Tap Water Facts

Tap Water Is Full Of Disease-Causing Contaminants - Most municipal water flows through lead pipes over 100 years old picking up harmful toxins and pollutants before the water treatment plant (which performs very limited functions) and also afterwards when the water is on its way to your house.

Arsenic - Which has been directly linked to cancer and many other diseases, has been found in 85% of our cities' water. Exposure to lead found at "alarmingly high levels" in many cities by Consumer Reports, can cause learning and behavioral problems in children, lower IQ, high blood pressure, and problems to the reproductive and nervous systems.

Some other common water contaminants and what they have been linked to are: Asbestos (cancer and other diseases), Aluminum (Alzheimer's), Benzene (cancer, anemia), Mercury (nervous system and kidney damage), Toluene (cancer), herbicides and pesticides such as Endrin (liver, kidney and heart damage, respiratory problems and cancer).

80% of city water systems were not equipped with filters that meet EPA standards. In addition, most cities add the harmful Chlorine and Fluoride to water.

Fluoridated water, which is banned in much of Europe but still common in the US, is linked, according to Preventative Dental Health Association, to cancer and infertility. According to a 1994 study in Journal of American Medica Association, drinking fluoridated water doubles the chances of hip fractures in older people.

Future Bio-terrorist Threat Adds To Current Problems. The Centers For Disease Control warns that "50% of the water purification systems in the country sometimes let through the same parasite (Cryptosporidium) that in 1983 caused illness to half of the population of Milwaukee, WI".

A recent Water Quality Association poll showed that 74% of Americans consider their tap water contaminated or dangerous. 80% don't like the taste. And the following annual figures from the National Resources Defense Council confirm the shocking problem: Every year in the U.S.:

• 900,000 Sick and 900 Dead due to water contamination.
• 50 Million Poisoned by radioactive radon or radium from their tap water.

These figures don't even factor in the thousands of long term illnesses and deaths from cancer, kidney and heart disease linked to contaminated water.

If you have your own well water, you're not really better off. In fact, most of those on well water have more contaminants per drop than those in cities.

Many are also concerned today by bio-terrorism threat to our water supplies as there are 168,000 different public water supplies in the U.S., many of which are completely unprotected.

Bottled Water May Be Worse - Recognizing the problem with tap water, many Americans have turned to bottled water. Unfortunately, bottled water is not only quite expensive, it is often just as contaminated as your tap water.

According to FDA rules, bottled water is subject to less testing and lower standards than our tap water! Even disinfection is not a requirement for bottled water! A 4-year NRDC scientific study on bottled water, based on 1000 bottles of 103 brands of water confirmed that bottled water is not necessarily cleaner or safer than common tap water.

University of Iowa tested 39 different brands of bottled water and found that 75% of them contained chemicals, dissolved metals, and traces of arsenic, barium and toluene. Their conclusion was "Bottled water is no better than tap water and, in some cases, even worse".

* A carbon filter alone will only remove 50% of this contaminant.

Ordinary Filters Don't Work - Over 95% of the filters used in America are the kind that attach to your faucet or are built into pitchers and dispensers. These are an improvement over plain tap water, but they cannot filter most of the contaminants, as you can see in the above chart.

Researchers have now developed an economical and effective way to virtually eliminate all the harmful contaminants from your water with a process called Reverse Osmosis which is available for both city and well water. This technology can eliminate even the tiniest microscopic impurities from water. It pushes tap water through "pores" which are 620,000 times smaller than a human hair (too small for even bacteria). In fact, U.S. hospitals use this pioneering technology to get their water super pure.

A reverse osmosis unit together with a carbon filter will produce the safest and best-tasting water you can provide for you and your family.

For the sake of our health and safety and the health of our children, please take a moment to examine the products offered here. Reverse osmosis and the carbon filter pages contain simple, inexpensive solutions to one of our worlds greatest problems.