Water expert warns Americans of chemical cocktail in dangerous chemically-tainted tap water

Amid unbearable temperatures and seasonal changes, children and adults should increase their water intake, but are advised to avoid unfiltered tap and bottled water as much as possible, according to a water technology and sustainability expert.“The whole reason our company exists is because we have a fundamental crisis in our drinking water in the United States today, and not a lot of people are talking about it,” Rich “Raz” Razgaitis, CEO of FloWater, told FOX Business.Raz, formerly of Fortune 500 companies and global pharmaceutical leaders Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly, co-founded FloWater 12 years ago to restore America’s drinking water.America’s water infrastructure is underfunded and outdated.In 2023, the EPA determined that the U.S.’s water infrastructure requires $625 billion over a 20-year period to address the issues, according to the Infrastructure Report Card.“From the governmental side, whether it’s federal or municipal, nobody can solve our infrastructure issues in one or two terms,” Raz said.

“So, it’s a hot potato.Nobody wants to talk about this and amplify what the problem is.”“A lot of companies are profiting off of a really broken water infrastructure.”Raz told FOX Business that consumer packaged goods companies, especially big beverage brands and energy drink companies, are capitalizing on impressionable young adults and fighting for kids’ mindshare.“I got personally passionate about this, watching my daughters at a young age get, what I would say is, programmed in the same way that I got programmed growing up by becoming really fixated on sugary, caffeinated drinks,” Raz said.“This is a real problem because it creates lifelong behaviors, addictions, and dependencies that ultimately lead to cataclysmic choices downstream.”Raz said choosing between unfiltered tap water and bottled drinking water is like comparing cigarettes.“Seventy thousand to eighty thousand chemicals have been submitted to t...