Whilst many people focus on the importance of diet to their health, there is no doubt that drinking clean water is also vital to good health. And sadly for Americans, those who drink water from the tap aren’t drinking clean drinking water.

Drinking clean water is essential to our health from a number of different points of view. Right now thousands are dying of Cholera in Zimbabwe from drinking water contaminated with Cholera.

There is no cholera in the US, but that doesn’t mean that our drinking water supplies are clean. In fact there are hundreds of different contaminants that can be found in our drinking water, and although they won’t kill us fast like cholera will they are still damaging to our health over time.

Think about this. Lead is dangerous to us if we ingest it. Most people are aware of this. The EPA itself has stated that lead in our drinking water is the number one environmental health problem for our childrens health. Even low levels of lead in water can lead to developmental problems for children including learning difficulties and behavioral problems and more.

Can you believe that something as dangerous as lead is in our water? We’re drinking lead? Aren’t our water supplies meant to be clean?

There is a real problem with lead in our drinking water. How does the lead get into our water? Often right there in our house, because around 98% of household plumbing has lead in it around the joints where there is solder.

And according to the EPA there is no safe level of lead in our water, especially to children.

And lead is just the start. There are hundreds of other contaminants that can be found in our water. We aren’t drinking clean water at all.

So what do you do to make sure that you and your family have clean water to drink? How do you get the purest drinking water possible? Should you buy bottled water, for instance?

The FDA has said “Companies that market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public.” And there’s good reason for that statement. Simply because there are no government regulations that specify that bottled water should be any safer than tap water. And some bottled water is just tap water, and the price of bottled water is higher, quantity for quantity, than the price of gas. Bottled water is a fraud.

And it takes oil to make bottled water, and for other reasons bottled water is an environmental disaster. All those bottles go into landfill.

So if bottled water isn’t the answer to clean drinking water what do you do if the thought of drinking lead and countless other contaminants repulses you? You find a good water filter to use. A water filter is much cheaper and more environmentally friendly than bottled water and produces water to extremely high standards of cleanliness. A high quality water filter will filter the lead out, along with the other contaminants, including chlorine, that you find in your tap water.

How do you know that? Because it’s perfectly possible to test this and independent tests can show the efficacy of different water filters and ensure that if they claim certain results these can actually be achieved. The very best drinking water filters should filter out over 97% or 98% of just about everything nasty, including some contaminants that you’ve probably never even heard of.

Here’s an example. Did you know there was bromochloroacentontrile in your tap water? Never heard of it? What in the world is it? How dangerous is it? It doesn’t matter if you use the best water filter you know that over 97% of it is gone.

So if you didn’t know about the problems with drinking contaminated water you do now. You have a right to drink clean water but you’re currently drinking contaminated water if you drink tap water or bottled water. To make sure that you’re drinking clean water you need to find and use the best water filter that money can buy and remove the contaminants.

And you’d be forgiven for assuming that the best drinking water filter was the most expensive, but it’s not. Find out more about drinking water filters at my website.