Chapter 42: EPA’s limit on copper in drinking water: 1.3 mg/Liter
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations
https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/national-primary-drinking-water-regulations
The limits for copper are 1.3 mg/Liter.
The limits for fluoride are 4 mg/Liter. The usual amount of fluoride in water is 0.7 mg/Liter, also expressed as 0.7 ppm.
That speaks volumes. Fluoride is a neurotoxin. Copper heals the nerves in at least 15 different ways, as I revealed in section 1.
The EPA lists negative outcomes for excess copper as:
“Short term exposure: Gastrointestinal distress”
“Long term exposure: Liver or kidney damage”
“People with Wilson’s Disease should consult their personal doctor if the amount of copper in their water exceeds the action level”
The EPA lists negative outcomes for excess fluoride as:
“Bone disease (pain and tenderness of the bones); Children may get mottled teeth”
Why is the upper limit on copper from the EPA at 1.3 mg/Liter?
The EPA’s main justification is that they don’t want people to get nausea in the stomach, which usually starts at 3-4 mg.
Now. Why do people get nausea from copper at such a low level, if the body needs copper for so many good things? I suspect nausea is caused by fluoride because, in tap water, copper is bound to fluoride.
So. How does copper get into the water supply from the pipes? “Corrosion” from “Acid”.
“Most copper contamination in drinking water is the result of corrosion of copper pipes or fittings. Corrosion can occur from water that is high in acidity and high in temperature. Corrosion also can be caused by water that is “soft,” or free of magnesium or calcium salts that create a protective coating inside the pipe.”
What is the acid from?
Here is the 147 page book, “Copper in Drinking Water” by the NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL.
https://www.nap.edu/read/9782/chapter/1
Also here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK225402/
There is no mention of “sodium fluoride” nor any mention of “fluoride” in their entire document! In a book on drinking water!?!
I think it’s more likely that the EPA limits on copper in tap water are there because copper leeches into the water from fluoride. Copper in drinking water is evidence of fluoride in the drinking water. And if copper is elevated, then so is fluoride, and at dangerous levels, because existing levels are also dangerously harmful to people’s brains and intelligence.
There is a copper (II) fluoride molecule. One copper atom with two fluorine atoms. Since fluoride is so light, and copper is so heavy, the ratio of weight is about 2:1, twice the weight of copper to half the weight of fluoride.
Interestingly, the EPA limit is this same ratio. Tap water usually has .7 mg fluoride. And the limit on copper is 1.3 mg, about twice as much.
But the EPA can’t admit this, politically. The EPA is being sued by people who are against fluoride in the water. They want the EPA to classify fluoride as a neurotoxin. The EPA is refusing, so far.
https://fluoridealert.org/issues/tsca-fluoride-trial/law-suit-documents
The people suing claim there are “over 180 studies demonstrating fluoride’s neurotoxicity.”
I think it’s a waste of time to ask the government to stop poisoning us, if that is their intent. Why would they stop?
It makes more sense to take personal responsibility, and drink distilled water, and bottled water without fluoride, and to take the nearly free minerals that detox fluoride, such as iodine, boron, copper, calcium, and the fruit tamarind, and leafy greens, which I do.
The main justification for the EPA limit is found here and appears reasonable. To prevent nausea.
Copper in Drinking Water.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK225402/
“In 1991, EPA promulgated [declared by decree or proclamation] an MCLG of 1.3 mg per liter (L) for copper in drinking water to protect against adverse GI (Gastro Intestinal) tract effects. That value is based on a case study (Wyllie 1957) of nurses who consumed an alcoholic beverage that was contaminated with copper. In the study, a dose of 5.3 mg was found to cause GI symptoms. Based on an intake of 2 L per day, a concentration of 2.65 mg/L was determined to be the minimal dose at which symptoms could occur. That value was ”divided by a safety factor of 2 in recognition of its essentiality” to yield the copper MCLG of 1.3 mg/L (Donohue 1997).”
I found other studies that suggest nausea from taking copper starts at around 4 mg copper, which confirms that account. As for why people get sick at such a low level, I remember reading that fluoride is quickly attracted to the copper in the stomach, binds with the copper, and people get sick from the fluoride. I apologize for forgetting my source on that. Personally speaking, I do not get nausea from copper anymore like I used to. I can drink 2 cups of coffee in the morning with a total 20 mg copper, 10 mg in each cup, with no problems. After 1-2 years, I may have gotten past the worst part of fluoride detox.
In testing, just for this book, I can now drink 3 coffees, each with 10 mg of copper, for a total of 30 mg of copper in the morning, and no nausea, as long as the coffee contains milk. Without the milk, I had a little nausea.
It is easy to find that fluoride causes nausea.
https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/minerals/fluoride
“Nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting almost always accompany acute fluoride toxicity.”
There is another way copper gets into the water supply. They use copper sulfate in reservoirs to kill algae. This still does not prove copper sulfate is toxic, however, as there is another factor in the water. Dead algae. Dead things release toxins as they die. When you kill off bugs in the body, whether mold or bacteria, as they die, they give off toxins, and this creates what is known as the “herx” reactions, of temporarily increased toxicity as you begin a cleansing or detox action.
Copper primarily gets into the water supply from fluoride leaching copper off of copper pipes.
I suspect that the real reason why the EPA limit on copper in the drinking water is as high as 1.3 mg/Liter is that there is no practical way to get it lower than that. Government is not magic. Government is force. The government is putting fluoride in the water. The copper gets into the water from pipes. What can government do? Arrest the copper pipes that have been used for long before they started adding fluoride to the water? If they forced everyone to remove copper pipes, first of all, that’s extremely intrusive and expensive and would be an Orwellian nightmare, likely un-Constitutional, and generate a national debate, and people might start asking questions.
It is sneakier to set the copper limit of 1.3 mg at twice the fluoride limit of 0.7 mg, and not mention fluoride at all. Because any copper over that level indicates fluoride at excessive levels. And that is exactly what they have done.
The lack of any mention of fluoride in drinking water in their 147-page book on drinking water screams “we are defrauding you” very loudly.