Case Leads
The Great Importance of Lead-Free Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency has stated categorically, “Lead is the number-one environmental health threat to our children.” Years ago parents were shocked to learn that the paint used in their children’s rooms was actually poisonous because it was lead based. But even when that was outlawed, it didn’t eliminate the problem of lead poisoning.
There are five heavy metals that pose a health risk when ingested: lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminum, and beryllium. The first three are the most dangerous. None of the five has any known health benefit. Lead gets into our systems through newsprint, paint, pencils, pesticides, rain water, pvc containers, tin cans with lead solder, toothpastes, metal polish, and several other means.
How does lead get in our drinking water? If you have an old house, chances are you are still feeding your faucets through lead pipes. Copper has been around for a long time but even if the house piping was replaced, the feed line from the street may still be old piping. If you have a well, the casing, feed lines, or storage tank may contain lead. If you are on city water, it probably has a level of lead anyway. I checked the test result of my city water and was not surprised to see the lead level was within acceptable limits. The water contained 2.5 parts per billion but could have as much as 12 ppb and still pass. However, the last check was two years before this report.
An examination of 65 of the 3,000 largest utilities found that cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, Providence, R.I., and Portland, Maine, are “manipulating the results of tests used to detect lead in water, violating federal law and putting millions of Americans at risk,” The Washington Post reported. More than 250 major cities currently exceed the EPA’s lead standards, and many of them have been deceptive, or even fraudulent, in their reporting of the problems.
Though lead has no known advantage to the body, it does cause known problems. “Each year in the U.S., lead in drinking water contributes to 480,000 cases of learning disorders in children and 560,000 cases of hypertension in adult males.” We cannot totally rid ourselves of ingesting lead, but we can minimize the problem as much as possible.
Here is an edited list of some of the negative impact of lead on the human body: depression, dyslexia, emotional instability, encephalitis, epilepsy, fatigue, gout, hallucinations, headaches, hostility, hyperactivity, hypertension, hypothyroid, impotence, immune suppression, decreased IQ, indigestion, infertility, insomnia, irritability, joint pain, kidney disorders, learning disability, liver dysfunction, loss of will, memory loss (long term), menstrual problems, mood swings, muscle aches, muscle weakness, muscular dystrophy, and multiple sclerosis.
The list continues. In summary, the leading areas of concern are kidney problems and nervous system damage. As you can see, these are not the only problems lead causes, but they are certainly a legitimate concern.
Of course you are wondering, what do we do about it? How can we protect our children from the crippling effects of lead poisoning? Besides the obvious precautions of checking your house for lead paint and your water system for lead pipes, another precaution is effective- filter your drinking and cooking water. A good activated carbon filter like the Black Berkey or their shower filter will remove 95% of the lead that is about to be drunk. That one simple precaution can certainly go a long way in giving a parent peace of mind.
Leads in Review: Vybz Kartel’s case unfolds
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