Water in the News

If we’re taking it, we’re also drinking it: painkillers, blood thinners, hormones, chemotherapy agents, even cocaine and amphetamines. What happens when excreted drugs get into drinking water?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drinking-water-contaminated-by-excreted-drugs-a-growing-concern-1.2772289

Water is vital to our survival, it is second only to the air we breath and its quality is essential to our well-being.

According to a Toronto Star ^[1], an estimated 225,000 kilograms of heavy metals such as cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, nickel, lead and zinc are released into Lake Ontario every year.

1. Pure, safe drinking water is essential to life.

- "More than 700 potentially harmful minerals and chemicals have been found in North America's drinking water."

2. Minerals in drinking water are not good for you! Our bodies need minerals but only in their organic state. They must first pass through the roots of plants and become organic minerals before our bodies can assimilate them. There is a big difference between drinking dissolved inorganic iron filings in water and consuming the organic iron in plants, vegetables and fruits.