Everything you wanted to know (and not know) about water.
In: Water News
19 Aug 2010
One of our readers (thanks Adam) sent me an article from the New York Times the other day.
The article presents some disturbing facts about the water that we drink. The gist of the article is that our drinking water is ”safe”, but our definition of ”safe” is outdated and irrelevent. Here is the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17water.html
The article details the fact that the Safe Drinking Water Act regulates only 91 contaminants in our drinking water while the EPA has identified 60,000 chemicals are used in the USA. Government records analysed… Continue reading
In: Water News
21 May 2010
I talk a lot about alkaline ionized water on this blog. The entire water ionizer industry focuses on alkaline ionized water because of the incredible health benefits of drinking the water. As a result, the benefits of the cleaning and disinfecting properties of the water often get overlooked.
When ionized water was first created for commercial purposes, the focus was on the acidic properties of the water. In fact, the health approvals in Japan that you read about when researching ionized water are for the disinfecting properties of acidic… Continue reading
The National Post in Canada published an article today about what has happened, or more precisely, what has not happened since a deadly E.Coli outbreak in the town of Walkerton, Ontario in 2000. You can read the article at: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=3035272#ixzz0oFLcQ4gY Photo courtesy of: Carlo Allegri/National Post
The article serves as a good reminder that our water is not nearly as safe as your government would have you think. For example, most of us believe that we are fortunate in North America to have great water. However, you might… Continue reading
My name is Rob Thomas. I’m 53 years old, retired, and I live in a small town near Toronto, Canada