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| Read this article before you consider paying for your | | | | I already knew that we can't trust our tap water |
| drinking water. | | | | because of the presence of up to 2000 |
| Wouldn't it be nice to stop poisoning ourselves with | | | | contaminants. |
| polluted or unhealthy drinking water? I, for one, felt | | | | Specifically, I found:a) Bottled Water: a real |
| that I would love to find a source of safe | | | | mish-mash of quality, often no more than filtered tap |
| inexpensive drinking water. (Ideally, I'd love to turn on | | | | water sold at outrageous mark-ups and at quite an |
| the tap, and out it would flow!) | | | | environmental cost.b) Reverse-osmosis and distilled |
| Whether it's curing cancer with magnets or herbal | | | | water: completely ignored the medical evidence of |
| wonder-remedies or Vioxx, we've all seen the | | | | the dangers in the ongoing drinking of water that is |
| fantastic claims people make about their health | | | | void of minerals, acid in nature and oxidizing. |
| products AND about how your whole life will be | | | | I quickly realized that these products were either |
| changed! I can tell you right now that 90% are | | | | useless,overpriced or potentially harmful long-term. |
| frauds. You may even have fallen prey to some of | | | | And the companies were smiling all the way to the |
| these scams, selling you the latest fad. Me too. I've | | | | bank. |
| bought so many kinds of drinking water, I can't recall. | | | | Nevertheless I was able to find products that were |
| (If a lie is repeated often enough, it becomes "the | | | | well-researched and legitimate: water ionizers and |
| truth"). | | | | certain filters. I found two websites providing |
| Finally, after many disappointments I got FED UP. I | | | | comparisons of reliable water purifiers: and (While the |
| decided to get to the bottom of this desire we all | | | | first of these sites does not address the problem of |
| have to make sure that our most basic nutrient -- | | | | acidity in drinking water, it is straightforward in its |
| water -- will keep us healthy, not make us sick. | | | | assessment of what various water filters do.) |
| I checked out endless commercial websites and a | | | | I hope that you're not misled by false claims, and |
| number ofuniversity and government sites; and I was | | | | take a look at these resources, for the sake of your |
| dismayed at what I repeatedly found: | | | | health. |
| --Outdated information or info repeated from other | | | | Stan Howard is a researcher with Best Water, which |
| websites | | | | offers a free report comparing all types of water |
| --Wild and sensational claims | | | | purification, and other vital information on drinking |
| --No research | | | | water quality. |