What's in your drinking water?
Everyone knows that water is essential to life. But what's coming out of your tap or bottle may not really be your healthiest choice. The Real Dirt on Clean Water Sure, your water may look clean but is it? Most people think that governmental agencies ensure that our water's clean. And while the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the Clean Water Act to safeguard our water supply, it only set standards and testing requirements in our municipal water treatment facilities for 114 different contaminants out of literally hundreds more. In fact, the Environmental Working Group obtained test results from a database of over 20 million records from state water officials to determine the quality of drinking water in 45 states. The results revealed 316 contaminants were present in our water supplies. Among them were 202 chemicals that aren't regulated by any safe water standards. i Checking the quality of your local water is easy to do. Just visit the National Drinkin