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There is the same amount
of water on Earth today as there was 3 billion years ago.
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Forty –eight million
people in the US receive their drinking water from private or
household wells.
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Once evaporated a water
molecule spends ten days in the air then returning back down to earth
in the form of rain.
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Mineral water contains a
great variety and quantity of mineral. (Usually a compound of calcium,
magnesium or iron)
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Hardness in water, often
referred to as minerals, is dissolved rock and metals that offer
little if any nutritional health value.
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Water helps to regulate
the body temperature, transport nutrients, oxygenate cells, removes
waste and protects organs, joints, and tissue.
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97% of the world water is
salty or undrinkable, 2% is stored in glaciers and ice caps and the
remaining 1% is left for us.
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Experts speculate that by
the year 2000 the necessity for water has doubled since 1980.
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The average human should
drink 0.55 gallons of water a day.
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You could survive about a
month without food, but only 5 to7 days without water.
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On the average, each
person uses about 160 gallons of water a day at a cost of 27 cents
per gallon.
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2/3 of the earth’s surface
is covered by water.
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¼ of the world’s drinking
water isn’t safe.
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One gallon of gasoline can
contaminate approximately 750,000 gallons of water.
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500,000 tons of pollutants
pour into our lakes and rivers every day in just the United States.
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In the U.S. 72% of
consumers have some form of concern with their water supply, 50% are
worried about a possible health problem from the consumption of
contaminants.
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Currently EPA estimates
that at least a half million cases of illness annually can be
attribute to microbial contamination in drinking water.
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Lack of access to clean
water is a leading cause of death and disease in developing countries,
killing about 5 million people annually and causing 3.3 billion
illnesses.
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Up to 4 million children
under age 5 die annually from diarrhea diseases caused by poor
drinking water.
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Water is a universal
solvent. It literally dissolves (or picks up) virtually everything it
comes in contact with. That is why traces of thousands of chemicals,
elements, and compounds have been found in water.
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At ordinary temperatures,
water undergoes evaporation.
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Completely pure water is a
poor conductor of electricity.
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Water should be an
odorless, tasteless, transparent liquid at room temperature.
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Pure water rarely exists
in nature. Spring water or well water is raw, untreated water and
often contains many impurities.
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In the time it took you to
read the 2 sentences before this one a child just died in a Third world
country from poor drinking water.
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Studies show 98.9% of
contaminants can be eliminated from the water with a Reverse Osmosis
filtration device.
