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Hugh Harris-Evans
Member since 04th June 2008
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01st September 2008
Did you know that there are drugs in our drinking water? I know that I was concerned when I learned about all the drugs found in US drinking water. But hang on a minute, is this really true or am I just scaremongering? And if it is true that there are dru...
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20th August 2008
"Probe finds drugs in drinking water" was typical of the headlines in the newspapers back in March 2008 when an Associated Press report revealed the results of an investigation carried out by three of its reporters. So Views: 0
18th August 2008
"Prescription drugs found in our drinking water" screamed the headlines back in March 2008. My first reaction on reading this was to wonder whether this was really true or just a scare story to sell the newspapers. And, if there really were drugs in the d...
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16th August 2008
If you work in an office, most likely you have access to drinking water stations as a choice over bottled water or H2O straight from the tap. But have you ever wondered whether the water is safe to drink or if you are still exposed to contaminated drinkin...
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16th August 2008
In the United States, drinking water treatment facilities are required to abide by the rules of the Safe Drinking Water Act established in 1973. Yet today, over 35 years later, there are still numerous incidences of drinking water contamination that caus...
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15th August 2008
There are many benefits of drinking water in sufficient quantities on a daily basis. Let’s look at the importance of drinking water, as it is related to controlling your weight. Since most of us could stand to lose at least a couple of pounds.
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22nd July 2008
Residents in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina not only had to deal with the loss of their homes and a federal government that was slow to respond, but they also had to cope with an unstable, unhealthy drinking water system brought on by the devastating ...
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22nd July 2008
If you are like me, you assume that when you open a brand new bottle labeled pure drinking water, that what you are about to consume is in fact just that: pure. But what does that label, especially for pure drinking mineral water, really mean?
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16th July 2008
Let me tell you a story about a guy who considered mineral water healthy. He thought that the best thing in the world he could drink was a particular brand of natural mineral water H20.
He also happened to work at a treatment facility in North Carolin...
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10th July 2008
Most people know that mineral water benefits our health and that the trace minerals that are naturally present in our drinking water also improve its taste. Mineral revitalization water purification systems are a new addition to home filtration units. Thi...
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09th July 2008
Early in the last century, public drinking water purification systems were introduced to protect the populations of our cities from sometimes fatal waterborne diseases. The problem is that in many cities around the country, the drinking water purificatio...
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07th July 2008
Water purification technology continues to advance, particularly in the area of in-home or point-of-use methods of water purification. Some very old systems are still being used today. Let’s start with them.
Distillation has been around since anci...
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07th July 2008
A complete water purification process involves a number of steps to remove the contaminants present in untreated water. While it is difficult to explain water purification in one short article, here is an outline of the various steps involved.
In yea...
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26th June 2008
Buying a drinking water filter system can be really confusing. When some cost as little as $24.95 and others go up to $420, just for the countertop designs, it may make you feel like giving up. Take a minute and read the information we have here. At le...
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25th June 2008
Initially the cost of whole house water filters may seem high, but when you look at the cost of individual units for the kitchen, the shower and other faucets, you could actually end up saving money. Plus, a whole house water filter protects areas of you...
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