{"id":39,"date":"2009-09-14T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T12:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/09\/clean-water-how-do-you-hydrate.html"},"modified":"2009-09-14T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T12:27:05","slug":"clean-water-how-do-you-hydrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/09\/clean-water-how-do-you-hydrate.html","title":{"rendered":"Clean Water: How Do You Hydrate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/fresh%20water-jj-001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fresh water-jj-001.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/09\/fresh%20water-jj-001-thumb-215x161-7769.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"161\" width=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/span>Did you see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/13\/us\/13water.html?em\" target=\"_blank\">article in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times<\/a> about the clean water crisis in Charleston, West Virginia and around the country?&nbsp; Here are some of the alarming take-aways from this exhaustively-reported piece:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Most of today&#8217;s water pollution has no scent or taste, many people who<br \/>\nconsume dangerous chemicals do not realize it, even after they become<br \/>\nsick.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<li>&#8220;In recent years, violations of the Clean Water Act have risen steadily across the nation&#8230;however, the vast majority of those polluters have escaped punishment.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The new E.P.A. administrator, Lisa P. Jackson,<br \/>\nsaid in an interview that despite many successes since the Clean Water<br \/>\nAct was passed in 1972, today the nation&#8217;s water does not meet public<br \/>\nhealth goals, and enforcement of water pollution laws is unacceptably<br \/>\nlow.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As we read more and more about how access to clean, fresh water is going to be the biggest environmental challenge of the coming decades, this report hits home.&nbsp; Conventional wisdom is that proper water consumption (8 8-oz. glasses per day, please!) is crucial to maintaining good health, flushing toxins from the body, and more.&nbsp; But if the water coming out of your tap <i>is<\/i> a toxin, what&#8217;s a human being to do?<\/p>\n<p>The questions abound.&nbsp; What water sources do you trust?&nbsp; When you get your water, from what kind of vessel do you drink it?&nbsp; (Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/08\/sigg-bottles-and-bpa.html\">Valerie&#8217;s recent post on Sigg bottles<\/a> and BPA warnings.) How do you feel about the many ways we pay for water&#8211;built-in refrigerator or sink filters, bottles?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><b>In short, how do you hydrate?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(image via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/2007\/07\/29-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/2007\/07\/29-week\/<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you see the article in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times about the clean water crisis in Charleston, West Virginia and around the country?&nbsp; Here are some of the alarming take-aways from this exhaustively-reported piece: &#8220;Most of today&#8217;s water pollution has no scent or taste, many people who consume dangerous chemicals do not realize it, even&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,27,28],"tags":[51,53,54,52,55],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-current-events","category-eco","category-health","tag-clean-water","tag-hydration","tag-sigg","tag-water-bottles","tag-water-contamination"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clean Water: How Do You Hydrate? 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