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South Africa is a water scares country and we simply don’t have enough water for a growing demand. The only way we can keep supplying water to everyone is by recycling our water and allowing less and less water to run off into the sea. The problem is that every time the water gets recycled it becomes more and more polluted. Most sewage treatment plants aren’t even meeting the very basic standards that are required for water recycling and quite often raw sewage ends up in our rivers.

Due to the high amount of sewage contamination in our water, huge amounts of Chlorine is added and allowed in our water. The EPA allows only 4mg/l for chlorine while 600mg/l is acceptable according to SABS standards. According to the US council of environmental studies your risk of getting cancer is 93% higher when drinking or bathing in chlorinated water.

With the sewage contamination also comes endocrine disruptors (chemicals that can alter hormonal systems). The past several years have seen a steady drumbeat of news reports, blog posts, and scientific studies which have raised concerns about the presence of estrogenic compounds (natural estrogens and synthetic chemicals that mimic natural estrogen) in waterways and drinking water, and the potential harm to human health.

Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decrease the risk of colon cancer by 45%, it can slash the risk of getting breast cancer by 79% and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.