The city of San Francisco, the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in supermarkets, has introduced a new legislation to require building owners and developers to install tap water filling stations on any premises that require a drinking fountain. Aiming for a January 1st, 2013 effective date, the idea of using these stations [...]
Atrazine Water Pollution And Your Health
If you haven’t visited TED, we highly recommend it. TED’s byline is “Ideas Worth Spreading”. Here are some ideas worth spreading from a fantastic talk on the impact of chemicals, like Atrazine and Bisphenol-A (BPA), on hormones given at a recent TED conference in Washington, DC. Atrazine and BPA cause hormone imbalance Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar [...]
High Speed Robot Will Test 10,000 Chemicals For Potential Toxicity
Of the thousands of chemicals used daily in the United States, only a very few have been tested for health and safety. That is about to change thanks to the Tox-21, a new high-speed robotic screening system located at the National Institutes of Health Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC). The Tox-21 robot was purchased as part of [...]
Cryptosporidium Found In City Water Supply, Again
Portland Municipal Water Supply Source Tests Positive For Cryptosporidium Tests last week of the Bull Run drinking water reservoir detected the parasite Cryptosporidium according to reporting from KATU News in Portland, Oregon. The report comes just days before the state is scheduled to decide whether to give Portland a waiver on building a $90 million water treatment plant. Portland Water Treatment Facility Determined [...]
What Is Your Organization’s Policy On Swine Flu?
Does your workplace have a policy for employees with swine flu or flu like symptoms? What about employees exposed to others known to have swine flu virus? Finally, what about customers, employee family members, patients, students, guests, contractors, vendors or others? By implementing sound swine flu virus policies in our organizations, we can help curb [...]
Why Does Water from the Bottled Water Cooler Taste Funky?
If your office uses bottled water coolers with bottled water delivery (3 or 5 gallon jugs), you may find the water tasting “earthy”, “funky”, or just plain odd from time to time. Why is that? Simple, micro-organisms are growing in the cooler. Even if you don’t taste it, micro-organisms are likely growing in the bottled [...]
Is drinking steam distilled water bad for my health, will it kill me, or worse?
No, steam distilled water is perfectly safe to drink. In fact, many dentists use distilled water in their offices. Why? Because steam distillation provides the most reliably pure water possible. Steam distillation, or evaporation, is the engine behind the hydrologic cycle which is responsible for rain. What about Flat or De-Oxygenated Water? Flat or de-oxygenated water is, [...]
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Cryptosporidium Found In City Water Supply, Again Portland Municipal Water Supply Source Tests Positive For Cryptosporidium Tests last week of the Bull Run ...
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Study Finds 232 Toxic Chemicals In New Born Babies Including BPA The Environmental Working Group (EWG) published a study finding 232 toxic chemicals in the umbilical ... -
Bottled Water Cooler At Indian Nuclear Plant Intentionally Contaminated There was a disturbing story out of India late last year. You can read about ... -
Atrazine Water Pollution And Your Health If you haven’t visited TED, we highly recommend it. TED’s byline is “Ideas Worth Spreading”. ...
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Rising Fuel Costs Mean Rising Bottled Water Surcharges National Bottled Water Delivery Firms Revamping Fuel Surcharges? Over the last few months, we’ve noticed ...
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AquaPrix is now Taylor Made Water Systems Please be assured, this transition certainly doesn’t mean that you’re losing the water service that ...
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Health Problems May Be Lurking in Water Filters Current research ongoing on at Virginia Technology University is looking at NTM (Nontuberculous Mycobacteria) bacteria ... -
San Francisco to Require Bottle Filling Stations The city of San Francisco, the first in the nation to ban plastic bags in ... -
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Santa Cruz and Soquel Collaborate on Desalination Plant Supplemental Water Resources Needed Due to limited resources and increasing demands, the City of Santa ...
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