| Are you as alarmed as I was when you hear that | | | | Asking your water company to install a chloramine |
| some cities in this great country give false reports to | | | | filter at their facility won't do you a whole lot of good. |
| the government for the quality of the water that they | | | | And it certainly wouldn't be beneficial to expect the city |
| supply to their citizens? Wouldn't it make you wonder if | | | | to dig up all the lead filled pipes and install other ones. |
| you live in one of those cities? | | | | The cost of that would make your taxes go through |
| My city wasn't talked about in the article, but I come | | | | the roof. |
| from a rather small metropolitan area, so I highly doubt | | | | The best thing for you to do is to equip your own |
| mine would've been one reported on. What about you, | | | | home with a water purification unit that includes a |
| do you know about your city and what is in the water | | | | chloramine filter at the point of use, so you will be |
| you receive? | | | | assured of clean pure water for all your needs. |
| The article was referring to the chloramine levels in | | | | Especially if you live in an old house where the water |
| water and why we all need to install a chloramine filter | | | | may travel through lead soldered pipes within your |
| in our houses. | | | | own walls. |
| Chloramine has been used in place of chlorine at many | | | | Lead is very damaging to our health. It is linked to |
| water plants to disinfect our water and to remove | | | | nervous systems disorders, miscarriages, brain |
| dangerous contaminates. It is a combination of | | | | damage, reproductive problems, kidney disease, and |
| ammonia and chlorine. | | | | learning disabilities in children. |
| The research I've done shows this chemical eats | | | | We've all been warned about lead in paint, and much |
| away at the lead in the pipes the water travels | | | | has been done to tell us not to allow our children to |
| through on its way to our homes. This causes the lead | | | | come into contact with lead paint, but what about the |
| to get into our water supply, so even if the water | | | | supposedly pure water they drink from your home |
| tested lead free when it left the facility, by the time it | | | | faucet. |
| reaches your home it is no longer lead free. | | | | |