Start Drinking & Bathing in Clean Water Right Away

Clean, purified drinking, AND bathing water are so important that the following are affordable options to consider until you can evaluate your present situation and decide what purification you need, can afford, and maintain. 

Ideally, you should not drink or bathe in unfiltered tap water!

Quality Drinking Water

OPTION 1 – Reverse Osmosis Purified Water from a Vending Machine    

• This is the most economical way to get safe drinking water and will serve you well until you can purchase proper purification for your home or for anyone who isn’t in a position to buy an expensive purification system for their drinking water.  Cost is about 25 - 45 cents a gallon.
• Buy water from a Water Store or the vending machines found in shopping centers, at Wal Mart, and grocery stores.  
• Pick the big vending companies like Glacier.  The bigger the company the better because they have a team to keep current checks on their filters and they record the readings on the machine.  
• The vending machine that you use must say that it is a reverse osmosis unit and that it has a UV light to treat the water.
• Make sure that the water machine is regularly checked for purity and TDS (total dissolved solids).  
• Look on the machine for a sticker that documents the record of routine checks of the water. 
• There should be a phone number on the machine so you can ask about the frequency of servicing.
• Also ask what the average TDS (total dissolved solids) count for that machine is.  
• The Total Dissolved Solids test is used as an indicator of the general quality of the water. Dissolved solids refer to any minerals, salts, metals, cations, and anions dissolved in water.  
• A high level does not necessarily mean that the water is contaminated, it means it could be contaminated or could just have a high mineral content.  A Reverse Osmosis Purifier is designed to remove all elevated levels of dissolved solids, which could include lead, nitrate, arsenic, copper, aluminum, etc.
• If you are going to buy your water from a water store or a vending machine it is also a good idea to have your own digital TDS meter so you can monitor the water yourself.  
• You can test the TDS (total dissolved solids) – with an easy to read digital meter that you can purchase.  TDS – Meter –  .tdsmeter.com, www.tdsmeter.com/products/tds3.hml
• You are looking for an ideal reading of TDS of 5 – 10, but shouldn’t be any higher than 15 – 20.   
• Get several 1- gallon easy to carry glass bottles or larger glass bottles if able to carry a heavier bottle.  
• Buy glass gallon jugs of apple juice or other juices and use the bottles for water. 
• Purchase a 2 1/2-gallon Mountain Valley Water in glass bottle (drink that) and continue using the empty bottle as the receptacle for RO water. Note: $20 refundable water deposit  
• Wash the bottles out using Branch Basics www.branchbasics.com and hydrogen peroxide. Spray the interior of the glass bottle with Branch Basics Bathroom Spray, add ½ cup of hydrogen peroxide, shake and let sit for 5 minutes, add hot water, shake and rinse well with water.  This will clean the bottle - removes e-coli, bacteria, viruses, etc.   Clean your bottles in this manner before each refill.
• Fill your glass bottles. It is nice to have enough glass bottles to keep a week’s worth of water.  Then you just go once a week to refill. 
• Add trace minerals - Reverse osmosis system water, like distilled water is called empty water and is very aggressive water that can leach minerals from the body if no minerals are added.   Add a pinch of sea salt to each glass of water or one-eighth to a quarter teaspoon salt per gallon to add minerals and aid in hydration. 

OPTION 2 – Most Convenient Option, but much more expensive than Option 1 - Home Delivered Purified Water in Glass -  Mountain Valley Spring Water in Glass Bottles is a good option if you don’t have a good water purifier for your drinking water or you don’t want to obtain water through option #1 or #3.  www.mountainvalleyspring.com

• This is the bottled water of choice for many chemically sensitive people. Mountain Valley Water is tested daily by a quality control staff and is rigorously monitored for pH, bacteria, viruses, total dissolved solids, chemical contamination, etc.  
• Mountain Valley Water comes in 5 gallon, 2 1/2 gallon, 1 liter, ½ liter, and 1/3 liter glass bottles.  
• Mountain Valley water is found in health food stores and can be home delivered in many locations.
• Mountain Valley Spring Water Home Delivery – delivered every 28 days.
• Texas – Dallas/Austin/Houston delivery - 1-888-339-1452 
• $20 refundable deposit on refillable large bottles – 2 ½ gallon and 5 gallon. 
• Cost for water is $ 9.75 for 2/1/2 gallon and $18.00 for 5 gallons. 
• Delivery Minimum 2 items a month.
• Delivery fee is $3.26 

OPTION 3 – Additional Economical Option – CWR Stainless Steel Gravity Filter – UltraGrav Emergency Filter with Ceramic and Metalgon 

• This water filter is a much better filtration system than other popular gravity filters.  See statistics on line -  -https://www.cwrenviro.com/stainless-steel-gravity-filter 

 

Shower & Bathing Water

The water you bathe and shower in is just as important as the water you drink.    After a 10-minute shower you have 10 times more trihalomethanes (toxic chlorine byproducts) and chemicals in your body than if you had 8 glasses of the same unpurified water.  At 100 degrees the steam cloud is full of chlorine by-products and YOU are breathing it in and at the same time the skin pores are taking it in through the gas as well as through the water. Exposure to chlorine is especially important if have thyroid issues. Chlorine displaces iodine in the thyroid.  In addition, the chlorine and chloramines rob the skin of oils.  Dry skin can be attributed to the soap used, but it may be the chlorine or chloramines drying the skin out rather than the soap. 

Talk to Dr. Speiser (772-919-8702) of CWR Environmental as he will look at your municipal water and tell you the best shower filter to use or procedure you need to eliminate exposure to chlorine.

Shower Filter

• Get a point of use shower filter to use if you live in an apartment or rented home or until you able to get the proper whole house system.  – Recommend the CWR shower and bath filters https://cwrenviro.com/shop-products/shower-filters/ or  RainShow’r filters.  www.rainshowermft.com   We recommend a KDF type filter because the carbon filters clog up so easily. Point of Use filters help to reduce chlorine, but not chloramines and ammonia.  
• Recommend that you hire a licensed, bonded, and insured plumber to install your shower filter to insure warranty.   Some showers need special adaptors to add shower filters.  You can turn and twist the shower arm too much and can break the pipe.    The warranty is wavered if you don’t use a licensed, bonded insured plumber.     

Filter for Baths

• If you like to take baths, use bath filter from CWR https://cwrenviro.com/bath-tub-filter/ or 3000 Crystal Ball for the Bath available from – www.rainshowermfg.com - 1-800-243-8775. The Crystal Ball uses a KDF Formula Copper Zinc filament and Crystalline Quartz to remove the chlorine.  As chlorinated water flows through the filament the dissimilar metals in KDF (copper and zinc) create a galvanic or electrolytic reaction that causes the two chlorine ions to combine with a zinc ion to form a harmless chloride.  The ball does not hold the chlorine, but changes the chlorine into a harmless compound.  The quartz crystals help to “energize” the water by reducing the water’s surface tension.  This allows for an increase in sudsing and lathering of soaps and shampoos. After filling bathtub drag the ball through the water for 5 – 8 minutes.  Remove the ball from the water before adding soap, salts, etc. to the bath to keep the ball from getting clogged up. Suggested replacement is 200 baths or one year whichever comes first.    These are a great addition to preparing the bath water for detoxification baths.   
• Also shower filters are economical and can be used to fill the bathtub up if want to take a bath

Water for Emergencies & Travel

Words of Wisdom 

We do not recommend drinking water from plastic bottles (see our Toss the Toxins Course), but sometimes there are circumstances you might want to make a safer choice. Drinking water from plastic bottles sold in the grocery stores - even the ones from the “safer plastics” are not recommended. A German report as early as April 2009 states that some as-yet unidentified chemicals in these plastics have been shown to have the potential to interfere with estrogen and other reproductive hormones, just as the plasticizers BPA and phthalates do. * In a pinch - Current recommendations here in the U.S. are that if you find that you must drink water from a plastic bottle, please look at the number inside the triangle on the bottom of the bottle and drink only from the safer plastics.  Numbers 1, 2, 4, or 5 are considered the “safer plastics”.  

Glass Bottles 

Glass is a little less convenient than plastic, but reducing your exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals is worth it.

• Mountain Valley water comes in small travel size glass bottles.
• Find a glass bottle with a screw on lid that you can use for carrying drinking water.  The 16-ounce glass bottles from Kombucha found at health food stores are a good size bottle.  
• Another option is to buy glass bottles made by Takeya www.takeyausa.com .  These glass bottles have a colorful silicone jacket that protects the glass. There are also other companies offering this option.
• Or just keep your bottle wrapped in an insulated bottle holder to help protect it from breaking.   
• Always wash your glass bottles out before refilling. Wash the bottles using All Purpose Branch Basics www.branchbasics.com.  Spray the interior of the glass bottle, let sit for 5 minutes, add hot water, shake and rinse with water.  This cleans the bottle and removes bacteria and viruses.  Process your bottles in this manner before each refill.  

Note: Metal containers are better than plastic, but METAL BOTTLES MADE IN CHINA have been found to have lead in them.  For guaranteed lead free metal water bottles - Check Lead Safe Mama - Lead Free Water Bottles.