Remember being a little kid and playing outside on a hot summer day? Having so much fun you’d trash the idea of running inside the house to get something to drink. Rather you would go to the water hose outside and take a drink of that refreshing cold water straight from the hose. Off you were, back playing with your friends. Well, turns out that same fresh water may not be so fresh after all as news continues to come out about how America’s water systems are killing us.
It’s going on well over 100 years since some of the pipes that feed our city’s water supply have been installed. Although pipes were built to last 75 to 100 years, science is better now than it was back then. Research has discovered that several decades of industrial dumping, farming pollution, and deterioration of the pipes themselves have taken their toll on our drinking water.
Chemicals and contaminants found in our drinking water have been linked to cancer. Chemicals known as arsenic, nitrates, lead, and carcinogens are linked to cancer among individuals all around America. Our body, made of 60% water, contains the same contaminants found in our tap water. If our water plants can’t filter them out, what makes you think our bodies can?
America Can’t Catch Up
Funding projects to effectively filter out these contaminants across the nation would be in the billions of dollars and would be a very massive project. Something that America is just not ready for. Some people say that our water is at a safe level but who says that a safe level is acceptable? Over the years, those same contaminants store up in your body to create what might just be known as a tumor. Cancerous or not, we need to act to protect ourselves and the people we love.
Do your research? See what you can do to make a difference in the water quality in your local community. Change your mindset. Just because someone says you are at a safe level, or you are the cleanest, does that really mean that you are safe? Check and see what local resources you can use to help purify your water additionally from its source. And remember, just because they say it’s filtered doesn’t mean it’s always clean healthy water.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/radium-water-contamination-how-to-treat-at-home/