"Dr. Jerry Pollack, a professor in the bio-engineering department of the University of Washington, discusses new insights into structured water garnered in his lab during the past year. Dr. Pollack has spent the last 10 years researching the role of water in biological tissue, and his discoveries could have a profound impact on our understanding of disease and healing."
"340 billion beverage bottles and cans are not recycled every year worldwide. That's a recycling rate of about 26 percent.1
141 billion beverage bottles and cans are not recycled every year in the United States. The recycling rate for all Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles is only 23.1 percent, so that 100 billion beverage bottles were not recycled in 2009.2
Carbonated beverage and sparkling water consumption is growing rapidly. The environmental cost to produce the plastic bottles and transport the goods to consumers is high.
With an average consumption of over 118 liters of carbonated drinks per capita annually, it’s time to consider an alternative to packaged carbonated drinks and sparkling water.
What it takes to manufacture those PET bottles:
1. Euromonitor 2009 - Beverage Packaging
2. Container Recycling Institute
3. Emily Arnold & Janet Larsen. "Bottled water: Pouring resources down the drain." Earth Policy Institute, Feb. 2, 2006"
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A wheat field outside of Palouse, Wash. is dusted by a January snow. Most of Washington's wheat crop is watered only with rain falling from the sky - a future facing many farmers across the West as water supplies dwindle and the climate shifts to drier conditions.
Photograph by Jorgen Tharaldsen
"In a world of a million water pictures, it's easy to dismiss this as "just another reflection shot." Still, this unedited image proves how unreal water can behave under certain circumstances.
Here I stand at the narrowest point of a small lake, and as usual I have thrown objects into the water to see how it behaves visually. Because the lake was so narrow, only a few meters, the circles started to recoil from land. The effect is called, to my knowledge, interference, but I have yet to see anything similar, even after all these years of throwing rocks into the water."
When falling onto another liquid layer, water droplets typically bounce then coalesce. If the surface is vibrating, however, the droplets will continue bouncing.
Groundwater in movement from Roxana Torre on Vimeo.
Researchers took samples from 19 American drinking water treatment plants that provide drinking water for over 28 million people. They found sucralose in:
-The source water of 15 out of 19 drinking water treatment plants tested;
-The finished water of 13 out of 17 water plants; and
-8 out of 12 water distribution systems."
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