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Water
By Ken Horn | April 6, 2008
The AP recently reported:
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe. But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.
Read the article here.
This may help to justify the millions of dollars that Americans are spending on bottled water, a practice I have found difficult to understand. I have been thankful to have bottled water available when I have taken international trips or reported on natural disasters in the U.S.
However, I still find it difficult to not be cynical about bottled water. How on earth does the consumer know that water is any better? Answer: There’s no way to know. Bottled water companies intentionally use misleading names to make you think their water was bottled in pristine mountain streams, for example, when the majority of them use purified water drawn from public systems.
I recall several years ago when a bottled water company that supplies the large water cooler bottles was caught filling those bottles from a local tap. We have no way to know that that is not also happening with Super-Duper Drinking Water from the Rockies.
When I was young I remember drinking freely from streams and springs in the mountains, only to discover how bad this practice can be. In my adult years I learned to purify water when on backpacking trips.
There’s only one kind of water you can be 100% certain about.
Read John 4:13-14 (NKJV):
Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
(Kirk Noonan also wrote recently about how much water we should drink, at Simple Plan.)
