| Not a day goes by when we are not exposed to | | | | problems. The reality is that all chemicals will enter our |
| chemicals one way or another, including chemicals in | | | | drinking water one way or another. |
| tap water. If you drink tap water you are ingesting into | | | | Other chemicals in tap water include lead which is a |
| your body thousands of chemicals that are potentially | | | | toxic heavy metal that enters our drinking water |
| very damaging to your health. These chemicals can | | | | somewhere between the street water main and our |
| cause heart, kidney, liver, nervous system problems | | | | household taps. It is the most common water |
| and cancer. This article will discuss what some of | | | | contaminant next to chlorine. There is no safe level of |
| these chemicals can do to your body and what the | | | | lead in our body. It is thought to cause learning and |
| solution is. | | | | behavioral disabilities in children that can continue |
| Chemicals in tap water were introduced over 100 | | | | throughout their life.This destructive heavy metal also |
| years ago when chlorine was added to our drinking | | | | affects adults when you drink tap water causing high |
| water as a disinfectant to eradicate water-borne | | | | blood pressure and reduced hemoglobin production. It |
| diseases. These diseases were dysentery, cholera | | | | also affects the nervous system so that messages to |
| and thypoid. Although chlorine was effective in | | | | the brain become confusing causing other brain |
| eradicating the water-borne diseases it was the | | | | disorders. |
| beginning of a whole new set of health problems. | | | | As if this is not enough, prescription drugs are another |
| The chlorine in the water created by products called | | | | set of recently discovered chemicals in tap water. |
| trihalomethanes (THMs). These occur when the | | | | These are antibiotics, hormones and anti-depressants. |
| chlorine reacts with the organic matter in the water. | | | | Public water treatment systems are not designed to |
| THMs generate free radicals in our body and are | | | | remove these contaminants.You do not need to ingest |
| known to cause bladder and bowel cancer affecting | | | | this cocktail of chemicals. They are threatening to your |
| thousands of people annually. These by products have | | | | health. |
| also been linked to miscarriages in pregnant women, | | | | So there you have it, humans (and pets, for that |
| nervous system problems plus kidney and liver | | | | matter) are getting sicker all the time. Do you drink tap |
| illnesses. | | | | water? Could it be that chemicals in tap water are the |
| Synthetic chemicals that enter drinking water as air | | | | cause of your health problems? Remember that your |
| pollutants are known as VOCs. These come from | | | | body is made of 70% water. Why not have the very |
| weed sprays, petrol, and fumigation. Again, they | | | | best water you and your pets for good health? Please |
| generate free radicals causing cancer, kidney and liver | | | | click on the link to find out more. |