18th November 2008
By seeking an answer to the question "What minerals are in tap water?" a homeowner can discover the answer to a second question: "What makes water 'hard'?" Water that contains a generous amount of calcium, magnesium, and manganese forms a precipitate in t...
18th November 2008
Any TV viewer has seen advertisements for some sort of transdermal patch. Normally that patch contains a medication. The person who wears that patch receives a slow and steady administration of that medication. Yet the TV viewers who are familiar with suc...
18th November 2008
This sounds strange, but suppose an alien creature walked out of its space ship and strolled around in a large, populated region of Earth? What if it saw cases and cases of bottled water, and saw lots of people carrying and drinking bottled water? Suppose...
18th November 2008
Every cell in the human body contains water. No cell can live in the absence of water. Every human should drink a generous amount of water each day. So you, the reader have reason to ask there two questions:
1) Are there any particular requirements co...
18th November 2008
Too often government authorities express concern when they hear a member of the public say, "What can I add to my tap water to make it taste better?" Government authorities want to provide the residents in their area with good-tasting water. Unfortunately...
10th October 2008
Today, an increasing number of businesses and homeowners are asking "Is tap water really dangerous?" Publication of evidence that our water supplies contain chlorine, lead, volatile organic chemicals, algae by-products and mercury has caused many people t...
10th October 2008
Forty years ago, there was a limited amount of information about chemicals found in tap water. At that time, the conservation of water, air and soil occupied the thoughts of many future environmentalists.
Today some former conservationists have joined...
10th October 2008
What public entities should seek the answer to this question: "How is tap water tested for contamination?"? A school board should seek the answer to that question. They would want students to drink clean water. City administrators should search for the an...
10th October 2008
In 2006, one California couple joined the many other couples who had the daily task of making baby formula. That young pair of adults did not want to be using tap water to make baby formula. Therefore, they purchased hundreds of plastic bottles containing...
10th October 2008
The public appreciates the importance of water treatment systems. If urban areas did not make use of such systems, millions of people could drink contaminated tap water. Now new evidence shows how any chemical that gets flushed into the wastewater later e...
06th October 2008
These days, you might not want to immerse yourself in a bathtub of water. That water probably contains a number of different contaminants. You would probably benefit more from immersing yourself in information on how to purify tap water.
When you walk...
06th October 2008
"We suggest that you just drink tap water." That would no doubt be the response of some environmentalists, should they be asked how others ought to respond to the presence of phthalates in bottled water. In fact, one group of environmentally-conscious Cal...
06th October 2008
Whenever a homeowner fails to invest in the home filtration of tap water, the residents in that home stand at risk, at risk for consuming unseen contaminants? What are those contaminants? Unfiltered tap water contains four different contaminants-micro-org...
06th October 2008
The Natural Resources Council never actually sponsored a contest called "bottled water vs tap water." That Council did not study the best means for broadcasting a decision in the "battle" of "tap versus bottled water." Yet that Council did put out a repor...
06th October 2008
What do you think? Could the above statement be true? Is tap water cleaner than bottled water sold at stores? On the weekend of August 23rd and 24th of 2008, one group of environmentalists demonstrated a readiness to give a "yes" answer to the question th...
