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Toxic Water at Work

BY Larry Wardell | 05-12-2009 | 2:49 PM
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Not many people ask questions about water they get in their working environment and they likely need to start.

This
is something few people think about – the drinking water at work. Not
many people ask questions about water they get in their working
environment and they likely need to start.

That
water cooler sitting in the corner of the office looks pretty darn good
filled with fresh, clear and inviting water. However, is the water
really all that it's cracked up to be? The kind of container that it's
in makes a huge difference and the origin of the water is even more of
an issue.

Workers
avoid drinking tap water because they may well be aware that the water
isn't good for them. In doing so however, they may find they have been
drinking filtered tap water from the water cooler. Some days it just
doesn’t pay to get out of bed. Those water coolers may be filled with
things that aren't good for any of us. Just because the water happens
to be in a water cooler does not make it any fresher or better than tap
water. It just looks like it might be healthier than tap water –
something that would not necessarily be the case.

The
other problem is that most of the drinking water containers in offices
are made of plastic. Add the contaminants already in the water with
what leaches out of the plastic into the water, throw in the fact that
these water coolers are not checked as often as they should be, and
there is a recipe for disaster – contaminated water waiting to harm
people's health.

Most
water cooler tanks are made out of a material called polycarbonate,
responsible for leaching bisphenol-A, a known cancer antagonist. No one
needs to be drinking what they believe is safe water, only to find out
later that it may be even more contaminated than tap water. The
alternative is to carry water to work from home, water that has come
from a home filtration system.

There is only one way to deal with a potentially contaminated water cooler and that is to have a home water distillation system.
This is the only real answer to protect ourselves, as no other method
of purification is as effective as distillation. The proof is in the
water.

 

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