When it comes to using healthy water, it is really a tossup between bottled water for drinking or full house water filtration these days. There are no two ways about it, our water companies have failed to protect us above what they call a minimum 'standard specifications for water treatment', and some do not even aspire to those. These standards in themselves vaguely allow for low contamination densities that are said to be harmless to your health. Of course, I will never understand how a bit of poison over a length of time is harmless to me and my children.
People used to think of distilled water as an alternative but even while it is the purest form of water available, distillation is a form of purification that can not differentiate between what is bad and what is good for us. So instead of just taking out the impurities, the minerals essential for human well being are distilled out of the water too. It does not taste the same as natural water, or the water you would get through a house water filtration system, and it is actually harmful to your body.
Even the more prevalent option, the so-called 'pure' bottled water is not certifiably 'pure'. There is no standard set to control the purification of bottled water, and thus while some companies may be responsible enough to not cheat you, the others can legally sell you water that is not cleaner than tap water itself. Just think, they have been allowed to sell us carbonated drinks for years and years with no government doing anything about it to protect the public from its adverse affects on health, who do you think will stand to protect us if the water wasn't cleaner than what we already had to drink. They joke about it as a status symbol; bottled water is nothing other than that and a constant expenditure as well as a persistent pollutant to our atmosphere, increasing the amount of plastic in our environment every few seconds...with each purchase.
In such a situation, if you turn to the option of whole house water filtration, for your sake and that of your family, no one can blame you for wanting to be sure your money isn't going into a bottomless pit. In contrast to bottled water, a filter is a long term purchase that needs periodic maintenance and you actually know your water is safe. And your conscience can be at ease, you are not turning this green planet into a plastic world. That, perhaps, is something to share with your friends; Go Green, drink filtered water you can regularize yourself, not scam tap water labeled for its fake purity.
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