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Every living creature needs clean and safe drinking water. How much do you need? It depends - your size, activity level and the weather all make a difference.
The water you drink is a combination of surface water and groundwater. Surface water includes rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Groundwater comes from underground. The United States has one of the safest water supplies in the world, but drinking water quality can vary from place to place. It depends on the condition of the source water and the treatment it receives. Treatment may include adding fluoride to prevent cavities and chlorine to kill germs.
Your water supplier must give you annual reports on drinking water. The reports include where your water came from and what contaminants are in it.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
'''Drinking water''' is water that is intended to be drinking by humans. Water of sufficient quality to serve as drinking water is called '''potable water''' whether it is used as such or not. Although most fresh water sources are drinkable by humans, they can be a disease vector or cause long-term health problems if they do not meet certain water quality guidelines. Most nations have water quality regulations for water sold as drinking water, although these are often not strictly enforced outside of the developed world. Virtually all municipal water systems deliver a single quality of water, whether it is to be used for drinking, washing or landscape irrigation.
Emergency Safety Management - Includes earthquake kits, first aid kits, emergency food rations, sterile drinking water, communications, and sanitation.
Multi-Pure - Drinking water conditioning devices.
Apec - Reverse osmosis drinking water purification systems, filters, and parts.
Aqua-Pure - Water filters and drinking water systems sales.
Budget Water USA - Home water products and drinking water filters.
Future Water Systems - Supplier of reverse osmosis home drinking water systems and supplies.
Alkalife International - Alkaline drops to balance the Ph in drinking water. Also offers water test kits.
Pure Aqua World - Offers water filtration systems products for the home such as drinking, and shower filters.
Affordable Quality Drinking Water - Sells water filtering products.
Portable Water Filters - Refillable drinking bottle with filter on it.