If anybody out there is having problems, with bladder and kidney infections, drink bottled water. I grew up on tap water and bladder and kidney infections, in and out of doctor's office's and hospitals and being tested and retested and givin every medication for those condi-tions, the docs could come up with. When I turned 16(1974), bottled water was coming into it's popularity, and I jumped on it. 30 day's later(about)my bladder and kidney infec-tions disappeared...like I never had it. Going on tap water (1984) made the infection's reappear in just a matter of days. Needless to say, I went back on bottled water, and i've been infection free, totally, all these years.

Fluoride was first used in water supplies by the Nazi's to sedate prisoners in concentration camps during the second world war. It kept them dumb.

Fluoride will in fact damage your teeth not protect them.

Brita filters and pitchers are PLASTIC. Uh-oh, something new to worry about! (I won't)
Idea: How about recycling those Brita filters, kind of like recycling ink and toner cartridges? They could be gutted and refilled. The guts contain charcoal (i.e. carbon - part of nature). Recycle the charcoal, too. This way, the filters won't end up in the landfill, either.
Anyway, just an idea.
Oops! What about the chemicals the Brita filters out -- where should we put them? If water is used to clean the components of the filters, as water is used in every recycling process, where does THAT water go? Sewer? Ground? Is it filtered? Are those filters super-saturated with chemicals? Where does THAT go?
You can't escape from living on Planet Earth. You can't destroy matter. Seeking well-researched and developed solutions to these challenges could create jobs, a good thing for our economy.
Conclusion: Be as green as you can, but remember that there's always a price -- a waste by-product -- to everything. Pick your battles, and minimize the damage. And above all, stay engaged in the discussion, participate in the solution, and draw the line at losing sleep over any of it.

Rather than buy bottled water, I fill glass bottles with tap water and set it in the sun for 24 hours to a week. It's best to put the cap on securely but not too tight, because the chlorine and some of the other chemicals added to tap water gets evaporated away. In winter especially, don't fill the bottles too full because if the water freezes, it could burst the container or stick to whatever it's sitting on.

No amount of credible research is enough to stave the anti-fluoride camp. Their claims: The government is out to kill us, the 100's of published favorable fluoride research is either a) flawed b) bought and skewed by the government trying to slowly poison us. Going to an anti-fluoride website to find out about fluoride in your water is about as useful as going to Rush Limbaugh's website to find out about President Obama. Interestingly, there are some bottled waters that have more fluoride than the accepted EPA levels - so you have to be almost more careful with fluoride in bottled water than in public water. Yes, we should continue to do studies regarding fluoridated water but we shouldn't throw out the hundreds of studies that have already been done that show that fluoride is an inexpensive and safe way to prevent tooth decay in the population at large. As for being allergic to fluoride, it's more likely that GaryO is allergic to SLS (Sodium Laurel Sulfate) rather than the fluoride. SLS is a foaming agent that a growing population are allergic to. Try Biotene or Pronamel toothpaste for readily available SLS-free pastes. FYI - one would have to drink over 50 gallons of 1.0ppm fluoridated water (the recommended amount) in a very short period of time in order to have toxic amounts of fluoride in the body- any takers for the challenge?

I am surprised that no one has bought up the topic of residual drugs in tap water. When tap water all over the US was tested they found traces of narcotics, hormones from the Pill, SSI's from drugs like Prozac, meth, heroin you name it. Our livers don't break everything ingested down to basic components and tap water can't filter these substances out.I use a Brita as the best I can do for now but would love to have s system where I don't drink down someone's meds or recreational drug of choice. I'm a homeopath and R.N. Sue

this is so cool. thanks for sharing this.

In all of the developed countries of
Europe as well as Canada and the US the rate of tooth decay has been going down. Only thing is all but the US have banned fluoride . Fluoride is a byproduct of the aluminum industry and a toxic waste that was hard to dispose of until they scammed the government in disposing of it in our drinking water. Do some research there is no real evidence of any benefit to poisoning us.

Hey Guys,
I just wanted to make a quick comment. Phillip Woodward, floride IS good for you and i think you should do more research. I also agree that putting material in the landfill is more closely related to putting materials in plastic bags in your garage. It will NOT be gone in 1,000 years. It will stay there forever untill we take action and stop producing plastic and other harmful things. Oh and on a good note...Ann King from Spain, A brita filter would help. I hope everyone has a good day. Thanks :)

Water is all about taste. The gov't is not poisoning us... I too have seen the conspiracy theory films, they are bogus. My father is a dentist and believe me, when people don't brush their teeth often or get flouride their teeth get TERRIBLE. I wonder if maybe the water filter companies are trying to scare people into buying water filters they may not need? That being said, the water at my condo tastes weird so a filter would prob be nice to have... Or you can go to the store and get the glacier water for 25 a gallon

What if any, are the good points to having well water?

As a non-smoker, I agree that cigarette butts that are thrown out carelessly can cause a lot of harm. However, my math doesn't yield 50,000 butts per year per smoker unless that smoker is smoking nearly 7 packs per day. Average smokers smoke about 1 1/2 to 2 packs per day or about approximately 11,000 to 14, 500 in a year. Please do your math and at least use accurate facts as opposed to "scare tactics." It's scary enough already!

It's all about BACKTOTHETAP.COM
They make filtered sports bottles that you can fill up at any tap! They filter the water as you drink it. Yes it's the greatest product I've come across.
I no longer feel guilty for always having water bottles (even tough I've always recycled) and being an active family of 5 I can't even tell you how many we used to go through. I no longer worry about the water my children are getting form our CA taps. We all have a water bottle. We fill it up anywhere when we are thirsty and it tastes great (much better then Brita).
Life seems so much simpler when it comes to water.

PS Thats Fifty Thousand Butts a Year

Aloha
No place to run, No place to hide, we have contamanited our waterways,much of it from the millions of Toxic Cigarette Butts you smokers have been Flicking, One smoker that does not smoke in his home or car, Flick approx, 50,000, (Fifty Thousand) "Toxic Butts" into areas that Unknowing Children can ingest and die, Storm Drains take the "Toxic Butts" into our Waterways our Sea food eats them and die, or don't die and we eat the Fish, If one Smoker Flicks 50,000 Toxic Butts a year how many do a couple of Hundred Thousand Smokers Flick, Do the math, It is a Shame that all Smokers can't keep their Butts to themselves, In a car a water bottle with a little water in it, No smell, No fire, Zip lock bag, Smokers, Please quit making our Children Sick and maybe Killing them, Also our Sea food, All Sea life, Dolphins Turtles, Seals, Otters, Sea Birds, Smoking is up to you, "Toxic Butts" Taking 12 years to decompose and the Odds of our Childre, Wildlife and Waterways finding them should not be up to you, Now that you, God, Buddha and I know that you know what your doing, We pray that you now think more of the safety of our Children, Wildlife and Waterways, then just yourself, Mahalo Nui Loa, Health and Happiness to all.
What we learn from one, might help us with another.
KOTO Keeper of the Ocean

Aloha
No place to run, No place to hide, we have contamanited our waterways,much of it from the millions of Toxic Cigarette Butts you smokers have been Flicking, One smoker that does not smoke in his home or car, Flick approx, 50,000, (Fifty Thousand) "Toxic Butts" into areas that Unknowing Children can ingest and die, Storm Drains take the "Toxic Butts" into our Waterways our Sea food eats them and die, or don't die and we eat the Fish, If one Smoker Flicks 50,000 Toxic Butts a year how many do a couple of Hundred Thousand Smokers Flick, Do the math, It is a Shame that all Smokers can't keep their Butts to themselves, In a car a water bottle with a little water in it, No smell, No fire, Zip lock bag, Smokers, Please quit making our Children Sick and maybe Killing them, Also our Sea food, All Sea life, Dolphins Turtles, Seals, Otters, Sea Birds, Smoking is up to you, "Toxic Butts" Taking 12 years to decompose and the Odds of our Childre, Wildlife and Waterways finding them should not be up to you, Now that you, God, Buddha and I know that you know what your doing, We pray that you now think more of the safety of our Children, Wildlife and Waterways, then just yourself, Mahalo Nui Loa, Health and Happiness to all.
What we learn from one, might help us with another.
KOTO Keeper of the Ocean

Randall,

You seem to be under the delusion that all that our government does is good. Not so! Let's not let patriotism get in the way of truth. Lane was making a distinction between Sodium Fluoride and fluorosilicic acid (an alternate source of so-called Fluoride). I've read many warnings about the dangers of fluoride in the water. Let's test the fluorosilicic acid thoroughly and determine whether or not it is safe for human consumption.

my household uses boil water from the tap, is this healthy or what? We also lived on an island, and since I've been here, I don't smell chlorine in the tap water

Yes, there's plenty of evidence that fluoridated water reduces tooth decay for petes sake .
Lane, do you think its a great conspiracy by the government to slowly poison the citizens of America by fluoridating the water supply?
Don't believe the first thing you read somewhere and pronounce it as gospel.
I know our public water is not the best it could be, but I do believe its the best in the world.

I am using brita container do I still need the one sttsched to the faucet I fill up the containers with the brita and water.

Some simple stuff to think about...
1 – Take realage’s advice all the time – BAD
2 – tap water – BAD
3 – bottled water - BAD
4 – fluoride – BAD
5 – chlorine – BAD
6 – unknown tastes - BAD
7 – using plastic bottles until they look bad - BAD
8 – give thousands to the hospital – BAD
9 – SAVE lots of money – depriving the hospitals – GOOD “don’t feel sorry for them, they can find other jobs”
10 – STAINLESS steel water container “nothing plastic” – GOOD
11 – water PURIFIER – GOOD
12 - purifier that purifies 99.999999% - GOOD
13 – searching the internet for WATER PURIFIER – GOOD
14 – Happy Thanksgiving , Marry Christmas - GOOD

Can you drink tap water in germany

Having a whole house filtration system is so important with ultra-violet. Bathing in chemical water is just as bad as drinking it.

My tap water usually tastes like chemicals, I'm sure is is quite safe to drink but YUK. I use a Reverse Osmosis unit to filter my drinking water. For fluoride I brush my teeth twice a day with anti-cavity fluoride toothpaste.

What about us who are allergic to fluoride? The tiny amount of fluoride in water doesn't seem to bother me (other than the fact that I have fibromialgia, which could possibly be linked to fluoride). But if I combine that with fluoridated toothpaste, I get mouth ulcers, my mouth and tongue swells to the point that my speech is altered, and my jaw can swell until I look like the incredible hulk.
I went to my doctor one time when my jaw was swollen, and his reaction was something like, Well, I've never seen that before. Needless to say, I feel like an absolute freak, being allergic to something that about 99% of the public uses regularly.
Do you realize how hard it is to find non-fluoridated toothpaste? In WalMart and Walgreens, the only brand I could find was Tom's Green toothpaste (or something like that). I can handle that fine.
Millions of Americans suck down fluoride like it's life's elixer, and I'm convinced that it's very dangerous. Why aren't we paying attention to the warning signals out there that confirm that?

We don't drink tap water anymore, instead we drink the " KANGEN " water which I don't know if all of us ever heard of it. We don't really have the machine that, turn tap water into Kangen water but, my kids employer at their store where they work has the machine that, makes a tap water into Kangen water by the process of electrolysis and thus, take the chemicals from the tap water,and it's wonderful and healthy to your body. My kids from work brings gallons of Kangen water everyday which the employer provide us for free. If you need all the information, go to youtube website and find out about Kangen Water. I'm sure you'll be amazed on what you will find. When I get money I'm sure I will buy the machine which, everybody who are buying bottled water could benefit and save. Why buy the machine to save money instead of buying bottled water?

Please stop giving out misinformation about the amount of time it takes for something to biodegrade in the landfill. Landfills are dry tombs - like time capsules. Products, whether it is plastic bottles, newpapers, or your shoes - DO NOT BIODEGRADE IN LANDFILLS. Putting material in the landfill is more closely related to putting materials in plastic bags in your garage. Do you really think they will be gone in a 1,000 years? Also, there is big difference between the terms degradable, biodegradable, and compostable. They are all different - please learn what you are talking about before passing out information - especially wrong information to the nation! Thanks.

I recycle those bottles. I Even recycle the glass bottles that the sweet tea at work comes in. I personally own a 24' moving truck, and when I fill it up with plastic, glass and aluminum (and anything else I can find that the center accepts) It's PAYDAY!!

WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATION FOR BOTTLED WATER?

I do not trust the water from the tap. I live in California and the water tastes like chlorine and other things. The water from other places tastes different, i.e., the NY water is sweet. I buy water from those reverse osmosis places --and I do not like to be wasteful and buy water bottles.

Everyone should get a water filter for their sink and stop buying so much bottled water. If you get a good filter, it will take out all of the chemicals in the water (including the added fluoride). Even a good quality water filter is much cheaper to use than buying bottled water. You can compare some of the better ones at www.WaterFilterComparisons.com

Had I signed in to RealAge.com earlier, I would have been much younger.Better not late any further is my urgent call to my friends, collegues,students and relatives which I am mailing to them ere long.

Could you please tell me if using brita water filter are good for me? I live in Spain the water from tap has a after taste,Thank you
sincerely
Ann King

Had I signed in to RealAge.com earlier, I would have been much younger.Better not late any further is my urgent call to my friends, collegues,students and relatives which I am mailing to them ere long.

Fluoride in our water not good for us. European countries have stopped putting fluoride in their water. For further information Check out this website http://www.slweb.org/ftrc.html and also www.mercola.com

"It has more fluoride than bottled water, and that helps prevent tooth decay. (That’s right, you never outgrow your need for fluoride.)"

I hope this makes someone think for themselves

The chemists refer to this material as silicofluorides and have now conclusively shown that the fluoridation material is linked to other heavy metal toxins that are found in drinking water—lead, arsenic, aluminum and cadmium for example.

In the March 2001 issue of the journal Neuro Toxicology, a team of researchers led by Dr. Roger Masters of Dartmouth College reported evidence that public drinking water fluoridated with fluorosilicic acid is linked to higher levels of lead in children.

After pointing out that since 1992 only about 10 percent of America’s fluoridated communities use sodium fluoride and 90 percent use fluorosilicic acid, the researchers stated that about 140 million Americans have this chemical placed in their water.

They also pointed out that sodium fluoride was tested on animals and approved for human consumption, but fluorosilicic acid had not been so tested and approved.

The research team studied the blood-lead levels in more than 400,000 children in three different samplings. In each case they found a significant link between fluorosilicic acid-treated water and elevated blood levels of lead.

In the latest study, the blood levels of about 150,000 children ranging in ages from infant to 6 were analyzed.

The samples were collected by the New York State Department of Children’s Health from 1994 through 1998.

Researchers concluded that the fluorosilicic acid-treated water was equal to or worse a contributor of blood-lead levels as old house paint.

Dr. Masters said these preliminary findings correlate the fluorosilicic acid water treatment and behavior problems that are due to known effects of lead on brain chemistry.

Additionally, a study in Germany showed the fluorosilicic acid water (SiFs) may inhibit the enzyme cholinesterase which plays a key role in regulating neurotransmitters.

“If SiFs are cholinesterase inhibitors, this means that SiFs have effects like the chemical agents linked to Gulf War Syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and other puzzling conditions that plague millions of Americans,” Masters said. “We need a better understanding of how SiFs behave chemically and physiologically.”

Last March, Dr. Masters testified before New Hampshire legislators in favor of the Fluoride Product Quality Control Act. The bill would put the SiFs to a series of tests, and perhaps further research on neurotoxicity and behavior.

“If further research confirms our findings,” Masters said, “this may well be the worst environmental poison since leaded gasoline.”

The EPA admits it has no data on the health and behavioral effects of SiFs.

Dr. Masters asked: “Shouldn’t we stop intentionally exposing 140 million Americans to an untested chemical until the risks are extensively and objectively evaluated by independent researchers?”

And, the final insult: There is no conclusive evidence that fluoridation of drinking water significantly improves the teeth of children at all. ™ By Tom Valentine

i live in mexico and out of a few cities all the water is not drinkable. so i refill my bottles till they look bad.

i live in mexico and out of a few cities all the water is not drinkable. so i refill my bottles till they look bad.