| Although no agency or company admits of the | | | | other sources of water pollution. Some of which, |
| issues concerning drinking water contamination, | | | | we may never think of actually harming our |
| the public is growing more and more critical and | | | | water supply. Due to some irresponsible |
| inquisitive about the problem. Since a recent | | | | pharmaceutical plants, septic tank failure and poor |
| report has concluded that traces of | | | | sewerage systems, traces of pharmaceutical |
| pharmaceutical drugs are present in 24 out of 28 | | | | drugs that are used by humans and animals are |
| metropolitan areas that are tested in the United | | | | found in our drinking water. Just imagine the |
| States, people have become more cautious of | | | | effect of such hazard in using tap water to make |
| the quality and status of the water that they are | | | | baby formula. |
| drinking. While medical studies base the effects of | | | | The newfound forms and causes of water |
| drinking water contamination at an adult level, we | | | | contamination actually bring more serious and |
| may expect worse for our children especially on | | | | often irreversible effects both in nature in and |
| babies. The younger population of the country is | | | | human health. Many of the trace chemicals have |
| actually most susceptible to the adverse effects | | | | reached into the faucets in our home because our |
| of the drugs that are found in tap water. | | | | local water treatment plants have failed to have |
| Thankfully, modern science has provided us with | | | | eradicated. The chemicals in water need a more |
| the technology that can be used to continuously | | | | thorough processing method to be removed. |
| allow us to use tap water to make baby formula | | | | Aside from pharmaceutical contaminants, the |
| without any guilt. | | | | chemicals that were used in treating water, as in |
| We must understand that there is no such thing | | | | chlorine and fluoride, where found to cause |
| as new water. The supply of water that we | | | | adverse effects to our health. At specified |
| enjoy is far from new. It is actually recycled. Our | | | | concentrations, these chemicals produce toxic |
| community sources its tap water from the | | | | compounds as the by-product of their reaction to |
| cleanest and nearest watershed. There, a water | | | | the water being treated. Hence, more and more |
| treatment plant is operated so as to | | | | forms of contaminants can go untraced and |
| decontaminate the water. Through a series of | | | | undetected by the water treatment plants |
| treatment, the sediments and the microorganisms | | | | supplies use with our drinking water. |
| that that water carries are separated, filtered and | | | | So before you again use tap water to make |
| eradicated leaving the water safe for use or for | | | | baby formula, think twice or even a million times |
| drinking. | | | | whether tap is still safe for drinking. To be |
| All of us are aware of the intensity at which | | | | relieved of the guilt that the contamination brings |
| water pollution has affected our country. Thanks | | | | in posing serious health risks, you can use an |
| to the toxic wastes and by-products that | | | | advanced home water treatment system to |
| industrial plants throw out to our rivers and seas, | | | | purify and decontaminate your baby’s water. |
| a number of watersheds in United States are | | | | So why continue worrying about the water that |
| struggling with the issues concerning | | | | your baby takes when there are cost-effective |
| contamination. While we all put the blame in these | | | | options to safeguarding his health against the |
| plants, more scientific studies have confirmed | | | | hazards caused by water contamination. |