Archive For The “Arsenic” Category
As the title stated, routine testing of well water yielded startling results… near an Elementary School in Durham, Connecticut. Testing of water from several wells showed higher than ‘normal’ amounts of sodium, sulfates, hardness and… dissolved arsenic. DURHAM — Traces of arsenic in some of the town’s wells have prompted the Department of Health to [...]
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Earlier this year we wrote about a residential neighborhood called the Acreage in Florida because of the unusually high incident rate of cancer and tumors in children living in the area. At one point residents and officials suspected that radon may have played a part in making people ill (Radon a Suspect in Florida Tumor [...]
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While the jury has not come back with a decision on whether or not fluoride in drinking water poses a serious health risk to people who drink water spiked with it, if you don’t want it in your water Crystal Quest has recently come out with a convenient, easily installed countertop water filter for fluoride [...]
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Blue baby syndrome. A very good reason to test the water coming up from your well for nitrates. Blue baby syndrome can also be caused by Methemoglobinemia. It is believed to be caused by high nitrate contamination in ground water resulting in decreased oxygen carrying capacity of hemoglobin in babies leading to death. The groundwater [...]
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We have all heard the stories about people having date rape drugs slipped into their drinks while out at bars and nightclubs, but how many have heard of THIS? A male co-worker put his own…. ‘seed’…. into a female co-worker’s water bottle. Twice. Just… Wow. What a flippin’ disgusting individual! SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) — [...]
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This multi-stage (six) inline filter does a lot more than just remove arsenic from water at a rate of up to 1 gallon per minute, a rate perfect for use with water fountains, bottleless water coolers, commercial coffeemakers, and ice machines. It uses all six of its filtration layers to effectively remove a number of [...]
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If we had a nickel for every single time someone asked us what NSF 42, 44, 53, 55, 58, 62 and 177 meant… we’d have a huge pile of nickels and STILL not have enough money for that diamond-plated, gold-encrusted, platinum embossed drinking fountain w/ the GIANT water purification FACTORY attached to it from the [...]
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Of all the things a person should have to worry about affecting their drinking water, who in their right mind would think that torpedo testing would ever become an issue? Not us, but folks in the San Gabriel Valley region of California have something to think about… unfortunately. The San Gabriel Mountains may be an [...]
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We recently received an email inquiry from Lisa containing a question about water treatment systems for people with compromised immune systems. My son has just been diagnoses with an immune deficiency, and I should be sterilizing his drinking water -which I am doing by boiling for him. I am wondering if distilled or reverse osmosis, [...]
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A recent study done on fish and sediment taken from Mountain Island Lake in North Carolina detected higher than expected, and some cases safe, levels of toxic metals and PCB’s. Toxic chemicals and heavy metals are collecting in the tissue of fish and the sediment beneath the water of Mountain Island Lake, according to a [...]
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