It has been said that “Water is Life.” Your family drinks it; your children bathe in it; you cook and clean with it; you wash clothes in it. It affects every aspect of your life. In a society that is fortunate enough to have clear running water, why should you get your water tested? Isn’t it clean and healthy?

Most cities do a good job meeting standards, but the parameters of those standards is et by financial constraints. They filter, settle, coagulate, and disinfect water with chlorine or chloramine and test for a certain number of impurities. Because of the practicalities of usage, it would not be economical to remove all of the impurities.

Water is life’s support system. Clean water is absolutely fundamental to good health. Water makes up over 70% of our overall body 75% of our brain, 80% of our blood, and 96% of our liver. It’s involved in nearly every aspect of our health, and drinking adequate amounts of clean water each day is essential.

In basic chemistry, pH is a scale used to specify how acidic or alkaline a water-based solution is. At room temperature, pure water is neither acidic nor alkaline, and has a pH level of about 7. Since our bodies consist of so much water, they also maintain a pH balance which affects their ability to fight sickness and disease and to function properly. The foods and liquids that come into the body help to determine the pH balance that the body maintains.

Unfiltered water can cause many costly, time-consuming, and unpleasant problems.