Summary
Most distribution pipes are coated with dangerous layers of mineral, biological and chemical deposits that re-contaminate the water as it travels from the treatment plant to your tap. And some'are very old, including lead-leaching cast iron pipes from the late 1800's. As the iron pipes corrode and break, not only does water escape, but outside contaminants get in, experts say. It is estimated that there are approximately 237,000 main breaks each year in the U.S. "Investigations conducted in the last five years suggest that a substantial proportion of waterborne disease outbreaks, both microbial and chemical, is attributable to problems with distribution systems," the National Research Council said in a study for the EPA released in December 2006.
Some bottled water labels are very misleading, implying that the water bubbles up from a pristine mineral spring somewhere in the French Alps. While many companies advertise their products as "natural spring water," there is no legal definition of what constitutes a spring, and "natural" means only that the mineral content of the water has not been altered. It can be hard to tell what you're really getting.Beware of the rip-off products that say something like "spring pure." That really means "straight from the tap." And that would be perfectly legal. Though it is not legal to mislabel water as far as its source of method of purification, there are no laws to prohibit bottling tap water from any municipal source. In fact, the National Resource Defense Council reports that 25 percent or more of bottled water is just tap water in a bottle.See the full content of this document
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Toxins On Tap and Bogus Bottled Water
Toxins on Tap
When you were a kid, water was simple. You could drink it straight from the kitchen faucet, the backyard hose or fresh dipped from the spring house. Now, after so many "boiled water" alerts, chemical spills, and broken water mains, there are real concerns abut the safety of our tap water. Evidence would make us believe that even the best municipal water is suspect.Municipal water treatment systems really do a lot to improve water quality. Countless live have been saved since chlorine was first used to chemically disinfect the pu...See the full content of this document
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