The practice of making our tap water safe to drink actually involves adding large amounts of extremely poisonous chemicals to it. Key scientists are now providing evidence that long-term ingestion of small amounts of chemicals like these could be the cause of some major health problems Americans are experiencing. Most of these tap water Disinfection ByProducts (DBPs) remain in the tap water in small amounts. We've discovered over 600 new chemicals in tap water but we suspect there are 100s, maybe 1000s more. Here we discuss just a few of the chemicals routinely added to our water supply, the chemicals left behind and the carcinogenic, teratogenic and mutagenic health effects these chemicals, even in minute amounts, have on the human body.
I wrote this book to establish, by relying on peer review, that there are 100s if not 1000s of deadly chemicals in our tap water, bottled water, rivers, lakes and streams. These are chemicals so newly discovered that we still have no studies designed to assess their effects on human health. Drinking water has become a crap shoot because these chemicals are all known to be carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic and they're known, after years of consumption, to cause a vast variety of health problems from cancers to neurological disorders. It is virtually impossible to avoid these chemicals. They're in all the food we eat—lettuce, beef, milk, butter, tomatos, everything—and they're in the air we breath and the water we drink, from beer to baby formula, these chemicals are environmentally ubiquitous. The tap water disinfection system in the US is based on poor science and, as you'll see, 1000s of unknowns. Smaller cities with smaller budgets may still use disinfection methods developed and employed over 100 years ago. And larger cities employing the latest disinfection systems are fouling the water with an even larger collection of various, poisonous disinfection byproducts (DBPs). This book explores the severe human harms caused by the lack of federal oversight and the disinterest inherent in public officials made apparent by the failure to address these new DBPs and America's now poisioned water.
