How pure is your water?

How pure is your water?

Water when it falls from the sky is as pure as it gets, so why is pollution such a problem, and why do our water authorities need to work so hard to give us safe drinking water?
If the natural order of life is for us to drink naturally pure water to maintain our health and flush toxins from our bodies whilst at the same time carrying nutrients into our cells, why is it that certain “safe” permitted levels of agricultural and industrial pollution are allowed in our drinking water?

It’s simple really if you can’t reach your goals move the goal post! So by setting a level at which the water companies could manage seemed a good compromise, but as with all of these “safe” levels it is more about profits than it is about our health.

Water companies simply cannot keep pace with continual onslaught of the chemical and agricultural invasion of our water course and rivers, during the early 1960,s when artificial fertilizers and Pesticides became more widely and easily available it was recognised that the ground was becoming sodden with pollution and the general view at that time was it was dangerous and potentially lethal, and if continued at the (then) current rate it would percolate down through the ground to the lower water courses and aquifers there by contaminating our drinking water supplies. At that time a suggested period of thirty years was “guessed” at before that would actually be a serious problem, so instead of doing anything about it, the amount of agricultural fertiliser pollution was  increased between 1960 and 2000 by a staggering 450%

The department for environment, food and rural affairs (defra) states, “ Nitrate levels in many English waters, both ground and surface waters, either remain high or are increasing. Nitrate pollution is of concern because it has to be removed before water can be supplied to consumers, and it can harm the water environment. Over 60% of nitrate enters water from agricultural land” and that is just one of the many hazardous poisons invading our drinking water systems!

No one knows the accumulative effect of the individual myriad of agricultural chemicals on the human body or the environment, but what about the totally unknown the “cocktail” effect when all of these chemicals are allowed to mix and form more dangerous forms of untested toxins, there can be no safe permissible levels allowed, but in the name of profit it will continue.
One known result is that your system becomes over burdened with a new range of toxic substances that it cannot naturally deal with, as well as unbalancing the minerals in your body, upsetting your metabolism, it also diminishes your vitality and creates new excretory problems.

So if agricultural (and industrial) pollution are allowed to be left in our water supplies at “safe” levels with unknown long-term effects what can the concerned consumer do about it?

The very least that you can do is to run your cold tap for two minutes every morning before drinking from it, as this helps to clear contaminants from your domestic pipework that has dissolved and accumulated over night, (although this will have limited effect on Chlorine) then fill a jug (or jugs) and let it stand for an hour to allow chlorine to vaporise from it and then store in your refrigerator, using it in rotation over a 24 hr period.

You can also use a jug filter if you don’t mind the inconvenience of filling it at regular intervals and then waiting for it to filter every time it runs out, they are low capacity and still take up room in your fridge.

You can also choose to buy bottled water for drinking purpose helping to fuel the fantastic growth in sales over the past decade, proving how concerned million of people in the UK have become about the safety of our drinking water and how little they trust the word of the regulating authorities about safety, but that of course bring a whole new set of problems!

A proper “plumbed in” drinking water filter greatly improves the taste and quality of your existing tap water supply and are very reasonably priced, giving you a continuous supply of great tasting drinking water on tap and just when you want it 24/7 and with no inconvenience.