Water Contaminants

What You Should Know about Fluoride in Drinking Water
Water Contaminants · by Dr. Jonathan Doyle · 2/10/2025

What You Should Know about Fluoride in Drinking Water

Water is crucial to survival. We cannot attain optimal health without clean and healthy water. However, the water we have found ourselves drinking and using nowadays contains several harmful chemicals. One of these dangerous chemicals is fluoride, usually found in large amounts in municipal tap water. Surprising, isn’t it? Contrary to expectations, the government’s tap water to our homes is treated with fluoride because it allegedly improves our dental health. But this is far from the truth.

Protect Children from Lead Exposure in Drinking Water
Water Contaminants · by Dr. Jonathan Doyle · 2/10/2025

Protect Children from Lead Exposure in Drinking Water

Although Flint, Mich, and Newark, N.J, have excessively high levels of lead-contaminated drinking water, the situation is not unique. Generally, millions of Americans may be drinking lead-contaminated water unknowingly because of old lead pipes, faucets, or other plumbing fixtures that have a high lead concentration. Lead has devastating effects, especially in children, causing effects that can last a lifetime.

Avoiding The Harmful Effects of Water Contaminated with Heavy Metals
Water Contaminants · by Dr. Jonathan Doyle · 2/10/2025

Avoiding The Harmful Effects of Water Contaminated with Heavy Metals

Our water supply plays a significant role on our personal health, the environment, climate change, and much more. Statistically speaking, by 2025 over half of the world will be residing in regions facing stressful water supplies. This will be particularly true for countries with predominantly low to middle income households. The risks posed to regions such as this only serve to further highlight the importance of determining the amount of heavy metals in surrounding water sources, if only to decrease the dangers posed to human health. The Agency for Research on Cancer (or IARC), and the Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA), believe the exposure to arsenic and heavy metals are both serious concerns when it comes to drinking water sources. This is mostly due to their non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic characteristics, as well as the effects it has on our health.

How Does Drinking Water Become Contaminated?
Water Contaminants · by Dr. Jonathan Doyle · 2/10/2025

How Does Drinking Water Become Contaminated?

In the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates drinking water among public water systems through the Safe Drinking Water Act. The act sets a maximum concentration level for water chemicals and pollutants that we come into contact with. Contaminants are physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substances or matter in water. Anything other than water molecules may be considered a contaminant.

The Importance of Cleaning Your Swimming Pool
Water Contaminants · by Dr. Jonathan Doyle · 2/10/2025

The Importance of Cleaning Your Swimming Pool

Recent heavy rainfall has led to a situation in Tokyo Bay concerning sewage leakage and runoff. With the Olympics in Tokyo well underway, there were rising concerns over the pool's putrid smell, in addition to various health concerns. Residents were already having to live with the issue of sewage runoff, however, Olympians were facing the possibly of swimming in water conditions contaminated with E. Coli.

What is the Best Way to Remove Chloramine from Water?
Water Contaminants · by Dr. Jonathan Doyle · 2/10/2025

What is the Best Way to Remove Chloramine from Water?

The majority of the tap water supply in America has been treated by chloramine or chlorine. Just like chlorine, chloramine is a type of disinfectant added in water supply to improve drinking water quality and remove the harmful components. Chloramine is used to kill bacteria, viruses, and protozoan by breaking down their cell walls. This prevents them from causing diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, hepatitis, and typhoid. Since bacteria, viruses, and protozoa are too small for filters, there's no physical or chemical-free method of handling these tiny contaminants.

13 Things You Need To Know About Reverse Osmosis Systems
Water Contaminants · by Dr. Jonathan Doyle · 2/10/2025

13 Things You Need To Know About Reverse Osmosis Systems

The effects of contaminants in domestic water are well documented. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that “Contaminants in our water can lead to health issues, including gastrointestinal illness, reproductive problems, and neurological disorders.” Adding, “Infants, young children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems may be at increased risk for becoming sick after drinking contaminated water.”

Is Well Water Safe to Drink?
Water Contaminants · by Dr. Jonathan Doyle · 2/10/2025

Is Well Water Safe to Drink?

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) reveals that, although most households of the U.S. population depend on a municipal water system for water, about 15% of them still drink water from a private well. EPA is responsible for monitoring and regulating municipal water supplies that is normally disinfected with chlorine at a local water treatment facility. On the other hand, the property owners are responsible for the monitoring, testing, and treating their private well and the water it provides.