Alkaline Water News [Water Wellness]

You should get to know your areas water contaminants and risks so you can guard against them.

Every year the water company sends me a water quality report. In this report I am given a lot of data about my water…you should be too. Maybe this report is something you filed away and didn’t think about in the past, but now that you’re more informed, you might just take a look at it some time. It’s informative, however it only reports the elements that are federally regulated [so it's not a complete listing...actually there are over 100 contaminants that aren't even regulated, so they wouldn't be in the report].

My St. Louis report tells me about these:

Inorganic contaminants: Barium, Fluoride, Nitrate+Nitrite, Lead, Copper;

Disinfectants [byproducts of the disinfectants used to treat the water]: Chloramine, Trihalomethanes, Haloacetic Acids; 

Microbes: Coliform Bacteria, Total Organic Compounds, and Turbicity; and finally it tells me about

Radioactive Contaminants: Gross Alpha Particle Activity, and Total Uranium.

Well, in looking over my St. Louis area report, there’s some good news and some bad news for people living in St. Louis [without a water ionizer]. The good news is no radiation has been detected. The bad news is: there’s too much lead in the water, almost too many Nitrates & too much Barium in the water, and

In my book… any of this junk in the water is bad news!

I’m sure different localities will have differing concerns, therefore, I’d expect the water reports to reflect the risks in that location. The report points out a maximum level of contamination for each of the contaminants, and a range considered “safe”. These are all usually reported in mg/L [milligrams per liter]. Then the report tells the Average level of the targeted contaminants found in the water [after treatment].

You can go to this website to get information on the contaminants in your area’s water: http://www.ewg.org/tapwater/yourwater/ Or you could go to your city’s website and search for “water quality report” or “water report”. Ex. My search, “St. Louis Water Report”, gave me the report as the first item on pg. 1.

Once you get your report, you can see if there’s something in your water that you may need a prefilter for. I think the Arsenic, Lead and Fluoride prefilter looks like something I should get. Prefilters targeting certain contaminants do a much better job than a single filter can.

With all that having been said, though, I feel pretty safe with my St. Louis water. And it’s all because of my wonderful Melody water ionizer with its awesome Biostone  [soon to be Biostone Plus] filter.

If you have well water, you’ll have to do your own testing. Fortunately, I now have a really inexpensive Comprehensive Well-Water Test Kit  you can purchase for 24.95.

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