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Polluted Water Is Your Health-Destroyer By Expert Author: Raphaelo Steff
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Of all water in the world, only 3% is fresh (water with less than 0.5 parts per thousand dissolved salts). Less than one third of the 1% is available for human use. The rest is frozen in glaciers or in the polar ice caps, or even in the depths of the earth where we can not have access. This 1% that is available to us is not always safe to drink. Even seemingly clear water contains contaminants like bacteria, virus, and parasites such as protozoa. Those organisms are harmful to the human body. They make water unsafe to drink, and sometimes even unfit for bathing. If left untreated, contaminated water can cause a range of water-related diseases that can take a terrible toll on human health, and often cause death.

These substances come from either the physical environment in which water has evolved, or through contact with human and animal waste. Water is the preferred vehicle of transmission of many diseases. Our only way to prevent the spread of these organisms is good sanitation (water purification) and personal hygiene.

While Safe Water is essential to health, Polluted Water is your Health-Destroyer. Water pollution remains one of the most critical problems facing the world today. In nature, water is not always the source of life; it can be a source of diseases and eventually death. It transmits a number of microorganisms, bacteria, viruses and protists of all kinds. These organisms can sometimes lead to serious diseases when they enter the human body. Treating the water you use is necessary to stay healthy.

Some bacteria, including Escherichia coli responsible for colibacillosis and vibrio cholera responsible for cholera, and some amoebae, parasites of the human body, cause severe diarrhea. Left untreated, water loss during diarrhea can lead to a significant dehydration of the body and eventually death. Typhoid fever is also due to a bacterium (Salmonella typhi) that can be transmitted by polluted water. Unless it is treated, contaminated water is not safe to drink. In addition, drinking polluted water may affect the immune system, and facilitates the development of many diseases.

Are we safe from contaminated water in United Sates?

No. People in Industrialized nations including the richest country in the world, the USA, suffer from water-related illnesses. Not long ago, the town of Alamosa, Colorado, paid the price of drinking contaminated water. March of this year, salmonella somehow entered the city’s water supply. Within a week of the March 8 discovery, about 250 of all the town’s 10,000 residents have become ill, with many of those illnesses confirmed as salmonella poisoning.

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About the Author/Author Bio

Raphaelo is a nutritionist who strongly believes in natural healing and disease prevention. He loves to share his own personal beneficial experience with natural remedies to others. To learn more about water filtration systems, Please visit his whole house water filtration systems website.

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