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Water-For-Health |
The Dew Drop® Purewater Newsletter
Issue 3 - Volume 1 - Spring 2008
"If you fail to get the main components of your body right, that is clean air, clean water, organic food and sunlight, then no winky little pill or potion is going to make you healthy. You have to tackle the elephants before you tackle the fleas."
Dr Michael Colgan "Nutrition for Champions" (Science Books, 2006 www.colganinstitute.com )
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JOHANNESBURG
Nearly 80 children have died in an Eastern Cape district due to unsafe tap water and authorities have failed to take any action, the Daily Dispatch Online reported on Tuesday.
Despite evidence of a lethal epidemic in the Ukhahlamba District Municipality (UKDM), which included the towns of Barkly East, Maclear, Sterkspruit and Elliot, municipal authorities had not yet issued a public warning.
Breakdown in water purification works
An official health report indicated that there had been a breakdown in a water purification works in October last year and called for urgent action, but no action has been taken, the report said.
Read the entire article at
http://iafrica.com/news/sapa/728785.htm
Published on 29th August 2008
Acid mine drainage water is a major threat to the environment, but it also constitutes a major resource for the production of high-quality drinking water through the process of precipitation and desalination.
South African turnkey project house Keyplan has developed a high-recovery precipitation reverse-osmosis (HiPRO) process for the treatment of acid mine drainage.
A world first, this high-tech process transforms water with a high acidity and sulphate concentration into superior-quality drinking water for use by local communities.
Read the entire article at
http://www.miningweekly.com/article.php?rep_id=1712&a_id=139787
Water Wheel Jan-Feb 2008
By BB Mamba, LC Rietveld and JQJC Verberk.
Drinking water standards are important in ensuring that water supply companies and utilities provide drinking water of good and safe quality. In a recent study, the drinking water guidelines of Europe, The Netherlands and South Africa were compared with regards to chemical parameters in order to determine the levels of strictness in these standards and the general philosophy towards water quality as it relates to health.
The South African drinking water standard was found to be least strict compared to the other standards studied. Furthermore, the South African standard gives allowances to exceed the operational maximum limits within a given time period.
Read the entire report at
http://www.wrc.org.za/downloads/waterwheel/jan-feb%2008/Dr%20water%20p%2024-27.pdf
Start Saving or Start Paying, River Studies Warn
Water-Wheel May-June 2008
Extensive urbanisation, economic development and industrialisation coupled with water wastage and illegal water use are placing increased pressure on the Vaal River System, recent studies have revealed. Unless users start saving water immediately a new bulk water transfer scheme would have to be implemented as a matter of urgency. Lani van Vuuren reports.
Read the entire article at
http://www.wrc.org.za/downloads/waterwheel/may-jun-08/06%20Vaal%20p%2014-18.pdf
By Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza and Justin Pritchard, Associated Press
10th March 2008
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.
In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas — from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville
Water providers rarely disclose results of pharmaceutical screenings, unless pressed, the AP found. For example, the head of a group representing major California suppliers said the public "doesn't know how to interpret the information" and might be unduly alarmed.
How do the drugs get into the water?
Read the whole article at
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-drugs-tap-water_N.htm?csp=34
[Editors Comment] - If this is happening in the US, what do you think we are exposed to here in South Africa?
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government's controversial plan to dose public drinking water supplies with
fluoride has been delayed considerably, pending further research on several
issues from cost to the effects on human health and the environment.
Although half a dozen municipalities will soon be chosen as pilot projects
for rapid fluoridation, some sources believe that the nationwide
implementation of the new fluoride laws could be delayed for between one and
five years.
Durban, along with more than 100 other towns and cities, has already asked
the government to exempt it from the fluoride plan for at least two years.
The department of health - which argues that adding fluoride to water is a
cheap and safe way to reduce tooth decay among the South African public -
had hoped to compel all major towns and cities to fluoridate their water
before September this year.
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