Studies are a very funny thing. We never pay attention to our habits until some professional agency comes up with a report. Then we scramble like mad to clean up our act. Ever get the feeling that the sound of humans should be more like…a moo?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now reports that individuals who drink and bath in chlorinated surface waters (i.e., water from lakes, rivers and shallow wells) have a 50% greater likelihood of getting cancer in their lifetime. Yikes! Depending on what part of the country one lives in, it is easy to find trace amounts of chlorination by-products, organics, nitrates, pesticides, heavy metals, radioactive compounds, petrochemicals and parasites coming from the local municipal water supply.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now reports that individuals who drink and bath in chlorinated surface waters (i.e., water from lakes, rivers and shallow wells) have a 50% greater likelihood of getting cancer in their lifetime. Yikes! Depending on what part of the country one lives in, it is easy to find trace amounts of chlorination by-products, organics, nitrates, pesticides, heavy metals, radioactive compounds, petrochemicals and parasites coming from the local municipal water supply.
Filters! Filters! Somebody, get the office a filtered water cooler – hurry!
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