ABOUT HEALTH
DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S IN THE WATER YOU DRINK EVERY DAY?
Water: essential to our health
It makes up about 60% of our body weight. This fact alone should tell you how important it is. However, most people don’t drink enough. This can have both short and long term effects on the body. Every system in our body depends on water.
Lack of water can lead to dehydration, a condition that occurs when you don’t have enough water in your body to carry out normal functions.
Even mild dehydration can drain your energy and make you tired, and more serious dehydration can have fatal consequences. To ward off dehydration and make sure your body has the fluids it needs, make water your beverage of choice.
Zepter International, the worldwide specialists in health and lifestyle recommend: drink at least 2 – 3 l of filtered tap water per day.
Your water quality = your quality of life
Water is a basic requirement for all life, yet water resources are facing increasing demands from, and competition among, users. Clean water is fundamental to life and the quality of water you drink affect directly your health and therefore your quality of life. Municipal water supplies already struggle to meet the demand for clean drinking water and that demand is set to increase whereas supply is set to diminish.
Tap Water
How can you be sure the water you are drinking is pure? Even if the water leaves the water treatment facility in a safe, drinkable state, it has to travel through a network of often antiquated underground pipes, which can be made of lead or copper. Fluoridated water can be harmful for your baby and it is necessary to use filtered tap water for your baby’s formula.
Gasoline, fluorides, pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides, lead, asbestos, nitrates - all are dissolved in the water you drink. Over 800 water-borne impurities have already been identified. It is proven that low-level exposure to many common contaminants has dangerous health effects on humans, including discomfort, sickness, liver or nerve damage, and even cancer!
The problem with bottled water
- In most cases bottled water is NO cleaner than tap water.
- 1900 times more expensive than tap water.
- Heavy and awkward to carry home.
- Only one in every five water bottles is recycled.
- The bottled water industry is regulated to a far lesser degree that municipal water treatment facilities.
- The manufacture, transport and recycling processes for plastic bottles have hugely negative effects on the environment.
YOUR HEALTH DEPENDS ON THE QUALITY OF WATER YOU DRINK
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