Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Sure enough, when the bacteria invaded nations with poorly protected water supplies, such as Ecuador, the virus became more harmful as it spread. But in countries with safe water supplies, such as Chile, the bacteria evolved downward in virulence and killed fewer people.
The implications of this are huge—instead of challenging bacteria to become stronger and more dangerous through an antibiotic arms race, we could essentially challenge them to get along with us. Think about the application of this theory just in terms of waterborne diseases like cholera. |
Ray D. Strand
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 More than fifty thousand different chemicals now contaminate our water supplies. Here's a frightening fact: the average water treatment plant can test for only thirty to forty of these chemicals. In addition heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and aluminum contaminate most of our water supplies. More than fifty-five thousand regulated chemical dumps in America, in addition to the estimated two hundred thousand unregulated chemical dumps, are leaking into the water tables across the nation. When we ingest this contaminated water, the production of free radicals increases significantly. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| If we clean up water supplies, it will certainly mean fewer people will get infected because fewer people will consume contaminated water. But if Ewald is right, every dollar spent on protecting water supplies—and thus, controlling the transmission channel of the disease—will also steer the evolution of the disease itself toward a less harmful incarnation. As Ewald said:
We should be taking control of the evolution of those disease organisms, favoring those mild strains and thereby essentially domesticating those disease organisms, making them into mild versions of what was there before. |
| But in countries with safe water supplies, such as Chile, the bacteria evolved downward in virulence and killed fewer people.
The implications of this are huge—instead of challenging bacteria to become stronger and more dangerous through an antibiotic arms race, we could essentially challenge them to get along with us. Think about the application of this theory just in terms of waterborne diseases like cholera. If we clean up water supplies, it will certainly mean fewer people will get infected because fewer people will consume contaminated water. |
Ray D. Strand
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| In addition heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and aluminum contaminate most of our water supplies. More than fifty-five thousand regulated chemical dumps in America, in addition to the estimated two hundred thousand unregulated chemical dumps, are leaking into the water tables across the nation. When we ingest this contaminated water, the production of free radicals increases significantly.7
Americans have resorted to drinking bottled, filtered, and distilled water in unprecedented amounts today. |
Mark Lynas
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 With Sierra Nevada snowpack declining and earlier melt producing earlier spring run-off, surface water supplies to 85 per cent of Californians - orange growers and city dwellers alike - will be reduced.
Nor would the changes be limited to California: a second study projects snowpack declines in Oregon and Washington too, with the northern Rockies and Cascades seeing declines of 20 to 70 per cent. With more rain and earlier snowmelt, the likelihood of winter flooding will also increase, even whilst reduced run-off causes water shortages in the summer. |
David Steinman
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 Melting along the Himalayan glaciers would accelerate, disrupting water supplies for more than 40 percent of the Earth's population, causing billions of desperate refugees to seek drinking water. Mass migrations would heighten nuclear tensions. Floating ice in the northern polar seas, which had already lost 40 percent of its mass from 1970 to 2003, would be mostly gone during summer. As glacial ice melts, sea levels rise, and as wintertime sea extent decreases, ocean waves increase in intensity, damaging coastal cities. |
| Around 2020, conflict will emerge within Europe over food and water supplies, leading to skirmishes and strained diplomatic relations.
?A strategic agreement between Japan and Russia is reached for Siberian and Sakhalin Island energy resources, depriving American oil companies of natural gas reserves. China is choked off for more fossil fuels.
?Russia joins the EU and provides energy resources as Siberian permafrost lifts and natural gas reserves are tapped. Late in the decade, China intervenes in Kazakhstan to protect pipelines regularly disrupted by rebels and criminals.
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| To escape poisoned water supplies, these small towns are trying to hook up to large cities' supplies, which are dug deeper to avoid nitrates and pesticides," Frantz said. "But there is a lot of red tape and bureaucracy in Sacramento that makes this difficult. |
| But the state has picked up more and more land in its quest to protect its water supplies and so by now forty percent of Adirondack Pack is forest preserve and ten percent of the acreage consists of conservation easements.
"When the Nature Conservancy and New York State began working with Domtar Industries to obtain conservation easements and preserve some of the land as deep ecology, people naturally had strong emotions and concerns," he said. "They really worried over whether they would lose use of their lands. |
Mark Lynas
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| Elsewhere in the world, disappearing mountain glaciers pose a major threat to downstream water supplies. But Kilimanjaro's ice cap is so small that its final disappearance will make little difference to the two major rivers - the Pangani and the Galana - which rise on its flanks. Instead, the crucial water link for Kilimanjaro is not the glaciers, but the forests. |
| In some ways, these are 'fossil' water supplies, which have been stored for millennia when the glaciers were in relative balance, but will be released in decades to come as the world warms up.
With India particularly dependent on hydroelectric power generation, dwindling summer flows may lead to blackouts and energy shortages during the hottest months of the year. Two of the Indus River's major tributaries - the Chenab and the Sutlej - arise in India and flow into Pakistan. Both will also be suffering the effects of deglaciation in their upper reaches. |
| In a chronic water shortage situation, Lima's streets might begin to empty, in a strange kind of reverse migration - instead of people moving from the countryside to the city, people might make the trek back to their mountain villages, where water supplies are more plentiful and crops can still be grown. The city's influence would dwindle, and the half of Peru's population that currently lives in the desert might be forced to move up into the mountains - assuming space and cultivable land can be found for them. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Chemicals found in dry-cleaning fluids (trichloroethylene), paint solvents (toluene), municipal water supplies (phenol and chlorine), carpets and flooring (formaldehyde), and some imported produce (pesticide residues) are also potentially harmful, depending on your level of susceptibility. Studies have proven that these chemicals can interfere with proper nerve and muscle function, cause skeletal and muscular changes, and alter mental functioning. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Teflon chemical that is ubiquitous in drinking water supplies and people's bodies.14 Recent Du Pont ads in Good Housekeeping magazine feature a smiling young woman in a white lab coat with the caption, "As a scientist, I make Teflon. As a mother I use it."15
The line between the cosmetics industry and chemical industry is thin. Before taking the cosmetic industry's top job, Pamela Bailey spent six years as head of AdvaMed, the medical device manufacturers trade association. |
Mark Lynas
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| Conflicts may well break out between these two nuclear-armed countries as water supplies dwindle and political leaders quarrel over how much can be stored behind dams in upstream reservoirs.
Any crisis in food production could quickly escalate into a crisis for the whole Pakistani economy. The country depends heavily on cash-crop exports of rice and sugar, both of which are grown extensively in irrigated Punjab. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Yet another chemical contaminating nationwide water supplies is chlorine. Chlorine is a disinfectant used to kill waterborne diseases such as cholera, dysentery, E. coli and typhoid and has been used regularly in municipal water treatment facilities for more than a century. It's estimated over 200 million Americans have at least marginally chlorinated water pumped into their homes every day for washing clothes, bathing, cooking, and drinking.
Chlorine may be effective at eliminating many pathogens, but its presence in drinking water does more harm than good. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Mortality and hardness of local water supplies. Lancet 1, 827-831.
79. Cutler, J. A., and Brittain, E. (1990). Calcium and blood pressure. An epidemiologic perspective. Am. J. Hypertens. 3, 137S-146S.
80. Cappuccio, F. P., et al. (1995). Epidemiologic association between dietary calcium intake and blood pressure: a metaanalysis of published data. Am. J. Epidemiol. 142(9), 935-945.
81. Hajjar, I. M., Grim, C. E., and Kotchen, T. A. (2003). Dietary calcium lowers the age-related rise in blood pressure in the United States: the NHANES III survey. J. Clin. Hypertens. (Greenwich) 5(2), 122-126. |
| Croatia that were demographically very similar except for a substantial difference in the calcium content of local water supplies. Second was publication of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II (NHANES), which showed that habitual calcium intakes of American girls and women failed to meet recommended daily standards (RDAs) as early as age 11 [23]. Third was a landmark paper by Chapuy et al. [24] that clearly demonstrated the ability of supplemental calcium and vitamin D to reduce the incidence of hip fracture in a highly vulnerable population. |
David R. Montgomery
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 The first Greek settlements were located in valleys with good soils near reliable water supplies. As the landscape filled with people, farmers began
Figure 6. Map of ancient Greece. advancing onto steeper, less productive slopes. Extensive tilling and grazing sttipped soil from hillsides and piled thick deposits of reworked dirt in valleys. Ancient agricultural artifacts can still be found on the rocky slopes of areas that lack enough soil to grow much vegeration. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Be careful, though, as many mains water supplies are contaminated and contain inorganic substances such as lead, cadmium and chemical additives that impair our immune system. Invest in a water filter system—there are many inexpensive ones now available—and taste the difference. Try to drink at least half the recommended 6-7 glasses of liquid daily as pure water. Limit alcohol and caffeine consumption. Keep up the recommended level of liquid, too, especially as you grow older, when the thirst drive diminishes: your body's need for water does not. |
| Impure or inadequate water supplies means every cell in our body suffers.
Our body excretes about 2.5 litres of fluid per day (the equivalent of ten cups), through our skin as well as our kidneys. We must perpetually put back what we lose. The food we eat daily contains about two or three cups of fluid,- metabolic water (the kind made in our cells as a result of chemical reactions) provides another cup,- this leaves six or seven cups of fluid we need to drink every day. |
| Then chemicals such as chlorine, fluoride and aluminium are added to our water supplies to complete the health-destroying cocktail.
Fruit and vegetables are grown with artificial fertilisers and sprayed with chemicals. Animals are treated with artificial hormones to increase their weight, with antibiotics to prevent disease and are reared on crops sprayed with chemicals. Food additives, preservatives and artificial flavourings and colourings, combined with plastic wrapping and packaging, adulterate our food. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Neolithic settlements that emerged after the Younger Dryas were located at sites ideally suited for agriculture with rich soils and ample water supplies. Charred remains of domesticated wheat dating from 10,000 years ago are found in sites neat Damascus, in northwestern Jordan, and on the Middle Euphrates River. Domesticated crops then spread south to Jericho in the Jordan Valley and northwest into southern Turkey. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 In addition to water supplies, perchlorate has also been found in a wide variety of domestic and imported produce. Tests by the CDC and independent researchers have confirmed that virtually all Americans carry some level of perchlorate in their bodies, and that many have levels well above the levels found to lower thyroid levels.
What's in Your Water? Pollution, old pipes, and outdated treatment can render tap water harmful, even though you can't see, taste, or smell the contaminants. Up to 7 million Americans become sick from dirty tap water each year. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Dentists, for example, still insist on the mass poisoning of children through the fluoridation of public water supplies with an EPA-regulated toxic industrial byproduct chemical they incorrectly call "fluoride." Those same dentists -- all of whom should have their dental licenses revoked, by the way -- continue to place mercury into the mouths of children through the use of "silver fillings" (which, in reality, contain more mercury than silver), inducing a lifetime of mercury poisoning. |
Mark Sircus
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 The US Environmental Protection Agency has begun an investigation to determine how a Teflon chemical has found its way into the blood of virtually every American, and polluted drinking water supplies. Perfluorooctanoic acid, a key ingredient in the making of Teflon non-stick coating for cookware can cause testicular, breast, liver and prostate cancers, as well as birth defects. And in 2004 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found perchlorate contamination in nearly all of the more than 200 samples of lettuce and milk it collected and tested nationwide. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| These are the same people, of course, who say that mass fluoridation of public water supplies with a toxic waste chemical misnamed "fluoride" is also perfectly safe. And mercury dental fillings are safe, too, if you can believe that. In fact, there's hardly a chemical or heavy metal being used in public health today that isn't safe enough to be injected into the bodies of children, if you believe these so-called health "experts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The situation is so crazy that it's difficult to find a more insane example of medical tyranny than the mass fluoridation of public water supplies. The fact that doctors and dentists so vehemently support it demonstrates just how crazy they really are.
10. Processed milk
Children as young as 10 years old are now being diagnosed with heart disease and clogged arteries. Ever wonder how it happened? It's due in part, I believe, to all the processed milk children are swallowing these days. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The widespread shift towards bottled water products is increasingly causing consumers to lose faith in public water infrastructure, which ultimately leads to public reluctance to support investment in public water supplies. This concerns many cities who are worried that a lack of public support will cause funding for water infrastructure to erode.
These people tend to describe treated municipal water as remarkably pristine and safe for human consumption. |
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