Mike Baker has some succinct things to say about our water supply.

Who is Mike Baker?  He’s a “political strategist,” also a former CIA field operations officer, a writer of opinion columns, and a script writer and consultant in the entertainment industry.

What does he say?

“While the standard use in our society of over 80,000 different synthetic chemicals has offered added convenience and productivity in our lives, it has also come at a tremendous price… drastic increases in degenerative disease.” (See quote.)

I think that really says our problem in a nutshell.  Cancer is striking one in three.  Autism is one in 150. Both are way up from years of yore. We all know little kids with learning problems or hyperactivity, or whatever.  It surely comes from the chemical soup we live in.

What chemicals?

The ones in plastic, for example.  In the early 1990s I considered designing plastic items and looked into it.  At that time, new additives were coming into the market that made plastic far more useful.  Add them in, and plastic no longer deteriorated in sunlight.  Now, that was an enormous leap forward.  Add them in, and it became soft, easier to mold, but not brittle. Another huge leap forward. Nearly twenty years later, we can look around us and see the products of the plastics revolution. They are EVERYWHERE.  If you were around in the 1980s, you may remember that plastic just wasn’t that useful back then. In fact, if something was made of plastic, we expected it to break. Soon.

There are plenty of other chemicals, in our household cleaners, and who knows what. We just live with them.  And sooner or later, they end up in the water supply.

If you want to protect your family, look into the best home water filter.