Water Safety

Safe and healthy Water is vital to well-being, however, increasingly we are confronted with drinking water safety issues around the nation. In this category discover tap water safety news and water filter safety articles.

Drinking Water Before You Get Thirsty

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Water is life. While you may go without food for 40 days, you will not survive more than a week without drinking water or some fluid. Water is the most abundant nutrient in the human body as well as the most common substance on earth.

An average adult body is 60-75% water. Water is found in every cell, tissue and organ and almost every life sustaining body process needs… Continue reading

Hexavalent Chromium-6 Found in 31 U.S. Cities’ Tap Water

The cancer causing chemical compound Hexavalent Chromium has tainted the tap water of many US Cities.

The cancer causing chemical compound Hexavalent Chromium has tainted the tap water of many US Cities. The drinking water safety of Americans is not getting any better as previously thought. Erin Brockovich’s job is not done

PBS’s investigative journalism is exposing the truth about our drinking water safety.

This graph represents the amounts of chromium in each city by surface area… Continue reading

Drinking Water Safety: Hexavalent Chromium Back In The News

Drinking Water Safety: Hexavalent Chromium Back In News

The compound, hexavalent chromium is back in the news 19 years since it gained infamy in the Oscar-winning film Erin Brockovich.

The drama continues today in real life. More than 70 million Americans drink traces of chromium every day in their tap water, according to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research organization.

In 2010, EPA scientists discovered the chemical compound, hexavalent chromium, and came to a startling… Continue reading

Can Your Water Filter Remove These Harmful Toxins? – Purifying your Tap Water

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Polluted drinking water presents a significant public health threat that is terribly underreported and all too often ignored.

We’ve set up a google email alert for tap water, and every day we are shocked at the news of tap water contamination nation wide. As stated above much of it is not reported at all.

Have you ever asked yourself this question: How safe is the water I am drinking at

How Safe Is Drinking Tap Water from Water Filters?

How Safe Is Your Drinking Tap Water from Water Filters?

How safe is your tap drinking water? it’s possible pesticides or contaminants could be flowing from your faucet.

Public water systems, tap waters are tested and regulated by the government. By law, municipalities have to test the water and report to consumers once a year. They can test once a year, four times a year, sometimes less. They test for 90 contaminants like copper, arsenic, lead. There is a… Continue reading

Pesticide Chemical in Tap Water linked to Food Allergies

Chemical Pesticides in Tap water linked to food allergies

Can anybody say, yuck! The same chemical that’s found in pesticides and weed killers, is the same chemical agent used to kill bacteria in your municipal drinking water. Healthy? On the contrary.

A report just in from the journal, Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology: A chemical known to be widely used in tap water chlorination and as pesticides for produce has been discovered to be associated with increased… Continue reading

Flushing Medication Cause of Water Pollution

Flushing Medication Cause of Water Pollution

We blame much of drinking water pollution on big oil, big pharma and other large entities like big industrial corporations. But are we also responsible for adding to the water pollution problem with our own prescription drugs?

According to an article by The Columbus Dispatch, a new form of pollution is being detected in our waters. People are flushing their expired prescription drugs down their toilet into the water.

The… Continue reading

Prepare, Prevent and Stop Water Pollution in Tap Water

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Hurricane Sandy was devastating to the northeast, and people are still in dire need of the most basic things. One of them is water, clean water. Fortunately, many companies have donated thousands of bottled water to victims still waiting for FEMA assistance. Water is always hard to come by in a disaster, that’s why it’s good to have a plan to store water and be prepared with a reliable water… Continue reading

Ionways Becomes AlkaViva! September 2012

Ionways Water ionizers becomes AlkaViva water ionizers

The announcement came in the August company conference call with the President of Ionways Jay Hare. Ionways will be rebranded and relaunched with more alkaline water ionizers and a completely new web site. For all the associates they have a new compensation plan with new training and marketing tools … and the new brand will be called – AlkaViva!

Here’s the transition to the new logo:

As is… Continue reading

Resveratrol Supplements Benefits on Metabolism, Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity

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Resveratrol, a natural polyphenolic compound present in red wine, has been shown to protect animals against metabolic stress such as high-fat-diet-induced obesity; however, its effects in humans have not been systematically analyzed. The current trial is the first to evaluate resveratrol’s metabolic effects in humans.

Patrick Schrauwen of Maastricht University Medical Center and his associates report in the November, 2011 issue of Cell Metabolism that resveratrol supplementation in obese… Continue reading

What Does Kangen Mean? Kangen Water Origins

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When people think of the word “kangen” they immediately think of Kangen Water ® which is a trademark of Enagic, an alkaline kangen water machine maker. Trademarking the phrase “Kangen Water ®” was a shrewd move by the company leading consumers to believe they are the only real alkaline water producers. Alkaline Water is also known as ionized water, micro-clustered water, reduced water, spa water, miracle water or living water… Continue reading

Answering Critics of Alkaline Water Ionizers

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Alkaline water is a popular search phrase in Google, Yahoo and Bing. When you search the phrase you can’t help but notice the critics of alkaline water who discredit ionized water with little or no research of their own.

Mayoclinic.com’s nutritionist Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D. answered a question on that website, “Is alkaline water better for you than plain water?” She said that further study is needed because researchers… Continue reading

Scientist Ray Kurzweil Answers Alkaline Water Questions

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Ray Kurzweil is a world renown scientist who was curious enough to do research on the amazing benefits of alkaline water. He confirms everything healthalkaline.com says about ionized water. Read more about Kurzweil.

Ray Kurzweil drinks 10 glasses of Alkaline Water a day and believes it will help him live a long and healthy life.

In this Q and A he answers your questions about Alkaline Water based… Continue reading

Water As A Gift of Life

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Clean water is absolutely vital. We are learning so much today about our tap and bottled water. While it’s not the best it can be, the United States of America probably has the best municipal water people can drink.

It is not so in other parts of the world, like Haiti and Africa. Every day children all over the world walk miles down a “road of death” to fetch… Continue reading

Actor Matt Damon’s Cause for Clean Drinking Water

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Water is fundamental. I believe that everyone in the world should have access to free clean water. Matt Damon and Water.org are doing just that, educating and providing clean drinking water to impoverished areas of the globe.

Water.org traces its roots back to the founding of WaterPartners in 1990. In July of that year, WaterPartners merged with Matt Damon’s H2O Africa, resulting in the launch of Water.org, co-founded by… Continue reading

Fast Food Restaurant in Michigan Sells Alkaline Water

You may call it healing water, living water, or health water but the employees at Jaws Jumbo Burgers in Farmington Hills, Michigan are calling alkaline ionized water, “Miracle Water”.

Employees at Jaws Jumbo Burgers had gotten used to working around their co-worker Tenera who suffered from Crohn’s Disease. During certain flare-ups they were used to Tenera being lethargic and taking frequent cat naps during her shift. Crohn’s Disease is… Continue reading

How Professional Athletes Benefit from Alkaline Water

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By Dr. Robert Burns, PhD / Dr. Susan Lark, MD

Competitive, elite athletes and sports trainers know that subtle changes in pH can have profound effects on the overall health, feeling of wellness, level of fatigue, pain, weight, ability to train and athletic performance. Muscles work best in a narrow range of Ph. At rest, muscle pH is about 6.9, while arterial blood is about 7.4… Continue reading

Southern California’s Carbonated Alkaline Water

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There must be something in the water.

Alkalized water is becoming popular in North America. From bottled alkaline water to counter-top water ionizer filters Americans are increasingly becoming aware of the benefits of this natural water.

The following is an excerpt from an interesting story in the Vancouver Sun

SAN DIEGO – There must be something in the water – the kind you drink or the salty… Continue reading

What’s in Your City Drinking Water? Best and Worst Drinking Water

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National Tap Water Quality Database includes water quality tests conducted by 47,667 utilities nationwide from 2004 to 2009. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) obtained the water quality testing data from state health and environmental departments that compile the records from drinking water utilities or associated laboratories. Most state water offices maintain a current record of water utility test data to fulfill their role as primary enforcement agents.

They rated… Continue reading

Over 300 Pollutants in U.S. Tap Water

Since 2004, testing by water utilities has found 315 pollutants in the tap water Americans drink, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) drinking water quality analysis of almost 20 million records obtained from state water officials.

More than half of the chemicals detected are not subject to health or safety regulations and can legally be present in any amount. The federal government does have health guidelines for others… Continue reading