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 Click to feed shelter animals: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3 see below.... 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 [Posted in FML 6919]