An article in a web newsletter from Nutra ingredients USA cites Mintel as predicting a backlash against bottled water. Customers are demanding purity and simplicity they say. This strengthens our belief that Purity AB, the Swedish healthy technology company is on the right track!
Archive for the 'Policy' Category
Trend Gurus predict backlash against bottled water
Published December 3, 2007 Bottled water , Challenges , Policy , The US Leave a CommentOutlook for Australia: parched
Published October 11, 2007 Australia , Climate change , Policy , Water shortage Leave a CommentA new report from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) paints a dry, drought ridden future for Australia. Late in accepting climate change and even later in engaging in analysis of anthropogenic causes of climate change, Australia is being forced into facing its parched future.
The Australian newspaper, The Age, reports on the findings of the CSIRO. Read the full article here.
Tim Flannery, one of Australia’s top scientists and author of The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change talks to Andi Hazelwood of Global Public Media about his suggested mitigations for climate change on the heels of the alarming report. (Audio, follow this link).
American Dental Association alerts its members of problem with fluoridated water
Published June 28, 2007 Contaminants , Flouride , Policy 1 CommentWe have long been sceptical to the idea of adding flouride to drinking water. Now the American Dental Association has gone out to warn members giving of flouride to babies.
Doctor Mercola takes scepticism even further with his lobby against flouride. Read his opinion here.
And here is the video “THE FLOURIDE DECEPTION” with Chris Bryson
World Water Scarcity factfile from WHO
Published April 18, 2007 Challenges , Climate change , Policy Leave a Comment
To underline the importance of water for everyone – and what scarcity means – the WHO produced this factfile recently. Highly recommended.
Water, energy and climate are intricately connected with social systems
Published February 22, 2007 Policy , Water shortage 2 CommentsPure Drinking Water recommends this audio feed from Global Public Media.
People seem to underestimate how water is a finite resource and especially fresh water is needed and is affected by our current mad dash for continuous economic expansion.
This week’s guest on the Reality Report is Dr. Peter Gleick, President and co-founder of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, based in Oakland, CA. The show discusses how water is intricately connected to energy, climate and social systems, how changes in one part ripple through others.
Jason Bradford hosts The Reality Report, broadcast on KZYX&Z in Mendocino County, CA.
Australian expert refuses to drink recycled sewage
Published January 30, 2007 Australia , Policy , Purification technology Leave a CommentADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA — The scientist who set Australian drinking water standards is speaking out against the recent plan to use recycled water to boost supplies, saying, “This is one bloke who isn’t going to drink it,” a January 29 story in The Advertiser of Adelaide reported.Prof. Don Bursill said there are too many risks involved with drinking recycled water, according to the story.
“You can turn anything wet into drinking water if you have enough money … The risk is orders of magnitude higher than when dealing with conventional sources.” Areas throughout Australia have faced serious water restrictions due to the worst drought in the past century. And it does not look like it is going to get any better.
We believe a complete re-thinking of how society uses water will be needed to avoid crop failures, spread of diseases and economic growth stagnation.
To read the entire story, click here.
Drought plagued Australia – billions needed.
Published January 30, 2007 Australia , Policy , Water shortage 1 CommentlCANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — Australian Prime Minister John Howard says it will take $7.8 billion dollars (US) to fix the drought-plagued continent’s water supply, a January 25 Associated Press story on MSNBC reported.
All eyes should be on Australia and its drinking water problem because – guess what – your country might be next.
Technological advances stemming back to the Victorian era in England are seriously catching up with us.
1) MIFSLA. That stands for mix first separate later. Mixing grey and black water together, then cleaning it, letting it out into natural watercourses – or worse – letting it out into the sea where is is irrecoverable in principle – only to turn it into drinking water which you use to flush the toilet may have worked back then.
Today it requires a lot of work, a lot of energy and uses too much of the available water.
2) Piped water. Piped water, although more environmentally friendly as drinking water than bottled water, has to be chlorinated to travel down the pipes. Chlorination is associated with carcinogenic bi products. No technical solution to that seems to be on the horizon expect for placing POU (Point of use) purifying devices in every home. (See link for details of one solution)Howard, calling for radical and permanent changes, tsays of the he water shortage “it is one of the greatest challenges of our time, …..the current trajectory of water use and management in Australia is not sustainable.”
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