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How Safe Is Drinking Tap Water from Water Filters?
Health Alkaline ^ | Health Alkaline

Posted on 02/13/2013 8:23:39 PM PST by truthnomatterwhat

How safe is your tap drinking water? it’s possible pesticides or contaminants could be flowing from your faucet.

Public water systems, tap waters are tested and regulated by the government. By law, municipalities have to test the water and report to consumers once a year. They can test once a year, four times a year, sometimes less. They test for 90 contaminants like copper, arsenic, lead. There is a report that tells you what’s in the water and if it’s dangerous. But they average the results. So if you live in an agricultural area, pesticides in the water spike in the spring because those results don’t show up in your water report.

There are many contaminants, and many of them the government doesn’t perform safety tests on. We think they should test for more than they are.

Good Housekeeping tested some of the filtration devices out there that people are using. Here’s how they did the study?

They paired up with the lab for emerging contaminants at the university of Arizona. With the Good Housekeeping research institute they tested refrigerator water filters and tabletop water filters to see how they filter out the most prevalent of untested contaminants.

There's more at: How Safe Is Drinking Tap Water from Water Filters? http://www.healthalkaline.com/waternews/how-safe-is-drinking-tap-water-from-water-filters/#ixzz2KqLuLWjg

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: drinkingwater; homewaterfilters; tapwater; waterfilters
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To: selfdefense
If it works for you, go with it. However,here's just one source of many out there that indicates that distilled water may have some negative health effects. Granted, distilling water will remove a lot of contaminants, but it also removes a lot of naturally occurring minerals, with the result that distilled water only can leach minerals from, and drop the pH of, the body.
21 posted on 02/17/2013 9:29:41 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Tainan

> “Aloe vera is one of the best. It just needs a good preservative to keep it from going old too quickly...longer shelf and usage life.” <<

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Preservative?

Cut piece of frond off of plant, rub on. The preservative (magnesium stearate) is toxic.


22 posted on 02/17/2013 9:30:08 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: dalereed

Aluminum fluorosilicate is good for you?

If you want Alzheimers, and broken, yellow teeth perhaps...


23 posted on 02/17/2013 9:38:21 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ansel12

About as useless...as the following posts.


24 posted on 02/17/2013 10:35:39 PM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LAVE)
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To: editor-surveyor
Vitamin E (natural form) is used for preservation of items such as aloe vera gel items for topical application.
I was referencing a commercial usage of aloe vera gel as a skin penetrant or carrier for other herbs or ointments.
As part of a formula.
25 posted on 02/18/2013 12:19:25 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Tainan
I'm gonna have to go with my initial statement...Is the skin the largest human organ?

It was not the first part that was extreme by the second,

and it absorbs whatever is in your water.

"Whatever" is more than what is warranted.

But thanks for the light it provided.

27 posted on 02/21/2013 7:02:20 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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