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Water Quality


Drinking water quality is critically important to good health. Ideally, drinking water should be
wholesome, physically attractive, free from all harmful organisms and have a chemical content
which will promote the health of the consumer.

The finite amount of water on the planet participates in a recycling scheme that
provides for its reuse. This recycling of water is termed the "Hydrologic Cycle".

Energy from the sun causes the evaporation of water from the seas, lakes, rivers and
streams. Other sources of water vapor include plant and animal life and combustion.

The evaporated water may condense in clouds as the temperature drops in the upper
atmosphere. Winds may transport the water in the clouds over great distances before
releasing it in the form of rain, sleet, or snow which falls to the ground.

As the water condenses and falls through the atmosphere, it adsorbs any gases which
may be rising from the environment below. This is the principal cause of acid rain and
acid snow.

Upon reaching the earth, the water either percolates through the soil to the water
table or finds its way to a body of water.

Since water, to some degree, can dissolve every naturally occurring substance on earth, it
becomes contaminated with the substances that it contacts ... both in the air and the ground.

Besides carrying dissolved minerals (many of which are beneficial to the consumer), water also
carries suspended solids ... including a wide range of living materials including bacteria of all types
and fungi (many of which are not beneficial). Water can also carry other liquids ... as an emulsion,
in solution, or as a mixture. Many of these foreign liquids are not beneficial to the consumer.

So ... the water you drink, even from your kitchen faucet, may have many contaminants that are
not beneficial, and, in some cases, bad for you. In 1993, NBC's television program "DateLine"
documented just this fact. Concerns with public water treatment systems in Milwaukee and New
York were given as examples of failure to remove potentially deadly organisms from drinking
water. The Doulton ceramic filters have been shown to be capable of removing the specific
organism named in the program, Cryptosporidium, from water.1

The following pages deal with some of the contaminants often found in drinking water.

Aluminum 
Bacteria 
Chlorine 
Cryptosporidium 
Lead 
Organic Chemicals 
Suspended Particles 

1 The University of Arizona Final Report dated June 15, 1993