At The Water Store, we believe that it is every homeowner’s right to have access to clean, healthy drinking water. This is why we place such a high emphasis on having your home’s drinking water regularly tested for potential threats. One service that we provide and know is essential to the health and well being of people all over New England is arsenic removal.
The presence of arsenic in drinking water was once thought to be so minimal that it wouldn’t have any adverse health effects in humans. However, the science behind the hazards posed by arsenic in our drinking water is changing.
With new studies suggesting that even trace amounts of arsenic are linked to severe health problems, the need for arsenic removal in your drinking water supply is more important than ever; especially for those homeowners who get their water from a private well. This is because of the fact that, across the U.S., around 13 million people use private wells that have arsenic levels above the federal standard.
An Invisible Threat
Arsenic is a natural occurring chemical that seeps into groundwater from soil and rocks across the country. And, until recent studies, the amount of arsenic that found its way into drinking water was thought to be so minute that it was deemed only a minor threat. Now, however, arsenic removal is becoming a hot topic among researchers and homeowners alike.
In a New York Times article entitled, “The Arsenic in Our Drinking Water,” the author reports that, “Chronic low-dose exposure has been implicated not only in respiratory problems in children and adults, but in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancers of the skin, bladder and lung.”
With more and more recent studies reporting that chronic exposure to low doses of arsenic in drinking water having detrimental health effects in humans, having your drinking water tested is more important than ever. It is possible that, without water testing, many people could be exposing themselves to arsenic over long periods of time without knowing it and could eventually develop severe illnesses as a result. Let The Water Store test your water supply so that you know exactly what you may be putting in your body.
If you’re interested in arsenic removal, contact us at: 603-899-6680