If you want pure water and if you drink bottled water, then you better watch this video and consider getting a big berkey water filter from ...
This is Why I Have a Brita | Los Angeles Metblogs
There’s some good news, at least on the culpability front: More than half of the chemicals detected by the study — performed by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group — are not even subject to health regulations by the federal government, and can therefore be present in any amount. Also, we beat those hippies up in San Jose, who came in at 84.
A representative from EWG told the LA Daily News: “We recommend residents get water filters.”
I have my old-ass building and its pipes full of mineral deposits to thank for my reliance on filtered and bottled water, and I never thought I’d say this, but: Thank you, old-ass building that only provides the hardest and most magnesium-clotted water, for preparing me for the sad realities of municipal utility regulation. I have a Brita filter in my refrigerator for everyday use, and a stack of bottled Arrowhead in my pantry for emergencies such as forgetting to refill the Brita. Don’t worry, I recycle all the bottles. Gotta pay for booze somehow.
...Anyway : BPA – Who#39;s Prepared?
Bisphenol-A, a chemical found in many of those hard plastic water bottles (look for polycarbonates with the recycling number 7, although not all of those have BPA in them) has been in the news recently, culminating in today’s announcement of a ban of baby bottles containing BPA by Health Canada. This continues a trend from a US National Toxicology Program report that expressed concern, although it stopped short of calling BPA dangerous. Since, like many households, we have quite a few of these bottles around, and since the chemical is supposed to be particularly dangerous to infants, I figured I should see which of the many plastic bottles and baby bottles we have might be safe. The polycarbonate bottles are deservedly popular; they don’t have the “plastic” taste that bottles made of #5 plastics do (although those are said to be completely safe since they don’t leach), and they are unbreakable, unlike glass.
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Water-quality report raises concerns about Santa Fe drinking water, but ...Water World - Feb 02, 2010
She started using her Brita filter, just to play it safe. Eric Perramond, a professor at Colorado College who#39;s lived in Santa Fe seven months, and morenbsp;raquo;