
Seventy years ago, before we had this
multitude of chemical compounds in our environment, 1 in 50 people could
expect to get cancer in his or her life time. Today, 1 in 3 Americans,1
in 2 males, will become cancer statistics! Cancer is a man-made disease,
and almost completely preventable. The purity of our water is one of the
most important factors in the prevention of degenerative disease. With
the risk so great and the solution so simple, why take the chance?
In-home water filtration is the easiest, most effective and most
economical way to have safe, healthy water for you and your family.
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