| You have probably heard of the statistic | | | | sometimes bath water is going to end up |
| that recommends that for optimum health, | | | | in their system. Therefore, it makes |
| an individual should drink between five | | | | sense to treat any water used within a |
| and eight large glasses of water a day. | | | | home as drinking water. |
| At first blush this seems like a fairly | | | | The problem with receiving your water |
| obvious proposition; after all, we use | | | | treated directly and solely by local |
| water to replenish our bodies and to | | | | operations is that you really don't know |
| flush out any impurities we may have. | | | | if there is a problem until it is too |
| But what if the impurities are actually | | | | late. The water is consumed, and the |
| found in your drinking water? Canadians | | | | bacteria or chemicals within the water |
| don't have to look very far back to | | | | are already at work by the time everyone |
| remember the latest drinking water | | | | realizes that something is amiss; this |
| crisis, when the town of Walkerton, | | | | is exactly what happened in Walkerton. |
| Ontario experienced an epidemic of E. | | | | The way to ensure that your drinking |
| Coli that resulted in thousands of | | | | water is safe for you and your family is |
| people sick and seven dead. | | | | by taking control of the situation |
| While the Walkerton example is an | | | | yourself. Not only should you install |
| extreme one, it does illustrate the | | | | reasonable home measures for your own |
| importance of knowing exactly how your | | | | drinking water, as a concerned citizen |
| drinking water is being treated. City | | | | you should do all in your power to |
| treatment plants can be highly | | | | ensure that industries within your area |
| efficient, but they are as susceptible | | | | are treating their used water in the |
| to failure as anything else. In | | | | most effective manner possible. |
| addition, remember that treatment plants | | | | For the individual, this will usually |
| don't just operate to make water for | | | | mean applying methods such as filters |
| drinking; most water that goes through | | | | and even on occasion chemical |
| them is used for bathing, watering | | | | treatments, to ensure that purities of |
| lawns, sewer systems, and so on. | | | | all size are removed from drinking water |
| Still, that does not change the fact | | | | prior to consumption. Don't rely solely |
| that most of the water that runs into | | | | on the methods used by municipal |
| our homes does have the potential to be | | | | organizations to get clean drinking |
| sampled by some member of the family. If | | | | water into your home; some initiative |
| you have little kids, for example, you | | | | could mean all the difference to your |
| know that despite your best efforts, | | | | health. |