The public worries about other toxic products coming from China, but willing ingests who knows what from that same toxic source, in their drinking water.
Workers at a US water treatment works were amazed and disgusted at what they were expected to mix in to the domestic tap water supply in their region. So much so they refused to add it and released footage of it.
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Why Is Fluoride Added To Tap Water?
Links: Fluoride damages reproductive system of rats: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20568470
Molecular Mechanisms of Fluoride Toxicity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20650267
Genotoxic effects of sodium fluoride: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19748546
Fluoride increases lead concentrations in blood: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20188782
Fluoride and hair loss: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20049553
Reproductive and developmental toxicity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19755147
Trained as a chemist, specializing in environmental chemistry, Dr. Paul Connett is known throughout the world as a leader in the movement against water fluoridation because of his knowledge base.
He is truly dedicated to the cause of ending water fluoridation, and heads up an organization called the Fluoride Action Network or www.fluoridealert.org that contains a wealth of information.
In addition, his book, The Case Against Fluoride, is scheduled for release in late September, but is available for pre-order.
In this timely and important book, Connett and his two co-authors, Beck and Micklem, take a new look at the science behind water fluoridation and argue that just because the medical establishment endorses a public health measure, that doesn't mean it's safe.
In the case of water fluoridation, the chemicals used to fluoridate the water that more than 180 million people drink each day are not pharmaceutical grade, but rather hazardous waste products of the phosphate fertilizer industry; it is illegal to dump these into rivers and lakes or release the parent gases into the atmosphere.
In addition, water fluoridation is a prime example of one of the worst medical practices possible – forced medication with no control over the dose or who gets it.
Amazingly, the United States is only one of eight countries in the entire developed world that fluoridates more than 50 percent of its water supply. (The other seven are: Australia, Colombia, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore.)
In Europe, Ireland is the only country that fluoridates more than 50 percent of its drinking water, and England fluoridates 10 percent.
Most of mainland Europe is not fluoridated, and yet, according to World Health Organization data, their teeth are just as good, if not better than Americans'.
One of the central challenges in this debate is that the United States claim to have one of the most advanced scientific countries in the world, yet we're still engaging in a practice that is questionable at best, and extremely harmful at worst.-Dr. Joseph Mercola
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tiny Caps
Or smaller ones, anyway. They're on your plastic water bottles, people. Take a look-see and you'll notice they've shrunk. This is to help "save" the environment, or some nonsense. Right now I have a bottle of Nestlé Pure Life water in my hands. In small print on the label, highlighted in yellow, it says:
This lighter bottle and smaller cap contain an average 20% less plastic than our original 0.5L Eco-Shape® bottle and cap.
So, the "original" bottle and cap were eco-friendly, but not quite friendly enough. They needed to be made even smaller. Right now, in the even friendlier size, they are difficult for the elderly to open. How do I now this? I know elderly bottled water buyers, that's how. What do they report? That they have a hard time getting the damn caps off the bottles. There's less cap to grip, and when you've got hands that cramp up into hideous looking claws and the joints of your fingers are full of arthritis pain, you need all the cap you can get.
Have politically correct bottle water corporations told grandma and grandpa to go to Hell in the name of being "green"? It certainly seems that way to this writer! Poor old people, having nothing but a nice, cool bottle of water to look forward to after a hard half-days work at Walmart, and then finding themselves unable to get their bottle open without assistance.
Now, the funny thing is, bottled water itself is not politically correct. I mean, "liberals" are trying to ban it everywhere they can.
And see how Nestlé itself is singled out in the following video (which does make some good points):
Some comments on the video:
Bottled water loses in taste tests to tap water? Who were they testing? I've conducted my own taste tests (double blind, by the way, as I do know how to run one of these tests) on myself and bottled spring water always beats tap. They say a third of bottled waters are simply tap water, but that means two-thirds are not.
Making the plastic bottles for water uses enough oil to fuel one million cars? Okay, but look around you for a second. How much stuff is made from plastic? Making anything from plastic uses oil that could have been used to fuel cars, but that's a strange objection coming from a green lunatic. Plastic is great for making stuff, yes, but shouldn't we make useful stuff from petroleum instead of burning it up as fuel? And enviro-nuts are also against cars, especially a million cars (talk about a carbon footprint), so what the hell is the point? That we could be fueling millions more cars and contributing even more to global warming? And stop using oil to make things out of plastic and the price of oil comes down, but that;s a no-no to the environmentalist wackos, who don't want more people driving more cars more often.
And yes, stuff has to be shipped once it's produced, but again, that objection just reflects a hatred of modern industrial prosperity, and what's that about drinking a bottle of water in two minutes? Most people I see nurse a damn bottle of water for hours. And what does the amount of time it takes to consume something got to do with anything? After all, it doesn't take long to burn a gallon of gas either, especially when you're driving one of those big SUVs that we could be fueling from the oil used to make plastic bottles.
Why does this woman hate India so much? She wants to takes jobs away from poor Indians by not shipping plastic bottles to India for recycling?
Manufactured demand means scaring us, seducing us and misleading us? That's what the video does! It's a perfect description of environmentalist fear-mongering!
And this woman says that if her insane video doesn't convince enough people by persuasion, get out there and work to get bottled water banned! Another confirmation that enviro-nuts need to use force to make their dreams of a society of no economic growth come true.
Carrying around bottled water is on its way to "becoming as cool as smoking while pregnant"? You wish, you little enviro-Nazi! You "liberals" have already made life miserable for smokers and now you want to do the same for bottled water drinkers? "Hey, take that bottle of water out of the building and drink it out in the tiny bottled-water area by the trash cans out back". No, instead, why don't you shove your contempt for ordinary people up your ass, you Nazi!
She wants us to make our own choices, as long as that means choices that she and her fellow enviro-nuts approve of, but not the free choice to buy bottled water.
But back to where I started. Listen Nestlé and all the others, you'd have to make your bottles and caps so small they would not be visible to the naked eye to begin to satisfy these lunatics, so why even try to please those who want to put you out of business. And besides, you're making life more difficult for senior citizens when you keep shrinking those caps, so stop it!
This lighter bottle and smaller cap contain an average 20% less plastic than our original 0.5L Eco-Shape® bottle and cap.
So, the "original" bottle and cap were eco-friendly, but not quite friendly enough. They needed to be made even smaller. Right now, in the even friendlier size, they are difficult for the elderly to open. How do I now this? I know elderly bottled water buyers, that's how. What do they report? That they have a hard time getting the damn caps off the bottles. There's less cap to grip, and when you've got hands that cramp up into hideous looking claws and the joints of your fingers are full of arthritis pain, you need all the cap you can get.
Have politically correct bottle water corporations told grandma and grandpa to go to Hell in the name of being "green"? It certainly seems that way to this writer! Poor old people, having nothing but a nice, cool bottle of water to look forward to after a hard half-days work at Walmart, and then finding themselves unable to get their bottle open without assistance.
Now, the funny thing is, bottled water itself is not politically correct. I mean, "liberals" are trying to ban it everywhere they can.
And see how Nestlé itself is singled out in the following video (which does make some good points):
Some comments on the video:
Bottled water loses in taste tests to tap water? Who were they testing? I've conducted my own taste tests (double blind, by the way, as I do know how to run one of these tests) on myself and bottled spring water always beats tap. They say a third of bottled waters are simply tap water, but that means two-thirds are not.
Making the plastic bottles for water uses enough oil to fuel one million cars? Okay, but look around you for a second. How much stuff is made from plastic? Making anything from plastic uses oil that could have been used to fuel cars, but that's a strange objection coming from a green lunatic. Plastic is great for making stuff, yes, but shouldn't we make useful stuff from petroleum instead of burning it up as fuel? And enviro-nuts are also against cars, especially a million cars (talk about a carbon footprint), so what the hell is the point? That we could be fueling millions more cars and contributing even more to global warming? And stop using oil to make things out of plastic and the price of oil comes down, but that;s a no-no to the environmentalist wackos, who don't want more people driving more cars more often.
And yes, stuff has to be shipped once it's produced, but again, that objection just reflects a hatred of modern industrial prosperity, and what's that about drinking a bottle of water in two minutes? Most people I see nurse a damn bottle of water for hours. And what does the amount of time it takes to consume something got to do with anything? After all, it doesn't take long to burn a gallon of gas either, especially when you're driving one of those big SUVs that we could be fueling from the oil used to make plastic bottles.
Why does this woman hate India so much? She wants to takes jobs away from poor Indians by not shipping plastic bottles to India for recycling?
Manufactured demand means scaring us, seducing us and misleading us? That's what the video does! It's a perfect description of environmentalist fear-mongering!
And this woman says that if her insane video doesn't convince enough people by persuasion, get out there and work to get bottled water banned! Another confirmation that enviro-nuts need to use force to make their dreams of a society of no economic growth come true.
Carrying around bottled water is on its way to "becoming as cool as smoking while pregnant"? You wish, you little enviro-Nazi! You "liberals" have already made life miserable for smokers and now you want to do the same for bottled water drinkers? "Hey, take that bottle of water out of the building and drink it out in the tiny bottled-water area by the trash cans out back". No, instead, why don't you shove your contempt for ordinary people up your ass, you Nazi!
She wants us to make our own choices, as long as that means choices that she and her fellow enviro-nuts approve of, but not the free choice to buy bottled water.
But back to where I started. Listen Nestlé and all the others, you'd have to make your bottles and caps so small they would not be visible to the naked eye to begin to satisfy these lunatics, so why even try to please those who want to put you out of business. And besides, you're making life more difficult for senior citizens when you keep shrinking those caps, so stop it!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Tapped Out: When Water Bills Force Foreclosure
I'm still awake, or at least conscious enough to be outraged at this.
Government and "private" business, working together against the people as always, with their enforcers, your friendly neighborhood police force, doing their dirty work. But Ginx assures me anarchy would be much worse, so I guess we should count our blessings.
Government and "private" business, working together against the people as always, with their enforcers, your friendly neighborhood police force, doing their dirty work. But Ginx assures me anarchy would be much worse, so I guess we should count our blessings.
One raw day in early February, Vicki Valentine stood by helplessly as real estate investors snatched her West Baltimore home over what began with an unpaid city water bill of $362. Valentine lost the property after the city sold her debt to investors through a contentious and byzantine legal process called a tax sale. This little-known type of foreclosure can enrich investors as growing numbers of property owners struggle to pay their bills.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Leftist crank wants to end "corporate water"
"We definitely need a covenant or [an international] treaty on the right to water so as to establish once and for all that no one on earth must be denied water because of inability to pay," says Maude Barlow, a senior adviser to the President of the U.N. General Assembly, on water issues.
"We’ve got to protect water as a human right," she said, pointing out that the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva would be the most likely venue to propose such a covenant.
No, this isn't from The Onion or The People's Cube. It's from Common Dreams.
Who would be stupid enough to take these crackpot, bizarre ideas seriously? You'd be surprised.
"We’ve got to protect water as a human right," she said, pointing out that the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva would be the most likely venue to propose such a covenant.
No, this isn't from The Onion or The People's Cube. It's from Common Dreams.
Who would be stupid enough to take these crackpot, bizarre ideas seriously? You'd be surprised.
Friday, July 10, 2009
The Catchers in the Fog
Rain rarely falls on these dry hills. The annual precipitation in Lima is about half an inch (1.5 centimeters), and the city gets its water from far-off Andean lakes.
But every winter, from June to November, dense fog sweeps in from the Pacific Ocean.
With a few thousand dollars and some volunteer labor, a village can set up fog-collecting nets that gather hundreds of gallons of water a day—without a single drop of rain falling.
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