posted on Apr, 1 2011 @ 01:20 PM
reply to post by TruthArchaeologist
Estrogen in the water isn't really surprising - like someone else mentioned, most bottled waters just come from municipal supplies with less strict
regulation as well, and most municipal supplies are entirely polluted with all sorts of hormones and drug cocktails.
It used to be (may still be, not sure) recommended to dispose of your old drugs by flushing them down the toilet, and some drugs also aren't full
metabolized by the body - local water treatment plants usually don't have anything close to the cleaning & filtration required to actually remove all
this from the water, so we're more or less always dosing ourselves with a variety of things.
Been awhile since I looked into it, but it appears this is likely related to decrease in sperm counts/viability over the last few decades, as well as
an increase in the number of births with sexual deformities (read: boys with girl parts, girls with boy parts, or a combination thereof).
If you're going to drink bottled water, best to look for spring water or the like of good quality. Then you only have to worry about what's in the
ground water. Otherwise I'm very impressed with what I've heard about the filtration systems from British Berkefeld ('Berkey'). Apparently
they'll clean pretty much everything out of your tap water, and have some filters that will even remove fluoride - pretty much nothing else removes
fluoride, that I'm aware of. No electricity required.