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The Dew Drop® Purewater Newsletter
Issue 1 - Volume 1 - Winter 2000
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Our mission is to bring you news and articles of an international and national nature. It is hoped that this will not only inform you, but also provide you with material to enable you to decide for yourself, about issues relating to the water that you drink and ultimately your health.
The quality of our bones, muscles, brain, blood, tissues and lungs, their performance and resistance to disease and injury, is thus wholly dependent on the quality, amount and regularity of consumption of the water we drink.
Adapted from Dr Michael Colgan's book
"Optimum Sports Nutrition" (Advanced
Research Press, 1993
p19-21)
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We must however, drink CLEAN, PURE water |
Consider this! Many of the regulated chemical dumps in the US leak into the ground water. In one particular county, radioactive wastes have been found in their ground water - two miles from the dump. Could this happen in our country South Africa?
Error at Pelindaba: Nuclear waste in river -
www.chemafrica.com 00/05/30 PELINDABA, South Africa - The National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) on Monday reported that NECSA (The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation – formerly AEC) released 242-million litres of radioactive liquid waste into the Crocodile River. This represents a "small increase" over what was expected for 1999. The Crocodile River flows into the Hartebeespoort Dam near Pretoria.[Editor's Comment] "How many bottled water manufacturers are 3-4 kilometres from the Crocodile River or the Dam? What if that radioactive waste migrated into the ground water just like that county in the US!"
Unfortunately the full article is no longer available on-line.
Iscor to monitor Buffalo River after chemical spill 00/05/30 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -
www.chemafrica.com South African steel and mining resource company, Iscor, will conduct an independent water monitoring exercise after thousands of fish died in the Buffalo River following a gas explosion at its Newcastle plant two weeks ago. At the time of the spillage, water affairs spokesperson Kobus Rothman said the water could "at most give a person an upset stomach"!!!!!Unfortunately the full article is no longer available on-line.
Arsenic in drinking water - 00/06/05 -
www.chemafrica.com The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently developing stricter standards for allowable levels of arsenic in the nation's drinking water supplies. Arsenic has long been identified as a toxicant, and in drinking water it has been associated with skin cancer and other disorders. But recent studies suggest that drinking water with high levels of arsenic also can lead to bladder and lung cancer, which are more likely to be fatal. The chemafrica.com "Editor's Comments" were "the arsenic in the ore body in Mpumalanga being rendered mobile and actually entering the surrounding water-table due to mining activities".Unfortunately the full article is no longer available on-line.
One could be even more concerned when one reads that:
Gold mines aim to make drinking water from waste -
www.bday.co.za SA COULD be the first country in the world to turn highly polluted mine water into drinking water.To read the full article, click on the link below:
http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/0,3523,558085-6078-0,00.html
Could this happen here in South Africa?
Sewage line feeds into Louisiana water line for 3 months -
www.cnn.com May 17, 2000 - PINEVILLE, Louisiana (AP) -- Residents of about 60 homes drank and bathed in water contaminated by sewage for almost three months because city workers mistakenly connected a sewer line to an underground water pipe. City officials say health risks were minimal because enough chlorine is put in the water supply to kill most bacteria.To read the full article, click on the link below:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/05/29/drinking.sewage/index.html
More Waters Test Positive for Drugs - Science News Online - 00/04/01
www.sciencenews.org Over the past decade, European chemists have been documenting widespread pharmaceutical contamination of their lakes, streams and groundwater. In San Francisco this week, U.S. and Canadian scientists offered preliminary confirmation that traces of drugs, excreted by people and livestock, similarly pollute American waters.To read the full article, click on the link below:
http://www.sciencenews.org/20000401/fob1.asp