Thank you for this useful Info. Here in Vancouver, WA our city provides yearly reports on water quality based on districts. For the most part it covers the basics, but you are right, like other municipalities it doesn't go far enough to remove PFOAs or THMs. Because of this we invested in a home water purification system that does a great job at purifying our water. Of course, this is a solution that only helps those who can afford such things and just further points out the need for a city wide solution so all can have clean water.
Also, there's a problem with water bottled in plastic that you failed to mention, and that's microplastics. Overtime, plastic bottles release micro plastics into its contents. This is made worse when the bottles are heated (like in delivery or in long term storage), they also release chemicals in the water and therefore up the bottled water toxicity. It's much better to opt for either water in glass bottles, or like what we do, rely on our home water system and reuseable metal or glass water bottles.
With that said, your article and newsletter is still an excellent source of environmental information and I thank you for it.
a few years ago, I saw results of a nation wide test, it might have been from consumer reports, but not sure. Our city water tastes and of bleach- even if you let it site for a while the taste is disgusting. My well water has contaminants in it but at least tastes better. The last half year I have bought bottled water, mostly alkaline spring water. Some people told me I should chose for purified water, but the brands I tried taste disgusting as well. I cannot even imagine how contaminated the water in big cities must be.
Disturbing Fluoride content revealed.
Thank you for this useful Info. Here in Vancouver, WA our city provides yearly reports on water quality based on districts. For the most part it covers the basics, but you are right, like other municipalities it doesn't go far enough to remove PFOAs or THMs. Because of this we invested in a home water purification system that does a great job at purifying our water. Of course, this is a solution that only helps those who can afford such things and just further points out the need for a city wide solution so all can have clean water.
Also, there's a problem with water bottled in plastic that you failed to mention, and that's microplastics. Overtime, plastic bottles release micro plastics into its contents. This is made worse when the bottles are heated (like in delivery or in long term storage), they also release chemicals in the water and therefore up the bottled water toxicity. It's much better to opt for either water in glass bottles, or like what we do, rely on our home water system and reuseable metal or glass water bottles.
With that said, your article and newsletter is still an excellent source of environmental information and I thank you for it.
a few years ago, I saw results of a nation wide test, it might have been from consumer reports, but not sure. Our city water tastes and of bleach- even if you let it site for a while the taste is disgusting. My well water has contaminants in it but at least tastes better. The last half year I have bought bottled water, mostly alkaline spring water. Some people told me I should chose for purified water, but the brands I tried taste disgusting as well. I cannot even imagine how contaminated the water in big cities must be.