Living Life Abundantly

Just a little rant I needed to get off my chest. Stop believing what others say; they cannot prove truth so follow your own laws and beliefs, and screw what others say. And COME TO ME: If you are downhearted and beng reviled I will love you no mattter what anyone else on the planet says about you. Nothing could separate me from someone I love.

Were you surprised last week by the breaking news that pharmaceutical drugs have been found in drinking water?

I remember asking a few months ago, Do You Know What is in Your Water, Is Your Water Safe? Needless to say… I was neither shocked or surprised by the news. I was disgusted and disgusted for several reasons:

#1 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known about drugs in the water supply since 1976. It just took 32 years for this information to be made public via news outlets… Pharmaceuticals in drinking water is actually old news not breaking news!

#2 What goes into the body must come out of the body. When drugs are processed by the body they are often unaltered or slightly altered. This means when drugs are eliminated from the body they still have the same or similar properties and affects. Consequently, pharmaceutical companies are in violation the Refuse Act of 1899 and are forcing the public to participate in their heinous crimes.

#3 Whatever goes down the drains of our sinks, showers, bathtubs, and toilets goes through waste water treatment processing, however, the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges that there is no system in place to remove drugs during the sewage treatment process! Read the full story

As public awareness grows about lead in toys and precautions are being taken to reduce exposure to lead… the same effort is needed as it relates to water.

If you live in a home with running water, your water most likely contains lead. How much lead? I don’t know but there are ways to test, filter, and significantly reduce the amount of lead in your water (which we’ll get to later).

A few years back an artists wrote a compelling song about water. It wasn’t one of those songs you hear on the radio…at least it never made rotation on any of the stations I listened too.

The recent oil spill in San Francisco made me think about the song because there’s a line in it in which the artist says:

Used to be free now it cost you a fee
Cause oil tankers spill they load as they roam cross the sea

Today I had to play the song a few times (its always been a favorite you can listen to it by clicking on the video below) but now I’m feeling the lyrics even more.

We just paid our water bill the other day and today I find myself pondering what exactly are we paying for? What the hell is in that water that we get the pleasure of paying for every month?

What am I paying for when I buy a bottle of Aquafina and whats the difference between what comes out of my sink or shower head and bottled water?

For as long as I can remember my grandmother has always boiled her water. It didn’t really make sense to me as a kid but I certainly get it now! Am I just a housewife with too much time on her hands? 

Read this before you answer that rhetorical question: Read the full story