Ian Blair Hamilton's HealtheMail
Alkaline Ionized water, its benefits and science and its stories
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.
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.
Dr. Oz on Tap Water by healthylvg
We’ve heard all about traces of drugs in our drinking water.
Unfortunately, that may seem pretty minor in comparison if you happen to live near a drug production plant that’s located on a waterway. According to a Pharmalot report, Merck violated the Clean Water Act with three chemical discharges into the water supplies of Pennsylvania, in the US. One of these discharges was so extreme that the entire city of Philadelphia had to shut down drinking water temporarily.
Nice.
For that little misstep, Merck paid a fine of more than $20 million in 2007.
So… lesson learned?
Not quite.
The same year that fine was paid, a Merck facility in Pennsylvania dumped ammonia and ethylene glycol into the water and neglected to inform the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). That violation, coupled with a similar 2004 abuse recently cost the company another $1.5 million in fines.
What we have here, apparently, is a repeat offender. So if you had to bet, would you bet it won’t happen again?
Not me.
Gabe is our US distributor of the AlkaStream. Great guy.
Charlie Meurer is a senior chemical engineer at Stanley Consultants, Iowa. He specialises in water purification. I think his summation of the environmental status of our water supplies is ‘right on’.
“You must die from some cause as it is the will of Allah. There are still radionuclides in the environment from the genius atmospheric tests of hydrogen bombs in the late 50s and early 60s. Fauna in some river basins have been affected by excreted pharmaceuticals that pass through the waste treatment systems. We pride ourselves on being cutting edge of science and the best version of the human species since inception, but repeatedly ignore the affects of our processes. Rivers no longer catch fire with regularity but we still dump our waste int o the environment without any concern for the long term damage it does. It’s okay if the material is at a low enough concentration and even better if we cannot measure our waste. Pigs are not the only animal that wallows in its own filth. Fish and frogs on mood elevators, beta blockers and estrogen therapies should not be the price of progress; fish and frogs have no choice and we do. Other than that I like tap water and refuse to buy bottled water. Who knows what’s in that stuff.”
Charlie Meurer is a senior chemical engineer at Stanley Consultants, Iowa. He specialises in water purification. I think his summation of the environmental status of our water supplies is ‘right on’.
“You must die from some cause as it is the will of Allah. There are still radionuclides in the environment from the genius atmospheric tests of hydrogen bombs in the late 50s and early 60s. Fauna in some river basins have been affected by excreted pharmaceuticals that pass through the waste treatment systems. We pride ourselves on being cutting edge of science and the best version of the human species since inception, but repeatedly ignore the affects of our processes. Rivers no longer catch fire with regularity but we still dump our waste int o the environment without any concern for the long term damage it does. It’s okay if the material is at a low enough concentration and even better if we cannot measure our waste. Pigs are not the only animal that wallows in its own filth. Fish and frogs on mood elevators, beta blockers and estrogen therapies should not be the price of progress; fish and frogs have no choice and we do. Other than that I like tap water and refuse to buy bottled water. Who knows what’s in that stuff.”
