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Re: water contaminants/testing -- various questions

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From: Bob Yelnats
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 00:00
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xmas (xmas@en.com) wrote:
> cancers. My advice is this, instead of paying to have your water tested, 
> just invest that money into an excellant water filtration system. Most 
> will tell you what they filter and to what levels. I do sell water 
> filtration units that have been tested by independent labs and are backed 
> by Good Houskeeping. If you would like info, either call me at my office 
> at 216-871-5898, or E-Mail me your snail mail address and I will send you 
> out information on water contaminates and our units. Second, bottled 
> water is less regulated than tap water or water filtration units. From 
> there, you can place your own judgment. All I know is that I can by a 
> bottle of water off the shelf that says it is a certain brand, and it's 
> source is a municipal water supply in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.

Why not pay to have tap water tested? The $45 or so test costs a lot less 
than many water filtration systems. If the water tests fine, what's the 
point of investing money in a filtration system to filter healthy water?

As far as bottled water goes, I believe that a new federal law just went
into effect which does regulate it. I don't drink bottled water so I
didn't pay much attention to this story when it was recently reported in
the local news media where I live. If you're concerned about this issue,
get your house's water tested by an independent lab to see whether your
water can benefit from a filtration system or whether or not you need to
resort to drinking bottled water and while you're at it, go see if you can
look up this new law on the Web or at your local library. That way, you 
can be an informed consumer and than, if necessary, continue drinking 
bottled water or take this guy up on his idea of buying a fancy water filter.
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From: yelnats@BLUE.ocis.temple.edu (Bob Yelnats)
Subject: Re: water contaminants/testing -- various questions
Date: 1996/05/10
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