Some of you will remember following the daily news reports from Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the summer of 1993. Hundreds of thousands Milwaukee residents came down with a mysterious illness, the cause of which has not been identified. It took almost two weeks for the authorities to nail down the … [Read more...]
I’m Sure You Have Heard of E-Coli in the Water
It was May of 2000 in the town of Walkerton, Ontario (population 4,800) when suddenly people became sickened with gastroenteritis. 65 people were so bad they were hospitalized, and 27 developed a serious and sometimes fatal kidney ailment, and, unfortunately, 7 people died. The cause was not … [Read more...]
More on Lead in School Drinking Water. Are Your Children at Risk?
Earlier this week I talked about lead contamination found in schools in Camden, NJ. I also shared with you my experiences in the early 1990’s with drinking water in Chinese primary schools. My interest and concern with water contamination at schools is driven by several facts: most contaminants … [Read more...]
Manganese in Drinking Water
Manganese is a naturally occurring mineral which is often found associated with iron. It can be found in soils and rocks and can also occur as an industrial pollutant. There are many ways that manganese can get into the drinking water supplies. Maximum limits for manganese in drinking water has … [Read more...]
Selenium in the Water: A Case for Balance
In the mid-1980’s I did a television interview with Carl Decker, our Distributor with the local TV station in Fresno, California. Fresno was close to the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge, where in the early 1980’s the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) found a high incidence of mortality and … [Read more...]
Drinking Water in Schools
In the early 1990’s I was invited to China to study drinking water in primary schools of which there were more than one million in the country. As part of the study, I visited dozens of primary schools within a 100 mile radius of Beijing. By and large, the schools were poorly equipped with … [Read more...]
Further Report on Lead in Drinking Water.
The EPA estimates that on average 20% of the lead poisoning in the USA is associated with lead-contaminated drinking water. In 2002, the Washington DC Water and Sewer Authority reported to the EPA that about 50% of the homes it tested during 2001-02 had levels of lead in the drinking water … [Read more...]
The Problem of Lead in the Drinking Water
About 40 years ago when I worked for a major toiletries company, we had a special task force with the mission to change away from a lead toothpaste tube. Many years ago it was not uncommon for toothpaste to be filled into lead tubes. In part this was because a lead tube was easy to “roll-up” to … [Read more...]
How Serious is Arsenic in the Drinking Water Supply?
We’ve all likely read murder mysteries or watched a movie drama or two where arsenic has been used to poison an unwanted spouse or arch-enemy. Arsenic is found widely in nature and is a natural component of certain rocks, and soils. It also can be released into the atmosphere through volcanic … [Read more...]
Could Arsenic in the Water Cause Strokes Here in the US?
Yesterday I talked about the impact of how arsenic at very high levels in drinking water in Bangladesh was causing terrible health problems. One study found that one in every five deaths in Bangladesh was the result of arsenic poisoning resulting from contaminated drinking water. So there is no … [Read more...]
Arsenic and Unintended Consequences
A significant study reported in recent issue of the British Medical journal “Lancet” and largely overlooked in the Western media focused on perhaps the largest example of mass poisoning in history. It is estimated that as many as 77 million people in impoverished Bangladesh (directly to the east of … [Read more...]
Is my water contaminated?
One of the most common questions we get about distilled water is “Is my water contaminated?” We know that water is universally contaminated, but the contaminants differ wildly from location to location. When people say they want minerals in the water do they know what minerals they want and in … [Read more...]
