What's in your drinking water? Many prominent scientists are alarmed by the content of some drinking water
and actively seek to change the processes involved. The practice of making
water safe to drink actually involves adding large amounts of extremely
poisonous chemicals to it. Key scientists are now providing evidence that
long-term ingestion of small amounts of chemicals like these could be the cause
of some major health problems.
Here is a list of just a few of the chemicals routinely added to our water
supply:
- Liquified
chlorine
- Fluorosilicic
acid
- Aluminium
sulphate
- Calcium
hydroxide
- Sodium
silicofluoride
Even if the water leaves the source in a relatively clean state, don't
forget that your water travels through pipes, which may have been underground
since Victorian times. It is almost impossible for the water not to become
contaminated by something undesirable.
Contaminants in Tap WaterTap water is treated with a large number of chemicals in order to kill
bacteria and other microorganisms. In addition, it may contain other
undesirable contaminants like toxic metal salts, hormones and pesticides, or it
may become contaminated by chemicals or microbes within pipes (e.g. lead,
bacteria, protozoa).
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| Typical Tap Water Content:
- Chlorine
- Fluorine compounds
- Trihalomethanes
(THMs)
- Salts of:
- arsenic
- radium
- aluminium
- copper
- lead
- mercury
- cadmium
- barium
Hormones Nitrates Pesticides
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Testing Your Own Water You can assess the quality of your water by testing for Total Dissolved
Solids (TDS) with a TDS meter which reads the TDS instantly and gives a
read-out in parts per million (ppm) TDS. Generally, water with a TDS of 500 ppm
or more is regarded as unfit for consumption. Most tap water ranges from 150 to
420 ppm TDS. A Reverse Osmosis system typically produces water with a TDS of 90
- 95% of the incoming water.
If you would like to purchase your own TDS meter (£15.00 + p&p £1.99),
please
contact us.
Fluoride in waterAnother very important health hazard is fluoride, which is added by some
water authorities in the UK, and is also present in many toothpastes and mouthwashes.
Around 10% of the UK’s water supply is fluoridated, despite a huge and
ever-growing body of evidence that the science behind this mass medication
programme is questionable to say the least.
Fluoridation of water is banned in all other European countries. (see the
Flouride
Action Network - Statements from European Health Authorities).
For still more information on the dangers of fluoride, visit these links:
- Thirty fluoride links from Dr
Mercola’s site (USA)
- Fluoride
Action Network (USA)
- Finally, you may wish to
review the Scientific Facts on the Biological Effects of
Fluorides.
| Prominent researcher apologises for pushing fluoride | Click HERE to read a news article about Dr. Hardy Limeback, Head of the Department of Preventative Dentistry for the University of Toronto and President of the Canadian Association for Dental Research. Dr. Limeback is Canada’s leading fluoride authority and, until recently, the country’s primary promoter of the controversial additive. As stated by UK health researcher and author, Phillip Day, fluoridation of the public water system is a case of mass medication without consent. |
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