Unfortunately, the whole world water supply is contaminated. There is nowhere in the world that has escaped pollution. Even the most pristine areas are dirty. With all of our progress, we are fouling our nest and drinking the residue. Every snow-capped mountain, every brook, every stream, every river, every lake and every ocean contains pollutants of all kinds. Air pollution is from Bangkok to Beijing, Buenos Aires to Bogota, Boston to Barcelona and Baghdad. Man-made poisonous pollutants are constantly spewed into the air. Some sources are: trucks, automobiles, airplanes, trains, ships, rockets, incinerators, furnaces, power plants, factories, industrial/consumer chemicals and fumes, and industrial and military explosives. Natural processes spew methane, radon, smoke, carbon monoxide, sulfur, chlorine and more. What goes up must come down.

To illustrate the point, the remote continent of Antarctica has airborne residue of  the toxic heavy metal lead. Test samples from ice cores show a tremendous amount of industrial lead concentrations. “Our measurements indicate that approximately 660 tonnes [1.5 million pounds] of industrial lead have been deposited on the snow-covered surface of Antarctica during the past 130 years,” McConnell said. “While recent contamination levels are lower, clearly detectable industrial contamination of the Antarctic continent persists today, so we still have a ways to go.”² Cities, businesses and homeowners broadcast pesticides. We are polluting our waters with agricultural fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides.

Most of us live in cities or towns that supply our water. Most cities do a good job of making sure they don’t exceed the legal limits of pathogens and high levels of poisons. How ‘acceptable’ are the legal levels and is everything tested for? Just for starters, over 100,000 lifetime cancer cases could be due to carcinogenic chemicals in tap water.³

You can check your municipality to see what dangers may lurk in your water. This goes beyond the EPA standards and tells you what may not be safe in your water, not just what is legal. The Environmental Working Group has a free website to check your tap water. https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/ This is great to highlight what you may be absorbing on a daily basis.

Even if we’re not drinking the contaminated waters, our skin is taking a lot of the contamination into our bloodstream without being aware of it. How much of toxic elements in water can be absorbed through our skin? In the case of Volatile Organic Compounds it averages 64% listed in the AJPH⁴ and the NIH⁵. Our typical baths and showers are exposing us to unknown quantities of toxins. What other absorption are we unaware of? After testing waters in US homes the EPA found over 84,000 known contaminants, like chlorine, DBPs, pesticides, VOCs and lead⁶.

Even if your water is free of contamination, how effective is it in your body? Many things about water are still misunderstood⁷. Water has properties of being a fluid crystal. Individual water atoms bond with each other into larger clusters. When water is put under pressure through straight pipes larger clusters are formed. We have done things for convenience without knowing what the effects are. You may take the water out of the lake and pipe, but the lake and pipe is still in the water.

Are expensive bottled waters a good option? The Environmental Working Group doesn’t think so:

“Laboratory tests conducted for EWG at one of the country’s leading water quality laboratories found that 10 popular brands of bottled water, purchased from grocery stores and other retailers in 9 states and the District of Columbia, contained 38 chemical pollutants altogether, with an average of 8 contaminants in each brand. More than one-third of the chemicals found are not regulated in bottled water. In the Sam’s Choice and Acadia brands, levels of some chemicals exceeded legal limits in California as well as industry-sponsored voluntary safety standards. Four brands were also contaminated with bacteria.”⁸

The best waters in the world are from clean natural mineral springs.⁹ Mineral Fix will treat your water with properties as close to natural mineral spring water as you can get without taking the trip.

1 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-percentage-of-the-human-body-is-water#avoiding-dehydration

2 https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/lead-pollution-beat-explorers-to-south-pole-persists-today/

3 https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(19)35974-2

4 https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.74.5.479

5 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1651599/

6 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac070719q

7 https://www.nature.com/articles/452291a

8 https://www.ewg.org/research/bottled-water-quality-investigation

9 https://www.guideposts.org/better-living/travel/7-of-the-worlds-amazing-healing-waters