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The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet
NUKUS, Uzbekistan – The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet's most shocking environmental disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday as he urged Central Asian leaders to step up efforts to solve the problem. Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the sea has shrunk ...
Distilled Water A Potential Health Risk
A matter of national survival, Singapore pursues an "Aggressive" water policy. Did you know, however, there is also a policy on "aggressive water"?...
Rouge Plumbers leave many high and dry
They fake plumbing problems, do a shoddy job and even resort to bullying customers. “Before this year, the Singapore Plumbing Society (SPS) received two to three complaints a week about such fly-by-night crooks. As of last month, the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) had inquiries or feedback involving 6...
Bottled Water Facts
Millions and millions of dollars are spent each week on advertising campaigns to give consumers the perception that bottled water comes from some pristine mountain spring or magical underground aquifer, assuring purity and quality. However, the fact is that bottled water is oftentimes little more than just tap water in...
Bottled Water - Healthy or Hoax?
Bottled water banned in major U.S. cities? San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, St. Louis and many other cities have recently jumped on the "ban bottled water" bandwagon, making it illegal to spend city dollars on bottled water. The realization that bottled water is seldom of higher quality th...
Gout and Dietary tips
Gout is a disease, commonly referred to as Rich Man's Disease, relates to excessive levels of uric acid in the bloodstream. In this condition, crystals of monosodium urate (MSU) or uric acid are deposited on the cartilage of joints, tendons and surrounding tissues. It causes painful attacks of acute arthritis resulting...
Common WATER Quality matters
Bad tastes and odors -There are multiple possibilities as to why water can carry bad taste & odor. Most often, municipalities have disinfectants like chlorine, or fluoride added which alters water¡¦s original taste. And while water is being distributed from the reservoir to your home, other extracts as a result ...
Why drink Bottled Water when you can have Purified water from your Tap
* The United States is the world's leading consumer of bottled water. In 2006, bottled water consumption in the US reached a record 8.3 billion gallons, 185 million gallons of which was imported.. The total amount spent on bottled water was over $11 billion. * In contrast to tap water, which is distributed through a...
Did you Know…
...that about 70% of the earth is covered in water...that freshwater lakes, rivers, ice and snow and underground aquifers hold only 2.5% of the world's water (saltwater oceans and seas contain 97.5% of the world's water supply)...that 68.9% of the Earth's fresh water exists in the form of glaciers and permanent snow co...