Author: Laura

Healthy Water, Healthy Kids

By Jennie Saxe Like most children, my kids interact with water in many ways, from the moment they wake up to the moment their little heads hit their pillows. Every day, my boys use water for drinking, bathing, and brushing their teeth. The clothes they wear and the dishes they eat from get washed in water as well. They also love swimming, splashing in puddles, and hiking near (and sometimes falling into) Crum Creek. Because water interacts with nearly every part of our children’s lives, ...[READ MORE]

Water Related Diseases And Contaminants In Private Wells

Many people in the United States receive their water from private ground water wells. EPA regulations that protect public drinking water systems do not apply to privately owned wells. As a result, owners of private wells are responsible for ensuring that their water is safe from contaminants. When rain falls, much of it is absorbed into the ground. Water that’s not used by plants moves downward through pores and spaces in the rock until it reaches a dense layer of rock. The water trapped below ...[READ MORE]

Nestlé's "Stolen Springs": Great news for the embattled town of Fryeburg

Source: http://storyofstuff.org/ Nestlé's "Stolen Springs": Great news for the embattled town of Fryeburg The Issue: Around the world, Nestlé is threatening local water rights. For nearly a decade, Nestlé has been attempting to strong-arm the town of Fryeburg, Maine, into a 45-year contract to control its spring water. Our response: Thousands of us spoke up to Nestlé, and hundreds of our Story Community members contributed money to the town's fight, funding water stations and branded water ...[READ MORE]

Unacceptable Levels – Debut Documentary

Yekra PlayerYekra is a revolutionary new distribution network for feature films.Unacceptable LevelsUnacceptable Levels examines the results of the chemical revolution of the 1940s through the eyes of affable filmmaker Ed Brown, a father seeking to understand the world in which he and his wife are raising their children. To create this debut documentary, one man and his camera traveled extensively to find and interview top minds in the fields of science, advocacy, and law. Weaving their ...[READ MORE]

Bottled Water Comes From the Most Drought-Ridden Places in the Country

Popular brands like Aquafina and Dasani source mainly from catastrophically dry parts of the West. —By Julia Lurie | Mon Aug. 11, 2014 6:00 AM EDT Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: there's a good chance that your water comes from California, a state experiencing the third driest year on record. The details of where and how bottling companies get their water are often quite murky, but generally speaking, bottled water falls into two categories. The first is "spring water," or ...[READ MORE]

Purslane Plant – Edible Flower Or Weed?

Recently I bought some Purslane plants from the local Lowes. I thought they were about the prettiest flowering plants I've ever seen, so I planted them in an old solar powered water fall that quit working. I didn't want to throw the thing away, and decided I would re-purpose it into a planter. The thing I did not know is, that this is an edible plant! Purslane, also known as Portulaca oleracea, is considered a common weed to many that may even be growing in your garden right now, without your ...[READ MORE]

What Toledo’s Water Crisis Reveals About Industrial Farming

What Toledo’s Water Crisis Reveals About Industrial Farming By Doug Gurian-Sherman on August 5, 2014 As you may have heard, about half a million people in the Toledo, Ohio area lost their municipal drinking water supply on Saturday because of possible microbial toxin contamination from Lake Erie. A combination of heavier spring rains, exacerbated by climate change, and runoff of phosphorus from fertilizer applied to crops is the likely cause. The good news is that farmers can adopt better ...[READ MORE]

Are Organic Vegetables Healthier Than Conventional?

New Analysis Concludes Organic Food Really is Healthier Are organic foods healthier, and therefore worth the extra expense? The scientific debate over this issue has raged on for many years now. I believe the answer is clear-cut, at least if you believe that toxic chemicals have the capacity to harm your health...Two years ago, meta-analysis by Stanford University received widespread media coverage, and with few exceptions, conventional media outlets used it to cast doubt on the value of an ...[READ MORE]

The Case Against Chlorinated Tap Water

The Case Against Chlorinated Tap Water Could it interfere with the "good" bacteria in your gut? —By Josh Harkinson | Mon Aug. 4, 2014 6:00 AM EDT The chlorination of municipal tap water is considered one of the 20th century's best public health ideas. The American Water Works Association credits the practice with increasing life expectancy by 50 percent over the past century by virtually eliminating water-borne diseases such as typhoid fever and cholera. But chlorine in drinking water ...[READ MORE]

7 Reasons To Drink More Water

By Thorbjorg (Mind Body Green)If you suffer from any of the following ailments, you may not be drinking enough water: fatigue, confusion, memory loss, dizziness, dry and wrinkled skin, brittle hair and nails, cold fingers and toes, constipation, eczema, headaches, urinary tract infections, and muscle pains.These are all signs of dehydration.Your body is made up of around 70% water, which is involved in every bodily function. If you lack water, then your body will try to get moisture from any ...[READ MORE]