4 reasons you should not drink Distilled water

Distilled water is good for steam irons, car batteries and certain scientific uses, but it's not good for drinking. Here are the 4 reasons why:-

1. Removes dissolved oxygen in the water, making the water taste flat The reason why we enjoy teh tarik is because when the tea is pulled, oxygen re-enters the water - the same principle as water aeration in a fish tank.

2. Removes the dissolved minerals essential to good health. Distilled water being unstable will draw out the minerals from the body. Prolonged use of distilled water will cause loss of calcium & phosphorous and deterioration of the teeth and bone.

3. Boiling water does not kill all bacteria, and in fact increases the concentration of cancer causing volatile organics in the distilled water.

4. Distillers are bulky, expensive to buy, operate and maintain, and has a slow output of 20 litres a day.

But in a free enterprise, everyone will highlight the benefits but never the disadvantages.

Invest in a Nature Pure Purifier and enjoy truly the healthiest and safest water, you and your family can enjoy for the next 10 years - guaranteed!

What is your filter / purifier not to do

While we know what a filter or purifier is supposed to do - remove contaminants, chemicals, heavy metals, cysts & viruses - there are certain things that the filter and purifier should not do - especially for water intended for drinking and cooking:-

1. Remove dissolved minerals, necessary to good health and good taste

2. Remove salt from sea water nor remove any of the technical salts that the body requires .

3. Remove fluorides, which are salts to prevent tooth decay

4. Treat sewage nor process undiluted industrial effluent.

5. Soften water. Soft water is not desirable for drinking as minerals that make the water hard, are essential for taste and health.

6. Change the structure of water in anyway using electricity or electro magnetic charges, that may confuse the body and absorption process in the body

7. Remove dissolved oxygen already within the water, which will render the water flat and tasteless.

Nature Pure Purifier does not do these 7 things. All the Nature Pure Purifier does is REMOVE 99.99999% of all contaminants, chemicals, heavy metals, cysts and viruses in the water - up till the last drop!.

Do you wash your face & hair with chlorinated water?

We know that everytime we go swimming in a pool, our skin feels irritated, our hair dries out and our swim wear fades quickly. Its the chlorine in the water that causes this, but without it, we could pick up dangerous viruses or bacteria in the water from the other people in the same pool.

Now what about chlorine in your water, that you use to wash your face and brush your teeth daily?. Using the most expensive skincare and haircare will be wasted, if you keep using non purified water to wash your face and hair daily.

The Nature Pure can operate with a low 15psi pressure - meaning it can work connected to your home water tank. Its small enough to be placed on your bathroom sink and with no wiring needed for electricity, it can be self installed to your existing faucet, in just 5 minutes.

Invest in a unit today for each of your bathrooms, and you can see and feel the difference, purified water makes to the skin and hair of you and your family.

Enjoy the water in Thailand, India & Indonesia or when you travel?

I've been travelling around Asia and living a few days to a few weeks in hotels.

One of the most irritating inconveniences is actually the taste of the local water. Yes you can buy mineral water, but you need to buy the imported brands like Volvic & Evian to be assured the water tastes good.

Imagine if you had a portable water purifier to take with you on your travels, that can turn the local water in your hotel water to mineral water, tasting as good as Volvic and Evian.

Nature Pure is just 6 x 6 inches and comes with a portable pump, so even when there is no direct water supply or when you travel, you can still enjoy safe, purified and delicious tasting water, anytime and anywhere.

Ask for a free 10 minute demo within the Klang Valley or in Singapore or for a free 20 minute VCD elsewhere.

Visit my Ebay store to invest in a Nature Pure Purifier today and enjoy the best water you will enjoy at home and when you travel.

The Truth behind water certification tests

The truth behind water certification tests (for point of use water systems)

Ever wonder how some brands of water filters, have so many certifications – from Malaysia, Taiwan, Hongkong, Japan, IBW, etc?

All tests are conducted using brand new filters, to test if they can reduce or remove the contaminants. Of course all brand new filters work – but what about when you have used them till near their replacement date? Are they still safe?

Most water systems use a time based gauge – meaning you have to replace your filters at 6 or 12 month intervals. But…does not take into account your water quality (some houses have a point of entry filter, so their water quality is much better), the family size or how much water you actually pass through the filter.

Nature Pure has 2 clinical tests done:-

a) on a 70 day incubation – meaning viruses and cysts are pumped in first, then left unused for 70 days and water pumped in again to test if any can pass through.

b) on a last drop test – meaning the flow rate reduces from 4 litres a minute down to a last drop when no more water can come out, usually after purifying 4,000 litres.

Because the Nature Pure Purifier can REMOVE 99.99999% of all contaminants till the last drop, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA has given a rating as Micro-Biological Purifier passing the 99.75% test.

The Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) approves Nature Pure Purifier to be the only water system on board all Commercial aircraft.

So on your next flight, enjoy the purified water served on board every airline. And if it’s good enough to serve 400 passengers on long haul with 8 toilets, it's good enough to be serving you and your family for the next 10 years!.

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Removes till the last drop - not reduces

As a mum, is your child's safety your top consideration?

Many mothers I meet with and show my water system first have cost on their top priority. But after I explain the benefits of Nature Pure, suddenly cost is not an issue anymore, but safety is.

Always keep electrical items away from water. Last year was a case, where someone was electrocuted using his water heater.

But yet, many people forget, and use a water systems that need electricity to operate. All you need is just one power surge, a loose wire or a leaking hose on the electrical circuit or motor, and your water system could electrocute your kids.

Distillers, Ultra Violet units, Reverse Osmosis or Alkaline units that need electricity to operate, are all dangerous.

Nature Pure Water Purifier needs no pumps or electricity to operate. And it’s portable, so you can enjoy purified water, even when you travel.

Simple costing for non accountants & dummies

Let’s say you are in the market to buy a water system for your home or office.
So if price is usually the main consideration, let’s take a look at some numbers…

Capital Investment

Take total cost divide by guarantee period to find out how long your capital
Investment will last for.

Nature Pure = RM 3,997 / 10 years guarantee = RM 400

Most units give 1 year guarantee, with low entry costs. The only way they can survive is from repair and replacement costs, which usually cost a bomb.

Operating Costs

Take total filter costs and divide by rated usage to find out your cost per litre..

Pre-filter = RM 127 average 6,400 litres = RM 0.02 per litre
Cartridge = RM 397 average 4,000 litres = RM 0.10 per litre

Some companies charge for 6 month or 12 month services with forced filter changes or else, voiding the warranty.

With Nature Pure, no servicing or maintenance is needed as there are no pumps or electrics. Pre-filter is washable and cartridge only needs to be changed when water flow slows until no water comes out. For an average family of 5, this cartridge will last an average of 3 years.

Summary

Nature Pure – the only EPA certified Micro-biological purifier, able to REMOVE 99.99999%, (not reduce) all viruses, cysts, chemicals and heavy metals – up till the last drop!.

Visit my ebay store to invest in a unit today so your children can drink safe and good quality water for the next 10 years!..

The difference between purifiers and filters

In Simple Language

Stage 1
• Consistently REMOVES (not reduces) all bacteria, cysts, viruses
• 0.1 micron up to 0.4 micron absolute (biggest hole size)
• Does not allow bacteria to grow
• Can prove with the food coloring (0.5 micron demo)

Stage 2
• Consistently REMOVES (not reduces) all chemicals e.g. chlorine herbicides, pesticides,
Can prove with a 5 minute chlorox demo

Stage 3
• Consistently REMOVES (not reduces) all heavy metals like lead, mercury, arsenic & asbestos
• Makes water crystal clear

What you get
· Sweet tasting LIVE Water with dissolved oxygen
· Organic beneficial dissolved minerals

What's the absolute or biggest size?

Most water systems only advertise the smallest hole but not the largest one.

Logically, a hole size 0.4 microns is sufficient to trap the smallest water borne cyst with a particle size of 0.5 micron. And a hole size of 0.1 microns is sufficient to trap dissolved chemicals and heavy metals in the water.

Every filter unit will have different hole sizes, so don’t be cheated by units claiming to have a hole size of 0.00001 microns. Not only is it a sales gimmick but also cheats uninformed consumers,

The problem with water in Asia is the high sediment content, due to aging leaking pipes. If mud sediments can get into your piped water supply, so can other contaminants as water pipes cross roads, farms and factories

Nature Pure Pre-Filter that traps sediments has a hole size of 10 microns. This pre-filter is washable and extends the life of the main replaceable cartridge

The Nature Pure Structured Matrix Cartridge, has the smallest hole size of 0.1 micron with the largest being 0.4 microns absolute.

Rated at 1 gallon per minute flow rate ( so much faster than RO & Distillers) and 1,000 gallon lifespan, this cartridge consistently purifies up till the last drop.

So depending on your water usage for drinking, soaking your fruits and vegetables and cooking your rice and soup, this cartridge lasts 2 years on average for a family of 5.

Ask for a Clorox demo today and truly enjoy the best water, the best drinks and the best soups, you and your family will every drink everyday!

The 7 major key considerations for a water system

Are your 7 key considerations to judge a purchase decision, of a water system for your family to drink the same?

Gucci famous quote is this - "Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten."

Only the Nature Pure Purifier from General Ecology will give you a 10 year guarantee and is clinically proven and EPA certified to consistently remove 99.99999% (not reduce) all viruses, bacteria, cysts, chlorine, chemicals and heavy metals from your drinking and cooking water - up till the last drop!.

Make the right choice today and choose the Nature Pure Water Purifier

Are you killing your children everytime they drink water?

As our population increases our water quality and supply is deteriorating.

Water Authorities are having to add more and more chemicals, to disinfect and guard again dangerous E.coli including Salmonella Typhi, Vibrio Cholera, Shigella as well as Giardia & Cryptosporidium parasites.

Add to this, the byproducts of chlorination which include Chloroform, Pesticide and Insectide residue, the health effects of these toxic chemicals range from kidney damage to cancer.

Councils around Australia are also advocating fluoridation of their local water supplies, with more and more residents now ingesting this questionable mineral. With 70% of our body made up of water, drinking 6 - 8 glasses of safe water will safeguard your health and the health of your family and a great start to a healthy and active life.

Chlorine - the disinfectant you drink!

Adding chemicals to our drinking water will lead to the same sort of cancer epidemics in Australia they've now got in the US. There's a growing view among environmental scientists that high cancer rates in certain cities relate to the fact that they've been drinking a chemical cocktail for the past few decades... Professor Harry Recher, Australian, 12 March 1991

Every year around 80,000 tones of poisonous and reactive chemicals, including sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide, copper sulphate, hydrofluorosilicic acid, sodium hypochlorite, lie, aluminium sulphate, liquefied chlorine, ammonia and another 50 assorted compounds are added to Australia's drinking water - to make it `safe' for human consumption.

As our water sources degrade, more additives are necessary to achieve disinfection. Year by year the tonnage of chemicals in our drinking water keeps increasing.

Chlorine is a high reactive chemical, which is one reason why it makes such a good disinfectant. Chlorine and its allied chemical compounds are the most economical and efficient killers of almost all living things - bacteria, animals, insects, fish, reptiles and humans. Long ago, people called these substances poisons.

Chlorine has been linked to high blood pressure, anaemia and diabetes and is a contributor to heart disease. Even in the minute quantity, sufficient to kill germs, chlorine undermines the body's defences against atherosclerosis - the hardening and thickening of the arteries.

Several years ago a link was established between certain types of cancer and the presence of trihalomethanes (THM's) in our drinking water.

In the US Environmental Protection Agency table of drinking-water standards and potential health effects, opposite THM's is just one word `cancer'.

In summary, chlorination represents a long-term threat to public health of unknown magnitude. There are no guarantees, no laws and no standards to protect you. Until the actual level of risk is known, concerned consumers would be wise to consider the following precautions.

Drink spring/mineral water or install a EPA certified water purifier (not just any type of filter that can do more harm) that will remove THM's and chlorine tastes and odours.

Ventilate kitchens, laundries and bathroms during use. A shower filter will remove THM's

Fluoridation / Fluoride Toxic Chemicals In Your Water

Fluoride compounds which are put in water (fluoridation), toothpaste and supplement tablets (including some vitamins) were never tested for safety before approval.Recent independent research by scientists not associated with dental trade organizations has shown the following:

Neurotoxic and Lowers IQ

In 1995, neurotoxicologist and former Director of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston, Dr. Phyllis Mullenix published research showing that fluoride built up in the brains of animals when exposed to moderate levels. Damage to the brain occured and the behavior patterns of the animals was adversely effected.

Causes Cancer

The Department of Health in New Jersey found that bone cancer in male children was between two and seven times greater in areas where water was fluoridated.

Changes Bone Structure and Strength

Fluoride gradually builds up in the bones and causes adverse changes to the bone structure. Quite a few studies have shown that fluoridation leads to increases in hip fractures. The tensile strength of the hip is destroyed over time by fluoride ingestion.

Causes Birth Defects and Perinatal Deaths

A toxicologist in the United Kingdom recently found that perinatal deaths in a fluoridated area was 15% higher than in neighboring non-fluoridated areas.

Proven Ineffective

Fluoride compounds in water and in supplements do not provide any significant cavity-protecting effects.

Impairs Immune System

Independent research has shown that fluoride impairs the functioning of the immune system.

Causes Acute Adverse Reactions

Several double-blind studies have shown that fluoridated water can often cause acute adverse reactions including gastrointestinal symptoms, stomatitis, joint pains, polydipsia, headaches, visual disturbances, muscular weakness, and extreme tiredness.

Causes Initial Stages of Skeletal Fluorosis

Fluoride can cause severe skeletal fluorosis at high levels. Chronic, long-term exposure to levels of fluoride commonly found in water and food in the U.S. can cause the beginning stages of skeletal fluorosis including: pains in bones and joints, sensations of burning, pricking, and tingling in the limbs, muscle weakness, chronic fatigue, gastrointestinal disorders, reduced appetite, backache, osteoarthritis, etc.

Increases Lead and Arsenic Exposure

Fluoride compounds put into water are often contaminated with lead, arsenic and radio nuclides since the fluoride compounds are toxic waste byproducts which largely come from pollution scrubbers of fertilizer plants.

Contributes to the Development of Repetitive Stress Injury

A clinical study in New Zealand showed that fluoride ingestion may be a contributing factor in the development of Repetative Stress Injury (RSI) since such ingestion may encourage the development of apatite crystal formation.

Causes Permanent Disfigurement of the Teeth in Many Children

A very large and increasing number of children are experiencing dental fluorosis which is a permanent adverse structural change to the teeth.

Causes Large Numbers of Acute Poisonings

Fluoride is an extremely poisonous substances at exceptionally low doses and has caused a large number of acute poisonings. This is why a poison warning is now required on fluoridated toothpastes sold in the U.S.For more detailed information go to www.holisticmed.com/fluoride/

GIARDIA AND CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARASITES..

They live in the human intestine and cause diarrohea, nausea, abdominal cramps, weakness and chronic fatigue. These debilitating symptoms may persist for months.

Media Release - The Hon Dr Michael Wooldridge, Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care ..September 2000

The Ministers said that Cryptosporidium and Giardia occasionally occur in drinking water supplies following contamination by human or animal faeces. This may occur during periods of unusually high rainfall when they can enter the water supply via surface run-off. This is what happened in 1998 in Sydney, resulting in people having to boil their drinking water.Both organisms can infect the gastrointestinal tract of humans, resulting in persistent diarrhoea. In severely immuno-compromised people, the infection can be life threatening.

How do these parasites cause illness?

Both parasites produce cysts that are very resistant to harsh environmental conditions. When ingested, they germinate, reproduce, and cause illness. After feeding, the parasites form new cysts, which are then passed in the faeces. Studies with human volunteers have shown that ingestion of only a few cysts will cause illness.

What are the symptoms?

Diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, gas, malaise, and weight loss are the most common symptoms caused by Giardia. Vomiting, chills, headache, and fever may also occur. These symptoms usually surface six to 16 days after the initial contact and can continue as long as one month

Copper Poisoning.

If you drink water that contains higher than normal levels of copper, you may experience vomiting, diarrhoea, stomach cramps, and nausea.High intakes of copper can cause liver and kidney damage and even death. Very young children are sensitive to copper, and long-term exposure to high levels of copper water may cause liver damage and death … We do not know if copper can cause birth defects in children. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Public Health Statement 1990

Most of Australia's drinking water is by nature soft, acidicand corrosive. Chlorine is also acidic and corrosive. When you add the two together you get a powerfully corrosive mixture that is not easy to manipulate or control. One consequence of this is the increasing occurrence of so-called "blue" water, telltale symptoms of the poisonous corrosion of copper water pipes. Corrosion of domestic copper plumbing is now a serious heath problem. Copper corrosion is widespread throughout eastern Australia. A 1999 Queensland Department Report indicated that thousands of children at country schools were drinking water contaminated with lead, copper, and other metals from school drinking fountains. These residues, caused by the action of acid water on copper and brass, can have significant long-term health effects on children including impaired intellectual development.

What steps can you take if you suspect that your copper plumbing is corroding?

Corrosion is more likely if your house or apartment is less than five years old, the water is soft, and it sits in the pipes undisturbed for several hours.Researchers have found that first flush tap water - the water that comes out as soon as you turn on the tap can be a major source of lead and copper contamination. It takes about 10 litres of water to flow through your tap to assure its safety. This should be done every time the system remains unused for four hours or more.

The only way to be sure about the levels of lead and copper in your household water is to have the water tested by a competent laboratory. Testing is especially important in high-rise buildings, because flushing may not be effective. Unlike household supplies, the volume of water necessary to flush all of the polluted water from the pipelines of a building fifteen or twenty storeys high, makes flushing impractical.

Conclusion

You can remove consistently till the last drop - 99.99999% (not reduce) of all chlorine, fluoride, parasites and heavy metals in tap water with a point-of-use EPA certified micro-biological water purifier. Always check the device's capabilities and documented performance for reducing lead and copper and other heavy metals and contaminanents .

Set up an effective and practical maintenance program to make sure that the system is maintained as recommended by the manufacturer."

extract Australia's Drinking Water - the coming crisis John Archer.

Tap water risk for pregnant women

Dirty tap water risk for pregnant women
January 8, 2002 Posted: 2:20 PM EST (1920 GMT)


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of Americans have been drinking tap water contaminated with chemical byproducts from chlorine that are far more than what studies suggest may be safe for pregnant women, two environmental groups say in a new study.

Chlorine is commonly used to disinfect drinking water. When it is added to water that contains organic matter such as runoff from farms or lawns, however, it can form compounds such as chloroform that can cause illness.

The study released Tuesday by the Environmental Working Group and Public Interest Research Groups identified areas that may have increased health risks including miscarriage, neural tube defects and reduced fetal growth from women drinking chlorination byproducts.

"By failing to clean up rivers and reservoirs that provide drinking water for hundreds of millions of Americans, EPA and the Congress have forced water utilities to chlorinate water that is contaminated with animal waste, sewage, fertilizer, algae and sediment," the report says.

Jane Houlihan, EWG's research director, said the report also shows how that cleanup failure has "a direct impact on human health." Pregnant women need to drink plenty of water, she said, but they can reduce their exposure to potential risks through simple measures such as home filters and purchasing bottled water.

One expert on environmental health cautioned that the link between the byproducts and pregnancy risks is suggestive, not conclusive. Still, if the pregnancy studies are proved, millions could be at risk, said Dr. Robert Morris, an environmental epidemiologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.

"That body of literature isn't necessarily conclusive but people ought to be aware of it," Morris said. "It's pretty clear that some of these compounds can be pretty bad actors.

The fact that these levels are as high as they are is certainly something to be concerned about."

The environmental groups combed water quality records in 29 states and the District of Columbia and matched them with various research into birth defects and miscarriages conducted by state and federal agencies and universities.

The groups said the places statistically most at risk due to chlorination byproducts were those that are populous, lacked buffers from urban sprawl and were downstream from agricultural sites. But women in small towns generally face twice the risk from drinking high levels of the byproducts, Houlihan said.

Matching high rates doesn't prove the environmental risk caused the health problems, however. Also, the results are limited because, among other reasons, such health records do not exist in some states.

The Environmental Protection Agency already has decided that some chlorination byproducts pose health risks and instituted stricter standards on January 1 for seven of them: five haloacetic acids, bromate and chlorite.

The agency also began requiring a reduction by one-fifth of the allowable level for trihalomethanes (THM) , another chemical produced by adding chlorine to dirty water. EPA studies showed that reducing the level of trihalomethanes might mean 2,332 fewer cases of bladder cancer per year, down from its estimate of up to 9,300 annual cases caused by trihalomethanes.

While the environmental groups said the majority of water suppliers were meeting the current and future drinking water health standards, they also found that since 1995 more than 11 million people in 1,044 communities were being served water contaminated with chlorination byproducts for 12 months in a row at levels above the new legal limit.

To reduce the risks, the groups said, the federal government should provide billions of dollars more for cleaning up sources of contaminated water and providing more buffer areas that can filter potential contaminants from farmland and urban areas.

How do I tell if my drinking water is safe?

How can I tell if my drinking water really is safe? What can I do about my drinking water?

There are so many different types of contaminants that it is impossible to be completely sure on all possibilities. You can, however, have your water tested for bacteriological safety and for specific contaminants.

The NORS (National Organics Reconnaissance Survey) showed that essentially all treated water supplies have at least trace amounts of chemical contaminants, such as THM's present. More importantly, Giardia and Crypto pose very serious health threats with more cases of illness occurring in "city" water than in wilderness. There is no known treatment except prevention for many of these problems.

Unicity International, USA has pushed the frontiers of advanced technology again and launched the state-of-the-art Water Purification System. The Nature Pure Water Purifier indeed delivers what its very name stands for ­ Natural and Pure Water!

The cutting-edge, proprietary technology of Nature Pure was created by a nuclear physicist, Richard Williams. Since its creation, no water purifier in the world, despite attempts to copy its technology by high-tech companies has been successful in even coming close to Nature Pure in terms of its advanced technology, reliability and, economical and convenient operations.

Nature Pure’s Structured Matrix purification system has won international acclaim, backed by rigorous verification and field-testing by research institutes, independent laboratories, health and safety associations and numerous expeditions.

Nature Pure water purifiers have been approved by the FAA and used by 95% of all major passenger Airlines,

This Nature Pure has been clinically tested and undergone a 70 day incubation test at the University of Arizona and the Institue Pasture in France. Test results show this unit is able to purify consistenly purify up to 99.99999% up to the last drop.

The EPA has also tested this unit and certifies it as a micro-biological purifier - able to purify water up to 99.75%

Other major corporate users include the US Special & UN Peace Keeping Forces, the US Army, National Geographic expeditions, and some of the world's leading universities, hotels and restaurants for over 25 years!

Miracle Spring Water?

Conserving life-giving water to preserve nature
New Sunday Times, Malaysia
May 19, 2002

NST reported a case of “miracle spring water” supposedly near Gunung Jerai being contaminated with E. coli, a bacterium commonly found in human feces, and also with ‘insecticides and pesticides’ which could have originated from a nearby orchard, according to the report (NST, May9).

The alleged miracle water was dubbed as “health elixir”. However, based on test findings, everyone has now been strongly advised ”not to drink the water”.

Such a natural spring water source by any count is a “miracle” because very few, that are absolutely pure, are now accessible for use.

This point was very well brought forth last week in a lecture entitled “The secret life of water” at the Universiti Sains Malaysia.

It was delivered by Cailum Coats, a specialist on the subject, who said that water has a life of it’s own, indeed a “living substance”.

Coates was reiterating the position of one Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) who regarded “water as the ‘original’ substance formed by the suble energies called into being through the ‘oriignal’ motion of the Earth, itself the manifestation of even more sublime forces”.

In his book, Living Energies (2001, Gateway Books), Coats quotes Schauberger: “The upholder of the Cycles which supports the whole of Life, is water. In every drop of water dwells a Deity, whom we all serve; there also dwells Life, the Soul of the ‘First substance – Water – whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it and in which it circulates”. Schauberger refers to water as the “Blood of Mother-Earth”. Born in the womb of the high forest.

Viewed from this perspective, water is undoubtedly sacred, and not just a commodity to be bought and sold, and wasted and mismanaged, as often is the case today.

As reminded by Coats: “With incorrect, ignorant handling, however, water becomes diseased, imparting this condition to all other organisms, causing their eventual physical decay and death, and in the case of human beings, their moral, mental and spiritual deterioration as well.” This more than aptly described what was happening to the so-called “miracle water” in the NST report.

It is quite clear that we have lost the innate sense that water is life-giving and has a life of it’s own, as argued by Schauberger.

“True spring water” is of the highest quality and most suited for drinking. It has very high percentages of dissolved carbon and minerals and is of vibrant blusih colour not evident in inferior waters.

Unfortunately few high-quality springs are left due to the destruction of the environment.

This being the case, we are left largely with less ideal drinking water. One example is distilled water, which is regarded as pure and devoid of any so-called “impurities”.

However, Coats described distilled water as having “no developed character and qualities”, being “a young, immature, growing entitiy, it grasps like a baby at everything within reach”.

This is because it tends to absorb the characteristics and properties of whatever it comes into contact with, including minerals and trace elements as well as other impurities. It even smells!

Drinking such immature water will cause the body’s store of minerals and trace elements to leach out, which can be debilitating over the long-term.

Another type of inferior water is meteoric or rainwater. Surface water from dams, reservoirs and rivers are of average quality compared to ground and seepage-spring water.

In short, only mature water, enriched with ‘raw minerals’, “can give, dispense itself freely and willingly, thus enabling the rest of life to develop”. Otherwise like an immature child, immature water just takes and does not give.

This statement of taking and not giving also describes the lackadaisical attitude of a majority of our population with respect to water.

We are largely unaware of the need to conserve as a way of giving back to nature what belongs to it. To make things worse, we have little regard for the environment epitomised by the high forest where good, clean water comes from.

Indeed Viktor Schauberger prophetically warned that a world, which exploited its recources rather than cherishing them, was doomed to destroy itself.

Maybe it is still not too late for us to avert this grim eventuality.

How much water do you need a day?

How much water do you need a day?

Water is an important structural component of skin cartilage, tissues and organs. For human beings, every part of the body is dependent on water.

Our body comprises about 75% water: the brain has 85%, blood is 90%, muscles are 75%, kidney is 82% and bones are 22% water. The functions of our glands and organs will eventually deteriorate if they are not nourished with safe natural and pure water.

The average adult loses about 2.5 litres water daily through perspiration, breathing and elimination. Symptoms of the body's deterioration begins to appear when the body loses 5% of its total water volume. In a healthy adult, this is seen as fatigue and general discomfort, whereas for an infant, it can be dehydrating. In an elderly person, a 5% water loss, leads to fainting.

If your body is not sufficiently hydrated, the cells will draw water from your bloodstream, which will make your heart work harder. At the same time, the kidneys cannot purify blood effectively. When this happens, some of the kidney's workload is passed on to the liver.

So, how much water is enough for you? The minimum amount of water you need depends on your body weight. A more accurate calculation, is to drink 1 oz of water for every 2 lbs of body weight or 250ml for every 7kg.

Meaning if you weight 50 kg, then you should be drinking 1.75litres, or if you are 70 kg 2.5 litres of purified water daily.

So are you drinking the right water your body needs?.