Health

What's in your water?

There is a major difference between ''acceptable'' and ''healthy'' drinking water.

The lack of healthy drinking water is not only a problem in third world countries these days; it's also a problem in the United States. While US cities have some of the best water treatment plants in the world, the water still can be contaminated by the time it reaches your faucet.

At any given time municipal water can have different levels chemicals or additives which are considered safe to drink, but may not be the best option available. Local and federal water agencies do their absolute best to keep your public drinking water as safe and healthy as possible and agressivly seek out any problems which they find within this system. Through further purification, we are able to partner with the municipal water agencies to bring you the highest quality of locally sourced drinking water possible. After passing through one of our Refill Stations, the water dispensed generally contains less than 10 Parts Per Million (PPM) of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS). As a comparison bottled water is typically between 20-35 PPM and municipal water generally has a TDS reading of 100-400 PPM. This means that the water from one of our Refill Stations is typically even purer than bottled water! 

pura vida h2o's 5 stage water purification process protects us from the following common drinking water concerns:

• Bottled water: BPA and other harmful chemicals can seep into the water when contained in disposable plastic bottles made using these chemicals.
• Water Plant: Due to the open resource of public water, municipalities need to treat the water with chemicals such as chlorine to protect the public during the distribution process.
• Water Distribution: The pipes that transport  water, if not well maintained, can add metals to the water which are harmful to humans.
• Drinking fountains: Drinking from a public drinking fountain can also influence the quality of the water independent of its source. "Drinking water fountain spigots had the highest amount of bacteria on the tested surfaces - 2.7 million bacterial cells/in (squared)." (according to the NSF International, a not-for-profit health-and-safety organization)