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Look at this - Our June Newsletter is out a couple of days early!

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A GREEN Switch

There is a switch going on. A GREEN switch. The switch from bottled water to reusable water containers has been seen across the country, in businesses, homes, waiting rooms, people are seeing the value in drinking from the tap of a filtered water system.

Even Nestlé, the world’s biggest food company, is seeing shrinking water sales as more people are switching to the tap, as reported in Bloomberg News reports. Nestle owns more than 60 water brands including Perrier, Vittel and Pure Life, the world’s best-selling label, and relies heavily on western Europe and North America. 

The world’s biggest food company has been losing ground since 2006 as consumers switch to tap and filtered water and as concerns over the environmental impact of plastic packaging and energy used in transportation deter some shoppers, said Hope Lee, an analyst at Euromonitor International in London.

Consumers are driven by certain social trends, and recently many have found the regular manufacturing and delivery of plastic water bottles and jugs to be costly and damaging to the planet. Purchasing reusable water bottles and bottleless water coolers are affordable options for almost anyone. Filtered water dispensers can be installed in public and private spaces to give people the option to fill their reusable containers.

We can make the switch from bottled to bottleless quick and easy. Our certified water specialists will help you choose from a variety of purification systems and install it so you can enjoy great water on tap.

We are almost 70% Water

We are made up of so much water, it should really make us think about the water that we consume.

• 85% of gray matter in the brain is water
• 83% of blood is water
• Even bone is 22% water.
• Total water in an average adult - 37 Liters
• Sound is conducted through the middle ear by water
• Water serves as a cushion for the brain and spinal cord
• Water serves as a lubricant for moving surfaces such as joints, the heart, and intestine.
• Water moistens the surface of the lungs for gas diffusion.
• Water is the medium for digestion, absorption, metabolism, secretion, and excretion.
• A six-year study of more than 20,000 healthy men and women aged 38-100 in the May 1, 2002, American Journal of Epidemiology found that women who drank more than 5 glasses of water a day were 41% less likely to die from a heart attack than those who drank less than two glasses. The protective effect was even greater in men!
   

Do you think it matters what water you put in your body?

Drinking from a hose

Ah summer. What a great time of year to be a kid! Warm days spent outside playing - no school to worry about, just fun.

Water always played a big part - whether it was going to the beach, or the pool or most often just playing with the hose in the yard. Running through the sprinkler, sipping from the hose when thirsty.

It was always better sipping from the hose than going to the house. Trying to set the water flow just right to drink. I don't know about you but somehow we either got it wrong and we got all wet, or our friends - played with the valve to get us.


When I had daughters, I taught them how to drink form the hose and yes - i might have played with the valve to get them wet. I even taught my 14 month old grandson how to last summer.


BUT WAIT!

A new study released is exposing the dangers of drinking from the hose. Garden hoses don't have the same requirements as drinking water plumbing. The research team left a section of garden hose filled with water out in the sun over multiple days. When the water was tested it was found to exceed federal standards for safe drinking water for several chemicals — including four times the standard considered safe for phthalates, 18 times that for lead and 20 times that for BPA.

A spokeswoman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, said that the commission would never recommend that any consumer drink from a garden hose. “The real health concern here is bacterial contamination,” she said. “Garden hoses sit outside and bake in the sun. Anything can get in them, and it’s a perfect environment for all sorts of microbial communities.”

Now that's a mouthful, but I don't think I'll be taking a mouthful of hose water any time soon.