Our use of man-made chemicals has become so extreme that we can now find traces of these low level SOCs (synthetic organic chemicals) in virtually every public water supply around the world.
A recent report by the Ralph Nader Study Group, after reviewing over 10,000 documents acquired through the Freedom Of Information Act, confirmed that "U.S. drinking water contains more than 2100 toxic chemicals
that can cause cancer."
We've learned that any chemical we use in our society, will eventually wind up in our water supplies. There is no "new" water! Our planet re-uses the same water over and over.
And as our use of SOCs increases, so does the toxicity of our water. Earth's natural filtration process is not effective at removing these toxic SOCs... nor is municipal water treatment. Industry, agriculture and individuals...
all contribute to the problem. Many of the contaminants found in water can be traced back to improper or excessive use of ordinary compounds like lawn chemicals, gasoline, drycleaning solvents and cleaning products.
Our municipal water treatment facilities do not remove SOCs and typically only consist of sand bed filtration and disinfection, much like a standard swimming pool filter. For the most part, today‘s water treatment facilities are
much the same as they were at the turn of the century, filter out the visable particles and add bleach!
"Drinking water plants are old and out of date, and water supplies are increasingly threatened by and contaminated by chemicals and microorganisms." Natural Resources Defense Council.
"The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed." Carol Browner, U.S. EPA Chief.
One of America‘s leading authorities on water contamination, Dr. David Ozonoff of the Boston University Of Public Health states, "The risk of disease associated with public drinking water has passed from the theoretical to the real."
Many illnesses that in the past could not be linked to a probable cause have now been linked to toxins in our drinking water.
"While levels of these carcenogens (SOCs) in drinking water are low, it is precisely these low levels that carcenogenists belive to be responsible for the majority of human cancers in the U.S."
- U.S. Council On Environmental Quality
It has been shown that areas with the highest levels of these SOCs in their water supplies also have the highest incidence of cancer.
Jacquelyn Warren of the Natural Resources Defense Council commented on this subject, "The one thing we know for sure about toxins in our drinking water is that the more we look the more we find."
