But you should know it’s a challenging process to produce good bottled water. This is due to the many toxic chemicals and environmental pollutants, especially in our water supply. That’s why some bottled water companies explain water purification techniques without a lot of depth. In reality there are little sources of pure bottled water sold. According to one study about 25% of bottled water sold in the United States is simply re-processed, municipal water. In fact, both Aquafina (made by Pepsi-Cola) and Dasani (produced by Coca-Cola) are actually reprocessed from municipal water systems.

So you can see why we need purer water. An increased intake of pure water will enhance many aspects of your health as well as flush out toxins from your system. You’ve probably heard this one before “drink eight ounces of water each day.” And, yes, it still holds true. That being said, it’s not very good if you’re drinking eight glasses of tainted water a day. That’s really defeating the purpose of healthy living isn’t it?

Also, people don’t realize that there are no government standards that require bottled water to be of a higher standard, purer or more secure than our tap water. In fact, a lot of water is bottled and sold in the same state it’s manufactured in to avoid the more federalized rules and regulations that do come up.

What’s more, from an environmental standpoint, the process of bottling water is harsh on our natural resources. According to Eric Olsen of the Natural Resources Defense Council: “It causes millions of plastic bottles to be manufactured, transported and then disposed of in U.S. landfills, it’s killing our planet, and for no good reason,” said Olsen.

Other environmental experts say that the bottled water industry does more damage than good. First, the wasteful plastic used for the bottles is evident. Second, it takes millions of barrels of oil to produce the bottled water. Whatever the water purification process used, the production alone is taxing on our natural resources.

Another position on this topic is how to use tap water safely. A growing trend is the use of home water filtering systems. A more environmentally friendly solution to the bottled water dilemma is home water purifying systems that consist of taps that fit right on your kitchen faucet. This can help you get quality-tasting water in a more accommodating way.

Let me explain water purification systems by the way they are used. Some mechanisms rely on a dual filter system. This type uses a combination of carbon filtration ion exchange and sub-micron filtration. Reviews indicate this produces healthy, quality water. So be sure a home system can filter out the impurities that get in our water. This includes volatile organic compounds like lead, and chlorine cysts, which are nasty chlorine resistant parasites. What a good system does leave in are the natural trace minerals we need for pure water.

Lastly, be more aware about where you get your water and how it can affect the environment and your health. In the long run, you will be glad you did. Check out a good home water filtering system that can offer you health and convenience–and no bottles anywhere!

Dana Lakes is a passionate advocate of living a healthy lifestyle. Visit her site at: http://www.clean-filtered-safe-water.com to learn more about water filters.

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The calculator asks questions that elicit information about lifestyle in order to determine total water use by taking into account amounts of water used to produce the products, food and energy a person uses in addition to personal daily use of water. Every aspect of our lives is connected to water. We use water to make electricity, to grow food and to make the things we use and wear. It takes 24 gallons of water to make a pound of plastic. It takes more than one hundred gallons of water to make a pound of cotton. 40 percent of our country’s fresh water resources, it is estimated, are consumed by power plants.

The average American, based on the Calculator results, uses 1,189.3 gallons of water per day!

Personal use of water has always been estimated at between one hundred and two hundred gallons per person. This includes use of water for flushing of toilets, showers, laundry, hand washing and outdoor watering. The national average is about two hundred gallons but with increased rationing and water saving steps underway in many of the drought states the variation is dramatic.

The Calculator measures personal water use in a different manner. It takes account of the water used to produce the products people use in their personal lives. When this method of water gets factored in it becomes immediately obvious that we are heading for a problem about water. Water sustains our life style, our food production, our product production and a large part of our electricity production.

The demand for water is growing both in the United States and worldwide. There are various reasons why this is so:

• increased demand for water as populations increase.
• expanding industrial use of water to make more products.
• increased agricultural irrigation as a result of drought conditions.
• personal use of water for lawns, shrubs and gardens.

While demand for water is growing, the availability of usable water is declining. There are three main reasons why this is so:

• climate change and weather shifts are creating drought conditions.
• water sources are becoming more and more contaminated by runoff stormwater,
  by industrial waste, with agricultural runoff and with private sector wastewater.
  Even sewage treatment plants are discharging treated wastewater that contaminates water sources with medicines and drugs that do not dissolve and, in many cases, with nutrients.
• the aquifers are being drawn down ever more rapidly.

Our world is changing. There are so many more people on earth. Industrialization is occurring on a scale never before seen. This has led to ever increasing needs for food, energy, fuel and water. As the laws of supply and demand come into play, prices for these basics of life become more expensive – and the basics of life become more scarce. It is simply not something we Americans expected. The last time our nation experienced widespread problems about basic necessities was during the Great Depression and World War II.

Even the gasoline shortage for several years during the 1970′s was different than what is happening now with water because that was a crisis triggered only by reduced oil production. Also, it was temporary. What is happening now is not temporary. There will never again be a surplus of fresh water for the earth. The high cost of fuel, energy, food and plastics is not likely to be temporary. The cost of water will rise dramatically.

Yes, breakthroughs in alternative sources of energy could happen in a way that reverses the price trend for energy. But this will not happen overnight. The demands for water will continue to increase. The high cost of water and, therefore the high cost of living, is going up and is likely to be with us for a very long time to come. Water and sewer bills will continue going up. The electric bill will continue rising. Less use of water will be the order of the day.

Step one: start noticing and tracking your use of water. Stay alert for reports about which products require more water to be produced. Start thinking about ways to use less water and to manage your use of water more efficiently.

Losoncy is the president of Clean Up America, Inc, a company that markets an evaporation, waterless, non discharge toilet know as the Eloo. To learn more go to http://www.Eloo.US

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Kevin: Now, we haven’t talked about well water and a lot of people who I talk to about water and I don’t know as much as you do, but I tell them some of these things and they say, “Well, I’m on well water and that’s okay.” So why don’t you talk a little bit about some of the things that you can find in well water and how you can protect from those.

Jim: Well water is a reflection of the land around the well. So well water can be terrific or it can be horrible. The Midwest of this country is known as the lymphoma belt because of the application of herbicides. Pretty soon, a couple of months from now, we’re going to see those farmers out in the fields and they’re going to be spraying, spraying, spraying. Then it’s going to rain. That water’s going to go down into the ground and it’s going to carry all those herbicides and pesticides into those wells.

So it all depends and then I’ve got people in the Rocky Mountains. People test their well water and there’s arsenic, there’s lead, there’s fluoride and guess what. How did we settle the Rocky Mountains? Miners came out here for minerals. So whatever is going on in the landscape around you is going to be reflected in the water. Remember, water’s a universal solvent. It’s going to be dissolving the soils or the rock that are around you.

Now, a lot of well water is really wonderful. A lot of well water is not. Taste is not a good indicator. You really should get a thorough test. I sell a test called, The Water Check. It test for 75 parameters for $137 and you can add herbicides and pesticides to that for another $30. Get a good profile of your well and then you know how to treat it.

Kevin: Right.

Jim: The other thing that happens is people might have a well and so they’ll buy a water softener. They say I have a well, so I need a water softener. Until you test that water, you have no way of knowing whether you need anything or not. It’s no different than the guy who goes into the store and buys one of these little pitcher filters and figures they’re covered. You need to test your water and then put in the treatments that deal with the contaminants that you find.

Kevin: With the well water, should you be testing it once every five years, ten years or something like that?

Jim: It really isn’t a time thing. People like to come up with time and so maybe five years, but really, I would look for changes in the watershed. You have an agricultural community that suddenly becomes suburban.

Kevin: Okay.

Jim: That’s a common transition. While you may move from one set of problems to another, from herbicides to leaking septics with nitrate, or lawns are a very common source of herbicides, because like Chemlawn, who even thought of naming that company that, Chemlawn. They come in and spray, so you have this green lawn with nothing but bluegrass. Those chemicals are getting washed down into your well.

So I would look for changes in the landscape. New developments can affect your water. Is there a new industry around? Anything going on that might affect the water table.

Kevin: I remember you told me once about a family who had really high levels of uranium.

Jim: Yeah. I shouldn’t laugh. I never heard back from that guy, but his family had discovered this after many years of not testing their well and people had been dying in the family. The family had grown up with this well and they’d been dropping like flies and nobody knew why and then finally they tested the well and it had very high levels of uranium.

Kevin: Wow.

Jim: Then this guy needed – and sometimes I’ll tell people and of course, they don’t take me seriously, but I’ll tell people to move.

Kevin: Really?

Jim: There’s certain things that you can’t fix.

Kevin: Right, because that’s not only in the water, but it’s causing reactions with everything else.

Jim: Yeah. Radon is another. There are certain things and I’ve got a library on my website at http://www.cleanairpurewater.com/resource_library.html. I just have links to all these articles about different contaminants. One of them is a study by a group of scientists about the things that you shouldn’t get any of.

Kevin: Oh, cool.

Jim: One of them is radon. I remember when radon came out, everybody was reacting. Here’s the EPA. One more telling us now we can’t breathe radon. Where’s this coming from? Well, radon can be in water as well as your basement. If it’s in your basement it may very well be in your water and just inhaling small bits of radon can be very dangerous.

Kevin: Yeah and in the northeast I think something that’s very prevalent.

Jim: Yeah and again, it’s easy to remove with a good whole house carbon filter, or you can aerate it. Another issue is this hydrogen sulfide, that rotten egg smell. For years people thought that is just an aesthetic concern and I get great customers. I had one guy whose daughters were insisting that he do something, because they would smell like that going to school.

Kevin: Wow.

Jim: Yeah. This guy was like, “I don’t smell anything.” So he’s having this major social impact on their lives, but EPA has recently come out and said that in fact, hydrogen sulfide is not just an aesthetic concern, but is actually dangerous. We learn. As time goes by we learn.

Kevin: It’s almost like we learn the things that we knew were bad for us anyway.

Jim: Yeah, intuitively.

Kevin: Right.

Jim: That’s right.

Kevin: Say someone right now is listening to this call and they’re interested in getting better water. What’s the first and second step?

Jim: My opinion is the first thing you do is write down your goals in an unbiased setting. You write down what do you want. Do you want healthy water? Do you want water that tastes good? Are you concerned about mineral deposits that are building up on the shower doors? Because when you write down what your goals are that’s going to drive your decision making later on.

I never make decisions for my customers. If some guy calls and he says, “Jim, all I care about is my wife is on my case about the marking on the shower doors.” Then he needs a water softener. So sit down with the family, or the decision makers who are deciding what it is that you want to accomplish. Then, number two, look at your water report. See what’s in the water. Then you can go to my guide or another location and say these are the things that I need to get out of the water. Here’s the treatment I need and then go buy that treatment.

Kevin: One thing that I always talk about and something that we did with our water is that we got something that was sufficient with our budget at the time and then we upgraded and I think that’s a good approach to take, too, if you are concerned about your water. Would you agree?

Jim: Yeah. A lot of people will buy these expensive filters in the grocery store. I won’t name brand names, but they hook on the faucet, or there’s a little pitcher. Those might be a good intermediate step. They are not a good long term step. The filters that hook on your faucet, just like a carbon filter without KDF, they’ve been shown to provide breeding grounds for bacteria. They can colonize and live on the surface. So now, all of a sudden you may be removing some chlorine, but you’re actually drinking more in the way of bacteria. If you do that sort of thing, you’ve got to change them out really regularly and stay on top of it. So again, it seems cheap at first, but to do it right it’s not.

Kevin: Here’s a question that I wasn’t even planning on asking. What about cleaning out the tubes? Is there any time that you need to flush the tubes with chlorine or bleach or something like that to get stuff out if there’s organic material building up in the tubes?

Jim: Yeah and what I recommend that’s in the manual of the Kitchen Defender is when you want to clean it, do it when you’re changing the filters and go to the store and just buy some hydrogen peroxide at the grocery store, 99 cents. Take the canisters off. Fill each one up with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. So you’ll have three canisters full of hydrogen peroxide and then run that to the faucet and you can tell when the faucet is discharging hydrogen peroxide and then turn it off and let it sit for an hour or two and then just empty it out and put your new filters in.

Kevin: Got you.

Jim: That will clean out any organic build up. It does not have the toxic byproducts that bleach does.

Kevin: Right.

Kevin: What about different companies and looking at a company that you know you’re going to be able to get a filter in five or ten years?

Jim: You mean longevity?

Kevin: Yes.

Jim: I think there’s some validity to that. People still ask me if I’m still going to be in business and I tell them that I’ve got kids to put through college and I don’t hide my manufacturer from anybody, so they can always go there if they couldn’t find me. We’re in an era where – this isn’t filters, but Starbucks turned around and are closing stores, because people aren’t going to pay $3.50 for a cup of coffee. I never would have guessed that six months ago.

Kevin: Right.

Jim: Never ever. Big companies are being acquired all the time. One of the equipment suppliers that I use was acquired by 3M, because 3M is looking at water. There’s going to be a lot of consolidation in the water business I think. Companies may come and go. Technologies are going to change. So maybe I think you’ll be able to get filters for your system. You could probably find something locally. It won’t be as good as what you could get from me, because I use a unique set.

Kevin: Right.

Jim: The other thing, if you start dealing with me, in three years I may be saying Kevin, I’m thinking about ozone, or hydroxical radicals. I’ve got this thing that if we add this onto your system I think we’re going to get a better level of protection and so we’re going to watch the water business, watch our knowledge, watch the technologies and see what develops. So it’s not stagnant. It’s ever changing.

Kevin: I personally think it’s nice to have someone hold my hand, because the amount of research, there are other people out there too, but 30 years of environmental research, come on. I don’t have that and I’m researching everything else in terms of health and so it’s very valuable to go to a person to and say this is what my water looks like, what do you think, what are your recommendations and then decide if it’s a fit or not.

Kevin Gianni the host of “Renegade Health Show” – a fun and informative daily health show that is changing the perception of health across the world. His is an internationally known health advocate, author, and film consultant. You can find out more about the best water filters, water systems and how to get clean, pure drinking water at Renegade Water Secrets. He is also the creator and co-author of “The Busy Person’s Fitness Solution.”

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Kevin: We were talking before this call about here in Connecticut how the water, the EPA regulations, or the amount or the number of fish that people can eat out of Connecticut lakes and streams for pregnant women is zero and if I’m not mistaken it’s one per week per person and that’s pretty telling.

Jim: Yeah. If they’re telling you that you can eat one per week, you can bet you should be eating way less than that.

Kevin: Yeah.

Jim: I’m not familiar with Connecticut’s source. My suspicion, typically, what they’re talking about is mercury. Mercury comes from coal plants and drifts around on the wind and mercury has some very interesting characteristics. I’m sure you remember when you were little you used to play with mercury out of thermometers. We would break a thermometer, so we could get at the mercury and roll it around. You’re not supposed to touch the stuff, because it can be absorbed through your skin, but mercury actually can vaporize and then move on the wind and then it drops out with rain. That’s how it ends up in all of our rivers. It will just simply wash along with the rain into the river system and then the fish tend to accumulate it. There was a similar study in the west on mercury and every fish in every river in the west and that source of mercury was attributed largely to coal mines in China. There are also gold mines in Nevada, which are a serious source, as well as coal mines in the US. Interestingly, due to these wind patterns there’s two things. One, there’s a Spotted Rocky Mountain National Park, which has more mercury than a toxic waste dump. This beautiful, pristine lake where the wind patterns due to the mountain, the way the mountain affects the wind, it just so happens that there is a lot of mercury from around the west and from China settles there in this particular alpine lake. The same is true of the poles. People talk about – there’s these guys that bottle iceberg water as the purest water on the planet from the poles, because of the extreme temperatures that happen to be similar to places where there’s a phenomenon that causes herbicides and pesticides and mercury to drop out of the sky and concentrate. So we’ve made the world a smaller place.

Kevin: Yeah.

Jim: When I get customers high in the mountains, they think they’ve got great water. I’m looking out as we talk at the stream where I live. There’s no mining upstream of me. There’s one small town, but there’s mercury in the fish.

Kevin: Wow. With the city water and some of these bottled waters, are they testing for mercury in the water? Because I don’t think I saw it on my city water report.

Jim: City water reports, a lot of people are skeptical, but they really are a pretty good source. They test for thousands of compounds. Not all of them on a regular – each city will – if they don’t find any mercury, then EPA will maybe make them test just every two or three or five years. But then they don’t list it if they don’t find it.

Kevin: So I’m just looking at mine and I’m going to make the Danbury city water report available to everyone who has this, as well as show them how they can find it online with the video (click here for how to find your city water report online), but there’s some things on here, like turbidity, that I’m just not familiar with at all. Do you think you can explain what that is?

Jim: Turbidity is basically dirt.

Kevin: Okay.

Jim: Think of this as really water and again, most people can relate to playing in a stream at one point or another and there’s dirt on the bottom of the stream. The water is flowing. There’s particles suspended in that water. That’s what turbidity is.

Kevin: Okay. So it’s nothing that complicated.

Jim: No. Some of my customers with well water might have – in Danbury your turbidity is .05 to .45. Some of my customers with well water might have turbidity of two to six. This is NTUs. It’s a particular measure of turbidity, in which case the dirt is either going to clog up all the fixtures in their home. So if you have a high turbidity number, when I see that then what that tells me is we’ve got to put a filter on the house.

Kevin: Right. So before it even gets into the system in the house it’s got to be cleaned out.

Jim: Yeah. Just a regular old sediment filter to get the turbidity taken care of, so then you can treat the chemicals downstream of that.

Kevin: Right. That’s great. As it is with a lot of the reality of health and things that are happening in the environment it gets a little scary. So why don’t we talk a little bit now, about some of the things that you can do to help make your water clean and fresh and tastier and all the good things and get all the health benefits from it. So I think we should probably just start with what are some of the types of filters, or what are some of the things that you can do to get your water clean?

Jim: Well, that’s good, Kevin. The first thing I wanted to say is that people make a huge mistake by going into Home Depot or no matter where they go and make a purchase and just buying a filter and then installing it in their home and then they think, aha. I’ve taken care of this problem. So what I like to do and what I would recommend to everyone is start by looking at your water report. Identify the contaminants in that report and then from there determine what you need and my little guide, my ultimate guide to selecting the appropriate water treatment system is available for free for people to read on the internet at http://www.sweetwaterllc.com. That contains a list of contaminants and filter types, so that you could actually go and say, aha. I’ve got these problems. Here’s the solutions and then go out and buy the appropriate filter all by yourself. So I start by looking at the water report. In your situation there in Danbury you’ve got things that are notable, or high, halocidic acids and trihalomethanes, the chlorine byproducts. So we want to get rid of the chlorine and the chlorine byproducts. You’ve got your fluoride levels pretty high. The range is .2 to 1.43, but 1.43 is a fairly high number. Fluoride’s one of those controversial issues. I don’t frankly know why we’re putting it in our water, but some people – it seems like cities continue to go in that direction. Other people are just opposed to consuming any fluoride, so each of these contaminants or compounds that are in your water can be removed by a particular treatment system. Now, in term of chlorine, chlorine byproducts, herbicides and pesticides, which are all really fall under the category of volatile organics, then you need a good carbon filter. So carbon is the tool to use to remove chlorine and the chlorine byproducts and then the herbicides and pesticides.

Kevin: So when you talk about a good carbon filter, what’s a good carbon filter as opposed to a carbon filter?

Jim: Well, I think again, you get what you pay for. There are different types of carbon. They’re varying degrees of quality. I think it’s probably inappropriate to discuss the kinds of carbon, but one of the things that I look for and one of my favorite treatments, for instance, is KDF.

Kevin: Okay.

Jim: KDF is high purity copper and zinc that in solution, creates an electrical charge and ionizes the water, which is a whole other arena. I’m not really particularly trying to ionize the water so much as – KDF can make carbon filters much more effective. So for instance, in the three stage filter you have in your home, in that first stage you have a pound of KDF and then you have granular activated carbon. So what you have is the water is coming in and chlorine is being removed, all the chlorine byproducts, the herbicides, pesticides. The KDF makes that environment so that it’s antibacterial and it increases the effectiveness of the carbon. So to me, a carbon filter with KDF is as good as you can get. That’s an excellent choice.

Kevin: Right.

Jim: The second stage in your case is an activated alumina, which can sound a little scary. It’s not aluminum. It’s alumina and that acts like carbon. The fluoride and other metals actually attach to the surface of the alumina, so you’re not adding aluminum to the water. It’s pulling the metals out. It’s an absorptive surface. The KDF actually in the first stage it charges some of the metals, like arsenic and makes removal by the second stage more effective.

Kevin: Wow.

Jim: Then the third stage in your house is this carbon black and it’s coconut carbon, which is some of the most effective carbon there is and it’s a carbon block filter. So it’s got little pores. It’s a solid filter with little pores in it that are one micron in five. The water flows through that and any remaining traces of herbicides, pesticides, chlorine and then anything larger than one micron is held back by that filter. So that sequence is a really nice sequence for chlorinated water.

Kevin: Right and what I have is the Kitchen Defender and we’ll get more information about that going forward with the call. So in case anyone’s like, “What do you have? I don’t have that in my house.” Jim set me up with a filter there. So that’s a three step process to clean out the water. Now, what about some of these other systems? There’s some very expensive systems out there. There’s some very expensive ionizers. Now, is an ionizer going through that same process, or is it just changing the pH?

Jim: There’s ionizers and then there’s alkaline water. Those are often combined and they are very expensive systems. Now, I don’t honestly know the benefits. I’ll tell you what I do know. When I talk to my naturopath or when I do research what I learn is that cancer cells cannot survive in an alkaline body and I’m just hearing that. I’ve been told that. I don’t know if that’s really true or not. So people want to drink alkaline water in order to increase the pH, raise the pH of their body, but the same naturopath that I go to would say, “Well, you’re stomach is acidic.” That environment is acidic and you really don’t want to drink a lot of alkaline water. It’s going to just disrupt your digestive process. The way to get your body alkaline is through eating properly, eating foods that tend to when digested have the reaction of taking your body towards the more alkaline side. So these alkalinizers, some people swear by them. They start drinking it. Their body does tend to become alkaline. I do believe that the water you drink shouldn’t be acidic. It should be a pH of 7.4 ideally. I don’t think it has to be higher than that. That’s my answer.

Kevin Gianni the host of “Renegade Health Show” – a fun and informative daily health show that is changing the perception of health across the world. His is an internationally known health advocate, author, and film consultant. You can find out more about the best water filters, water systems and how to get clean, pure drinking water at Renegade Water Secrets. He is also the creator and co-author of “The Busy Person’s Fitness Solution”.

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There is nothing to worry about here. The quality of water from drinking water treatment facilities is closely monitored and regulated by both state and federal agencies. Our water is safe to drink and amazingly inexpensive. In fact, water quality is getting better all of the time due to increasingly stringent regulation from the EPA. Some of the more recent regulations have been designed to prevent dangerous micro organisms from making people ill. Other regulations have reduced the amount of chlorinated organic chemicals, potential cancer causing compounds, from entering the drinking water supply.

Improvement in water quality has been made possible by advancements in water treatment technologies including membrane filtration, UV radiation and ozone water treatment. Ozone is particularly interesting since it has the capability to solve many water treatment problems at the same time.

Ozone is a form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms instead of two. The chemical formula for ozone is O3 whereas the chemical formula for oxygen is O2. One of the advantages of ozone in water treatment is that it is not stable and eventually reverts back to oxygen in water. Thus it leaves no harmful residuals after it has completed its work. As a result, O3 is used for many different applications in drinking water including:

• Disinfection of difficult to treat micro organisms that can make people seriously ill
• Disinfection without the formation of potentially cancer causing chemicals
• Removal of micro pollutants such as pesticides and pharmaceuticals
• Removal of unpleasant tastes, odors and colors that make water difficult to use

Ozone is produced in a machine called an ozone generator. These machines convert oxygen to ozone. The oxygen can come from air or from a purer form of oxygen. The ozone/oxygen gas mixture is then injected into water where it removes chemical compounds and kills micro organisms. Ozone has been used for this purpose in Europe for over 100 years. Over the last century, the technology for producing O3 has significantly improved making it more efficient and less expensive.

Ozone has only been in large scale use in the United States for about 30-40 years. Many major cities have decided to use ozone to treat their drinking water including Los Angeles, Boston, Orlando, Dallas, Tacoma, Detroit, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Phoenix. In total over 300 cities in the US treat water with O3. In addition, almost all bottled water sold in the United States is ozonated.

Technologies like ozone are allowing cities and water utilities to use a wider array of water sources including wastewater to expand the supply of water while keeping costs under control. This will become important as cities in arid regions of the US continue to grow rapidly and need additional supplies of water to serve their populations.

Anthony Sacco is Marketing Director for Spartan Environmental Technologies, LLC. Spartan supplies advanced water treatment technologies for industrial and municipal water treatment plants. You can learn more about drinking water treat at http://www.spartanwatertreatment.com/drinking-water.html To learn more about ozone water treatment system at http://www.spartanwatertreatment.com/ozone-water-treatment-systems.html

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Even more people have no concerns what so ever about drinking water that comes from their faucet because they believe it must be safe and they have no actual idea of what is in our drinking water that can be harmful to us.

The environment is inundated with chemicals everyday that will eventually find their way into the water that we drink if it is not filtered with a quality drinking water system that filters these harmful chemicals out.

When we consider what is in our drinking water and come to the realization that the drinking water system in the United States contains over 2,100 chemicals that are toxic and can cause cancer, we quickly see how important a quality filtration system is.

Most consumers believe that the water they have coming from their faucets is properly filtered by the water company. They are completely unaware of what is in our drinking water, and do not realize that the filtration used on the drinking water system at most water processing plants does not remove any of these harmful chemicals.

Most water processing plants still use an old fashioned form of filtration that is nothing more than a process that removes visible debris from the water. They then use chlorine bleach to make the water clear. During spring time, often times the water treatment plant of smaller towns can’t even keep the water crystal clear due to water run off.

This leaves behind a great deal of harmful toxins and chemicals in the drinking water system. These chemicals make their way into our homes and our bodies and pose a high risk to those that drink this barely processed water.

Pesticides and herbicides are some of the most common toxic chemicals that are found in the drinking water system, however there is a huge number of other chemicals from medications to dry cleaning chemicals that can be found as well.

Once a person is aware of what is truly in our drinking water, most will immediately start to consider purchasing a quality water filtration system that will help to remove all of these harmful chemicals from the water that they drink.

Having your own water filtration system in place in your home is the only way to protect your family from the high amounts of chemicals that can be found in today’s drinking water.

By learning about the harmful chemicals that can be found in standard tap water, a person can take action to ensure that their family is protected from these chemicals by purchasing a quality water filtration system for their home.

You will have great peace of mind by having a water filtration system in place and you will no longer have to worry about the chemicals your family is consuming when they drink a glass of water.

Robert D. Clemens is an avid proponent of healthy living and a researcher of water purification systems. To learn more about drinking water filters or which one Robert recommends and trust for his family in their home, visit http://www.Filtered-and-Safe-Water.com

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Alarming reports have been made saying that tap water is no longer safe to drink so various kinds of water filters have been available in the market. However, there are many of us who don’t trust the effectiveness of water filters and still choose to go for the other alternative- bottled water.

Many of us are easily deceived by the TV and print ads that we see about bottled water. Bottled water companies claim that their products are free from impurities and safe for drinking. Are their claims true?

The common types of bottled water are distilled, sparkling, spring and mineral water. Recent studies agree that they are clean but not totally agreeable to them being safe. Some bottled water have a great amount of fluoride exceeding what’s recommended for children thus causing teeth mottling. Some bottled water have more than 10 mg/liter of sodium which is detrimental to people with heart and kidney problems and those who are hypertensive. There’s no manufacturing date on the bottled water so you have no idea how long the water has been in the bottle. With that, it has been said that leeching of the plastic bottle components into the water happens more with time. Some bottles still contain bacteria because they don’t normally undergo decontamination. Aren’t these enough to say that bottled water is not so healthy and safe?

Environmentalists have been trying to inform everyone that bottled mineral water is bad for the planet. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 86% of the empty plastic water bottles in the United States become garbage. These plastic bottles will take 1000 years to decompose. Plastic bottles cannot be incinerated because it brings forth to toxic by-products like chlorine gas. In 2004, an Italian consumed almost 184 liters of bottled water in a year. In the same year, it is 169 liters for a Mexican and 137 liters for a Spanish. The 26 billion liter-record of Americans cannot be discounted. The popularity of bottled water continuous to grow so just imagine the number of plastic bottles that has to be produced to meet the needs of the world and the number of garbage it will amount to. Definitely, bottled mineral water damage our environment.

Some plastic bottles are made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and some are from polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic obtained from crude oil. Making bottles for American consumption alone needs more than 1.5 million barrels of oil yearly. Just count in your head the number of cars it can fuel in a year.

Bottled water is transported by trains, trucks, airplanes and trucks for long distances. Aside from the water packaging, transportation also involves the burning of large amounts of fossil fuel. The data gathered by Earth Policy Institute in 2004 states that a Helsinki company shipped 1.4 million bottles of Finnish tap water 4,300 kilometers (2,700 miles) to Saudi Arabia.

If you frequent the supermarket, you’ll notice that bottled water cost more compared to some basic commodities like milk. It can cost anywhere in between 240-10,000 times more expensive than tap water. After considering what has been previously noted, at $2.50 per liter; would you be willing to buy an overpriced bottled drinking water which could be bad for you?

You have a lot of bottled water options if you stay firm in your belief that bottled water is safe. There’s the mineral enriched Evian of France, the Eldorado Natural Spring Water, Italian Sanfaustino, Ethos Water- the recently acquired by Starbucks, Dasani by Coca-Cola and Aquafina by PepsiCo. Whichever brand you choose, it’s better if you have a look at the mineral contents and amounts of the product. And for the bottle, please find a way to recycle (if possible) and dispose the bottles properly.

Edward D Parry is an advocate of safe drinking water and one of the things that he preaches is the danger of drinking bottled water. Get more information regarding problems with bottled water [http://shoppingproductsguide.com/special-products/tap-water-bottled-water-and-your-health.html].

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In developed countries, water boards are subject to stringent regulations and frequent testing to ensure that their water meets uncompromising and exacting safety standards. In South Africa, Rand Water (which supplies five of the country’s nine provinces) produces water that meets guidelines established by the World Health Organisation, and compares favourably with Canada, who are recognised leaders in water quality management.

Most of the water that Rand Water uses comes from an unpolluted source high in the Vaal River catchment area. Because it’s naturally clean and pure, it doesn’t need to be treated. The only thing that they have to do is regulate the mineral content to ensure that it stays in line with international standards.

Bottled water, on the other hand, often contains too many added minerals to be considered safe. But this doesn’t really matter because according to foodandwaterwatch.org, up to 40% of bottled water is tap water anyway, despite what some unscrupulous advertisers state on the label.

Moral ambiguity and mineral content aside, there are other reasons to dodge the bottle and turn on the tap. It takes massive amounts of energy, not to mention toxic chemicals, to produce the plastic bottles used. Despite calls to recycle, only a dedicated few actually do, and the rest clog up landfills and rubbish dumps, which causes major damage to the environment. In many cases bottled water companies use the same underground water sources that small municipalities rely on, disrupting the water supply and in some cases unintentionally contaminating it.

Then there is the expense. Buying bottled water is far more expensive than the water you can get out of your tap. Some people maintain that no matter how clean their tap water is, it tastes funny. They maintain that bottled water tastes better, but in many tests carried out across the world, most people can’t tell the difference between bottled and tap water. If you’re really unhappy about the way your water tastes, you can always filter it. Point-of-use filters can be attached to faucets to reliably remove the bad taste from your mouth.

No matter which way you look at it, drinking tap water makes more sense than buying your water in bottles. What are you waiting for, open a tap today, just make sure that you close it afterwards.

Recommended sites:

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/pubs/reports/take-back-the-tap

http://www.southafrica.info/travel/advice/water-051207.htm

http://www.southafrica.info/what_happening/conf_expo/world_summit/joburgwater.htm

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Purchasing water filters can lead to reduced plastic water bottle waste. Instead, filter your own water and place it in a reusable bottle. Your average water filter can replace approximately 3000 16oz plastic water bottles saving you and the environment. You are saving big money by filtering your own water and you are saving the environment by eliminating plastic water bottles from the landfill.

Other ways to conserve water include keeping a pitcher of filtered drinking water in the refrigerator so you don’t have to run the water faucet to get the water cool. Also, make sure all of our water faucets are turned off and are not leaking. A leaking faucet really adds up and can account for 4000 gallons of water waste per year. When you are doing laundry, run only full loads. This also holds true for dishwashers. This can save up to 800 gallons of water per month. Finally, consider water efficiency when you purchase a new laundry machine. Today’s energy star appliances use 40 percent less water and can save you up to 6000 gallons per year.

You can also conserve water in the bathroom. Replace the parts in your toilet to secure the tank from leaks. Avoid running the water while brushing your teeth, shaving or washing your face. Install water-saving shower heads and shorten your shower time.

Conserving water outside is one of the biggest things you can do to impact the environment. Avoid excessive watering. Most yards require much less than you think to enjoy a thick, lush, green appearance. Most lawns require only 1 inch of water per week. You can measure the time it takes your sprinkler to collect 1 inch of water and then factor that into future waterings. Also, don’t forget about the contribution to outdoor watering that Mother Nature brings. Install a water gauge to measure rain water and factor that into your watering schedule. Lay a layer of mulch around trees and flowerbeds to help hold moisture in the soil. Pull large weeds to decrease competition for water. Watering in the evenings or early mornings will ensure your water isn’t evaporated before it can be used by your lawn, plants, flowers and trees.

These simple tips will help you save money and protect the environment. Inside, purchase a water filter and filter your own tap water. Outside, be aware of your water use and optimize when you use it.

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So who’s to blame? Almost no one. The Federal Food and Drug Admin. (FDA) is responsible for the quality of the bottled water in this country and has “less than one person” in charge. Which is shouldn’t be surprising when you learn that any water bottled and sold in the same state is exempt from FDA quality control and accounts for 60 -70% of the water sold. Only 1 in 5 states regulate that water. So when it comes down to it, unless the water you buy explicitly labels its origin and lives up to its label, your most likely just drinking filtered tap or water that comes from a similar source treated in a similar way if not less. The (NRDC) investigated one major producer of “spring water” that actually came from an industrial parking lot next to a hazardous waste site. This just seems to be another case of people getting duped because they didn’t inform themselves. And it gets worse.

The biggest problem is not the quality of the water, cause it’s really just filtered tap, it’s the bottle! The bottle may sit, open for weeks at room temperature before being filled and is a breeding ground for bacteria. Even if the brand you choose is genuinely pure and health-friendly, the bottle it’s been packaged in and the time it is stored before it is consumed can dramatically change its “purity.” Water languishes in a plastic bottle at the manufacturer, at the warehouse, at the distributor and at the retailer that leaves ample time to leech out components from these plastic containers almost exclusively made from crude oil. These components are known cancer causing agents. This is a real concern.

A new report warns that people’s thirst for bottled water is producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy, even in areas where perfectly good drinking water is available on tap. The report, released earlier this month by the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), says global consumption of bottled water doubled between 1999 and 2004, reaching 41 billion gallons (154 billion liters) annually. Bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, but it can be 10,000 times more expensive, says Emily Arnold, a researcher with the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit. “At as much as $2.50 [U.S.] per liter [$10 U.S. a gallon], bottled water costs more than gasoline,” she said. Most of this extra cost is driven by transportation and packaging. “Nearly a quarter of all bottled water crosses national borders to reach consumers,” Arnold said. The report gives the example of one company in Helsinki, Finland, that in 2004 shipped 1.4 million bottles of Finnish tap water to Saudi Arabia-2,700 miles (4,300 kilometers) away. Well-known French brands Evian and Volvic export between 50 and 60 percent of their water to destinations across the globe. The report lists the U.S. as the world’s biggest drinker of bottled water; Mexico has the second highest consumption, followed by China and Brazil. Italians drink the most per person, equivalent to about two glasses a day.

So what do we do? First, Boycott Bottled Water! Second, get a report of the current local municipal supply and decide if it satisfactory. If you know you don’t want to drink it, look around, you’ll see there is plenty of reverse osmosis water dispensing sites at local corner markets where you can get clean water for around 25 cents per gallon. That’s a fraction of the cost of bottled water and is guaranteed to be of higher quality. From everything I’ve read and researched the true solution lies in purchasing a multi-stage whole house filter. These filters should include a pre-filter, to remove dirt sediment, sand and other physical particles. Then a combination of filters to remove chemicals and bacteria should follow. Reverse Osmosis systems provides good tasting clean water without much of the salts that other filters leave but do create a fair bit of waste. Mineral supplementation is definitely required for person drinking only reverse osmosis water because many of the necessary minerals are removed.

For a smaller budget, look for individual faucet water filters refrigerator water filters, pitchers and gravity filters. These smaller budget filters work great for getting most of the chlorine and heavy metals and do give a cleaner taste. One thing for certain, it’s going to be better than most of the bottled water you could buy, for pennies on the dollar. There are many great water filtration systems out there and it can be hard to chose which one is right for your particular situation.

Ryan Andrews on Fresh Water Systems. Fresh Water Systems is the leader in water filters, water filtration, treatment and purification with 1000′s of products from all the top manufacturers.
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