What Lies Beneath: The Hidden Dangers Lurking in Your Water

Drinking water quality is constantly in the news. It was Flint Michigan in 2014 that first got everyone’s attention. But most people felt, “Well, my water is okay.” For me, it hit closer to home when the news broke about the microplastics found in the drinking water in Columbia, SC. And the recent news that aired on ABC News in 2020 about the quality of the water in Charleston, SC has people concerned. The study quoted ranked Charleston SC’s drinking water in the top ten for PFAs or forever chemicals. Believe me when I say, “the quality of your drinking water matters!” We must know what lies beneath. Are there hidden dangers lurking in your water?

Hear me loud and clear, there is no way that a water plant can deliver 100 percent clean water to your home. Not in this day and age when toxins are all around us. Simply, we live in a toxic world. The Seneca-Greenville area is known to have some of the best water around due to Lake Keowee being a main source. It may be better than most, but it’s not the responsibility of a water company to filter out every known toxin. Their responsibility is to deliver bacteria-free water and chlorine enables them to do this. This is why we never worry about getting a bacterial disease from our drinking water.

Pesticides, residues of prescription drugs, and many other chemicals have penetrated our water table. The water company does the best they can, but consider it your responsibility to further filter your water once it reaches your home—especially when it flows from your kitchen sink where you get your drinking water.

I’ve decided that there’s an advantage to serving overseas as a missionary that we often overlook. Most of them live where the water is not safe to drink. So they all have intricate water filtering systems for their drinking water that remove nearly 100 percent of the contaminants. We’re provided with much safer water, but we take it for granted. We don’t realize that we, too, must put a water filtering system in place.

After I was diagnosed with cancer and found several toxins at high levels in my body, we decided to install a whole house water filter with an additional reverse osmosis filter under our kitchen sink. This was costly, but well worth it. I would at least recommend a water filter in your kitchen for your drinking water. A Berkey Water Filter is a large steel container that you refill the water with your kitchen sink spray hose. It costs about $400 and last for 5 to 10 years without replacing the filter.

Following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan in 2014, many people are asking, “What’s in my water?” You might be surprised to find that it’s not as crystal clean as you’d hoped. Is the purity of our drinking water important to our health? You bet it is!

Most water companies both chlorinate and fluoridate your water. These chemicals have been connected to issues related to hypothyroidism. The chlorination of our tap water is a blessing up to your house as it protects us from bacteria. Although fluoride is added to most water to help us with our teeth, we can simply get it from our toothpaste. Our entire body does not need to be bathed in or hydrated with small amounts of fluoride or chlorine.

The problem is more than just chlorine and fluoride. Pesticides, herbicides, prescription drugs, and various toxins can infiltrate our water table. There’s no way a water system can guarantee you pure, clean water at your tap.

So the ball is in your court. If you want to drink and bathe in clean water, then investigate installing a whole house water filter with a reverse osmosis system at your kitchen sink. Reverse osmosis guarantees you 99 percent clean water. In this imperfect world, you can’t get much better than that.

If you are in a temporary housing situation, you can buy reverse osmosis water for approximately $3.00 per 5 gallons. You must supply the container. Publix and some other stores also sell reverse osmosis water for 38 cents per gallon.

Microplastics are all around us, and they’re not the only chemicals entering our bodies from the water we drink.

Cleaning up your home water supply may impact your wallet, but my husband and I now believe it’s well worth the benefits for our health. After all, many toxic chemicals were discovered in my body and several of them were endocrine disruptors that I consumed through my water and food supply. You’ll have less in your wallet if you install a system, but then you can worry less about what’s in your water.

It’s best to pay a bit for prevention, than pay later for medical treatment. What are you doing to clean up your water? What systems do you use?

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For Your Health,

Ginny

Ginny Dent Brant is a speaker and writer who grew up in the halls of power in Washington, DC. She has battled cancer, ministered around the world, and served on the front lines of American culture as a counselor, educator, wellness advocate, and adjunct professor. Brant’s award-winning book, Finding True Freedom: From the White House to the World, was endorsed by Chuck Colson and featured in many TV and media interviews. Unleash Your God-Given Healing: Eight Steps to Prevent and Survive Cancer was released in May 2020 after her journey with cancer and was recently awarded the First Place Golden Scrolls Award for Memoirs, a finalist in Serious Writers Book of the Decade, and Second Place in both Selah Awards for Memoirs and Director’s Choice Award for Nonfiction at the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer’s Conference. It recently received the Christian Authors Network’s (CAN) Gold Award for Excellence in Marketing for reaching 62.5 million people with a message of cancer prevention and survival. It was written with commentary from an oncologist and was featured on CBN’s Healthy Living Show, Atlanta Live, and CTN’s Homekeepers along with over 75 media outlets. Learn more and cancer and wellness prevention blog and book information at www.ginnybrant.com. Ginny is on YouTube