It is treated, but... remember the movie Erin Brockovich? Ground water was contaminated by industry and people were drinking and bathing in the municipal water that was mixed with the underground fresh water aquifers (recently contaminated) and the community was becoming sick and dying from the poisonous industrial chemicals. The city was treating the water, but the toxins were not being pulled out.
I grew up in a similar community, but we didn't have an Erin Brockovich, but an alert Catholic nun who reported a pattern of leukemia sickening her parochial students. That was our church and we lived blocks from it. Soon it came to our collective consciousness that suddenly nearly every household in our community had someone who was getting cancer. They called it 'a cancer cluster'. My healthy athletic mother got a huge terminal brain tumor. She had been the healthiest person I knew. Then they shut down 5 huge underground aquifers and named the area a Super Fund site.
I always drank the tap water and even the hose water when we played outside in the summer. I was extremely fit and athletic. Surprisingly, I got stage 3 breast cancer and am still alive because of healthy choices and massive supplement and herbal tincture ingestion, along with drinking only purified or distilled water since my 20's. I own two countertop water distillers and use that for all my cooking or drinking needs.
So, I do have a less trusting opinion about tap water. Also...
Re-read the statement about how stomach acid can handle many of these pathogens, but the upper sinus is not designed to do that. We are specifically talking about NOT using tap water for SINUS RINSES. Do you follow?
I have my own life experience with contaminated water that killed my mother a number of my friends and almost me. I learned my lesson.
But, by all means, use that tap water up into your sinuses unboiled and straight out of the bathroom sink. Don't spend a buck fifty for a bottle of distilled. It's your life. I'll choose differently, because I know better.
It is treated, but... remember the movie Erin Brockovich? Ground water was contaminated by industry and people were drinking and bathing in the municipal water that was mixed with the underground fresh water aquifers (recently contaminated) and the community was becoming sick and dying from the poisonous industrial chemicals. The city was treating the water, but the toxins were not being pulled out.
I grew up in a similar community, but we didn't have an Erin Brockovich, but an alert Catholic nun who reported a pattern of leukemia sickening her parochial students. That was our church and we lived blocks from it. Soon it came to our collective consciousness that suddenly nearly every household in our community had someone who was getting cancer. They called it 'a cancer cluster'. My healthy athletic mother got a huge terminal brain tumor. She had been the healthiest person I knew. Then they shut down 5 huge underground aquifers and named the area a Super Fund site.
I always drank the tap water and even the hose water when we played outside in the summer. I was extremely fit and athletic. Surprisingly, I got stage 3 breast cancer and am still alive because of healthy choices and massive supplement and herbal tincture ingestion, along with drinking only purified or distilled water since my 20's. I own two countertop water distillers and use that for all my cooking or drinking needs.
So, I do have a less trusting opinion about tap water. Also...
Re-read the statement about how stomach acid can handle many of these pathogens, but the upper sinus is not designed to do that. We are specifically talking about NOT using tap water for SINUS RINSES. Do you follow?
I have my own life experience with contaminated water that killed my mother a number of my friends and almost me. I learned my lesson.
But, by all means, use that tap water up into your sinuses unboiled and straight out of the bathroom sink. Don't spend a buck fifty for a bottle of distilled. It's your life. I'll choose differently, because I know better.
I'd still prefer not to use Russian roulette if I were the type to do that.
The water itself may not be contaminated at the source, but it could be along the route to your spout. Including the spout itself.