EWG guidelines are made up guidelines to show you how you need their filter system. The US EPS sets the drinking water standards, and they are ridiculously low and many cased there is no process available to treat water to remove that contaminants identified. Some of the contaminants listed are disinfection by-products (DBP). Adding chorine to water to kill pathogens produces some by-products, but adding chlorine to the water saved millions of lives, while there is NO EVIDENCE that the disinfection bi-products caused any cancers, but the US water agencies have spent billions of dollars in additional treatment systems to remove the DBPs.
I’m a plumber, and I explain to people you can wind up with legionella, cryptosporidium, etc. in their old galvanized pipes and all that, and people could care less. I tested one couple’s water for chlorine at 0.8 ppm (a pool should be 1-3 ppm). I tested it, then put my finger in the water for a few seconds, then tested it again and got 0.0, showing them that it absorbs through your skin. They didn’t care at all that their 2-month old son was drinking it and bathing in it. Filtration is so important for people’s health, and it’s the hardest thing for us to sell.
I live in a city with "award winning water" but the infrastructure is aged, so,I have been using PUR filters on the kitchen faucet. I bought dozens of filters from thrifts over the last 2 decades I have lived here. Out of the tap the water tastes blah, so I am grateful for the huge cost savings for filters..
I've been using an Alexapure Gravity Water Filtration system for my tap water here in New England. I've never tasted water so clean before, makes the tap water smell like a public pool 🤢
Everyone gets filtered water, even the dogs.
I always burn my water before drinking it
Damn, I just checked my zip codes water and Arsenic is 388x past the "ewg health guideline".
EWG guidelines are made up guidelines to show you how you need their filter system. The US EPS sets the drinking water standards, and they are ridiculously low and many cased there is no process available to treat water to remove that contaminants identified. Some of the contaminants listed are disinfection by-products (DBP). Adding chorine to water to kill pathogens produces some by-products, but adding chlorine to the water saved millions of lives, while there is NO EVIDENCE that the disinfection bi-products caused any cancers, but the US water agencies have spent billions of dollars in additional treatment systems to remove the DBPs.
https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/chemical-contaminant-rules
Thanks for this, fren!
Great Post.
This is why we have an entire home water system.
Then, underneath our sink, we have an RO water system, and then the extra filters that add the minerals back in.
I am perplexed that more people don’t have the systems. I know they’re expensive, but you can make payments now, why would you not
I’m a plumber, and I explain to people you can wind up with legionella, cryptosporidium, etc. in their old galvanized pipes and all that, and people could care less. I tested one couple’s water for chlorine at 0.8 ppm (a pool should be 1-3 ppm). I tested it, then put my finger in the water for a few seconds, then tested it again and got 0.0, showing them that it absorbs through your skin. They didn’t care at all that their 2-month old son was drinking it and bathing in it. Filtration is so important for people’s health, and it’s the hardest thing for us to sell.
I live in a city with "award winning water" but the infrastructure is aged, so,I have been using PUR filters on the kitchen faucet. I bought dozens of filters from thrifts over the last 2 decades I have lived here. Out of the tap the water tastes blah, so I am grateful for the huge cost savings for filters..
Didn’t take much to sell less. The investment of a whole home water system, and drinking water system has paid for itself, by providing great health.
Never knew this was out there, excellent reference! ThanQ!
Thanks for the link
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I've been using an Alexapure Gravity Water Filtration system for my tap water here in New England. I've never tasted water so clean before, makes the tap water smell like a public pool 🤢
What’s in your juice, meat, milk, exc., think of all the ways they poison us.
Thank you, had no idea this was so easily available.