Our drinking water is therefore no longer the "most strictly controlled food" …

Our drinking water is therefore no longer the "most strictly controlled food" in the country, but according to the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, only a "particularly strictly controlled food". - A historic achievement that we owe to the legendary efforts of outstanding lawyers from the mineral water industry.

Our editorial team views this marketing campaign by the industry more as a "tempest in a teacup," since neither the quality of drinking water nor that of mineral water has been improved here. At best, this legal "breakthrough" improves the stock values of the mineral water industry. For the human body and its health, what matters is the absolute cleanliness, purity, and vitality of water so that it can quickly and efficiently perform its transport function.

Whether "best controlled" or "particularly strictly controlled" gave us the idea to observe the press landscape in Germany for a month to determine how well this control actually works?

For the month of August 2022, you will find in the following posts 28 press reports about contaminated drinking water, affecting hundreds of thousands of consumers for several weeks in some cases in our country. Sometimes the affected communities were informed only after days, and often the contamination was discovered only by chance. We have not found official statements about the number of undetected contaminations, though they naturally still exist.

The pathogens detected were able to trigger pneumonia with cough, headaches, chills, fever, diarrhea, skin irritation, as well as a general feeling of illness in some cases. The water supplier in Laatzen even called upon the population not to wash their clothing with tap water.

We did not hold back from also including two reports about contaminated mineral water in the list, which the manufacturer had publicly recalled.

And because we talk so much about "control" in connection with drinking water, here is something else: Approximately 35,000 industrial chemicals and approximately 2,500 active ingredients from pharmaceuticals that can all be present in our drinking water are not "monitored" at all, and for most of them there are not even established limit values(!).