Is Your Water Toxic?

 Water is one of the most vital ingredients for any living thing. A few days is all that a human being can go without it. In fact, a significant percentage of our body is composed of water. We don't just get water by drinking a glass of it. We can get it through other liquids and even various foods.
For the purposes of this article, we will focus on drinking water -- specifically, how the composition of water makes it good at harboring toxins, how these enter our water supply and ultimately our bodies.
Most of us are probably aware of the obscene amount of toxic chemicals pumped into the surrounding environment (mainly the air and soil) on a regular basis. What a lot of people don't realize is a lot of these toxins eventually end up in our water supplies. All those chemicals in the atmosphere come back to the ground in the form of rain and mix with the soil, which typically is led to a body of water via underground waterways. We can quickly see how the water coming into our households might be very toxic. In fact, it's guaranteed that their are toxins in your water; the question is to what degree. Let's look at some of the materials that end up in our water:

Many of the drugs that people take, whether prescription or over-the-counter, often do not become fully absorbed by the body. These excess chemicals go through the person and end up back into the water supply. This isn't some half-baked theory either, there have been over 100 different drugs found in various water supplies around the planet. This is an actual issue.
But why wouldn't these chemicals be removed, you ask? One of the main functions of water treatment plants is to remove the biological threats in the water, such as viruses, bacteria etc. Of course, there is a lot of work done to remove dangerous chemicals, but this process is not nearly as developed. There are simply too many potential chemicals for them to deal with, using present technology. Any kind of random drug that someone is taking can end up right back in the water supply and coming out your tap.
Sure, the levels of these toxins is quite small -- but the thing about toxins is often the danger is precisely in small amounts that build up over a long period of time.

As it was stated earlier, toxins are pumped into our atmosphere and soil regularly from different industrial and commercial sources. What's slightly weird is that chemicals are allowed to be put into the environment by default. It's only when something is proven to be dangerous that legislation even beings to happen. The problem is that given the nature of these toxins and how they can sometimes take decades to produce effects, this might be a practice we want to reconsider.

Yes, you read that correctly. As effective as water treatment is at removing certain threats, it often adds toxins into the water in the very process of doing this. You have to understand that the quality of water they bring in from the waterways is just awful. They have to perform many operations on it for it to be even remotely usable. For example, chlorine is often used to kill living organisms. Apparently the levels are too small to have any adverse effects, but would you really like to take that risk?