THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
body else's tap. Use only glass or reused polyethylene jugs.
Polyethylene is opaque, not clear. It has already lost its plasti-
cizer into the water that stood in it earlier. (Somebody drank it!)
Purchased water has traces of solvents from machinery and
sterilizing equipment used in its bottling. Your own tap water is
not pure (indeed it may have 500 toxic elements), but it never
contains solvents in amounts I can detect.
Traces of solvents are worse than traces of other toxins.Water filters are not the solution. They trap the pollutants
and then allow a tiny amount to enter the water on a daily basis.
Chronic toxin consumption is much worse for your health than
periodic surges of toxins. You can use a small filter, that gets
changed every month without much risk. This would dechlorinate
the water, at least, and improve the flavor. The pitcher variety (it
should be made of hard, inflexible plastic) and the faucet variety
are listed in Sources.
Bottled water is popular,
and tasty, and has appealing advertising, but it is just not safe.
Why is it easier for everyone to spend dollars per day, for the
rest of their life, buying water instead of insisting that their water
pipes are metal-free?
Another reason not to drink water from bottles, however
convenient, is that it is stagnant and is soon contaminated with
our own bacteria from contact with mouth or hands. Staphylo-
coccus (Staph) and E. coli are commonly seen. The solution is
not to add still more chemical disinfectants, the solution is to
drink from a flowing source, such as our faucets. If you must
carry water, use glass containers; plastic is porous and much