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drop of water on earth today is recycled. It is critical to
find out if your water is pure by having water testing performed
on it. If contamination is found, then you can install the
proper water filter to treat your problem.
Let’s travel back in time about 150 million years ago.
A dinosaur rumbles through the mud during a rainstorm. As
the water in its footprints begins to evaporate in the hot,
tropical air, a microscopic water molecule rises up towards
the sky.
Traveling a few thousand feet in the air, the water molecule
bonds with millions of others to form a droplet. Gliding along
the wind currents, the droplet enters a rain cloud and falls
back to Earth as rain.
Flash forward to 65,000 BC: Our water molecule is now inside
a snowflake. As the snow melts, the molecule is washed into
a freshwater marsh. A Wooly Mammoth visits the marsh and gulps
down our molecule. The Pleistocene giant eventually passes
the water molecule as waste while marking his territory in
an ancient forest.
The molecule then seeps through the soil and is absorbed by
the root system of a tree. It is transported up through the
vessels within the tree to a leaf, where it evaporates into
vapor. Drifting along in the cold air, the water molecule
re-freezes and descends onto a glacier, where it will remain
for thousands of years.
The Present Day: Our water molecule finds itself in a public
water supply reservoir in Washington D.C. As it flows into
the water treatment facility, it is bombarded by chemicals
- including algaecides, oxidants, pH inhibitors, chlorine
and fluoride -- to kill germs and counteract other contaminants.
After the chemical and filtration treatment, our molecule
enters the municipal distribution system...moving through
some pipes that were around when President Lincoln was in
office in the mid-1800s.
The journey continues into the suburbs and enters a 25-year-old
home about a half-mile from The White House. The water molecule
snakes through some corroding pipes that were connected using
lead welding material and passes up to the kitchen faucet.
A mother turns on the tap water to prepare a bottle of baby
formula for her child. Our water molecule is then ingested
by a nine-month-old child as she drinks her bottle.
And the cycle continues...
So, what is the point of this narrative? Hopefully, it helps
to illustrate a couple of very basic facts about drinking
water:
1. All Water is Recycled: Every drop of water we use -- to
drink, brush our teeth, bathe, shower, cook & wash --
is recycled. In fact, every single molecule of water on this
planet has always been here...and will continue as part of
the Earth’s water cycle in the future.
2. Water is a Carrier: As water moves throughout the Water
Cycle, it picks up contaminants along the way. Some of this
matter exists in the form of beneficial minerals, but some
contaminants -- both naturally occurring and man-made - are
potentially harmful to people plants and animals.
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