What "Stuff" is causing your Drinking Water Quality to be Poor?

Bad Water Quality

Water quality is a term used to describe the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water, usually in respect to how suitable it is for a particular purpose.

It's not a simple thing to say that "this water is good," or "it's bad." Water that is perfectly good to wash cars with is not be good enough to use by a doctor who is doing surgery!

When you ask about quality of your water, you probably want to know if the water is good enough to use for your family, to play in, to serve in a restaurant. Or if the quality of our natural waters are suitable for aquatic plants and animals.

The water that comes out of your tap or the bottled water you drink is critical to your family. There are serious health risks of drinking contaminated water. If the water we consume already contains chlorine or other chemicals‚ it can not carry toxins out of our body as well.

Consuming water that contains traces of some of the over 80,000 synthetic chemicals what we use forces the liver and kidneys to filter out those harmful contaminates, ultimately damaging or even destroying two of our most vital organs.

Water Quality is effected by many things. Today more than ever you are hearing about places where the quality of our water is not good enough for normal uses. Bacteria, protozoa like crypto, and heavy metals like lead or arsenic have gotten into our drinking water supplies, sometimes causing severe illness.

Chemical pollutants have been detected in streams, endangering plant and animal life.

Sewage spills have occurred, causing people to boil their drinking water; pesticides and other chemicals have seeped into the ground and have harmed the water in aquifers; and, runoff containing pollutants from roads and parking lots have affected the water quality of urban streams.

And a newer concern is pharmaceuticals in drinking water. Drugs are ending up in your families drinking water.

Visit the USGS web site for a A Primer on Water Quality.




With an abundant intake of good, clean‚ healthy water we allow our body to perform all the healing processes that it is naturally capable of. The best way to ensure the removal of the chemicals and toxins present in our water is by a high quality point-of-use water filtration system that will improve your quality of your water and eliminate nearly all the potential dangers in your water. And remember that there are health benifits to drinking clean and healthy water.






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