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An Overview of Drinking Water

For water to be considered drinking water it must be consumable by humans with out causing illness; not all fresh water is suitable for drinking. In some places where stagnant water lies in warm muggy places, water can develop many pathogens and harmful micro organisms; to make these types of water drinkable, they must first be treated with chlorine tablets or iodine. Drinking water comes in many forms in America and some other countries; but in many other countries, clean drinking water sources are a serious problem.  It is essential for all life on earth to have clean water; humans in particular need to drink at least 64 fluid ounces per day for the best health.

Drinking Water in America

In America the citizens are lucky to have generally good quality water that comes straight from the tap; there can be some contaminates in some areas, but in general Americans enjoy an abundance of clean drinking water. Many other countries have a severe shortage safe clean water to drink, as such people die of diseases that people in America aren’t as concerned about. The main areas of concerned in America’s drinking water from the tap are contaminates from either old pipes or improper cleaning processes; unwilling to take the risk, many Americans also purchase purifying water filtration systems or bottled drinking water.

Polluted Drinking Water

Many countries including America have polluted drinking water; this pollution comes from large companies, individual’s litter and trash, fossil fuels, and many other forms.  Pollution is the leading cause of water contamination in many countries, and most of contaminates that people are familiar with are lead, arsenic, and mercury are some; these are dangerous at every small levels. The leading causes of illness among people however are in pathogens and microscopic organisms; most human’s reactions to these are mild and result only in “stomach flu” like symptoms.  Pollution is a human created and solvable problem, better drinking water for all is essential.

Water and Health

Most people know that drinking water is healthy, and most even know at least  8 glasses a day are what the body needs for the best health; what most people don’t know are the reasons why their bodies need so much water everyday. Our bodies are over 70% water; our bodies use water for every function of life, blood, tears, saliva, skin, organs, and every other part of the body. Our bodies also use water for most functions; eating, crying, sweating, urinating, breathing, and even more. Humans are dependant on water as is every other living organism on the planet. 

Humans and Drinking Water

Humans have a responsibility to the planet to provide fresh clean water to everything, humans are not the only life on the planet, but they are the only life able to consciously remedy the problem. Human kind pollutes, uses, and modifies the planet, and some individuals care enough to fix what others have broken.  It is the human responsibility to clean the planet as a whole for the good of every living thing; humans can help clean the water using the basic principals of recycling. 

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March 28, 2007

Drinking Treatment Water: Do You Know What’s In Your Water?

Drinking treatment water may not be anything you’ve ever thought of but you should seriously consider it. Especially if you take a lot of stock into your health, what goes into your body in other words. If you watch what you eat and you drink water, you may not be doing yourself a very big favor if you just take your water straight from the tap. That’s because there are a lot of impurities in the water that we drink. It’s true that the water is treated at a plant before it’s sent to your tap but there are certain impurities that even the most sophisticated of filtration systems can’t remove. For this reason, many are taking to drinking treatment water. Treatment water has had all impurities removed from the water. You know exactly what’s going into your body and, for this reason, can now call yourself completely health conscious as you’ve taken steps to get the purest water possible.

Treatment water is used in other ways, too, not just drinking. Treatment water may be used in car batteries, as any ions that are left from tap water may seriously hinder the life of the battery. In certain medical and science experiments, scientists will use treatment water because other impurities from the tap may skew the results of their tests.

It Can Be Expensive

Drinking treatment water isn’t cheap. Not when you consider that you can get free water straight from your kitchen sink. However, there are other ways to drink healthy, fresh, clean water without spending a fortune on drinking treatment water. You can, for instance, get one of those filters that goes over your kitchen faucet. It gets all the impurities out of your tap water, allowing you to drink much cleaner water. You make a one time purchase and you get pretty much the same results. When you’re drinking treatment water that you’ve bought, you could have bought many filters for your faucet many times over.

Drinking treatment water, some opponents of the practice say, can strip the body of helpful nutrients, just as the impurities are stripped of the water itself. They say that your body actually benefits from some of the impurities in the water and that there are no tests that state otherwise. This is true, just as there aren’t any tests that prove that drinking treatment water is better for you than drinking from the tap.

Still, some people just want to know what exactly is going into their bodies and don’t want to trust a filter to remove the water. They would rather be drinking treatment water so that they can have full control of the temples that are their bodies.

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What Is In Your Camping Water?

If you are a camper, you may already know that the water is probably unsafe to drink. Generally, campgrounds get their water from a well in the ground and you can bet, it’s not filtered. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have safe water for cooking and drinking while enjoying the beautiful outdoors.
A good portable water purifier is essential. The type of water purifier that uses Ultraviolet Treatment in the final stage of the process are highly recommended.
When shopping around for a portable UV water filtration system, keep these things in mind. You want a system that uses pre-filtration to screen out large debris. Sediment filtration is also important to remove any unseen sand or dirt. Carbon filtration is also recommended, every molecule of water is forced through the microscopic pores of carbon, effectively straining out particle matter. These three stages of the water filtration lead to the final purification process, the Ultraviolet Treatment. After the carbon filter has cleansed the water, it is exposed to intense dosages of UV light. This exposure effectively destroys viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae and protozoa. A 12Volt DC Power Supply is needed. This type of system can be expensive but well worth the cost.
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