Tap into safer water: how to make sure your tap water is safe to drink.

Publication: Food & Fitness Advisor

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Every day more than 298 million Americans turn on their taps for water to drink, cook with, and bathe in. New research shows something as simple as using an inexpensive carbon filter pitcher can help make your water safer.

The vast majority of our homes are served by municipal water suppliers (many of which use reservoirs and other treated sources of surface water). Under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, municipal water must contain little or no contaminants (such as bacteria and pesticides) that could make us sick. But that doesn't mean water is always contaminant-free. Some suburban and rural communities get their water from wells, which may become contaminated from pollutants in ground water.

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