Seccua Home Solutions

Water & Health
Quality of tap water
Water is in constant circulation. It evaporates from
our seas, falls in the form of rain or snow onto our
landscape and is thereby contaminated.
Only by passing through the soil water is gradually
cleaned. This, however, takes many days, preferably
months, before we accept it as drinking water for
consumption.
Often, however, the subsoil is traversed by crevices,
so that the water simply flows into the source, unpurified.
Or it is contaminated with fertilisers, plant
protection products or other toxins on the way
through the soil.
Particularly where we expect pure water, it is often
the case that most of the pathogens are found there.
Drinking fountains, in regions where intensive agriculture
is operated, are often loaded with fertilisers and
pesticides.
What to do? Take water purification into your own
hands. Right in your home.
Bottles: No guarantee of purity
About 40 percent of bottled water is regular tap water,
which may or may not have received any additional
treatment. Most municipal tap water must adhere
to stricter purity standards than the bottled water
industry. The EPA requires large public water suppliers
to test for contaminants as often as several times
a day, but the FDA requires private bottlers to test for
contaminants only once a week, once a year, or once
every four years, depending on the contaminant.
The bottle itself is extremely detrimental to the environment,
and the plastic often used to make water
bottles contains a variety of health-harming chemicals
that can easily leach out and contaminate the
water, such as:
• Cancer-causing PFOAs
• PBDEs (flame retardant chemicals), which have
been linked to reproductive problems
• The reproductive toxins, phthalates
• BPA, which disrupts the endocrine system by
mimicking the female hormone oestrogen
If you leave your water bottle in a hot car, or reuse it,
your exposure is magnified because heat and stress
increase the amount of chemicals that leach out of
the plastic.
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