Healthy Home: Water Quality

Water Quality and a Healthy Home

Just like air quality, water quality is vital for your health. Whether you have municipal water or well water, it’s likely that your water contains chemicals, bacteria and/or heavy metals.

If you want to find out what’s in your water, have it tested through a local lab or water treatment company. You can go to your state’s department of environmental services website to find out how to test water in your area.

What are the impacts of poor water quality?

• Gastrointestinal illnesses

• Reproductive issues

• Neurological disorders

• Increased risk of cancer (especially if well water is contaminated by naturally occurring arsenic and radon)

How to Improve Home Water Quality

Filter your drinking and bathing water: It’s important to use a high-quality water filter to reduce your exposure to the pollutants found in most water supplies. Consider installing drinking water filters at every level of the home. If you want to have easy access to healthy, great-tasting water, add under-sink filters to an upstairs bathroom sink or a basement wet bar sink.

Remember, your drinking water isn’t the only water that needs to be filtered. Bathing water is important to filter so that you aren’t inhaling and absorbing contaminants as you bathe. Here’s more on why you should consider getting a shower filter to protect your family from chlorine and other water contaminants you don’t want in your healthy home!