Does Your City Have Aging Water Pipes?

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Does Your City Have Aging Water Pipes?

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Many cities do... And if you live in one of them, you could be at

significant risk for infectious as well as chemical contamination

of your drinking water.

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Does Your City Have Aging Water Pipes?

Copyright © 2008 Jon M. Stout

Element H2O

http://www.elementh2o.com

Many cities do... And if you live in one of them, you could be at

significant risk for infectious as well as chemical contamination

of your drinking water.

In the U.S., only 55,000 community water systems supply water to

90% of the population.

When pipes become old and encrusted with debris and parasites

like Cryptosporum or bacteria like Campylobacter and Shigella,

purification by chlorination becomes impossible. These nasty bugs

in your water supply can lead to diarrhea, vomiting — even

spontaneous abortions in pregnant women.

Thousands of viruses, including the dangerous Norwalk virus, also

exist in the vast majority of drinking water systems. Many of

these viruses escape commonly-used water treatment methods.

How many of them end up in your drinking water?

Then, of course, there are the tens of thousands of synthetic

chemicals produced since the end of WWII. Giant industries have

dumped untold tons of waste material into lakes, rivers and

streams, polluting groundwater.

Likewise, modern farming methods have utilized billions of pounds

of pesticides, herbicides and artificial fertilizers, polluting

surface and ground water on an unprecedented scale.

No one even realized that there was a problem until biologists

started observing large numbers of dead fish, fish with tumors or

mutations, and fertility problems in animals exposed to these

pollutants.

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