Drinking Water Safe?

I recently met a women who told me that her family only drinks bottle water because it was safer than town or local water. The scary facts is that most bottle water is no more than tap water packaged into a fancy bottle. A few year ago the EPA ran some popular spring water through some testing and they found bacterial contaimination, industrial solvents along with arsenic. Another scary truth is that the FDA exempts regulating bottle water that is packaged and sold within the same state. This means that your town water is more closely regulated than the fancy bottle water you are purchasing. Not only is the water not great for you but think about all those plastic bottles entering our landfills. This is so much unnessasary waste we are creating that can simple be eliminated very easily.

First if you have a well, Congrats! Go get your well water tested if will cost around $20. If your water is good you will end up saving big by being able to use your own water. If you are not so lucky I would suggest purchasing a water filter unit such as Best Water. Once you have a healthy source of water go to the store a purchase a metal water bottle to hold you water. The problem with traditonal plastic bottles is once they go over about 72 degrees the plastic begins leching chemicals into the water. I get mine from Sigg they are nice water bottles and I even get ones for the kids too. Now since the Green trend you can even find these at all kinds of stores such as Wegmans, Target, Whole Foods...ect.

Cheers to Healthier Water!