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How Clean is Your Tap Water?
Posted by cltalbert • 10/15/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: environment, health, pollution, water, water pollution
Contaminants are dumped into our drinking water from a number of different sources each day. How safe is your drinking water? This article explores the dangers and health risks associated with drinking water in the United States.
www.thehealthymoms.net/2009/10/how-clean-is-your-tap-water.html
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Let's just say we filter the water and used the rest for therapeutic mud baths. -
I can drink from my toilet. But its also in Europe. -
Here in Switzerland, we can drink from the tap, I just bought an filter machine to change the taste.
Also I livedin France and Belgium and there was no problem to dirnk from the tap.
The was good as after some crazy nightlife it helped to have good fresh water
Frederik Van Lierde
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My city water is supposed to be good, still, I buy my drinking water. -
It is cleaner than bottled water which is pretty likely to be tap water that has been soaking up toxins from a plastic bottle it has been sitting in for months.-
LOL! Yeah there are no "mountain springs".
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I live in San Francisco and we have one of the cleanest water in the country. I think it has to do with our strict environmental guidelines. -
Funny you asked this about the water.
We use The Brita Water Filter System. For those of you how don't recognize, it is where you fill it up with tap water and it filters the water to remove the bad stuff.
Last week the water had an odor of outside ground, earth and grass. Then the kitchen and the first bathroom sink taps gave off an odor like, forgive me, BO (body odor) This lasted less than thirty hours and it returned to the clean water we are used to filtering.
I decided to forego the water and drank lots of milk instead. It is frightening how the world is rushing toward that long ago Charlton Heston movie, Soylent Green. Very scary.
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We distill our water because of all of the stuff in it.-
What? you have a lab in your house? Or just reusing the equipment you make your shine with?
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It hadn't killed us yet so I guess it's pretty good. -
I drink water from our tap, not regularly, but that's b/c I don't drink water really. We have a filter from the freezer, but whatever. We use the regular water to cook, too.
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I'm in New York City and my city have some of the best tap water around and this goes for pretty much the state of NY as well. It's the same source used in bottling Vitamin Water and the water is what makes New York City Pizza taste so good. I drink from the tap regularly. -
Cleaner than most people's on the planet. UV Purifying system, Reverse Osmosis purification system, and water softening system.-
You people and your fancy, clean, pure, soft water!
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There's nothing like it, although I did see a stream somewhere that's like crystal clear clean on some island on an episode of Crocodile Hunter. Maybe that could rival it.
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My well taps the local spring, so we're good. -
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Cleaner than my dishes and hands. It works. -
I like germs - I invite them in so we could have a good fight (in which I always win) -
There are plenty of problems with tap water that too many people either still don't know about or choose to ignore at their own peril. A few more facts for your case. Over 90% of the pipes supplying water to our homes are over 100 years old. The CDC - Center for Disease Control states that approximately "ONE Million" people get sick from contaminated drinking water every year in the United States. Cryptosporidium - a parasite found in drinking water in multiple municipal drinking water supplies does not get filtered out at water sanitation facilities. It slips through their antiquated filtering mechanisms. About a million cases of bacteria contamination happen each year. The EPA confirmed that 130 municipal water supplies exceeded the federal legal limit for lead contamination. Given all this, we still have safer water than much of the planet but we surely could be doing far better. -
You're still my friend, dont take this personally..
Pooh.. typical american false pride. In Bombay I could get chlorinated water - so no germs.. and isn't that supposed to be a third world city?
What good is your first world if you cant purify the water
Anyway - as I said, I dont need no mineral water-
Typical American false pride? I'm tired of people like you seriously. Do you want us to apologize because we live in a great country? I don't give a rats ass anymore. Go choke on your 3rd worldness!
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Will quote bernard shaw: Patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel
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Only those who can't think of words themselves resort to quotes.
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Would you drink your own water if nice water was being provided by nature?
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Yeah I would and so would everyone else. And by "nice water" being provided by nature, I'm talking about water that doesn't need to be chlorinated. That puts people in MUMBAI out of luck and I as well.
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So you want nature to serve up double purified, distilled, decontaminated, vitaminized water for you?
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Wow... I didn't know chlorinated water implied double purified, distilled, decontaminated, vitaminized water. Wow, you do know what chlorinated water is right? It's simple water with chlorine added. When was double purified, distilled, decontaminated, vitaminized water ever brought up in this conversation? Are you trying to tell me the CHLORINATED water in MUMBAI is not good enough? Are you contradicting your own statement?
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I am pointing out that even nature does not provide you all that these fear mongering companies are providing
Nature may well serve you animals' piss, but there is a reason why mankind has survived for 10000 years and the reason is not the production of bottled water
I used to drink the chlorinated water, and I drink from the faucets in CA. I care for neither -
Holy contradiction Batman! Well, it was nice talking to you. Thanks for your input.
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Well my initial point was addressing TC's post mentioning about the bacteria and complaining about the tap water
Mumbai took care of the bacteria, didn't it?
But my own take is clear from start to end: I don't care for the bacteria or traces of dirt
If you misunderstood something, maybe you will figure it out
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Philippine city tap water can kill you..... -
I supposedly have great tap water (I have a friend who works at the local water plant) and I filter mine twice before I drink it. -
I live in LA, no one drinks tap water here, thats how clean it is. -
You can read about water quality in your area at www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/index.html
and lots of more important information on drinking water at
www.epa.gov/ogwdw000/faq/faq.html#safe
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