Here's a reason to look for a good home water filter.

Chromium 6 is a carcinogen. Please keep in mind that many brands of
bottled water are not from pure sources - they are simply tap water
bottled and sold.

Vicki

Vicki Montgomery Tricks and Treats Rescue Greater Houston/Galveston
Texas 713-472-6599 [log in to unmask]

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace." ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer

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Subject: Carcinogens in our Tap Water

For those clients of ours, who we have recommended using "filtered"
water for their pets.

The Environmental Working Group released a reportMonday indicating that
millions of Americans are regularly drinking hexavalent chromium, made
famous in the film "Erin Brockovich" as a carcinogen, through their tap
water. The group -- whose study was first reported in a story Sunday by
the Washington Post's Lyndsey Layton-- tested water from 35 U.S. cities
and found that samples from 31 cities contained hexavalent chromium.
The highest concentrations were found in Norman, Okla.; Honolulu; and
Riverside, Calif. The substance had been a widely used industrial
chemical for decades and has evidently leached into the groundwater
in many areas. The National Toxicology Program has concluded that
hexavalent chromium (also called chromium-6) in drinking water shows
"clear evidence of carcinogenic activity" in laboratory animals,
increasing the risk of gastrointestinal tumors. In September 2010, a
draft toxicological review by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) similarly found that hexavalent chromium in tap water is "likely
to be carcinogenic to humans."
http://static.ewg.org/reports/2010/chrome6/html/home.html

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