Is tap water bad for my health?
The short answer would be yes, but it does depend on where you live. It also will depend on who you want to believe as well as your health / personal hygiene standards. If you are satisfied with the glib assurances of mainstream authorities and skip doing your own research it may be to your own peril.
For example, one response to this question I encountered was this quotation:
“In the short term, if you are an adult with no special health conditions, and you are not pregnant, then you can drink most cities’ tap water without having to worry.” This is because most of the contaminants in public water supplies exist at such small concentrations that most people would have to ingest very large quantities for health problems to occur."
Huh? Put another way, that statement is basically saying: "As long as you are past your growing years and have a stabilized immune status, i.e. ample free white blood cells available to take on the toxic load coming from your faucet, you should be OK drinking it for limited periods of time." But wait a minute. We're talking about water. Shouldn't this be something I can drink as much as I want? For my whole life???
The statement above is essentially admitting that your tap water is a slow poison; drinking too much over too long a period can potentially be hazardous to your health.
Is this really good enough for you? For something so vital to your well being?? For the 75% of your body's capacity? You want to wash it through, inside and out, with a slow poison? In the opinion of the author, that is not good enough.
To see exactly what is in your tap water and at what levels, visit:
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/ and enter your zip code.
For detailed information on the EPA’s Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs), visit water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants.
If however, you live in a area surrounded by natural springs, where the water table of the
entire region is pristine, then you are likely in a much better position than if you live in a city. When in doubt (especially about something so crucial as water), it's advisable to take full responsibility to know what you are drinking. If your region is not covered by the website above, you can alternatively:
1. Contact your municipal water agency to obtain details on water treatment methods in your area
2. Test it yourself with a test kit.
If you have Artesian well water you may be blessed to have mineral rich water and possibly even a favorable pH, but it is unlikely that your water would be free of bacterial or other contamination. Well waters can also in many cases have undesirable levels of minerals such as iron. It is recommended to test it yourself or hire someone to test it.
Test, then choose the purification method of your choice. If you are very fortunate and live near natural mineral springs, you MAY be able to enjoy pristine structured water from your tap. When in doubt: TEST
Top 10 States With The Best Tap Water In The USA
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Minnesota
New Hampshire
California
Connecticut
Vermont
Kansas
Missouri
Wisconsin
Top 10 Places/Cities With The Worst Tap Water In The USA
New Mexico
Flint, Michigan
Jacksonville, Florida
Las Vegas, Nevada
Reno, Nevada
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Midland, Texas
Houston, Texas
Omaha, Nebraska
Brady, Texas
The link below will take you to a map showing the best and worst states for tap water quality in the US.
According to Dr. Eric Berg, if you live in the southern part of the U.S., your water is likely to be higher than desirable in estrogenic compounds, which can cause endocrine disruption in both men and women.
Check out his informative and concise video here: https://rumble.com/ve6nfh-think-twice-about-drinking-tap-water.html
The Sad Truth about Tap Water
The sad truth is that in the majority of cities in the US municipal water supplies are laden with a soup of toxic chemicals. Water municipalities are able to get away with it due to their constant claim that the levels of these chemicals are "safe" to consume in low doses. Chemicals commonly found in municipal tap water include:
"...chlorine, fluoride, and varying amounts of dissolved minerals including calcium, magnesium, sodium, chlorides, sulfates, and bicarbonates. It is also common to find traces of iron, manganese, copper, aluminum, nitrates, insecticides, and herbicides. Prescription medications have also been found in the tap water of 41,000,000 American homes."
"According to the Associated Press, there is a vast array of pharmaceuticals including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers, and sex hormones in the municipal water supplies. The U.S. Government does not require any testing for drugs in the water supplies; nor does it set safety limits for drug contamination. It will be decades before we know the long-term effects of ingesting random cocktails of partially-digested prescription drugs."
Chlorine
Chorine appears to be the most ubiquitous additive and is found in almost all U.S. public water supplies. Its use is as a disinfectant. Surely, it does kill some bacteria, it is not necessarily safe for humans to be drinking large amounts of chlorine on a daily basis. It is evidently not used because it is safe, but because it is cheap.
"Adding chlorine limits the liability of the governmental agencies which regulate public water, because the side-effects of their chlorine disinfection are difficult to trace and occur only after extensive long-term use. For example, it would be easy for citizens to prove that they became ill from drinking non-disinfected water by simply testing the contaminated water for live pathogens, but it is much more difficult to prove that their heart disease or cancer was created by chlorine byproducts after twenty years of consuming them. Chlorine bleach is used to satisfy certain priorities, whereby saving money is a much higher priority than long-term public health."
Flouride
Another ubiquitous municipal water additive is flouride. This is purportedly because it is believed that fluoride will improve dental health. However only topical applications of fluoride have been shown to benefit teeth; not internally ingesting it.
"There is overwhelming evidence indicating that ingested fluoride is a bio-accumulative poison that attacks the human body systemically, including the teeth. These facts were known long before fluoride was added to tap water."
Further, the type of fluoride added to municipal water supplies is sodium fluoride. This is not the type of fluoride that improves dental status. There are many countries, such as the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway who have long rejected the addition of fluoride to public water supplies.
According to the article below, calcium fluoride has been shown to be a more desirable alternative in dental products than sodium fluoride:
"The low water solubility ensures that calcium fluoride is much less toxic than other types of fluoride with a high solubility." https://www.bluemcare.com/calcium-fluoride-vs-sodium-fluoride-whats-the-difference/
Sodium fluoride is an industrial waste product which has not place in our water supplies. Check out the brief videos below discussing fluoridation of drinking water.
A Partial List of the Effects of Fluoride Ingestion
Brittle bone disease
Brittle teeth
Brown, yellow, spotted and discolored teeth
Cancer
Heart disease
Arthritis
Premature aging
Most Common U.S. Water Toxins
1) 1,1,1,2-Tetrachloroethane
2) 1,1,2-Trichloroethane
3) 1,1-Dichloroethane
4) 1,1-Dichloropropene
5) 1,2 Dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP)
6) 1,2,3-Trichloropropane
7) 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene
8) 1,2-Dibromoethylene
9) 1,2-Dichloroethane
10) 1,3,5-Trimethylbenzene
11) 1,3-Dichloropropane
12) 1,4-Dioxane
13) 2,2-Dichloropropane
14) 2,4,5-T
15) 2,4,5-TP (Silvex)
16) 2,4-D
17) 2-Hexanone
18) 2-Nitropropane
19) Acetochlor
20) Aldicarb
21) Aldicarb sulfone
22) Aldicarb sulfoxide
23) Alpha-Lindane
24) Aluminum
25) Ammonia
26) Aniline
27) Anthracene
28) Antimony
29) Arsenic
30) Atrazine
31) Barium
32) Benzene
33) Benzo[a]pyrene
34) Beryllium35) Bromate
36) Bromide
37) Bromobenzene
38) Bromodichloromethane
39) Bromoform
40) Bromomethane
41) Cadmium (total)
42) Carbaryl
43) Carbon tetrachloride
44) Chloroethane
45) Chloroform
46) Chloromethane
47) Chromium
48) cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene
49) Cyanide
50) Dalapon
51) Di(2-Ethylhexyl) adipate
52) Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
53) Dibromochloromethane
54) Dibromomethane
55) Dicamba
56) Dichlorodifluoromethane
57) Dichloromethane (methylene chloride)
58) Dieldrin
59) Dinoseb
60) Endrin
61) Ethylbenzene
62) Ethylene dibromide (EDB)
63) Heptachlor
64) Heptachlor epoxide
65) Hexachloro-cyclopentadiene
66) Isopropylbenzene
67) Lindane
68) m-Dichlorobenzene69) Manganese
70) Mercury
71) Metolachlor
72) Monochlorobenzene (Chlorobenzene)
73) n-Butylbenzene
74) n-Propylbenzene
75) Naphthalene
76) Nitrate
77) Nitrates & nitrites
78) o-Chlorotoluene
79) o-Dichlorobenzene
80) Oxamyl (Vydate)
81) p-Chlorotoluene
82) p-Dichlorobenzene
83) p-Isopropyltoluene
84) Pentachlorophenol
85) Picloram
86) Radium-226 & Radium-228
87) sec-Butylbenzene
88) Simazine
89) Styrene
90) Sulfates
91) tert-Butylbenzene
92) Tetrachloroethylene
93) Thallium
94) Toluene
95) Total haloacetic acids
96) Total trihalomethanes (THMs)
97) Toxaphene
98) Trichloroethylene
99) Trichlorofluoromethane
100) Vinyl chloride
list shared from: https://healthwyze.org/reports/69-the-dangers-of-tap-water
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