Whether your water comes from a private well or from city tap, there are supposed "trace" amounts of contaminants and toxins found in the drinking water. I say supposed trace because the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) sometimes has dubious allowable limits. Consider the hotly debated arsenic rule, for example.
Whether your water comes from a private well or from city tap, there are supposed "trace" amounts of contaminants and toxins found in the drinking water. I s... more
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arsenic
hands down the deadliest toxin in the water.
2
fluoride.
not found in trace amounts in the water. it's a neurotoxin and suppresses thryoid function.
3
lead.
not just in paint, but in water carried through lead pipes and copper pipes with lead in the soldering.
4
chlorine.
some cities have amounts equivalent to that of commercial swimming pools.
5
nitrates.
can kill babies (blue baby syndrome) in high amounts in a short time.
6
TTHM's and HAA5's (two categories from DBP's)
these are carcinogenic byproducts of chlorine reacting to organic matter in the water.
7
voc's. (volatile organic compounds)
another umbrella category of nasty things we don't want to ingest or inhale in the shower.
8
pfc's
perfluorochemicals--an umbrella category of hyper-persistant chemicals that don't break down very fast in our bodies. they come from products like Scotchguard (which is no longer made b/c the chemicals are toxic)
9
radium and radon
two radioactive substances naturally occuring in the water.
10
cryptosporidium and giardia
parasites that cause horrible gastric distress and killed over 100 people in Milwaukee in 1993
[source: Water Examiner ]
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