While deployed in Iraq, Co founder & U.S. Marine, Chip Lovern is instructed by his command to secure the safety of the units drinking water by dumping out all of the water they had been storing on pallets in direct sunlight, and replace with new pallets of water to be immediately covered by tarps.
Curious as to why the new water storage process, Chip learned that the photo-decaying of the plastic containers in sunlight leached harmful endocrine disruptors, which when consumed can mimic estrogen in the human body leading to a number of unwanted side effects and potential health issues.
In essence – we were poisoning ourselves because for the plastic water bottles being in the sunlight.