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Water Pollution
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By Carole Allen
Life does not exist without water. Our planet is the only know planet with water. The earth is made up of two thirds water, and it is the source of life itself. Water is essential to the existence of the earth, yet we continue to pollute the water we need for our survival. Water pollution is harmful to the ecosystem and effects us all.
Water pollution has an environmental impact on plants and organisms that live in water. Chemicals pollute the ground from agriculture, automobile gas emissions pollute the clouds, but the worst offender is from industry. It has been said that polluted water is the leading cause of death and disease and is responsible for killing 14,000 every day. Rainwater that once soaked in the earth, now runs off concrete, roads and off lawns as it picks up sediments, oil, and grease. Urbanization is a problem caused by growing populations. Damned rivers stop the flow of nutrients that normally flow into the water shed resulting in soil erosion. Standing water creates a bacterial soup contaminating the water.
Water pollution has been linked to birth defects and miscarriages and lower sperm counts in men. Water diseases kill more children than malaria and aids combined. Our wetlands that were once used to cleanse the water have become polluted and destroyed and can never be completely recycled. We are depleting the stores of water faster than it can be replenished.
Sewage causes water borne disease and is a major problem in undeveloped countries without proper sewage treatment. Fertilizers and sewage are dumped into the oceans which create algae. Toxic pollutants and agricultural pesticides find their way into underground water. Household chemical and radioactive waste add to the pollution. Sewage from rivers and polluted water drains into the oceans taking the life of the water with them.
Dirt, bacteria and nutrients are the top three pollutants in our waterways.
Muddy waters prevent photosynthesis and in turn will suffocate fish. When trees are cut down and when land is bulldozed and mined they add to the problem. Bacteria from sewers that overflow during rainstorms with human and animal waste are harmful to our health. Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus cause algae to grow and can turn the water green.
We need to have more restrictions and higher standards to manage our waste. Decisions such as where roads are built and what kinds of drainage systems are installed should be carefully scrutinized. With the help of water scientists, we must bring our governments together to resolve this worldwide problem.
Multipure is known to reduce the widest range of contaminants.
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Bottled Water By Carole Allen
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The bottled water industry is a $11.8 billion dollar business in the United States higher than any other country in the world. We all agree, drinking plenty of water is essential to your health. That being said it must be safe to drink and not harmful to the environment. All drinking water comes from the same source, either rivers, lakes or underground aquifers.
Not only is bottled water no safer than tap water, bottled water has a devastating environmental impact on the planet. When spending as much as $5.00 on a bottle of water, one has the right to know what is in that water, but most bottled water companies keep secret its origins, the purification process, and the methods used for testing contaminants.
Standards for bottled water are determined by the FDA "U.S. Food and Drug Administration). The FDA determines the maximum levels of certain contaminants allowed. The FDA does not allow bottled-water manufacturers to imply that their water is safe. Many bottle water drinkers are still under the false impression that it is healthier than tap water.
Bottled water source testing is done only once a week for contaminants under the FDA. Municipal water supplies testing is under EPA and is done hundreds of times each month. Some feel that bottled water should have the same regulations as municipal water and that bottled water should have the same scrutiny as tap water.
Consumer Reports asks "Where does your bottled water come from". Forty seven percent of bottled water is purified tap water. For instance, Aquafina comes from public water that has been treated by the "HydRO-7" purification system but is labeled as mountain spring. Glaceau and Smartwater is water that has been boiled called distillation. Water bottled in Fiji is hidden in mountains far away from public scrutiny and is owned by an American Company. It has been said that it, in fact, doesn't all come from Fiji. Although they use glass bottled mineral water, the chemical benzine has been found in Perrier. Evian comes from France adding to the environmental impact transporting it has on the planet. In general it takes 1/4 litre of oil and 7 litres of water to make 1 litre of bottled water.
NDRC found, after four years of testing that there were contaminants of concern found in some brands of bottled water. High levels of heterotrophic-plate-count bacteria were found as well as arsenic, SOCs (man made chemicals) (probably from the plastic water bottles), and trihalomethanes (cancer-causing by-products of chlorination. Not all contaminants were tested due to the high cost of each test.
Plastic bottles are poisoning the oceans and landfills. Research has proven that bottled water is not more pure or better tasting than tap water. Consumer's drinking water habits should not be harmful to the planet. Stop using plastic water bottles and start filtering your tap water.
The Story of Water
The Water Bottle Problem
Tapped
Does MY Child Need to Drink More Water?
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By Carole Allen
It has been reported by scientists in the Archives of Diseases in Childhood that children are dehydrated. 70% of children do not drink enough water, drink too many sugar filled drinks, and have bodies filled with toxins that need flushing out. The responsibility of a parent is to ensure their safety and health by teaching your child to drink more water, to have it available to them all day and to know which water to choose.
Advantages of your child drinking more water
Water is very important to your child's health and well being as it flushes Out Toxins and Carries Nutrients to the body.
By having your child drink lots of water, he will flush out toxins that are poisonous. Mayo Clinic states that foods will be absorbed more efficiently and delivered to the organs in his body by flushing out toxins before they become harmful. All cells are dependent upon water to function properly, and water is present in blood which carries oxygen to all the cells of your body and with insufficient oxygen, those tiny cells would die. Drinking water will allow nutrients to be transported to his internal organs.
Children should drink water before going to school, after playing sports and after gym class. By not having enough water, your child may have trouble concentrating in class leading to lower test scores.
Dehydration
Dehydration will result in poor performance in school, and may cause health problems. Dehydration can reduce a child's cognitive capacity and may lead to physical problems such asthma, allergies, heat stroke, fever, diarrhea and vomiting.
Dehydration leads to fatigue, lack of energy, dry mouth, and poor urination. Yellow urine with odor is a sign of dehydration. If your child has headaches, is irritable, and has trouble sleeping he might be dehydrated. It is necessary for him to drink small amours of water all day long. A child should be encouraged to drink even if they are not thirsty.
Getting your child to drink more.
Encourage children to drink water at home, and even bring their own to school. Have cool water available, put it in a cute cup with a funny straw and drink lots of water to set an example. Give your child less juice and please, when giving them juice make sure it is organic without sugar additives and perhaps add a slice of orange, lemon or some berries.
Watch this video with your child if it is age appropriate.
Read books that stress the importance of drinking water, such as "Water Boy" by David McPhail. This book is about a boy learning that his body is water. Have a chart and record how much water he is drinking. Show him how a dehydrated plant looks and tell him that he will feel better as the plant does with water.
What water should a parent choose?
Since water is such a vital component, it would make sense that the quality of water should be just as important as the quantity. Therefore, your drinking water should always be pure and free of contaminants. If there is fluoride present, in local water, consider using a Reverse Osmosis system. However, if this is necessary, please don't allow your child to become mineral deficient. When drinking sufficient amounts of water, it is essential to make sure your water is free of contaminants.
The Wonders of Graphene and Carbon
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By Carole Allen
Carbon is a fundamental building block of life. Charcoal (graphite carbon) is an inexpensive material that has been in use for thousands of years. Carbon graphene is a material that will be present in all aspects of life. It will have an effect on society and economics in the future.
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The last 25 years there has been a revolution in the understanding of carbon. The 2 pure forms everyone knows is diamond and graphite. Their names come from the Ancient Greeks diamond means invincible and graphite means to write in Greek.
In 2010 two Russian scientists used scotch tape and a graphite rock, and were able to manipulate graphene. Thanks to this discovery the world will benefit from a material that can change the world.
Graphene is the thinnest material known today only 1 atom thick it would take 3mil sheets to be as thick as a point of a pencil. It is harder than diamond, 200 times stronger than steel it can bend it is transparent, conducts electricity more efficiently than any other material and allows nothing to pass through it except water. It is probably one of the most versatile materials with an extremely strong carbon bond.
How can graphene help the world? Imaging flexible cellphones, a TV as flexible as wall paper that can be rolled up and moved easily, standard size batteries that hold a longer charge, stronger but lighter aircraft that uses less fuel smaller computer chips leading to faster electronics. With its super conductivity, graphene can play a huge part in solar power and will revolutionize electric cars.
Graphene has properties that provide light weight and extremely strong and can be used for satellites, planes and cars. Graphene makes steel impervious to water which translates to rust free cars, structures, bridges etc. Graphene oxide can absorb radioactive waste to be used in nuclear cleanup.
Graphene's most important use may be in the future of clean drinking water. Its ability to let nothing pass through it but water makes perfect for use in water filtration. Charcoal, graphite carbon, is not expensive and has a great potential in its application for water purification. The crystal lattice lets water molecules through while blocking out the atoms that make salt.
Graphene allows water to pass through it and is almost completely impervious to liquids and gases.
Graphene could be used for ultrafiltration that acts as a barrier between two substances. When water has dangerous toxic levels, a carbon graphene filter would be able to remove every last contaminant. Graphene can cheaply and easily remove salt from sea water, potentially turning the oceans into drinkable water by using graphene as a water filter.
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Researchers at Columbia University have created graphene filters with tiny pores. If developed it could be used in water filtration systems, in desalination systems and efficiently used for economically more viable biofuel creation.
MIT scholars are working on a graphene filter covered in tiny holes just big enough to let through water. This would make the ocean drinkable. Seawater would be separated by a filter with billions of tiny holes and fresh water would be the result. Lockheed hopes to help provide filtered water using this technology to undeveloped countries who need it the most.
With this wonder material getting so much attention from scientists and researchers worldwide, it may not be long before graphene equipped products will find their way into local stores.
It seems to be a good idea to invest in graphene.
Carbon block filtration today is the best for drinking water filtration and Multipure has been the industry's standard and the leader for forty years. We look to companies like Multipure who have been the pioneers in carbon block water filters.
Well Water
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By Carole Allen
Problems with well water
Well water testing
Treating well water
Choosing a well water system
Contaminants of concern
Advantages of a well
Maintaing a healthy well
Choosing a water treatment system
Today more than 20 million households in the United States get their water from private wells.
Well water is not regulated as public water is and is only tested when the well is installed.
This makes it important to have your well water tested yearly.
Problems With Well Water
You may experience a rotten egg odor from hydrogen sulfide and methane. This should be tested.
You may have color problems that result in stains appliances and If there is a moldy odor you should
have an iron bacteria analysis.
If you have black stains on your laundry check your water for manganese.
Runoff: Contamination from flooding or landfills can cause unhealthy bacteria to be present in your water.
Well water may have nitrates, arsenic from surrounding bedrock and iron that may be harmful to young
children and those with health problems.
Sediments from flood water may erode your pump and may enter the well from a loose cap.
If your well is close to a septic system it may contaminate your water. Make sure your well is not within
50 feet of your septic system.
If you wive within1/4 mile a BTEX and MTBE analysis should be done yearly.
Well water testing
You should test for the following:
Hardness- Hard water will dry out your skin and leave deposits on your appliances.
Due to leaching of copper and lead and will will show up as a bluish-green stain.
ph level- Check to see if your water is acidic which will cause leaching lead and leaching copper will
cause a blueish green stain.
Arsenic+ radon- If your area is known to have arsenic in the groundwater.
Radon- If your area has radon problems yealy testing is advised.
MTBE- May be leached from a gas station within 1/4 of a mile.
Pesticides- Golf course, farmlands and orchards use pesticides that may leach into your water.
This test should be done yearly.
Yearly testing for coliform bacteria, nitrates, total dissolvd solids and ph levels is important. Testing can be expensive
so it is important to test for contaminants known to your area and situation.
Well water is required to be tested only when the well is installed although some states require testing when property
is sold. Arsenic, pesticides, copper and radon are not mandated under the Public Health Code to be included in the tests.
The state reqirements usually include tests for:
nitrate, coliform, sodium, chloride, iron, manganese, hardness, turbidity, pH, and sulfate.
if you live in a farm area you should test for nitrates.
Contact your state laboratory certification officer or call 1-800 426 4791 to find a local certified lab.
Treating well water
Color and odor problems and hardness is best addressed at a point-of entry. It might be important to
pretreat your water.
For instance if you are using a reverse osmisis system for arsenic or nitrates it will last longer if you use
a water softner before the water enters the RO system. To eliminate all known contaminants you might want
to purchase an RO system.
If you have arsenic that has trivalent (arsenic 3) you may have to chlorinate before use of your RO System.
Advantages of a well
Although special measures must be taken for maintenance of your water you can be reassured that you are not
drinking chlorinated water that may increase your risk of cancers and other health related ailments.
The quality of your aquifer is important.
Maintaing a healthy well
Don't use pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, and other contaminants close to the well. Make sure there is a lid on it
that is securely tightened. Don't dispose contaminants in your septic system.
It is important that your system is tested and operated according to the manufacturers guidelines.
Choosing a water treatment system
It is important that your system has NSF Certification to validate their claims. Mulitpure has more NSF certifications
than any other filtration system on the market today.
Wellowner.org - Informing consumers about groundwater and water ...
Well Owner's Handbook A Consumer's Guide to Water Wells in ..
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells/construction/handbook.pdf
http://www.nsf.org/consumer/drinking_water/dw_well.asp
Ground Water Administration and Well Permitting
Multipure is a Best Buy
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Multipure was listed a BEST BUY in the July 2013 issue
of Consumer Reports.
I don't know if you can get access to the article on line. I think the best bet is to buy the magazine.
Our Aquaversa below the sink system was given the top rating in the below sink category.
Multipure water filter is the leader in the 2013 undersink category.
While their info is a little off as far as pricing and cost of filters, it is still absolutely
incredible news!!!
Multipure was a Consumer Reports BEST BUY in February 2012 too.
"Multipure once again shows is superior quality ...
Consumer Reports Best Buy for 2013"
Consumers Digest selected our Aqua Dome unit many times to be a BEST BUY.
The Multipure MP750SB was the highest rated under-counter filter by Consumer Reports in February, 2012.
The Multipure 750 series was noted by Consumer Digest Best Buy over the Aquasana, Brita, Kenmore, and others.
Our 750SB also includes a designer faucet.
When you buy a Multipure Drinking Water System you can know you are getting the cleanest,
freshest water available at an affordable price and it is the least costly to operate.
Ouy filters are long lasting
and filter out more contaminants than any other filtration system available today and for your assurance
we have the NSF Certification to back us up.
Multipure has been a leader in water filtration technology for 40 years. We have just unvieled our
"state-of-the-art " Aquasource Whole House system.
We offer a best price guarantee! Contact me for free shipping. Carole Allen 386 437 7019
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Chloramines and Amonia in Public Drinking Water
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By Carole Allen
What Are Chloramines?
When Are Chloramines Used?
Dangers of Chloramines and Amonia
Health effects of Chloramine
What chloramines do to your water
Studies on Chloramine effects
Why is Chloramine used?
How effective is chloramine?
Are chloramines safe?
How Do I Find Out If Chloramines Are Being Used In My Local Water?
Stop The Use of Chloramines
How do I protect myself and family from Chloramines?
What Are Chloramines?
Chloramin are disinfectants used to treat drinking water.
Chloramines result from ammonia being added to water.
Combined they make a compound known as "chloramine".
It is used to protect water as it flows through the pipes.
Chloramines are a group of compounds and not a single compound.
Chloramine is a toxin.
When Are Chloramines Used?
Chloramine is being used to treat drinking water for 80 million Americans.
One-third of all public water systems in the U.S. use chloramine.
More than one in five Americans uses drinking water treated with chloramines
Many utilities use chlorine as their secondary disinfectant.
Chloramine is a less effective disinfectant than chlorine.
Chloramine lasts longer and stays in the water system as it moves through the pipes.
This process may take three or four days.
Chloramine is less expensive than chlorine and is easier to manage.
Dangers of Chloramines and Amonia
Amonia is a food source for bacteria.
The by-products of chloramine are 100 TIMES MORE TOXIC than those of chlorine.
Corrosion may leach lead and copper from pipes and solder.
Genetic damage occurs when exposed to chloramines.
Health effects of Chloramine
Eyes eyes, nose, stomach may become irratated.
It may be dangerous to those on Kidney dialysis as
in the process of dialysis, water comes in contact with the blood.
Ammonia and chloramine will kill your fish on fish tanks.
Documented Fish kills the US and Canada at least 6 times as a result of Chloramines.
It has been known to kill every thing including earthworms.
By-products of chloramines may cause bladder and colon cancer and anemia.
As a result of the by-product nitrogen being released into the water
a reduction of hemoglobin in a newborn baby's blood may occur.
What chloramines do to your water
The chemical reacts with small amounts of organic material in surface water.
It will create disinfection byproducts, or DBPs.
When water is chlorinated that has been contaminated with methane,
a disinfection by-product called Trihalomethanes, or chloroforms, is formed.
Corrosion can cause leaching of lead.
Studies on Chloramine effects
EPA has not done enough research on Chloramine.
There is not enough scientific data to determine if Chloramine in water is safe.
Why is Chloramine used?
All of the chemical alternatives create additional by-products.
It is an inexpensive alternative.
Chloramine is used only to trick the system so the Water Departments can pass current regulatory standards.
How effective is chloramine?
Chloramine creates by-products far more toxic than those of chlorine.
Chloramine is by far less effective in killing bacteria that cause water borne diseases.
Chloramine corrodes rubber fittings in plumbing and increases corrosion of pipes.
Chloramine may put lead into your children's water.
Chloramine levels are more difficut to monitor than chlorine levels.
Not having the ability to control the process may cause chemical reactions.
These reactions in turn corrode pipes.
Chloramine is not an effective disinfectant. According to Hach, a company that tests water quality,
Chloramine is 25 times less effective than chlorine in disinfection.
Companies that use chloramines are required to annually use chlorine alone to flush out the
bacteria that has become resistant to ammonia. Ammonia is a food source for bacteria
When chloramine breaks down ammonia feeds the bacteria.
Nitrogen is released into the water.
This causes growth of bacteria.
Are chloramines safe?
Chloramines should not be used for used for treating drinking water.
When cleaning a bathroom, I was always told not to mix chlorine and ammonia as it was toxic.
It was so powerful a combination, I had to run outside for fresh air.
There have only been short term studies on the effects of Chloramines.
How Do I Find Out If Chloramines Are Being Used In My Local Water?
Request a consumer confidence report (CCR) from local water system.
You may request a water report from your local water deptartment.
Stop The Use of Chloramines
Report any symptoms to your local health department and to
Citizens Concerned About Chloramine (CCAC)
Get involved with CCAC.
Demand more studies for skin, respiratory and digestive effects of chloramine in drinking water.
Ask for epidemiological studies.
Have the EPA provide you information about the health effects.
Obtain health reports from chloramine use in other parts of the country.
Contact your lawmakers to let them know about your concerns.
http/www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/
Report any health symptoms to your local health department and to
Citizens Concerned About Chloramine (CCAC)
How do I protect myself and family from Chloramines?
Chloramines may be removed by using an activated carbon filter.
Multipure's activated carbon technology is state of the art and is
the highest rated . Multipure has been
recognized numerous times by Consumers Digest.
Multipure Drinking Water Systems
Water Privatisation
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By Carole Allen
Water is our most valuable natural resource, we all depend upon it. Water is a basic human right.
Private owned water utilities started in 17th century in London and today 73 million people now are
served from a private company.
In France private and public management has been shared and is privatisation is widespread in Spain,
There are two types, full privitazion and public private ownership and leases,
Private sector maintaining water supply is controversial.
Many water systems that have been taken over have not not fulfilled promise of lower rates and have resulted in
higher costs and a compromise in service and have been known to raise rates 10% within a year.
There is no doubt that we have aging drinking water systems and
cities strapped for cash can't afford improvements and personnel.
Large corporations have cash to invest but their concern is the bottom line. Because of this as a business the may
cut corners and have unhealthy consequences. We will pay the full price of the service and not artificially lowered
rates as we now have...and we will pay for the profit to be made.
The World Bank promotes corporate control of water as the solution to the world's water.
Intervention by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been harmful to many third world
countries and has failed to help countries most in need as they consider privatisation a business opportunity.
Large corporations over charge, have no public voice and cause hardship for the poor.
In developing countries over a billion do not have access to clean water and the world Bank pressures countries
to privatize. The problem is that they offer loans and and this makes the ownership of their countries natural resource
owned by the World Bank and not the country with the resource.
In an editorial published in National Geographic, Frederick Kaufman, a journalism professor at the City University
of New York, cries out against the perils of a global water futures market. He cautions that “Financial forecasters
perceive water like traditionally traded commodities
The need of improvement can not compromise public interest and well being, There is the potential privatisation may
be harmful and it may inflict on the environment cost saving chemicals and run offs. There may be financial hazards
uch as contracts that can be difficult to get out of as well.
It has been predicted that by 2025 we will begin to run out of fresh clean water
Is Tap Water Safe?
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Are there dangerous toxins in the tap water we drink?
Many dangerous chemicals may remain in tap water even after it has been treated by your local municipal water department. There are standards of contaminants allowed there are always some that remain and some of them can be dangerous and cause problems to your digestive system.
Public water in the United States have many unregulated chemicals which the EPA has not established standards of safety for. The Safe Drinking Water Act regulates a limited amount of contaminants. It was reported by the New York Times that many of the nation’s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act
Fish will die in in minutes in chlorinated water from your tap if you don't add a declorinator. Dated plumbing in public water works may put these harmful elements to our drinking water. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 30 to 40 outbreaks of waterborne diseases from viruses, bacteria, and parasites in the U.S. each year.
Chemical that are often found in your tap water are:
• Liquified chlorine
• Fluorosilicic acid
• Aluminium sulphate
• Calcium hydroxide
• Sodium silicofluoride
You can expect to find the following in your Tap water:
• Chlorine
• Fluorine compounds
• Trihalomethanes (THMs)
• Salts of:
◦ arsenic
◦ radium
◦ aluminium
◦ copper
◦ lead
◦ mercury
◦ cadmium
◦ barium
• Hormones
• Nitrates
Dichlorophenol, a chemical used in tap water chlorination and pesticides for produce can be Linked With Food Allergies.
If you want to test you water you may use a TDS meter, It is best to contact your water department and find out what contaminants are found in your water. It there is Arsenic in your water you will need a system that removes arsenic.
Chemicals such as Chlorine put preagnant women at risk and may cause spina bifida and stillbirths and may result in cancer and other diseases according to worldwide research.
Heavy metals such as lead are very common and may be due to aging pipes.
Many Water Treatment Plants add Fluoride without a public vote. In this case you might have to use a RO System to clean out the water as much as possible but if you do you will need to use a remineralizer to put minerals back into the water or take mineral drops.
Giardia and Cryptosporidium are types of protozoa tha have caused a widespread and severe outbreaks of gastro-intestinal diseases. They may be found in the water system whenever here has been a sanitation breakdown.
The best way to guarantee that you are drinking water which is pure would be to install a carbon filter water purification system.
Tumeric The Wonder Supplement
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Tumeric, a popular kitchen spice, has been used for more than 5,000 years and has been harvested in Eastern cultural traditions as an Ayurvedic herbal medicine known for its medicinal benefits and for flavoring as a pepper-type spice. This herb is used worldwide as a supplement. The latin name for theTurmeric root is Curcuma longa , native to Indonesia and southern India, is used as an in curry dishes and yellow mustard. Research has shown that it is one of nature’s best healers and has been known to yogis and ayurvedic healers since ancient times.
The plant needs a tropical climate with lots of rain, making the Hawaii a perfect place to grow it but it has a very short season there. Tumeric can be home grown in your backyard or indoors as well.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that curcumin protects from free radical damage from pollutants and other damaging sources.
Dehydration Robs You of Your Energy
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Do you know how much water you need?
If you know, don't worry, most of us don't. There are many guidelines and many experts telling you how much to drink but how do we know who to believe?
The truth is everyone has different needs and different requirements for our water consumption. There are many factors, for instance, if you live in a warmer climate and work out or are active you will need more water than someone who is inactive. But just because you live in a colder climate doesn't mean you won't be dehydrated.
Dehydration robs you of your energy and may cause decreased urine output, tiredness and can lead to forgetfulness, and lethargy. Dehydration can lead to a decline in sleep and and inability to focus.
To stay properly hydrated it is recommended that you drink 8 glasses a day.
Water helps your body in many ways, besides getting rid of wastes it lubricates your joints and keeps your body temperature normal. A sure sign of dehydration can be seen in the color of your urine. If it isn't clear and has an odor then you know you are dehydrated.
If you are drinking tap water it has been treated with chloramines, amonia or chlorine, you do not want to put more of that in your system. Bottled water can be just as bad, both tap water and bottled water have been known to include pollutants and unregulated (and unwanted) impurities, is bad for the environment and can be expensive.
Carry a water bottle for easy access when you are at work or running errands. Keep healthy and hydrated and drink lots of clear, clean and delicious water from a system that has the highest rating by comsumers and has the most NSF certifications for reduction of contaminants.
Multipure drinking water is a healthy and eco-friendly option for you and your family. Keep yourself hydrated the right way.
Travel Water Filters
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If you travel, go camping or own a motor home or boat, Multipure has the solution for you. Protect yourself against bacteria, heavy metals, and chemicals while on the road. Many toxins are unseen and cannot be detected in taste. Multipure's use of carbon block filtration is the most effective on market.
Our Multipure Wriggle is our portable water filtration bottle and is great for traveling by airplane. Just dump out the water before you go through security and then refill and drink lots of filtered water that is so important to prevent dehydration on the plane.
Our new powerful Aquamini is small in size and can be simply and easily attached to an existing faucet when you reach your destination. It is a the perfect solution for your next trip or vacation and is small enough for college dorms.`
Our Multipure countertop Aquadome is ceramic and perfect for use on a boat or even a motorhome.
Fluoride in Water
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Fluoride is a poison
Fluoride is toxic
History of fluoride use.
What is Fluoride?
Side effects of fluoride
Fluoride is a poison
It is commonly used as a rat poison. It accumulates in our bones . It has been associated with cancer.The Food & Drug Administration now requires that all fluoride toothpastes sold in the United States bear the following poison warning
Fluoride is toxic
It is a toxic waste, a by product that is poisonous. It is an industrial waste product that is now being added to our water.
We don't know where to dispose it so they dumped it into water. For 100 years it harmed and killed animals and vegetation etc.
History of fluoride use.
It began by Andrew Mellon who founded ALCOA and was the founder of the Mellon Institute who was notorious for giving the scientific data to defend itself for the proposal to artificially fluoridate our water supply. By 1930 the aluminum industry were the biggest polluters of fluoride. Fluoride comes from the phosphate fertilizer industry and is an industrial pollutant. The phosphate industry knows the hazards of fluouide.
In 1945 local water treatment facilities began to add sodium fluoride to our water supply.
"The story of industries hoodwinking the public into buying a pollutant as a medicine id simply 'whodunit'. Grotesque though it may sound, it is no more than 'the consumer fraud of this polluted century' (as described in Fluoridation and Truth Decay by Gladys Caldwell).
A chemical engineer, Mr. Perkins, said after the Second World War he was one of the Americans put into the well-known I.G. Farben Company in Germany. There he discovered that I.G. Farben had developed plans during the war to fluoridate the occupied countries, because it had been found that fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain. This damage had a very particular effect. It made it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom. he became more docile towards authority.
What is Fluoride?
What is labeled fluoride is not naturally occurring fluoride found in the ground. It is a collection of 100 chemicals including radioactive chemicals, heavy metals with neurologically damaging elements. Fluoride has arsenic in it. The NSF sets the allowable level of arsenic in fluoridation chemicals.
It is a away to eliminate toxic waste without having to pay for it to be disposed of as an industrial waste. We get the phosphate hazards wastes from other countries because they don't know what to do with it.
Side effects of fluoride
Dangerous side effects of fluoride in municipal drinking water can cause learning disorders, cancer in children and Fluoride consumption leads to lowered intelligence.
Fluoride eats concrete and glass.
The Multipure AquacRO comes with the RO membrane that can filter Chromium 6, Fluoride, Herbicides, Radium, radioactive materials and other waterborne cancer-causing chemicals.
The pre and post filters are the MP750.
We are poisoning our children.
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Are You Drinking Poisin
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Find out What's in Your Water. Google your water provider
and also search for the “Consumer Confidence Report” or the Water Quality Report.
What is chloramination?
Chloramination is the process of adding ammonia to drinking water which already has chlorine added as a disinfectant. The ammonia combines with the existing chlorine which is called free chlorine to create chloramines.
The EPA has said it is safe but the EPA has done NO studies on the skin, respiratory, or digestive effects of chloraminated water ...
Some Residents Worry about Chloramine’s Usage and Safety. Chloramines May Raise Your Water’s Level of Toxic Unregulated Disinfection By products Dr. Mercola
Drinking water is most important for good health, it helps transport oxygen to your cells, will remove waste,
and is a serves as a protection to your joints and organs.
Drinking LOTS of good Clean Water is important but you don't want to drink water with Chloramines and Amonia in it.
A Multipure® Drinking Water System serves at the point of use to remove contaminants of health concern that may be present in tap water. A Multipure® filter removes chemicals like chlorine and chloramines as well as rust particles, dirt, small living organisms like cysts, asbestos, lead, and much, much more. The water you consume from a Multipure® Drinking Water System is free of unwanted tastes and odors so that you may enjoy fresh, clean drinking water as it was meant to be.
Water's Miracle The Great Mystery
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Water, the great mystery, has the interest of the scientific community. It has been proven that water has memory, can have an impact on the energy crisis and can heal disease.
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Researchers all over the world have discoveries that water may have the abiltiy to communicate virtually over any distance in the universe instantaneously giving us the possibility of communication with other star systems thru super centers that are sensitive to certain vibrations in water.
Water's miracle is a facinating subject helping us awaken to how it can solve our problems. One asks where is it going and does it have limits.
At the beginning of the universe, seconds after the earth was born,That hydrogen establishes itself everywhere in the universe as number one on the peridic table H20. Two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.
In the beginnings in the spiraling of our galazies is water which are made of hydrogen, manufacturing helium and giving us birth is water, two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.
Stars and light is born because of hydrogen fusion. Thirteen million years later we were born.
Can science prove that this element can communicate with different bodies of hydrogen instantly. Professor Roy of Penn State, who has studied the structure of water, says water has an alphabet.
The bible states that God moves God's spirit of the space of the waters and then there is light.
Frost freezing water freezes the structure of the information in the water. Crystals respond to things like Beethoven and harsh words . The research is exploding. On of the most influencial professors is in the middle of the argument over whether water has consciousness or not.
The evidence of water having consciousness is overwhelming. The arguments against it is because we can't explain why and how it works. We can't even explain gravity and how it works but we do know that it exists.
Hundreds of researchers have worked on this technology. You can put a consciousness in water to do so many mazing things, We can restructure water to heal the human body or reclain polluted water ways. Holy spiritual water will keep it's structure when added to regular water.
Lakes destroyed by invironmnmental pollution have been reclaimed by giving the water new information.
The structure of hydrygen may be the missing link to nuclear fusion. electric cars that
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Multipure Vacations using Aquamini
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Here is an Aquamini just Installed in a suite at the Hyatt Regency on the River Walk in San Antonio by our very own Certified Water Specialist and Assistant Vice President of Marketing, Kenton Jones.
We were at a Multipure contest vacation 3 day, 2 night vacation retreat in dazzling San Antonio, Texas – home to the historic Alamo and the famous San Antonio River Walk. Join youris for our next vaction
Multipure invites you to join us on an https://www.multipure.com/media/mp-contest-flyer-2013.pdf" target="_blank">amazing 6-day, 5-night Caribbean Cruise! Relax andenjoy premier amenities and delicious meals as we set course for Jamaica and travel the
crystal blue waters of the Caribbean. Experience the sights, sounds,and culture at ports-of-call in Haiti and Jamaica. Connect with
your fellow Multipure Distributors and take part in exciting activities and entertainment both onboard and ashore!
Get treated to premier accommodations, delicious meals,and an exciting array of nightly activities and entertainment. The best part is that you earn credits for this contest simply by growing your business – making sales, recruiting new Distributors, and attaining new achievement levels for yourself and your network. Build your business, and earn a vacation in the process!
Multipure has the largest variety of the world's finest drinking water systems. The consumers have spoken we are the best!
Healing Waters/ Ionizers do they work?
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Do Ionizers heal? They have helped me, my husband, my neighbors and neighbors horse
For things from digestive problems, circulation, skin problems like exemia, nasal congestion and
oxizgenization of the fluids in the body, to fight free radicals,
I don't know if Kangen is the best but I bought it because I believed and according to my research
it appeared to have the best track record.
It was introduced to me by a friend on a trip to the Bahamas.
Did I mention how much I use my machine? I brush and rinse my teeth with it, I clean my floors,
wash my clothes, clean asphalt and stone (including my birdbath).
My Machine
Dustin, a certified expert for the company and a fellow Multipure Distributor and new proud Dad, kindly
taught me all about ionizers also known as "Electrolyzed oxidizing water" or in my terms"miracle water".
How to clean your Kangen 501
Here is the medical scoop!
One last thing, I use my Multipure Aquaversa 750SB as a pre-filter for my Kangen
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Is Global Warming a Myth?
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No global warming isn't a myth it is a revolutionary cycle that has happened many times on earth before.
500,000 years of history has told us that. Sorry Nationa Geo and Hist. Channel
The globe appears to be cooling
Global cooling, where would that take us? Guess what.. you guessed it increased fuel prices, contagion, calm clouds, unatural sleep
Check it out, we don't have to worry about destroying ourselves in the near future with our waste I would imagine putting it in ice would
work as long as it isn't toxic.
The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? (Hardcover)
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"The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? (Hardcover)I read this book some time ago and found it interesting and readable. "I read this book some time ago and found it interesting and readable. Ponte explains that the earth may be in fact in an intergalacial period and that the earth may soon be actually cooling. Ponte examines the scientific data and presents it in a convincing manner."
Water Wind Farm
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Despite the economic downturn, Governments around the world are shelling out billions out now banking on the power
of the wind to power their economies.
But we're not talking wind power on land. European nations are harvesting the wind over water.It could mean countless new jobs.
The potential here is so great some say it could answer the energy needs of the entire country forty times over.
The concept is to take a giant turbine three times the size of one you'd see on land and plant it in water. In the last 2 years
offshore winds energy has exploded in Europe. Eight countries already have projects riding with billions of dollars invested.
The belief is that off shore is 30% more effective than onshore because there are no mountains or hills to contend with.
One of the problems is the obstruction of views to residents near..If done correctly the problems can be dealt with effectively.
The turbines could be spread out and anchor them into the ocean floor of the ocean.Almost every part of the wind farms there
ould be someone working. It is amazing to be able to harness something that has been there all the time.
There are environmental concerns, crab fisheries, bird migration but according to environmental consultant Brian Gates the
effects are minor "The fact is that off shore wind energy is going to save birds, off shore wind energy is going to save marine life
in the longer term because it is going to reduce the effects of climate change which are actually the big looming threat."
It's on the basis of this evidence companies and advocates are pushing our politicians to make off shore wind energy a priority,
changing the landscape of our country and the way we power our lives.
There's no question that we need the federal government to set up to the pate and support this industry if we want it to flourish.
And that's what's happening in other countries, the UK has put billions of dollars in this industry and that's why they are winning
the race.
The Future of Water
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The impact of water on political power
and relations worldwide.
The future of water in 3 parts (52 minutes each),
exploring the implications of a growing, changing world for this important
resource.
The power of water.
All societies have been shaped by the struggle to control water.
From the first civilizations in the middle east in Asia to the mega
cities of our days.
The future of humankind will also be shaped by the unruly element
of water.
In the next decades huge water projects will radically change the
face of the earth. A new uncertainty will force all societies to ask
" Do we live in the age of droughts or in the age of floods?
This year’s drought ranks as one of the top 10 worst U.S. droughts
for the last century.
With more than half the country (54 percent)
experiencing drought conditions, it’s the single worst drought since
the 1950s.
The struggle to control water will hold the balance between peace
and profoundly influence relations between countries and continents.
The future of humankind is shaped by water
No one can escape the power of water.
Conditions
Stable climatic conditions have lasted for 10,000 years. Are these ideal
conditions that have lasted for 10,00 years about to end.
We live in what we can call an age of climatic uncertainty. In an age where
uncertainty of the future of water will dominate political live.
It will have enormous consequences on our societies.
Are we at the threshold of a century of droughts or floods will the
worlds oceans rise and how much? No one know the answers.
Severe droughts or flooding can be fatal to millions of people in poor
countries.
Uncertainties in worlds conditions will pose huge challenges to the
world's most advanced societies.
These challenges will effect international relations, migration patterns
and the position of democracy all over the world.
The Yellow River:
Is the second longest river in China and the cradle of Chinese civilization
Tibet's Yellow river has been central to the drama of China's past. The world's
largest mountain places this desolate area right in the middle of Asia's
development and political rivalry.
From this flow the Yance Mykong, Brahmaputra and Ganges are a vital
lifeline to 3 billion people.
India and China are dependent on what happens in the Hymalayas,
Tibet is Asia's water tower.
Eternal ice that has been there for eons has recently begun to melt.
Asia's water banks, 15,000 glaciers have hardly any rainfall. In spite of
this 10 huge rivers,all crucial to civilizations history has shaped
Asia's history.
Gacier shrinkage effects water flow in rivers. Some oasis' will disappear.
Many will be effected by this and will be forced to leave there homes.
The river has significance for a whole continent. This river, the Indus,
the lifeline of Pakastan gets 90% of its water from glaciers.
The Mykong River plays a vital role in Cambodia Laos , Vietnam,
Thiailand and Burma. In low lying Bangladish the river Delta
consequences will be fatal.
The Chinese government has stated that the looming water crisis
is a major threat to China's development.
Changes in the flow of their crucial rivers will deepen this crisis and
have far reaching consequences.
And what if the glaciers don't melt and it turns out that the relationship
between climate and water flow is far more complex than comprehended?
Tibet's new role as a water bank is here to stay because the new age of
uncertainty is going to last a long time.
It's not just the Hymilayas glaciers that are melting they are shrinking
all around the world such as the Alps of central Europe.
Some scientists predict that all glaciers not higher than 2,000 ft. above
sea level will be gone by 2070.
What will become of the Netherlands, Europe's most densely
populated country with most of its southwestern part a series of river
deltas.
60% of the Netherlands lies below sea level including one of the
world's busiest airports.
Windmills and pumps are used to pump
water out of canals. The nerve center of the country.
In the Netherlands they have begun to plan floating cities
and and a new major airport in the sea. The main reason for such plans
is an anticipated change in water conditions.
Fear of rising sea levels has changed an ice wilderness into a
hotspot of worlds politics.
The east coast of Greenland is one of
the most isolated places in the world. Along the 2,600 coast line
live about 3,500 people.
Because of ice covered water in the Fjord, the local population can
only reach the outside world by sea 5 months of the year.
Nevertheless it is this outpost of civilization that holds the key to
forecasting the key to future of the human race.
The world's largest island has about 10% of the world's water in the
form of ice. The inland icecap covers are the size of England and in
some places it is 3 kilometers thick.
The Greenland icecap has been stable for the last 10,000 years but
will this last and if not, what will be the global consequences?
Runoff from glaciers is increasing. Colder fresh water in the oceans
will dramatically effect ocean currents. Climate change predictions vary.
Nassau scientists say the glaciers could melt within 200 years.
Venice
Venice is flooded 10 times more today than it was 100 yrs ago.
The city and the lagoon it was built on were formed by the Adriatic
and the 3 large rivers flowing into it. Waves and river silt built up
00's of tiny islands.
The problem now is the rising sea level.
Project Moses in Venice is being used to divide rivers and protect
the city from the Adriatic. Lagoon gates prevent the city from high tides.
If the Greenland icecap melts, cities like London and New York
will be flooded.
If the Antarctic melts the ocean level will rise 60 meters.
Only prophets of doom argue that this will happen and if
it does it will be in the very distant future.
The rising ocean level.
Bangladesh is the most venerable to glacier melt. Rising ocean
levels pose the threat of salt water seeping in and destroy the ground
level.
Uncertainty jeopardizes investment and development.
History is filled with examples of civilization that have collapsed
when faced with changes in water's behavior.
The Ancients
The ancient Indus civilization in what is today's Pakistan and India
and the Sumerian Civilization collapsed partly because water let them down.
The same thing happened with the Myan civilization in South America.
Changes in climate and water conditions interacting with social and political
conditions caused the demise of the old centers of this civilization.
Mayan agriculture was largely based on artificial dams filled with rain water.
When rain fall failed for a period of several years about 1200 years ago this
speeded up a process of decay that culminated in the core areas of south
of the Yucatan Pinnensula being reclaimed by the jungle.
Chitizinitza survived because water conditions were different.
There were no rivers but they survived on 3,000 sink holes formed when
limestone fell in.
These natural cathedrals became centers of a religious cult.
They were venerated as the earth's stomach, as the watery
doorway to the underworld's rain Gods.
They were also places of sacrifice to placate the rain Gods.
Humans were sacrificed by being pushed into the sink holes,
never to reappear.
These are some of the world's largest underground river ways.
These were empty caves prior to the last ice age.
When the ice melted the caves were filled with water.
We must ask will modern society prove better equipped to tackle
the vagaries of water?
World literature is full of accounts of how the
Gods have punished human frailty with drought or floods.
Arguments
Prophycies of catastrophic changes in water conditions caused
by human action have therefore a deep global, cultural resonance.
What is new is that they are justified by the arguments of rational
science and the politicians have taken the place of the Gods.
The overriding question will be, will politicians succeed in controlling
the vagaries of water and there consequences.
And what will happen to societies when people start demanding a
new government because of bad weather, drought or too much water?
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