Posted on 09/13/2013 6:49:56 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Clean water tax: EPA urges midwest to drink bottled water, not tap By Jenna Karvunidis, July 5, 2013 at 9:18 am
I had a tough time with Independence Day yesterday. I mean, would you wish someone happy birthday who poisoned your water and hurt your baby girl? I wasn't in the mood to celebrate "freedom" since the only entity that applies to right now are corporations. Hi! I might be bitter! I've decided to work through those nasty feelings and get back to being fabulous by digging up comically horrifying EPA documents and sharing them with you. Are you ready for today's bit? The government, whom you pay with taxes to keep your water clean, suggests you drink bottled water because your tap water may be causing lymphoma and reproductive problems. (Note: There's sales tax on bottled water. Bwahahah, it would be funny if it weren't true. And horrible!)
On to the document. The EPA issued a disturbing report that you probably didn't read. It's not your fault; they didn't publicize it. But hey, that's what you have me for. I dig up really scary government-issued reports about the literal poison in our drinking water and give you solutions! I know shedding an unfavorable light on our water makes me a terrorist but I'll take my lumps. First, this report is about Atrazine, the common midwestern herbicide that contaminates our water supply, how harmful it is and what to do about it (spoiler alert: the EPA suggests you should start buying bottled water).
According to the latest, well, I'll just give it to you in quotes from this document:
Where is the contaminant?
Michelle Obama: 'Drink Just One More Glass of Water a Day' September 12, 2013 - 7:14 AM
"Over the next year, bottled water companies plan to put a "Drink Up" logo on their bottles and packages. And you may also see that logo on outdoor public water fountains.
The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), which has Michelle Obama as its honorary chair, is asking Americans to visit www.youarewhatyoudrink.org to join in a virtual "Cheers!" to water, or to find the initiative on Instagram (www.instagram.com/urH2O), tagging their pictures #DrinkH2O."
Via: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/michelle-obama-drink-just-one-more-glass-water-day
Some nasty stuff here. We used Reverse Osmosis on our well in addition to the water softener. Lots of iron and sulphur in these parts.
I’ve got a well thanks.
How many Obama donors own an interest in one or more bottled water companies?
I have had reverse osmosis for a decade. Before that it was bottled water or none. With all the contaminants from farmland in our water supply, I won’t drink it.
Can you spell big campaign donations from water bottlers to the Democrat Party and Obama?
“But despite the pseudoscientific basis here, the White House does list an impressive array of partners: “Aquafina, BEVERLY HILLS 9OH2O, DASANI, EVIAN Natural Spring Water, Hint, Voss, WAT-AAH!, and Nestlé Waters brands (North America’s Arrowhead, Deer Park, Ice Mountain, Nestlé Pure Life, Ozarka, Poland Spring, resource and Zephyrhills) will be promoting the Drink Up message on products, through public events, via digital, print, social and out of home media efforts and other publicity.” Meanwhile, “the American Beverage Association and International Bottled Water Association are promoting the effort.” Obviously any concerted effort to get people to drink more water will be a remarkably profitable campaign for bottled-water companies, while not in any way creating a political liability because, remember, this isn’t a negative public-health campaign, which might encourage people to buy less drinks from other American Beverage Association members.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
Look up Reverse Osmosis Water Exposed - What They Don’t Tell You on Google. There are problems with it.
I’ve always understood that “hard” water is better for your sustained health. See what you think. Your body needs calcium, etc.
Thanks. Thought so - - - .
That should say, “Reverse Osmosis Water Exposed - What they don’t tell you” an article which is on Google.
Reminds me of the Penn and Teller stunt where they filled up water bottles from a hose and then passed them off as expensive bottled water to diners. People were saying what good tasting water it was, not knowing it came from the hose in the back of the restaurant!
PLUS...soon to be another subsidized gubment program
You can get what you need, mineral wise, from food and supplements without the other stuff in water. I have treated city water. The analysis done on it was more than troubling.
I stopped drinking bottled water about 15 years ago, when I noticed several pallets of bottled water at a local supermarket that were getting direct sunlight all day. It took no more than 3 or 4 days before they became algae laden and green tinted.
I haven’t used bottled stagnant water since.
And while we're at it, groundwater contamination with arsenic, according to the USGS.
http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/trace/arsenic/
EPA superfund sites, via the NIH.
http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/superfund/select.do
Are you an AquaLiv salesman?
It used to crack me up to see people buying bottled water in Evart Michigan considering the fact that it was the same water they get from their well at home for free.
“PLUS...soon to be another subsidized gubment program”
BINGO! You win the cigar!
“Bottled Water a Cause of Financial Distress to Low-Income Communities
Submitted by Sabrina Russo on May 23, 2012
The Polaris Institute, according to Ban the Bottle.com, has recently found that bottled water is more than simply an unnessecary expense for the environment, it also creates financial hardship for low-income communities. A study published last month found that the use of plastic water bottles averaged at about 4.6% of a household’s mediam income in California’s Central Valley, where groundwater is often contaminated by nitrates. Writer Hannah Ellsbury continues, writing that
“Now a new study has been published online in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (by M.H. Gorelick, L. Gould, M. Nimmer, D. Wagner, M. Heath, H. Bashir, and D.C. Brousseau) showing that even in areas with safe tap water, African American and Latino parents were three times more likely to give their children mostly bottled water compared to non-Latino white children, because of their belief that bottled water is safer, cleaner, better tasting, or more convenient. The economic implications of this also showed serious inequities: as a percentage of household income, whites reported median spending of 0.4% of their income on bottled water; African Americans and Latinos reported median spending to be more than twice as high.”
To learn more about the use of plastic water bottles and their financial impact on those who buy them, see the full article here.”
I stopped at a little town in Ohio last week and went to the Cracker Barrel.
I ordered iced tea. The chlorination in the water they made that tea with was enough to gag you.
Water filtration is needed in many places but it’s an industry rife with hype and scam.
A water filter company left a hanger on my door once offering free water testing. Just fill up the bottle and leave it on your mailbox for pick up in two days.
I filled it up with distilled water. A few days later I get a phone call from a woman reading a script telling me the test came back positive for fecal coliform bacteria, sediment, etc.
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