What Can You Do About Chemicals in Tap Water?
Chemicals in tap water are not a novelty – the main problem is that when people drink tap water, they ingest those chemicals, and the side effects on their bodies can be rather extensive and harmful. Chemicals in tap water are not a matter of bad taste, or weirdly coloured water – it is a matter of health and taking care of ourselves. Unfortunately, relying on authorities is not an option (not that is has ever been one) because water treatments plants in charge of purifying the water cannot perform the cleaning task and they tend to make everything worse by adding huge amounts of chlorine to the water. Water treatment plants were build in a time when chemicals in tap water were not a problem – the risk was minimal, therefore the only thing people worried about back then was bacteria. Chlorine was used to kill anything living in the water, and that was basically the only measure taken to protect people that used to drink tap water. The problem is that throughout time, chemicals have bec
