Human beings need water to survive; it is imperative that we maintain the around 70% water that is normal in our bodies. This is important because if we do not, we will become dehydrated and when that happens our body cannot function optimally.
While it is important that we drink sufficient water regularly in order to stay hydrated, it is even more important that the water that we drink is of good quality. Millions of lives are lost and billions of sick days are taken every year due to waterborne diseases that are caused by toxins in the drinking water.
Many communities across the globe are either approaching or have already reached the limits of available water supplies and are resorting to drinking whatever water is available, which is often water that contains various toxins.
Hundreds of pollutants have spread across the globe thanks to advances in science, traveling hundreds of thousands of kilometres through the air and eventually settling on various oceans where they are spread even further by ocean currents and contact between various reactants create new chemicals.
While scientists do know a lot about water pollutants and have already done a lot to help, they have not yet been able to fully understand the issues and science related to water quality. There is still a huge amount of knowledge to be acquired from all the practical information, publications and patents that are currently available from research and scientific studies.
What is known, however, is that various toxins that can be found in water supplies, such as heavy metals, fluoride, arsenic, and giardia can cause diarrhoea and even death in humans. Tap water is not always safe, even in countries where the water is said to be of good quality, as there have been many cases of fluoride and vestiges of both pharmaceutical and recreational drugs found in tap water, even in the UK.
The safest way to ensure that you are drinking quality water is to invest in a water cooler fitted with a good filter such as those offered by London’s premier water supply company, Living-Water.
