| If the black rubber flapper ball in the toilet tank goes bad, your fingers get all black when you replace it. The surface of the flapper ball has been disintegrated by the chlorine in the water.
If chlorinated water destroys the flapper ball, can it be all that good for you?
We in Southeast Michigan are especially blessed. We live in the Great Lakes state. We have a more abundant supply of fresh water than anyone else in the world. The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department does a good job. Not only is the water up to federal standards, the department gets awards for taste and quality.
The problem is what Water Departments are forced to do to purify our increasingly polluted water. Even when they use reverse osmosis filtering or ozone purification, different forms of chlorine are still needed to kill the bacteria and other harmful substances that get into the water after purification has taken place.
Our bodies may be able to tolerate these chemicals, but nobody ever said they were good for us. The fewer chemicals and impurities our systems have to contend with, the easier it is for our bodies to function.
This is not big news to anyone. In 2005, the Beverage Marketing Corp. says the wholesale cost of the bottled water Americans drank was $10 billion. I submit that we wouldn't be shelling out all that money if the almost free stuff from the tap tasted good.
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