Unfortunately, billions of people around the world lack access to safe drinking water & 3.4 million people die yearly from contaminated water! This is NOT only happening far away in underdeveloped countries, and efforts to clean and disinfect our water supply result in chemical byproducts infiltrating our water supply. Then it often passes through leaky, disintegrating water pipes! There have been numerous studies that have found bacteria, parasites, and traces of pharmaceutical drugs in our water. The widespread use of toxic genetic chemicals in agriculture (such as pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, hormones, steroids, etc.) further adds to water pollution and results in chronic pervasive exposure to poisons when this food is consumed by the public!
In 1986, the Safe Drinking Water Act called for reform, citing hundreds of thousands of toxic waste dumps and underground water storage tanks (30% of which are structurally impaired and capable of leaking) across the country, no pesticide run-off regulations, and national water pipe systems full of lead. Sadly, the situation is not much better today, as 18 billion pounds of new pollutants and chemicals are released into the atmosphere, soil, surface and groundwater each year! Both tap water and bottled water come from surface and groundwater sources. Surface sources include rivers, lakes, wells, etc and groundwater is created from rain and snow that have soaked into the ground and been collected in underground aquifiers. Water runoff containing residue from pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemical wastes often makes its way into surface and groundwater. According to the EPA, every state in the nation has a groundwater-contamination problem.
In 1986, the Safe Drinking Water Act called for reform, citing hundreds of thousands of toxic waste dumps and underground water storage tanks (30% of which are structurally impaired and capable of leaking) across the country, no pesticide run-off regulations, and national water pipe systems full of lead. Sadly, the situation is not much better today, as 18 billion pounds of new pollutants and chemicals are released into the atmosphere, soil, surface and groundwater each year! Both tap water and bottled water come from surface and groundwater sources. Surface sources include rivers, lakes, wells, etc and groundwater is created from rain and snow that have soaked into the ground and been collected in underground aquifiers. Water runoff containing residue from pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemical wastes often makes its way into surface and groundwater. According to the EPA, every state in the nation has a groundwater-contamination problem.
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