Five Ways to Boost Your Health With Water, Part 2
Brain Power – How to Keep it Going Strong I’ve commented before that dehydration causes poor decision making and confusion. A recent study in India looked at soldiers who lost varying degrees of body weight due to induced dehydration. Mental performance was measured at anywhere between 1-4% of body mass loss with significant mental deterioration registered in maths and short term memory after 2% of mass loss was registered. The human brain requires even more more water ~85% to operate effectively and even a small loss of 2-3% can...
read moreFive Ways to Boost Your Health With Water, Part 1
Maintaining your hydration during summer is very important, as it is very easy to dehydrate if you are not drinking water during any activity whilst working or playing in the sun. Men, women, boys, girls, and even toddlers need to drink water every day to properly maintain hydration levels. For toddlers a litre a day will suffice whereas for adults as much as 2.1ltrs per day for women and 2.6 litres per day for men may be necessary. If you are working or exercising in the heat, not drinking enough water can easily lead to fatigue, nausea...
read moreWater Issues – Coal Seam Gas & Mining
There is a lot of media coverage of the risk to water quality in Australia, from Coal Seam Gas (“CSG”) wells. And rightly so, the sheer scale of the proposed CSG industry will cause the public to doubt the government’s commitment to managing the environmental issues. The community fear is that land and aquifer degradation will lead to large areas of farmland unable to sustainably produce crops, cattle or some other food resource. The inference is that intensive drilling or mining activities liberate large quantities of...
read morePureWater Project – Philippines
In January 2005 members of a team from the Sunshine Coast flew to Cebu Island in the Philippines to research the opportunity to carry out the installation of a water purification project. The project equipment was funded by the members of the Coolum Beach Christian Family Church and in 2009 another team of four men travelled to Cebu on a self funded mission to install the water treatment project. The project design, procurement and international transport and customs clearance was provided by PurePro. The hardest part of the project was...
read more3000 years of Water Treatment History
In the 21st century modern societies have adopted the use of water filters to protect people from poor quality water which can create public health risks. Even the ancient Egyptians knew the value of water filtration, as there is a record of a water filter device draen on the wall of the tomb of Amenophis II in Egypt. The Egyptians were experts in hydration and used sand filters to improve drinking water quality, knowing that water quality was the key to maintaining the health of the population. Not much has changed in 3000 years of water...
read moreYour Health Still Depends on Water
In a world where increasing air pollution and land degradation are having an impact on drinking water quality it is important to remember that the impact of these issues can affect everybody. Recently during testing of a tank water system PurePro discovered that a client was suffering health problems caused by copper corrosion of the household pipe distribution system. The dissolved copper was absorbed by the client through both drinking water and through the skin whilst showering. The onset of these debilitating health issues came about...
read moreWhy is Rain Water Acidic (low pH)??
Millions of people have lived long healthy lives drinking rainwater but that’s doesn’t mean that rainwater is completely pure, or completely safe for everyone to drink. Potassium, Sodium, Suphur Tetroxide, Nitrus Oxide, Chlorine, Fluorine, Lead, Iron, Bromine, Manganese, Vanadium, Aluminium. These chemicals are generally in, safe extremely low concentrations. The following elements and chemicals are commonly found in rain: Hydrogen, Ammonium, Calcium, Magnesium, Carbonic Acid Rainwater pH is typically acidic with a pH in the range around...
read moreOrganic And Inorganic Minerals
The Differences in Mineral Forms Most knowledgeable people today recognize that the body must have certain minerals to accomplish its work and preserve its health. However, only a few realize that these minerals must be in their organic state to do us any good at all. Please understand these facts: Minerals are inorganic as they exist naturally in the soil and water. Minerals are organic as they exist in plants and animals. Only plants can transform inorganic minerals into organic minerals. Animals must eat plants or plant-eating animals to...
read moreInorganic Minerals in Drinking Water – Are They Good For You?
There is a lot of debate about the value of inorganic minerals in drinking water. However, the science is quite clear that inorganic minerals are simply not able to be absorbed by humans or for that matter any animals. Over sixty years ago a German scientist named Abderhalden conducted many experiments which conclusively proved that the ingestion of inorganic minerals produces no benefit to humans. It is in fact true, that mineralising water with inorganic compounds improves the “aesthetic” taste quality of drinking water. What...
read moreWater! It’s already being recycled
Many communities is Australia are very concerned about the possibility of the local authorities using water recycling techniques to protect water supplies from depletion during drought. In fact many communities around the world are already using water recycling successfully to reduce their water dependency, where they have to purchase water from a neighbouring state or country. Singapore is a very interesting case where they have used modern reverse osmosis technology to convert tertiary treated waste water into a high quality drinking...
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