Facts That Make The Water You Drink â€œHealthy Waterâ€

June 23rd, 2009 by admin

Many of us are knowledgeable about the problem associated with drinking water. Primarily due to it’s bad smell and associated bad taste. But whatever it is, a lot of us donâ€™t believe that how much healthy or safe our drinking water is.

It has been calculated over 60% of all types of cancer are linked to the environment. Carcinogens are in surface or ground and municipal treated drinking water as per many studies.But it is often ignored because in drinking water there are many protective ingredients that can help protect us from the ill effects of cancer.

Rate of heart problems as well as cancer deaths are lower in the area where drinking water has higher in amounts of TDS.

The addition of fluoride to drinking water is an issue which is difficult to find the correct answers for.The unanswered questions on fluoridation are how effective and safe it is?

Too much fluoride in some cases has been reported to cause genetic damage in some plants and some animals, humans with birth defects, and allergy symptoms ranging from headaches, and fatigue, to chronic diarrhea and other problems.

Researchers with the NCI (National Cancer Institute) believe that as many as one tenth of cancer deaths in the US can be showing to possible been caused by theÂ fluoride in municipalÂ drinking water.

Another challenge is use of chlorine for purifying water as reported by many experts.Some experts have reported that they believe chlorine causes tumor development, atherosclerosis and cancer. Some scientists have performed experiments which have shown heart problems and common strokes also concerned with too much chlorine in drinking water.

Many states had showed studies which reveal that higher levels of THMs is proportional to prevalence of cancer.

Seriousness about chlorine and fluoride are one of the reasons that bottled water has become a craze and such a big business market. Many people drink bottle water instead of nozzle water. But there is the still questions as to if bottled water is “healthy water?â€.

Many people use another healthy option like filter of some sort. Both good and poor filters are obtainable. 3rd party is asked to test water filters in some states but the results are hard for the most people to appreciate.

Oral ingestion of chemicals are lower than skin absorption rates for chemicals both in adults and children as per some experts.Â It is also believed that inhaling of trichloroethylene while showering is over 80 times greater than from drinking the same water.

For people who are really concerned about having “healthy water“, a solution to consider is a whole-house filtrating system for chemical removal, with no mineral extraction. Points concerning to use of filters for other nozzles are also mentioned.

But we still don’t really know if the water we drink is really healthy water.