Despite the water companies' best efforts, when water leaves the treatment plants en route to our houses, it must first pass through a network of distribution pipes that were, for example in the United Kingdom, laid down extensively during the Victorian era. The condition of many pipes allows water to become contaminated again before it reaches our taps. Rust, scale and sediment are found in the water as a result of such pipes and old pipes even made of Lead are also still not uncommon in certain areas. Leakage from old and damaged pipes can be as much as 25% of all the water supplied by the water utilities and much expenditure is being applied to reduce this waste.
Happily , we do not have to put all our trust in the water companies abilities to provide us with fresh uncontaminated water.
A WATERSIMPLE Purifier will provide you with continuous supplies of clean-tasting, fresh, and most importantly, safe water for all your family's drinking and cooking needs.
Sources of water pollution and specific pollutants are mentioned elsewhere.
Some items to consider;
Chemicals are deliberately added to our drinking water at many waterworks. Chlorine, Flouride and Aluminium Sulphate are well known but others are also becoming more common.
A study concerned with health risks has reported 700 different chemical and pesticide contaminants in British drinking water.
The UK was summonmed by the European Court of Justice, charged with failing to implement the water Quality Directive.
An independent survey found drinking water served at two holiday resorts to have a bacteria count up to 65 times worse than EC safety limits.
Water supplies serving nearly 1 million Britons were admitted to have exceeded EC guidelines for nitrates.
The Camelford disaster where aluminium sulphate was dumped in the water resulted from human error-- a cause of danger that can defy even the most advanced technology.
Even today many thousands of tonnes of aluminium sulphate are dunmped into our drinking water supplies. Alzheimer's disease and dialysis dementia have both been linked with aluminium.