Drinking water filters: water quality, reports, information, studies

The challenge of water pollution The water in Germany is facing a serious problem: drug residues and multi-resistant germs are polluting numerous bodies of water in the country. In a recent review by [open post...]

Drinking water from the tap contains, among other undesirable ingredients, the light metal lithium, which is used in medicine to treat mental illnesses such as depression. Researchers have recently linked elevated levels of lithium [open post...]

"Öko-Test": Carcinogenic chromium detected in mineral water Laboratory tests of bottled water have found that they contain "man-made contaminants" which include sweeteners and pesticide breakdown products, among others. These substances can often only [open post...]

Study by the Medical University of Vienna: The smallest parts of micro- and nanoplastics get into the body through food and drinking water, and even into the brain. The blood-brain barrier does not present [open post...]

Ibuprofen, Diclofenac and Carbamazepine Pharmaceuticals in wastewater are a well-known environmental problem Drugs in wastewater are a known environmental problem Environmentalists and authorities in Europe and the US have compiled a list of drugs that [open post...]

Problem and filtering: Drug residues in drinking water 70 to 100 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients can be released by the body when they are excreted. The active ingredients are then still active. [open post...]

Nitrate and trihalomethanes (THM) in drinking water are common and potentially carcinogenic to humans. One study examined the relationship between nitrate pollution in drinking water and THMs and their impact on prostate cancer. 62.230 [open post...]

Toxic mercury in water bodies Complaint for clean water German environmental aid The German Environmental Aid (DUH) wants to legally oblige the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to take more action against harmful [open post...]

Nitrate in drinking water increases the risk of colon cancer even at concentrations below the specified limit Nitrate can be converted into carcinogenic substances in the body. Scientists found that people whose drinking [open post...]