My husband has a t-shirt he got in college that says “Save Water, Drink Beer.” If only it were that easy…
We try to conserve water around our house by watering the grass less, using a high efficiency washing machine, running our dishwashers on the light cycle, and using low flow shower heads. But I recently [...]
Filed under: Environment, Water on October 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A scary report out today says that traces of various pharmaceutical drugs, including antibiotics, have been found in the drinking water of 24 major metropolitan areas. The report says that the chlorine added to our water could make these drugs more toxic, that the drugs could be more dangerous than other pollutants because they are [...]
Filed under: Environment, Water on March 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
2: Chlorine filtering shower head
I love to relax in a hot shower at the end of the day. But traditional shower heads allow all the chlorine and chlorine byproducts in our tap water straight through. The heat of the water allows those chlorine molecules to quickly vaporize, producing a nasty chlorine fume in [...]
Filed under: Water on December 11th, 2007 | No Comments »
In order to kill any potential contaminants, almost all municipal water is treated with chlorine. It’s important to purify our drinking water, but unfortunately, we shouldn’t be drinking this chlorine either. Chlorine is listed in the 1990 Clean Air Act as a hazardous pollutant1. Exposure to chlorine has been linked [...]
Filed under: Water on October 6th, 2007 | 1 Comment »