Lead is just one of the estimated thousands of toxic chemicals that can be found in our drinking water. The Ralph Nader Research Institute, after a prolonged study, has estimated that up to 2100 toxic chemicals, some known to cause cancer, can be in our municipal drinking water supplies.
Did you know that the rate of cancer in our society has risen from 1 in 50 in the early 1900s to 1 in 3 today?
Do you think that toxic chemicals, including lead, in our drinking water could have anything to do with it?
But don’t just take our word for it. Here’s a short video about lead in kids drinking water.
Singapore is starting a new water technology center to research clean drinking water.
There’s some $150 million to be spent in Singapore on developing a new water research center. The intention is to research clean pure drinking water technologies.
It’s a joint project between the National University of Singapore and GE Water and it’s to explore new technologies for producing large quantities of clean water from such technologies as desalination and the use of alternative energy sources like solar to provide energy to water provision.
A recent competition finds that the best tasting water is to be found in Macon
The American Water Works Association has held a water competition to find the best tasting water, and it’s been won by Macon, who have just squeezed out Silverdale.
There were 18 finalists from the US, Canada and Puerto Rico.
However the result was extremely close. There was in fact a tie for first place between Macon water and Silverdale water, and the judges had to hold a taste off to determine the final winner. Macon came up trumps eventually.
It was close though. In a blind tasting with 3 judges 2 picked Macon water and one picked Silverdale.
The competition was held during the annual conference of the Association held in San Diego.
The Macon water comes from the Ocmulgee River and is drunk by around 54000 customers. They must be feeling good that their water is the tastiest water in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico.
We do wonder though what would happen if the competition were for the cleanest water. We bet they don’t hold that competition any time soon.Read the rest of this entry
Water purification in India is a serious issue. Contaminated water there can kill.
We never drink unpurified, or unfiltered water. After all as we have said over and over there is nasty contaminants in our water, and wo don’t want to be drinking them.
However in India those contaminants can kill. Bacteria and cysts can be found in the ground water, paricularly when there are events that stress the water supply like monsoons. You don’t want to be drinking water contaminated with bacteria or cysts, they could make you sick. Really sick.
But for the people, and particularly the poor people, of India this is a real issue. They normally don’t have access to modern water filtration technology that filters out these contaminants, and the results can be deadly.
No more though for the people of Punjab. A new water filter has been launched there that is affordable for the locals to buy. It filters out nasties like bacteria and cysts, and so is a huge improvement for the local people and their health.
We bet they sell like hot cakes, after all, who wants to drink bacteria or cysts?Read the rest of this entry
