Is Your Tap Water Safe?
There’s a good chance it’s not, and that can create a health nightmare for you and your family.
Aging U.S. infrastructure and lapses by county and city water authorities have left Americans playing tap-water roulette, as millions of us are told every year that our tap water is unsafe to drink unless we boil it first. Sometimes even that isn’t enough.
What’s coming out of your faucet? Knowledge is power.
The tap water crisis
The CDC estimates that annually, nearly 20 million Americans fall ill due to contaminated drinking water...
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Your tap water’s secret ingredients
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, fecal bacteria (coliforms), chemical disinfectants, nitrites and nitrates...
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It’s worse than you think
Ordinary faucets are Americans’ primary sources of freshwater. Your family drinks it, cooks with it, showers in it and brushes their teeth...
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What can we do?
Find your state health department’s website. Many of them have information about “boil water” advisories...
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Which water is which?
Why does your tap water taste different from bottled water? Both kinds have to satisfy federal government rules...
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“Boil water” advisories near you
A “boil water” advisory is a public notice that a public utility’s water supply has become unsafe to consume, and you should boil tap...
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Water warnings everywhere
A water main bursts somewhere in the U.S. or Canada roughly every 2 minutes — and that’s just one reason your tap water might be unsafe.
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FAQ
The EPA has said that 8% percent of tap water fails to meet their standards. According to Newsweek, that means up to 209 million glasses of unsafe tap water are consumed by Americans–every single day.
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