| You know those popular drinking water stations | | | | water stations. Another way is to avoid buying |
| with a big five gallon jug on top and a dispenser | | | | bottled waters in general. |
| and sometimes a nice cooler at the bottom? Yes? | | | | If you are concerned about contaminated drinking |
| Well, did you know that they might contain | | | | water coming out of your tap, buy a purifier for |
| contaminated drinking water? | | | | your kitchen counter. If you are serviced by a |
| Consumer Reports tested some samples from | | | | public treatment facility, you should have one |
| those drinking water stations. 80% of the | | | | anyway. Because, it's not just about what you |
| samples tested positive for Bisphenol-A or BPA. | | | | drink, it's about what you eat, too. |
| You may have seen some news stories about | | | | Whenever you use unfiltered water for cooking, |
| BPA. CNN called Wal-mart the new FDA, because | | | | you are eating chlorine, traces of pharmaceuticals, |
| they are pulling baby bottles and training cups off | | | | pesticides and herbicides. When you wash fruits |
| of their shelves. The compound is one of the | | | | and vegetables with tap-water, you are exposed |
| monomers used to make polycarbonate and | | | | to those chemicals and tiny illness causing |
| plastic jugs, bottles and cups. | | | | parasites like cryptosporidium and giardia cysts. |
| What's the risk of BPA contaminated drinking | | | | Cysts can also be present in those drinking water |
| water? Probably not much, if that was your only | | | | stations. It all depends on the purification method |
| source of exposure. But, BPA is so prevalent in | | | | used by the company that provides them. Cysts |
| our society that there are many sources of | | | | are resistant to all disinfection methods, except |
| exposure. It's used to line the interior of canned | | | | boiling. |
| and pre-packaged foods. | | | | But, you can protect yourself from cyst |
| Some of your dishes are made out of it, like | | | | contaminated drinking water with a purifier that |
| those reseal-able containers that you put in your | | | | includes submicron filtration. One that has granular |
| lunch box. When you wash them in the | | | | carbon combined with a carbon and multi-media |
| dishwasher, it breaks down the polymers and the | | | | block will remove all traces of chlorine, drugs, |
| compound can get into foods or beverages | | | | bug-kill, weed-killer and any other chemicals that |
| stored in the containers. | | | | are present. |
| During a survey, the CDC found BPA in over | | | | In some homes, there are traces of lead and |
| 90% of the population tested. Why do they care? | | | | copper in the tap-water, because chlorine gradually |
| BPA acts like estrogen within the human body. It | | | | dissolves the pipes. A purifier that removes lead |
| inhibits the body's ability to produce its own | | | | and copper also helps to balance the pH level and |
| hormones. It causes changes in tissues that | | | | the mineral content. |
| predispose the cells to cancer. In kids, it could | | | | So, you can have the safest and best tasting |
| cause a lot of problems. | | | | waters coming right from your tap. Those |
| You can easily avoid BPA contaminated drinking | | | | drinking water stations are not the right choice. |
| water. One way is to avoid those 5 gallon drinking | | | | |