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Clean Drinking Water
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We get our water from the sky. It falls to earth into streams, whirling, tumbling, and absorbing light photons, energy and the minerals that are essential for a healthy life.
Everyone has the right to access clean water, adequate for the health and well being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstance.
Is my water clean and safe to drink?
Drinking impure water can be a serious threat to your health and your life.
More than one billion people around the world lack access to clean, safe drinking water.
Drinking clean water may improve your health and lifestyle and may prevent diseases and other health problems. Everywhere around the world, clean drinking water is a very important issue, and it’s a problem that most people are not aware of and they continue to drink unsafe water.
Water analysis worldwide revealed a general low level presence of pharmaceuticals and hormonally active chemicals including beta blockers, herbicides, mood stabilizing drugs, estrogen hormones, painkillers, tranquilizers, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, anti inflammatory drugs, anti cholesterol drugs and much more. So, we all wonder why we get sick so often.
What can we do to make sure we have clean drinking water?
The easiest way to obtain clean drinking water is to install a water filtration system like a reverse osmosis system but the system will only filter the same contaminants that your local water authorities test for which are all within permissible ranges. If you are not happy with government set levels that this is may be the way to go. However you need to know that waste water is a by product of the reverse osmosis process. A better system will waste about 15 litres of salt water for every 4 litres purified, while lower grade systems can waste as much as 30 litters of water per 4 litres purified.
Another method to obtain clean drinking water is to use a water ionizer which uses a simple method of separating water into two streams of alkaline mineral water and acid mineral water.
A water alkalizer can be attached to the kitchen tap or installed under sink. It will filter the water first, and then alkalizes and acidifies it via the ionizing compartment, creating two streams of water.
There are many small household systems available on the market which can provide you clean drinking water. They are almost all carbon based and have small capacity filters. Although they may do a good job for your home needs.