Is Your Water Safe?

How Clean is your water?  Check this out!

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Remove the Lead in Your Water

Yes, these 11 are the most frequently found compounds in your water. Plus there are lots more!

Did you know that up to 20% of lead exposure comes from your water?

Long term exposure to lead in infants and children may cause reduced IQ,learning disabilities, and impaired growth.

In Adults, long-term exposure to lead may cause kidney problems, nerve disorders, and high blood pressure!

What's in Your Water? Here are a few of the most common things found in our water.

1. Disinfection By-products: Long-term exposure may cause increased risk of cancer, as well as liver, kidney, or central nervous system problems.
2. Heavy Metals: Even at low levels, long-term exposure may cause behavioral problems and learning disabilities
3. Agricultural Pollutants: Long-term exposure may cause increased risk of cancer, as well as eye, liver, kidney, spleen, blood, and nervous system problems
4. Industrial Pollutants: Long-term exposure may cause increased risk of cancer, as well as blood, nervous system, kidney, and liver problems.

So why not just use bottled water? Here are a few reasons not to:

1. Bad Choice for Your Wallet
• Bottled water is 100s to 1,000s time more expensive than tap water
2. Bad Choice for the Environment
• 1.5 million barrels of oil are used in the production of bottled water each year—enough to fuel 50,000 cars for one year
• 1,640,000 tons of packaging waste come from bottled water
• Only 34% of water bottles are recycled

3. Bottled water may not be contaminant free.
The Environmental Working Group found 10 popular brands had a total of 38 contaminants

What can you do to protect yourself?
GET EDUCATED
1. Learn what’s in your water at: epa.gov/safewater/ccr
2. Research how your water gets from your municipality to your tap

Get a Get Clean Water system
This system is certified to remove up to 99% of lead--compare that to the competition! Its refillable solid carbon block filter (a first in a water pitcher) is made from sustainable material using a zero-emissions process, and it handles the equivalent of 600 bottles (16.9 oz.) of water. Check it out

Is Your Drinking Water Safe?

Do you know what is in your drinking water? Now you can find out. The EWG (Environmental Working Group) has done the research.

I live in a small rural community and we have our own well for the neighborhood. Even our community well had the results posted on the EWG website. I was impressed! Check out what you have been drinking from your home faucet

Do you think you might want to filter your water? This is what I use

Is the Water You are Drinking Safe?

Did you Know...

• We pitch into landfills 38 billion water bottles a year -- in excess of $1 billion worth of plastic.
• 24% of the bottled water we buy is tap water repackaged by Coke and Pepsi
• Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on ipods or movie tickets: $15 Billion.
• In the United States, bottled water costs between $0.25 and $2 per bottle while tap water costs less than a penny.

Is your water safe?

• Municipal water falls under the purview of the Environmental Protection Agency, and is regularly inspected for bacteria and toxic chemicals. Want to know how your community scores? Check out the Environmental Working Group’s National Tap Water Database.
• Bottled water is widely considered to be a purer choice than tap water, but a new investigation finds that this isn't always the case.
• In its test of 10 best-selling brands of bottled water, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found mixtures of 38 different pollutants including bacteria, fertilizer, and industrial chemicals in some of the tested brands at levels that were similar to tap water.
• The water samples tested for EWG at a University of Iowa water quality laboratory revealed that 10 widely sold brands of bottled water, purchased in nine states and the District of Columbia, contained an average of eight chemical contaminants in each brand.

These chemicals in your water affects your health. There is an easy way to remove these contaminants and help you be healthier.

Want to save money and have clean drinking water? The easiest way is to use this.

I'm A Water Waster - Are You?

The EPA says that even tho 2/3 of the earth is covered with water, only 1% is for human use.

That started me thinking of ways I could eliminate ways I waste water.

...Don't leave the faucet running while I'm brushing my teeth
...Don't run the dishwasher with a partial load of dishes
...Check and fix any water leaks
...Install water-saving devices on faucets and toilets
...Install a low-flow shower head

Do you have any other ways we can conserve water usage?