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Caffeine Addicted E-Coli?

April 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Yes indeed. Scientists have created a new strain of E-Coli (as if there weren’t enough of the old one to go round). But here’s where it gets weird. The new strain is permanently ADDICTED TO CAFFEINE!

I have to wonder whether much research these days is carried out BEFORE a benefit is known, and when the research creates something unusual, they begin thinking up a possible use. It goes without saying that if they can’t explain why they spent so much on a study, they will drop down the funding list, so it behooves them to make something up.

The report on the study tells us that there are serious pollution problems from caffeine in the form of coffee grounds. Looking at Starbucks at 8;30 am with people lining up for their shot of Joe, I never contemplated the sheer volume of waste coffee grounds.

So the scientists have bred these nasty little critters up. E-Coli ARE nasty, make no mistake. But these custom made E-Coli are ..er, good E-Coli because we may be able to set ‘em loose on coffee grounds strewn around the environment. So coming to a store near you, “E-Cafi” your handy Tetrapack of caffeine addicted E-Coli. Just open the pack and set ‘em loose on that lump of coffee grounds you found on your lawn this morning. Plastic gloves included with every pack. be sure to wash hands after use.

Getting a little mores serious, caffeine is a paid up member of the Methylxanthine group – molecular compounds that act simultaneously as cardiac stimulants, diuretics, and smooth muscle relaxants. While the most commonly known form is caffeine, certain of these compounds are used as bronchodilators to stimulate the cardiovascular and respiratory systems in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). They are able to provide short-term relief from the effects of COPD, and can be administered immediately in the event of a respiratory episode.

More and more information is arising showing an increasing volume of all forms of medications in our water supply. Rest assured an AlkaWay water filter system will reduce or remove most if not all of these rather Frankensteinian contaminants.

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Water Quality: Better? or Worse

March 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Suspected carcinogens in your tap water? It’s scary but true for many communities across the United States.

The Environmental Working Group’s 2013 Tap Water Report revealed that 201 water systems that serve 100 million Americans in 43 states are polluted with toxic chemicals created by the reaction of chlorine and rotting organic matter such as leaves, insects, farm and yard runoff and sewage. Just last week, we released our new Water Filter Buying Guide to help you remove these and other chemicals that may be hazardous to your health.

We know the government is dropping the ball when it comes to keeping toxic chemicals out of your tap water.

Filed Under: Chlorination, Environment, Toxins, Water filtration

A Water Filter.. A Billboard

February 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment

What an amazing bit of creativity! This billboard collects moisture from the air. It condenses on the face of the billboard and then dribbles down into a container with filtration. People gather at the base of the billboard and collect their free filtered water.

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At last.. Pesticides in Drinking Water linked to Allergies

December 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment

There has been more news about pesticides in drinking water recently. Food allergies have been linked to pesticides that are found in our tap water.

According to the Department of Agriculture the average American is exposed to 10 or more pesticides every day through their diet and drinking water.

Pesticides are found in almost every stream in the United States and in 90 percent of water wells and over half of the groundwater in urban and agricultural areas. As food allergies become increasingly common, a new study offers the first proof that they may be linked to pesticides found in tap water.  

Researchers at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology used existing government data to see whether people with more dichlorophenols in their urine were more likely to have food allergies. Dichlorophenols are a kind of chlorine in certain pesticides that are known to kill bacteria, and in theory, they could be killing the naturally occurring bacteria in humans’ digestive systems, causing food allergies.

“We wanted to see if there was an association between certain pesticides and food allergies, and we were specifically interested in dichlorophenols because those were the ones that had this antibacterial effect,” said lead researcher Dr. Elina Jerschow.

“When researchers have compared bacteria from the bowel in healthy kids versus bacteria in the bowel for kids that have lot of allergies, they’ve noticed a big difference.”

The number of children and teens with food or digestive allergies in the United States has increased 18 percent between 1997 and 2007, according to a 2008 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s about 3 million people under 18 years old.

Eggs, fish, milk, peanuts, shellfish, soy, tree nuts, and wheat make up 90 percent of food allergies, according to the CDC report. Symptoms can range from mouth tingling to anaphylaxis, which is the swelling of the throat and tongue and can lead to death. Jerschow clarified that the researchers were only looking for a statistical association, meaning they were not able to examine patients to see how these chemicals physically caused their allergies. Because it’s only an association, these findings could mean that the chemicals caused the food allergies, or it could mean the food allergies caused the chemicals in the urine. That part is not yet clear. To read more, go here.

Filed Under: Toxins, Uncategorized, Water filtration Tagged With: , ,

Taking The Pledge

November 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Environment, Fluoride, Fun, Water filtration

Groundwater and Drinking Water, and a good reason for a good water filter.

September 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment

As we all know, The US is in the middle (we hope) of a terrible drought. I say we hope because we don’t know if it has reached midpoint. All we know is that it is threatening our food supply in a manner unknown since the disastrous dust bowl days of the thirties.

The video below is a time lapse of the ground water supplies across the USA, It ebbs and flows because ground water reserves vary with the season. But wait for the last ten seconds when the brown (no water) areas show the true picture.

What frightens me about this isn’t just the lack of water. It’s the lesson I learned in Australia’s four year drought. During that time reservoirs dropped to alarming levels, and the parasite levels in the remaining water became very concentrated.

Groundwater across the developed world has a similar problem, but not of parasites. This time it’s pollution; toxic waste that has been disposed of carelessly over many years and is now a huge sludge sitting at the lower reaches of the aquifers we depend on. Just like Australia, I expect that as our groundwater level drops, and we continue to pump this water onto our crops, we will be pumping increasingly chemical and toxic water onto our food crops. And of course, it will also seep back into the ground, some of it will find its way back to our reservoirs… Need I say more? I’m sure I’ve depressed you enough for one day.

Filed Under: Autoimmune disease, cancer, Environment, scientific studies, Water filtration, Water Toxins Tagged With: ,

Ian’s Water Ionizing Secret number 16

September 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment

 

ORP – Oxidation and Reduction Potential

…is the biggest phrase in the water ionizer industry, but it’s not really so easy to understand. Think of it this way; your water is electrically charge. It carries energy that it can donate to your body. The electrical charge has the same effect as an antioxidant. It neutralises reactive oxygen in the body, by uniting with it and turning it to H2O. That’s why it is referring to as having anti-oxidant, or anti-oxidising potential. Some vendors of electric water ionizers will say that natural ones can’t produce negative ORP water. It’s not true.

Filed Under: Water filtration, Water ionizer education, Water Ionizers

Ian’s Eleventh water Ionizer Secret: Reverse Osmosis and Mineralizer cartridges

September 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Adding an RO to purify water before your water ionizer won’t work well.

It’s far too complex. You’ll need the RO, with at elast 4 filters to service, a remineraliser cartridge to replace the minerals the RO just took out, and then the electric alkalizer inline after that! Add to this the problem that most RO’s have very slow flow rate, that your electric ionizer doesn’t like. You can add a natural water ionizer to an RO because it doesn’t need a remineraliser, power, or anything else. It can come in the form of a benchtop unit connected to the RO under the sink, or it can be a simple inline ionizing carrtridge between your RO and your faucet.

Alternatively, there are now great RO’s on the market with natural ionizers incorporated.

Filed Under: Water filtration, Water ionizer education, Water Ionizers

Ian’s 10th Water Ionizer secret: The humble filter.

September 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment

 

Size does matter with filters.

Little filters means short life, but most people don’t have the occasion to compare size.

Also, the type of carbon in the filter is very important.

Basic granular activated carbon will remove chlorine, but only catalytic carbon will remove the new nasty on the block, chloramine, the cheap’n'nasty chlorine and ammonia combo.

Check your local water chemicals and call us if you think you need to fortify your filtration.

Filed Under: Water filtration, Water ionizer education, Water Ionizers

Does this demonstrate the advantage of alkaline magnesium enriched water or not?

June 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Israel: Government thinks over adding magnesium to country’s water supply.

The government of Israel is expected to decide this week whether Israel should add magnesium to its desalinated water which would save lives, but also significantly raise water rates. If Israel does add the mineral to desalinated water, it would be the first country in the world to do so. But various government authorities have spent the past three years arguing over how much it would cost to add the magnesium. Magnesium is said to help maintain a normal heart beat, adding it to the water could save the lives of 250 Israelis a year. The cost would be between NIS 15 million and NIS 20 million a year, while the Israel Water Authority says the plan would cost hundreds of millions of shekels a year, significantly pushing up the rates paid by consumers. The ministry was referring to findings showing that parts of the north and south of the country, some of which are more economically deprived than the center of the country, are already relying primarily on desalinated water. Israel is considered a global trailblazer in water desalination, a process in which salt and other minerals are removed from seawater.

Filed Under: alkalizing, scientific studies, Water filtration