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Did you know pure water won’t conduct electricity?

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Chances are you’ve been warned about the danger of using electrical appliances near a bathtub or swimming when a thunderstorm is in the area.

Well, there’s a good reason for that warning…

If an appliance or a lightning bolt were to come into contact with water you could be easily be electrocuted if you happen to be in contact with the water when the electrical current strikes it.

But what if I told you the water involved in such an electrocution isn’t really what facilitated the deadly shock?

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Is bottled water really better than tap water? The answer might surprise you.

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If you’re like most people you probably believe bottled water is safer to drink than tap water, but is that really true?

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the answer is often no.

A large and growing number of doctors now say the quality of tap water is equal to most brands of bottled water, and actually superior to many of them.  [Read more…]