The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is focused on environmental health, aiming to protect people from harmful chemicals and practices that may affect their health and the environment. They provide information to help consumers make informed choices and live healthier lives in a healthier environment.
Visit EWG’s Tap Water Database to see what the current rating of your state’s tap water is:
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/
Summary of Chromium 6 Chromium-6 is the cancer-causing chemical made notorious by the 2000 film “Erin Brockovich,” which documented the poisoning of drinking water in Hinkley, Calif. Chromium gets into drinking water as pollution from industrial uses, such as a coolant at electrical power stations, but also occurs naturally in…
I have been a fan of wild berries since I enjoyed picking them as a child in Maine with Spirit telling me about their undiscovered healing properties and which ones I could eat safely and which to avoid. Fortunately, you do not have to live out in the country or…
Background on Arsenic in Public Water Supplies Arsenic occurs naturally as a trace component in many rocks and sediments. Whether the arsenic is released from these geologic sources into groundwater depends on the chemical form of the arsenic, the geochemical conditions in the aquifer, and the biogeochemical processes that occur….
Despite being at the top of the global food chain and industrial developmental ladder, the United States has a poor track record for delivering uncontaminated drinking water to the public. Even the nicest restaurants are guilty of serving you directly from the tap. It’s time to get real about the…
All across the USA pharmaceuticals are being gobbled up like candy. Spending on these prescriptions is reported by the US congressional budget office to have been over 335 billion dollars in 2018. According to a report from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey from May 2009 an average household could easily…
Is Chloramine’s stability beneficial? for over a century now chloramine has been used to sanitize water and many municipal systems are making the change from free chlorine to chloramine. Why? Chloramine is far less reactive than free chlorine and it helps keep the total chlorine residual in the water lines…
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