Beware of Portable Drinking Water Stations

You might think that taking a quick swig of water out of a portable drinking station is OK to do, but what you don't really know about the water may harm you.

Sure, there are going to be times when you have no choice but to drink from a drinking station. We all have those moments when we are in an area that we know isn't safe and have to resort to the best alternative we have on hand. If you are in a situation where you need to rely on portable drinking water, then ask around and find out if it has been purified or not.

Just because the people at the portable drinking station are telling you the water is safe, doesn't really mean that it is; and even if it's classified as drinkable, doesn't mean it isn't loaded with chemicals. The horrifying thing these days is that even water with toxic "things" in it gets classified as being OK to drink if the levels of the chemicals aren't too high. Well, that's all well and good, but if you keep drinking contaminated water, the cumulative effects are not good for you.

Imagine the government or other water distributors telling you that minimally contaminated water is OK to drink. There is something terribly wrong with that picture when you consider that the water may contain bacterial spores and other items too numerous to list. Here is something else rather disturbing too. Many portable drinking stations use chlorine to disinfect, which does do a passable job on most things, but is a stand alone killer.

While you may think using chlorine only makes good sense to kill what can be killed, think about this statistic: the Natural Resources Defense Council have figures that indicate there are roughly 30 new cases of rectal cancer daily as a result of drinking chlorine contaminated drinking water. Doesn't that make you want to check your drinking water much more closely?

If you think chlorine is a benevolent chemical that cleans up our drinking water to make it safe for us, think again. It was used to make chlorine gas in WWI. Think twice about drinking water from a portable drinking station without checking it first, or make sure you carry some of your own home distilled water with you.

The only answer to ensuring our safety at home and getting the purest, freshest water we can, is to invest in a water distillation system. No other method of purification is as effective as distillation.

Larry Wardell is with H2olabs.com, a provider of water distillers and water distillation systems. To learn more, visit http://www.h2olabs.com.