Drinking water, is it SAFE??If you live in the Developed World you are ASSURED that your Drinking Water is 'Fit for Purpose'If you are going to be doing any distance walking it is a good idea to take some Drinking Water , so. If you listen to the 'experts' associated with the water industry they will tell you that the water that comes from the tap is as good if not better and costs 0.01 pence is you live in the UK that is about the same amount in Euros and about 0.02 cents in the USA compared to bottled water that costs about 1,000 times that amount for the same volume. So who or what are we to believe. The majority of bottled water has spent thousands if not millions of years being filtered through the earth collecting minerals as it passes through various strata. Some water that is found in springs and wells in Switzerland for example originated millions of years ago in the frozen arctic north. 
Compare that with water that is found flowing from the taps in our industrialized cities. A couple of weeks prior it was in all probability passing through someone else's body and carrying away all of the medication that they had been taking and it was then mixed with the sewage of all the other local people and then on the way to the treatment plant it met up with the waste water from a manufacturing plant in all probability carrying toxic chemicals as well. At the treatment plant is goes into a bio-stew where the bacteria digest all of the nasties and then it is filtered through sand before going into a reservoir and into the pipes and out of your faucet/tap ready for you to drink. Oh I almost forgot. After this treatment to make sure that they have killed everything and that it is as sterile as possible they then mix some nerve gas with it otherwise know as Chlorine, the warfare agent used in the First World World to burn the soldiers in the trenches. Then it was called Mustard Gas because of the 'yellow cloud' that descended on our troops and burn their lungs as they inhaled the noxious fumes or if it came into contact with the skin they received burns that never really healed. So have they finished with your drinking water now? not quite. In many areas many politicians have decided in their wisdom that as a population we should now be medicated they put a waste product from the aluminum processing industry to 'protect out teeth' into the drinking water as a simple solution as to where to put this waste Fluoride. Me I prefer to drink either water that has been through a proper filter at home that removes the unwanted medicines, incidentally it has been suggested that chlorine in the water is partly responsible for the roughing of the interior arterial walls of our body and as a result many people have the arteries clogging up with cholesterol needlessly requiring that they have Angioplasty surgery or by-pass surgery or even heart replacement. And of course the other alternative is to buy bottled water that has come from pure spring water. How do you like your Drinking Water One other thing in parts of the world where the water runs down the mountains from melting snow and into the streams the local people call this 'mountain milk' because it is so rich in minerals and it is attributed with giving them long health lives where members of the population regularly live to exceed 100 years of age without the ills of the 'developed world'.
Since this page was written a report has been published of research carried out by Professor Jouni Jaakkola of the University of Birmingham. They have analysed the birth registry of 400,000 babies born in Taiwan between 2001 and 2003. The levels of chlorine found in the water there is similar to the levels found in the drinking water in the UK. The conclusion they came to was that pregnant women exposed to water that is heavily chlorinated whether they drank, bathed or stood near a boiling kettle doubled the risk of giving birth to a child suffering from heart problems, cleft palete or major brain defects Overall the risks of having children born with these three defects increased by between 50 per cent and 100 per cent There is also slightly raised risk of urinary tract defects and Down's syndrome. Reason enough for each and every one of us to use caution when drinking water from the tap. Personally when I drink water from the tap I initially draw it into an open container to allow the chlorine to evaporate or at home I use a filter for the drinking and cooking water Even though i do not advocate excessive consumption of water beyond the bodies normal requirements if you are sweating or exercising well then do keep hydrated. Recent research indicates that in warmer to hot weather people suffer from more Kidney Stones caused by nor urinating enough. You have been warned. Return to the
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