Jennifer Bauldorf, Daytona Beach, FL asks: How do you know if you need a water filter?
ANSWER Virtually everyone will benefit from a home water filtration system. If all that was in your tap water was chlorine, and chlorine is in everyone’s water, there are significant health and cosmetic benefits to using chlorine-free water. Any child who has a goldfish knows that chlorine can kill. It’s sole purpose as a pesticide is to kill living cells and organisms. When we consume chlorine at any level, it kills some part of us. It’s recently been linked to cancer, heart disease, birth defects and many serious illnesses. Unfortunately, chlorine is not the only harmful substance in tap water. Over 90% of all U.S. water systems contain traces of at least 10 synthetic chemicals and lead. A recent Ralph Nader report stated that “after reviewing over 10,000 pages of EPA documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act… [it was found that] over 2,300 chemicals that can cause cancer have been detected in U.S. tap water.” Water utilities test for only about 75. No one knows for
