"Our hope is that you will take a
moment and
review this valuable information and consider the facts. We are not
trying to scare you, we are only trying to inform you of the threats to
our environment and health that were the driving force behind the
formation of our company. Increased awareness of this serious issue can
only benefit us all.
"We also hope
that you will review the
product information offered on Aquasana Pure Water Systems, the highest
rated home water filtration products in America. After reading this
page you can tour the rest of our site for additional topics of
interest or visit our 'Factory Direct' product catalog for great
savings on Aquasana purchases. Once you have all the facts, the
decision is easy. Even if you don't buy one of our water filters,
please buy one, there is no such thing as a bad water filter. Everyone
deserves pure water. Thank you for
coming this far!
"The causes of tap water contamination are many, ranging from
agricultural runoff to improper use of household chemicals and
everything in between. Few of us realize the extent or impact of these
low level synthetic chemicals in the water we use. While the standard
use in our society of over 80‚000 different synthetic chemicals has
offered added convenience and productivity in our lives‚ it has also
come at a tremendous price...drastic increases in degenerative
disease.
"In the early 1900s‚ before chlorine‚
pesticides‚
herbicides and the
tens of thousands of other chemicals that we are exposed to every day‚
the average American had a 1 in 50 chance of getting cancer‚ today 1 in
3 can expect to get cancer in their lifetime‚ 1 in every 2 males.
"Our use of man-made chemicals has become
so extreme
that we can
now find traces of these low level SOCs (synthetic organic chemicals)
in virtually every public water supply around the world. A recent
report by the Ralph Nader Study Group‚ after reviewing over 10‚000
documents acquired through the Freedom Of Information Act‚ confirmed
that 'U.S. drinking water contains more than 2100 toxic chemicals
that can cause cancer.'
"We've learned that any chemical we use
in our
society, will eventually
wind up in our water supplies. There is no "new" water! Our planet
re-uses the same water over and over. And as our use of SOCs increases,
so does the toxicity of our water. Earth's natural filtration process
is not effective at removing these toxic SOCs... nor is municipal water
treatment. Industry, agriculture and individuals... all contribute to
the problem. Many of the contaminants found in water can be traced back
to improper or excessive use of ordinary compounds like lawn chemicals‚
gasoline, drycleaning solvents and cleaning products.
"Once we realize that everything that
goes down the
drain‚ on our
lawns‚ on our agricultural fields or into the environment by any
means... eventually winds up in the water we drink‚ we begin to see
just how vulnerable our water supplies really are.
"Our municipal water treatment facilities
do
not remove SOCs
and typically only consist of sand bed filtration and disinfection‚
much like a standard swimming pool filter. For the most part‚ today‘s
water treatment facilities are much the same as they were at the turn
of the century: filter out the visible particles and add bleach!
"Many illnesses that in the past could
not be linked
to a probable cause have now been linked to toxins in our drinking
water.
'While
levels of these carcinogens (SOCs) in drinking water are low, it is
precisely these low levels that carcinogenists believe to be
responsible
for the majority of human cancers in the U.S.'
U.S. Council On Environmental Quality
"The use of pesticides and herbicides has
become so
excessive that they are now commonly found in household tap water and
bottled
water with alarming frequency.
"A 1998 study of 29 major U.S. cities by
the
Environmental Working Group
found that all 29 cities had traces of at least one weed killer in the
drinking water. The report titled "Weed Killers By The Glass" went on
to say that 'Millions of Americans are routinely exposed to one or
more pesticides in a single glass of tap water.'
"These first ever 'tap water testings'
found two or
more pesticides in
the drinking water of 27 of the 29 cities‚ three or more in 24 cities‚
four or more in 21 cities‚ five or more in 18 cities‚ six or more in 13
cities and seven or more pesticides in the tap water of 5 major U.S.
cities. In Fort Wayne‚ Indiana‚ nine different pesticides were
found in a single glass of tap water!
"As a startling side note‚ it was
reported that in
these 29
cities‚ 45‚000 infants drank formula mixed with tap water containing
weed killers and that 'over half of these infants were swallowing 4
to 9 chemicals in every bottle!'
"The tragic health effects of consuming
these highly
toxic chemicals are
magnified many times over for small children because their systems are
more sensitive and still developing. Small children also consume a much
larger volume of fluids per pound of body weight and therefore get a
bigger dose‚ yet none of these factors are considered when the EPA‘s
maximum contaminant levels are set. The National Academy of Sciences
issued a report in 1993 on this subject and stated 'children
are not little adults' and their bodies are less developed
and simply incapable of detoxifying certain harmful compounds."
"Another major flaw in the estimated
risks of
chemicals in our drinking
water is the false assumption that only that one chemical is being
consumed. The regulations are set based on what is assumed safe for a
175 pound adult drinking water with only one chemical present and does
not take into account the combined toxicity of two or more chemicals.
"In a 1995 Science Advisory Report to the
EPA‚ it was
stated that 'when two or more of these contaminants combine in our
water the potency may be increased by as much as 1000 times!'
"It has been shown that areas with the
highest levels
of these SOCs in
their water supplies also have the highest incidence of cancer.
"Jacquelyn Warren of the Natural
Resources Defense
Council commented on this subject‚ 'The one thing we know for sure
about toxins in our drinking water is that the more we look the more we
find.' "
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