Recently I have become aware of the results of a probe made by Associated Press, which shows that pharmaceutical drugs and medication are finding their way into residential water supplies.

Over the last 5 months, Associated Press monitored the water supply in 24 metropolitan areas of the United States, and found a whole myriad of different drugs in the residential waters supply, consumers are understandably shocked by this.

How do drugs get into the water supply in the first place? Quite simply they find their way into waste water, as human being either consume or discard them. This waste water is obviously not filtered effectively, allowing traces of the drugs in question to re-enter the residential water supply.

Simple logic tells us that our residential water supplies are not being filtered and cleansed effectively, and that the water treatment plants themselves are now incapable of ensuring we have a clean, safe and healthy water supply piped into our homes. The problem lays in the fact that there is little standardisation of the actual filtration techniques used by individual water purification plants, often plants will use old and ineffective equipment, or will fail to upgrade to a newer, more effective technology once it becomes clear that their old equipment can no longer perform adequately.

It becomes increasingly clear that providing your own filtration system, to clean your own water supply is fast becoming a requirement instead of a luxury in major urban areas. Luckily there are plenty of cost effective filtration systems on the market, many of which are fully capable of supplying healthy water for the entire household.

If you are concerned over the purity of your residential water supply., you may like to consider getting it tested, you may well be shocked by the results!