Pros And Cons Of Tap Water

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No, it isn't, no matter, if it's bottled water or if its tap. Let's start in why tap water isn't safe. First, people may think that just because the government is “protecting” it is clean and that it's “drinkable”, well no, it isn't it so happens that it has 80 “regulated” contaminants and more unregulated toxins. Then, there's the fact that most water that we drink has arsenic, fluoride, chlorine these are toxins that are unhealthy. Now what may each of them mean well, arsenic is a toxin that causes cancer, fluoride is a pollutant a by-product of copper, iron and aluminum manufacturing, chlorine is a toxin that causes serious cell damage once in the body system. Secondly, for bottled water, not all the brands are safe. For example, PUMP is

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