The solution is to distill your own water and drink from your own reusable containers!

Knowledge is power, without knowledge fear can consume. Knowledge is not obtained from one source of information. One must collect data, facts, and details from multiple sources, evaluate them, understand, and then determine the best solution. Only then can one take action and implement solutions. With that said, our suggested answer for healthy water, water pollution, wasting plastic, filling landfills, wasting energy, and wasting money:

Go with your own Homemade steam distilled water in your own reusable container
for a reliable answer with our health, energy, financial, and environment situations.

Why is Distilled water being suggested?

Health wise:
It has been reported that we should drink almost 200 gallons of water per year. That is almost 3,000 glasses of water and depending on the water you drink you can put into your body almost 500 pounds of inorganic and organic matter during your lifetime. That is 500 pounds of waste that your body has to find ways of excreting. When young, the body can do an excellent job getting rid of this crap, but as we age, the results are never that good. Why put this stuff into your body in the first place? Think about the contaminants cumulating over the years and the possible negative burden on your life. Distilled is the purest.

The photo on the right shows the bottom of a water distiller soiled with the contaminates left behind from the distillation process.
Just use organic white vinegar to clean once a week - see next page.

In any scientific lab where specimens have to be prepared for testing, only three things will be used to wrap, store, or transport specimens so that they are not contaminated. Plastic is not one of them. Also the longer amount of time spent inside a plastic container or wrapped in aluminum foil the more contaminants can transfer.

How long has the water been in that plastic bottle sitting on that supermarket shelf? Plastic have and can leach carcinogens such as PCBs into water over time. Only three things DO NOT put carcinogens into our food or drinking water - They are:

Only 3 Non-Toxic items don't contaminate our food and drink

Wax Paper	Glass	Porcelain

Health News Alert:
Starting on April 14 , 2008 news reports about BPA, bisphenol A in plastic, hit the air waves. Like most reports, they were not done well. Confusion and public fear were the results. Scientific studies regarding bisphenol A are well documented and address the safety of polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. What are the long term results or the bottom line? We are not in a position at this time to make a suggestion or state an opinion on this topic. You will have to search out several reliable sources to make you own decision. The same holds true about studies discussing potential problems when you heat up dairy products in plastic or use a microwave to heat dairy products.

However, we will suggest that you no longer wrapped sandwiches in aluminum foil or a plastic sandwich bag unless the sandwich is first wrapped in wax paper. Not because if you don't you will have problems, the fact is there are no short term problems reported. Nevertheless, in the lab, results for various tests have been distorted by specimens that were contaminated because they were wrapped in items such as aluminum foil or plastic.
How do we know this?
We know this NOT because we read this information somewhere else, we know because a scientist at energyhotwire.com worked in a lab.

Over your life time can having food in aluminum or plastic be a "contributing" complication to a problem in the future? Perhaps.
Will having food in aluminum or plastic be the only and main reason that causes you a serious problem in the future? Perhaps not.

Wrapping sandwiches in wax paper is your call.

Energy smart:
It has been reported that to make one plastic water bottle, the amount of oil consumed would fill 1/4 the bottle.

Plastic is made from oil and if oil is consumed to produced energy to manufacture the plastic bottle that fact is not surprising. Next thing is to think about the energy used throughout the infrastructure of packing, labeling, shipping, delivering, storing, displaying, and cooling water in a plastic bottle. Oh yes, one more thing... the energy consumed for disposing of the plastic bottle. Bottom Line: A major waste of energy!

Financially astute:
If you consumed about 10 gallons of water a week through purchased water in gallon jugs and water bottles you will have the following average expense:

Grand Total per week: $89.50

Grand Total per year: $4,654.00

Grand Total for Two years: $9,308.00

Now let us compare the cost to make and bottle your own Distilled Water:

After your initial purchase cost for a water distiller: (starting around $120.00)

Base on the 2007 average Kilowatt rate in America, the electric bill for making one gallon of Distilled Water is:

Approximately 30 cents per gallon...

Grand Total per week: $ 3.00
Grand Total per year: $ 156.00
Grand Total for Two years: $ 212.00

By drinking your distilled water from you own reusable mug, container, thermos, or bottle,
you will be saving approximately:
$9,096.00 in two years!
Vacation anyone?

(If any of these are made from plastic, check to see how they are manufactured)

Even if you bought only gallon jugs of water and refilled your own reusable bottles
because it is less expensive, you still will be spending $520.00 per year.
Compared to making your own Distilled water costing only
$156.00 per year,
you will be saving yourself $364.00 in one year!
Weekend away anyone?

Post Script: Water Distillers come small enough to be portable. You can bring them with you on vacation.

Earth friendly:
Making you own Distilled water and using your own reusable container doesn't put plastic bottles into our environment! And when you use a plastic bottle, RECYCLE so we can slay the Plastic Monster!