An examination of 65
of the 3,000 largest utilities found cities such as Philadelphia,
Boston, New York City, Providence, R.I., and Portland, Ore., are
"manipulating the results of tests used to detect lead in water,
violating federal law and putting millions of Americans at risk,'' The
Washington Post said. More than 250 major cities
currently exceed the EPA's lead standards, and many of them have
been deceptive, or even fraudulent in their reporting of the problems.
View Video from NBC nightly news as aired on 10/5/2004.
"Each day, millions of Americans turn on their taps and get water
that exceeds the legal limits for dangerous contaminants."
USA Today, Special Report "How Safe Is Your
Water?"
"Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is as much as
93% higher than among those whose water
does not contain chlorine."
U.S. Council Of Environmental Quality
"We have known for a long time that chloramines can trigger,
rather than cause asthma.
Ralph Riley, head of the National Pool Water
Treatment Advisory Group
"Each day in America, about 30 cases of rectal cancer may be
associated with THM's (chlorination by products) in drinking water."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"U.S. drinking water contains more than 2100
toxic chemicals that can cause cancer."
Ralph Nader Research Group
"Drinking water plants are old and out of date, and water supplies
are increasingly threatened and contaminated by chemicals and
micro-organisms."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to
be fixed."
Carol Browner, U.S. EPA Chief
"The risk of disease associated with public drinking water has
passed from the theoretical to the real."
Dr. David Ozonoff, Boston University of Public
Health
"More than 45 million Americans drank water supplied by systems
where the unregulated and potentially deadly contaminant,
Cryptosporidium, was found in their raw or treated water."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"Drinking water in the U.S. is among the top four public health
risks posed by environmental problems."
Former EPA Administrator, William K. Reilly
"Residues of 39 pesticides and their degradation products have
been detected in the groundwater of thirty four states."
National Academy of Sciences
"35% of the reported gastrointestinal illnesses among tap water
drinkers were water related and preventable."
Center For Disease Control Researchers
"USA Today; There's no telling precisely how many Americans get
sick each year from drinking bad water... I would say that the cases we
learn about are the tip of the iceberg."
Deborah Levy; Waterborne - disease Expert, Center
for Disease Control
"Weed killers were found in tap water of 28 out of 29 cities
tested... the results of these tests reveal widespread contamination of
tap water with many different pesticides at levels that present serious
health risks... we estimate that 45,000 infants in these 29 cities drank
infant formula reconstituted with tap water contaminated with multiple
weed killers."
Environmental Working Group report, "Weed Killers
By The Glass"
"Each year in the U.S., lead in drinking
water contributes to 480,000 cases of learning disorders in children and
560,000 cases of hypertension in adult males."
U.S. EPA Report summary.
"Lead is the number one environmental health threat to our
children."
U.S. EPA
"The one thing we know for sure about toxins in our drinking
water, is that the more we look... the more we find."
Jacquelyn Warren, Council for the Natural
Resources Defense Council
And the list goes on and on!
The fact is that today in our industrialized society we use over
75,000 toxic chemicals, and over 1000 new ones are developed each year.
We have learned the hard way that any chemical we use will eventually
wind up in the water we drink... there is no "new water," our planet
just keeps reusing and recycling the same water over and over. Our water
treatment plants are not designed to remove these synthetic chemicals,
and as a result we find traces of health threatening contaminants in
most of our public water supplies.
70 years ago, before we had this multitude of chemical compounds in
our environment, 1 in 50 people could expect to get cancer in their life
time... today, 1 in 3 Americans... 1 in 2 males,
will become cancer statistics! Cancer is a man made disease, and
almost completely preventable. The purity of our water is one of the
most important factors in the prevention of degenerative disease. With
the risk so great and the solution so simple... why take the chance?
In-home water filtration is the easiest, most effective and most
economical means of providing safe, healthy water for you and your
family.
Aquasana makes healthy water affordable and
convenient. The AQ-4000 is certified by the California
Department of Health Services, the most rigorous certification
entity in the world, to remove greater than 99% of Alachlor,
Benzene, Lindane, TCE, THMs, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, VOCs,
more than 97% of atrazine, and more than 93% of MTBE. Benzene,
Atrazine, MTBE, VOC, Cyst and THM removal is a combination
unique to the Aquasana AQ-4000. Better performance, more
attractive design, and at $.09/gallon, the AQ-4000 costs less
than half as much to use as a pour-through pitcher filter!
What's in your water?
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