All Water Is NOT Created Equal!

A lot of my friends, when I ask them what they are drinking, and mention the problem of needing to filter our water for chlorine, chloramine, tri-methohalides, lead and other contaminates, they cheerfully chime in: "Oh, I use the Britta Water Filter Pitcher" so I'm okay!

WRONG!

While the Britta system is slightly better in the short term than straight tap water, it's hardly a good idea to use it regularly. For one thing, the filter must be changed every three to four weeks, or else it becomes contaminated - which is very dangerous and can wear down your immune system and expose you to serious illness. Moreover, it doesn't remove the most dangerous contaminates in water: chloramines and tri-methylhalides (close cousins of PCB's).

I have also tried under the counter, expensive filters, but I have been very disappointed by their performance. For one thing, I have an estrogen-sensitive tumor (uterine fibroid) and when I drank the expensive under the counter filter's water, my fibroid grew very rapidly and my cats all developed serious auto-immune symptoms such as serious coughs and runny noses and their fur became dingy within two weeks! The cholramines, chlorine and other contaminates create massive estrogenic production in the blood stream (xenoestrogens).

We have been told time and again that bottled water is a rip off, that's it nothing more than municipal city water that has been filtered and bottled, and that it is largely unregulated compared to tap water. Both of these things are true. Also, if you are sensitive to estrogen contaminates, getting and storing water in plastic is problematic, as plastic can leach into the water and plastic, being a petrochemical by-product, is highly estrogenic when ingested.

My research revealed that some brands of water are far superior to all the others. I recommend Chrystal Geyser because it is drawn from an underground aquifer and bottled at a dedicated plant across the road, then short hauled from the Mt. Shasta area over to the SF Bay Area. Unlike other high-quality artisinal waters, it is local, so that the amount of plastic that might leach into the water is minimized. It also is slightly better for the environment: unfortunately it is certainly true that drinking bottled water is not good for the environment in many way.

But until our tap water is truly safe to consume in large amounts over years without exposing us to the cancers and other autoimmune degenerative diseases that can arise from exposure to medical/pharmaseutical contaminates, jet fuels, chloromines etc., then the public doesn't really have too many good options.

I will discuss the dangers of drinking and bathing in municipal water if your are pregnant or have autoimmune disorders at length in another blog. For the time being, consider this: if you own your home, you might want to research digging a well and erecting a water tower and plumbing your home with you very own ground water! That's exactly what I intend to do.