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