Thanks for sharing this!!

thank you for touching on the critical subject of our water. not only what we drink is important but also where we swim and live. all of our waste ends up in our oceans. eco swim is working to combat this! - Caroline     www.ecoswim.com

Thank you for this information. I'm also interested in learning more about Caroline's 'Eco Swim'. So I will checking that information out too.

We've all been given quite a cliffhanger here.  I hope that Mary's next blog regarding information on obtaining purified water on various budgets will be coming to us soon.  Thank you, Mary for sharing your information.  I'm anxious to learn what can be done.

I pretty much refuse to cook with or drink tap water.  Within the last year I also put a filter on my shower head so that all those chemicals won't go into my system through my pours when I take a hot shower.  (Shower filter was purchased at Vitamin Cottage)

eSpring is the world's largest selling brand of point of use home water treatment systems.  You can get more information and see comparisons to other filtration systems at the following pdf:

https://www.amway.com/en/ResourceCenterDocuments/Visitor/home-espr-cat-v-en--eSpringBrochure-California.pdf

Message me if you have any questions or if you are possibly interested in getting more information. :)

Great topic!  My brother is an avid proponent of safe water, especially when it comes to fluoridation of our drinking water.  It's quite shocking to know what's "allowed" to go into our water and that some cities actually ADD fluoride (a substance linked to many health problems.  Can't wait to see what Mary says tomorrow!

-Sarah

http://veggie-kids.blogspot.com/

great another thing to freak out about.  Not to be negative, i'm concerned about this because I live in a small community and we have hard well water.  People in town are very concerned about it and say it's bad for us.  They did put a filter system for our drinking water, but the other water is still unfiltered.  I have like no money to buy a system and a small baby I am concerned about.  It makes me angry how toxic our world is.  It's one thing to know about it and have the money to buy systems etc. but when you are broke, it feels like a deep dark hole.

The issue with water is ongoing -- seems like it's a new hazard every week. Yesterday I read an article describing contamination of water (pre and post-treatment) with sucralose (Splenda), which is apparently passing through people unaltered, similar to synthetic estrogen in bc pills. One thing we can all do is let our elected representatives know that we're concerned, and that they need to support their constituents by voting to give EPA the resources that it needs to face these challenges. 

I am simply NOT going to worry about it. I have enough to worry about without stressing over water impurities! That's like stressing every time you get behind the wheel of an automobile/truck/bicycle/motorcycle/etc. that something bad is going to happen! Nope. Not gonna do it. I will NOT allow anyone to pull my strings over this!!

I love love love my water filter.  Been using it for over a dozen years now, change a filter once a year.  clean water at pennies a gallon. I even rinse veggies and cook with it.  Clean tasting ice cubes!   you can see my review of it on my website.  Nice.

peace.

John

http://www.yogawithjohn.com/community

I boil water and store in in drinking water jugs.  I can't afford a good filtration system or to replace filters constantly for a faucet unit.  So boiling water is our best method at the moment.  I'm sure it's better than nothing, but I'm not sure that it' effective enough.

The best thing my parents did was buy a fridge with a water filter in it. They no longer buy any bottled water and as a result have drastically reduced their recycling. 

Thanks for this post! My husband and I have been working on saving up for a really good water filtration system and the best we've seen so far is a berkely. Do you have any recommendations on which water filtration system is best when it comes to not only purifying the water of all contaminants (even those that cannot be removed through the water utilities, common water filters, boiling or evaporation) but also one that is eco friendly? Thanks again!

Some of the big problems creating these water impurities are fracking and mountaintop removal coal mining. If we really wanted to see a difference in our water, we should be calling on the EPA and Congress to stop these dirty practices that are destroying not only the land of our earth, but also much of our water supply. Not to mention as Alicia describes in her book, horrible farming practices that are not monitored effectively. 

I live in an apartment in Brooklyn, and I need to know about water filtration pitchers, like the Brita pitchers....do these do an effective job? I used mine in Vegas, and it worked there, but it seems like the water here is way nastier and I am up for any suggestions. I even bought a 3 galon water dispenser from the store that I have started to reuse and fill with my brita water.