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Water: What you need to know about keeping hydrated

Drinking water is essential for human existence. Since 70% of the earth’s surface is covered with water it should be available for free for everybody. Yet all over the world, billions of dollars are spent on drinking bottled water every day...

For two decades, we've been encouraged — some might say hounded — into making drinking water a habit. We carry it in plastic bottles, reusable canisters, on our backs to suck through elaborate tubing. We might even hire a doctor to have it injected into our veins..

Have we gone mad?

Clean, clear water: It's the most essential of essentials. Humans need it to survive. Our bodies are 60% water; the brain and…

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It’s been a long time coming for desalination—desal for short. For decades, we have been told it would one day turn oceans of salt water into fresh and quench the world’s thirst. But progress has been slow. That is now changing, as desalination is coming into play in many places around the world.

  Erin Brockovich Wants to Know What You’re Drinking

Twenty years after her moment in the Hollywood spotlight, the famed water-safety activist has not slowed down.

  Here’s Exactly How Much Water You Should Drink Every Day

You can stop obsessing over eight glasses a day now, k?

  How This Entrepreneur Is Taking On America's Water Crisis

At Aquagenuity, we have a singular mission: making water quality data easy to access and easy to understand for the non-technical user. We have gone far beyond providing a list of toxins and parts per billion found in local water supplies (gibberish that means almost nothing to the average consumer); instead, we make water quality data visual, color-coded, and relevant.

  Why the Raw Water Movement Is So Obnoxious

It doesn’t just reveal Silicon Valley’s idiocy and love of capitalism. It exposes their disinterest in everyone else.

 Erin Brockovich Says 'Superman's Not Coming' To Save Our Water Supply

If terrorists poisoned most of the water U.S. citizens consume, the event would take over the news cycle and it would be the only thing we'd talk about until the situation was fixed. Well, the water is being poisoned — except it isn't coming from terrorists; it's being done by a variety of factories, companies, and processing plants. So why are they not constantly on the news? Well, because they lie about it and settle out of court when it's inevitable, regulatory agencies are struggling to keep up with the widespread problem, and the government often does everything in its power to keep the situation under wraps...

 I Drank 2.5 Liters Of Water A Day For A Week—Here’s How My Skin & Body Changed

Now for the result: drinking 2.5 liters a day hasn’t completely transformed my life in such a way that I’m going to throw out all my skincare products and quit my job to do touring seminars on water drinking. But the benefits are positive and noticeable enough that I’m going to continue drinking the same amount long after this experiment. The constant getting up to use the bathroom is a bit annoying, but it’s a small price to pay for feeling like a well-oiled machine in human form. I had no idea I was a rusty old machine beforehand, but we live and we (hopefully) learn.

 Which Water Is Best For Health? Hint: Don't Discount The Tap

You can buy water with electrolytes, minerals or completely "purified." You can buy it with the pH changed to make it alkaline. You can purify your own tap water or even add nutrients back into it. But after seeing a video of a pricey, high-tech filter (about $400 U.S. on sale) that you can monitor with your phone, we wondered, how much of our water filtration fixation is healthy, and how much of it is hype?

 Why Millennials Have a Weird Relationship with Water

Our strange journey with hydration, from the Capri Sun and Kool-Aid of our youth to our current water bottle obsession.

Articles of Interest

Water Is The Core Of Health & Sustainable Development -- World Water Day Meets Technology

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What's in Your Water

We all know the value of hydration. Drinking water lubricates our muscles and skin, and gives our brainpower a boost. We know we should hydrate throughout the day, and especially before and after exercise, and post-caffeine. Next time you take a sip, stop and think: What's in my water? Did you know that the majority of U.S. cities are home to contaminated water sources?

Actually, Backpackers, You Don’t Need to Filter Your Stream Water

The outdoor community (and industry) has made filtration a must. But a look at the scientific evidence shows that this mandate rests on a shaky foundation.

Aquaponics: A Waterway to a Healthier Future?

With California in the midst of a drought seemingly without end, farmers do well for the entire country to economize their water use. So why is a farming method using water 90% more efficiently so underused?

Can Californians Adapt to Their Catastrophic Drought?

If you ask an environmental historian, the mandatory cuts in water use that Governor Jerry Brown is now imposing on Californians—the first in the state's history—were just a matter of time. Many of the earliest visitors to California never believed the Western climate could handle the grand plans for growth and development promoted by local boosters. For decades, scientists have predicted a moment of reckoning.

Does Your Water Need More Ions?

Having read many articles and viewed countless videos about ionization and alkalization of water (for the intrepid, there is a book), I remain uncertain how the technology being hawked will help a single soul here in the United States. There isn’t even a crummy clinical trial to criticize. Nothing.

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Omega-3s: Is It an Environmental Disaster?

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The Politics of Drinking Water

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Water Fluoridation, Has It Outlived Its Usefulness?

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Water, Water, Everywhere—But Is It Clean?

The grim reality that unsafe water is responsible for more deaths around the world than war.

Water: The Missing Link to Health

It has become crystal clear to me during my years of researching water that there is a direct relationship between drinking water and good health. The better the water, the greater the likelihood that you will be healthy. The best water for your health is water that is as close to nature as possible. That means water that is clean and full of minerals so that it becomes alkaline.

You'll Never Unlearn How Many Germs Are On Your Water Bottle

We love reusable water bottles for being environmentally friendly and their cost effectiveness. But let’s be real: They’re a pain to continuously clean. That may prompt us to skip a few washes and keep using them. And, as it turns out, this could result in ingesting a host of germs along with our H2O.

Resources

EWG's Tap Water Database

Since 2012, water utilities' testing has found pollutants in Americans' tap water, according to an EWG drinking water quality analysis of 32 million state water records.

The Big Thirst

"The Big Thirst will forever change the way we think about water, about our essential relationship to it, and about the creativity we can bring to ensuring that we'll always have plenty of it".

U.S. Water News

Current Water and Wastewater News.

WaterWorld

WaterWorld Magazine is dedicated to delivering up-to-date information on technology, products and trends in the municipal water and wastewater industry.

13 Gallon Challenge

Challenge friends to use only 13 gallons of water in a day.

Aquagenuity

Your local water quality changes every day, multiple times a day. Just like the weather. It used to be impossible to track these changes in real-time. But now, the AquaGenius app keeps you informed when your water quality changes...

FLOW

Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

Groundwater Foundation

The Groundwater Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and motivating people to care for and about groundwater.

Project Kaisei

Project Kaisei is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco and Hong Kong, established to increase the understanding and the scale of marine debris, its impact on our ocean environment, and how we can introduce solutions for both prevention and clean-up.

Pump Aid

Pump Aid is committed to achieving lasting positive change in people’s lives by improving the quality, availability and use of water with communities in need. As small but agile organisation our teams in London and Lilongwe are committed to achieving our mission: to improve the availability and use of safe, protected water for the most vulnerable communities in Malawi and beyond.

The Water Filter Lady

Deciding to drink filtered tap water instead of bottled water can have huge benefits for the earth. We can eliminate unnecessary waste going into our landfills and oceans...

The Water Project

The Water Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization unlocking human potential by providing reliable water projects to communities in sub-Saharan Africa who suffer needlessly from a lack of access to clean water and proper sanitation.

The Water Research Foundation

The Water Research Foundation is an internationally recognized leader in water research that is dedicated to advancing the science of water by sponsoring cutting-edge research and promoting collaboration.

Water Education Foundation

The Water Education Foundation is your resource for information about water resource issues.

Water.org

Safe water transforms lives. For more than twenty years, Water.org has pioneered safe water and sanitation solutions that give women hope, children health and communities a future. Join us.

WaterAid

WaterAid is an international charity. Our mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.

WaterFYI

Everything you wanted to know (& not know) about water.

Watergen

As populations around the world increasingly struggle to access clean, natural water, at Watergen we have come up with a game-changing solution that uses humidity in the air to create clean and fresh drinking water.

WaterNow

Waternow is a non-profit tackling the growing water crisis by jump-starting sustainable water solutions in communities … solutions that can repeat and scale.

Zero Mass Water

At Zero Mass Water, we are perfecting water for every person in every place with SOURCE, a Hydropanel that gives you the power to create safe, delicious water from just sunlight and air.

American Water Works Association

AWWA is the authoritative resource for safe water, providing knowledge, information and advocacy to improve the quality and supply of water in North America and beyond.

Global Water Foundation

Our goal is to raise public awareness, provide technical assistance, support knowledge sharing, support technical innovation and research and facilitate the provision of humanitarian aid throughout the developing world, with the ultimate goal of providing safe, healthy, drinking water and adequate sanitation in areas where it is not available or where accessibility and supply have been compromised.

International Council of Bottled Water Associations

The International Council of Bottled Water Associations members are required to meeting Codex Alimentarius Commission, national, regional, and industry standards for bottled water.

Italy Water Association

Costituita nel 1990 MINERACQUA l'organizzazione imprenditoriale che riunisce, rappresenta e tutela le industrie italiane che confezionano acque minerali naturali, acque di sorgente e bevande analcooliche.

Jfleck at Inkstain

A few thoughts from John Fleck, a writer of journalism and other things, living in New Mexico.

National Association of Water Companies

The National Association of Water Companies (NAWC) represents all aspects of the private water service industry.

National Rural Water Association

The National Rural Water Association is a non-profit federation of State Rural Water Associations. Our mission is to provide support services to our State Associations who have more than 25,735 water and wastewater systems as members.

Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association

WWEMA members supply the most sophisticated leading products and technology, offering solutions to every water-related environmental problem and need facing today's society.

Water Environment Federation

WEF's vision to preserve and enhance the global water environment is the basis for all WEF programs and activities.

Water Quality Association

WQA is a resource and information source, a voice for the industry, an educator for professionals, a laboratory for product testing, and a communicator to the public.

CDC

Drinking water comes from a variety of sources including public water systems, private wells, or bottled water. Ensuring safe and healthy drinking water may be as simple as turning on the tap from an EPA-regulated public water system. Other water sources may need a water filter, a check on water fluoridation, or an inspection to ensure a septic tank is not too close to a private well. It is important to know where drinking water comes from, how it’s been treated, and if it's safe to drink.

Waiakea Blog

Waiākea was founded in 2012 as the first Hawaiian volcanic water of its kind. Waiākea’s mission is to provide healthy, delicious, Hawaiian volcanic water with as little impact as possible, while contributing to and promoting clean water access to people in need throughout the world. Waiākea is truly unlike any other water on the planet. So remember, Drink Healthy, Drink Sustainably, Drink Ethically, Drink Waiākea.

Water Technology

WaterTech e-News Daily™ is published every business day and covers the news and issues most important to water treatment professionals. The topics covered in this e-newsletter include current events, personnel changes, important company news, acquisitions and more.