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"According to an ABC News Special, US industries generate some 88 million pounds of toxic waste a year, 90% of which the EPA estimates is improperly disposed of, which makes its way into our water supplies. With close to 100,000 'Even when our thirst mechanism is functioning properly, it's not a reliable indicatot of dehydration since "thirst" is one of the last symptoms of dehydration to manifest. 2You probably shouldn't think about this particular statistic too long if you have any tendency toward a weak stomach." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Then chemicals such as chlorine, fluoride and aluminium are added to our water supplies to complete the health-destroying cocktail. Fruit and vegetables are grown with artificial fertilisers and sprayed with chemicals. Animals are treated with artificial hormones to increase their weight, with antibiotics to prevent disease and are reared on crops sprayed with chemicals. Food additives, preservatives and artificial flavourings and colourings, combined with plastic wrapping and packaging, adulterate our food." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Be careful, though, as many mains water supplies are contaminated and contain inorganic substances such as lead, cadmium and chemical additives that impair our immune system. Invest in a water filter system—there are many inexpensive ones now available—and taste the difference. Try to drink at least half the recommended 6-7 glasses of liquid daily as pure water. Limit alcohol and caffeine consumption. Keep up the recommended level of liquid, too, especially as you grow older, when the thirst drive diminishes: your body's need for water does not." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Mortality and hardness of local water supplies. Lancet 1, 827-831. 79. Cutler, J. A., and Brittain, E. (1990). Calcium and blood pressure. An epidemiologic perspective. Am. J. Hypertens. 3, 137S-146S. 80. Cappuccio, F. P., et al. (1995). Epidemiologic association between dietary calcium intake and blood pressure: a metaanalysis of published data. Am. J. Epidemiol. 142(9), 935-945. 81. Hajjar, I. M., Grim, C. E., and Kotchen, T. A. (2003). Dietary calcium lowers the age-related rise in blood pressure in the United States: the NHANES III survey. J. Clin. Hypertens. (Greenwich) 5(2), 122-126." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Croatia that were demographically very similar except for a substantial difference in the calcium content of local water supplies. Second was publication of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II (NHANES), which showed that habitual calcium intakes of American girls and women failed to meet recommended daily standards (RDAs) as early as age 11 [23]. Third was a landmark paper by Chapuy et al. [24] that clearly demonstrated the ability of supplemental calcium and vitamin D to reduce the incidence of hip fracture in a highly vulnerable population." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, we dump our chemical garbage out of sight under the soil, only to find it later seeping into our water supplies. Or we pour it into the sea, killing not just fish but other organisms crucial to the ecological balance. During an ice age, more water is frozen in the polar ice caps, and sea levels are much lower. During the last ice age, sea levels would have been 200 to 300 feet lower than they are now." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"But in countries with safe water supplies, such as Chile, the bacteria evolved downward in virulence and killed fewer people. The implications of this are huge—instead of challenging bacteria to become stronger and more dangerous through an antibiotic arms race, we could essentially challenge them to get along with us. Think about the application of this theory just in terms of waterborne diseases like cholera. If we clean up water supplies, it will certainly mean fewer people will get infected because fewer people will consume contaminated water." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"They maintained a detailed knowledge of grazing and water supplies over enormous areas, moved their herds constantly, and adjusted month by month to changing conditions. Their mobility, low population densities, and careful judgments gave them the ability to endure drought, the ravages of cattle disease, and constant uncertainties. The twentieth century and colonial rule brought longer life expectancies and better medical care, but rapid population growth and much larger herd counts followed in their train." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Intelligent use of water supplies and irrigation technology paid handsome dividends and created ample food surpluses to support a growing population of nonfarmers: artisans, priests, and other officials. Village kin leaders adjudicated disputes and organized canal works. Centuries later their powerful descendants became the spiritual and political leaders of communities of much greater complexity." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Impure or inadequate water supplies means every cell in our body suffers. Our body excretes about 2.5 litres of fluid per day (the equivalent of ten cups), through our skin as well as our kidneys. We must perpetually put back what we lose. The food we eat daily contains about two or three cups of fluid,- metabolic water (the kind made in our cells as a result of chemical reactions) provides another cup,- this leaves six or seven cups of fluid we need to drink every day." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Moche homeland coincided with strong El Nino episodes in the north, causing widespread political adjustments as different groups, rulers, and kingdoms competed for farmland and control of water supplies. New states arose in the highlands that adopted an entirely different, and arguably more effective, approach to economic and political control of their extensive domains." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Sure enough, when the bacteria invaded nations with poorly protected water supplies, such as Ecuador, the virus became more harmful as it spread. But in countries with safe water supplies, such as Chile, the bacteria evolved downward in virulence and killed fewer people. The implications of this are huge—instead of challenging bacteria to become stronger and more dangerous through an antibiotic arms race, we could essentially challenge them to get along with us. Think about the application of this theory just in terms of waterborne diseases like cholera." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"At the center of the thyroid's activity is thyroid stimulating hormone, which can be disrupted by fungicides and other chemicals such as perchlorate, which we saw earlier finds its way into our food and water supplies. This commonly found chemical greatly increases a woman's risk of hypothyroidism and can disrupt the thyroid's ability to absorb iodine. Diabetes belongs under the umbrella of the endocrine system because it occurs when the body can no longer produce or use normally the pancreatic hormone insulin." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Almost all food and water supplies contain some amount of aluminum, for FACT BPA is at unsafe levels in one of every ten servings of canned foods (11 percent) and one of every three cans of infant formula (33 percent). BPA, found in everything from baby bottles and water cooler jugs to bicycle helmets, CDs, and the inside lining of tin cans, is associated with a number of health problems and diseases that are on the rise in the United States population, including breast and prostate cancers and infertility." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Their presence in our drinking water supplies is more about the corporate bottom line than about the claimed benefit of preventing tooth decay. The appalling aspect of this whole scenario is the adverse health affects that can result from fluoride exposure, even at the relatively low doses used in water fluoridation programs. These may include ?hyperactivity ?learning disabilities ?cancer ?hypothyroidism ?dental fluorosis (permanent discoloration of teeth) in children ?arthritis ?kidney disease ?gastrointestinal disorders ?birth defects ?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Common analyses performed on well water supplies include tests for bacteria (total coliform), nitrates, and hardness. In addition, well water can also be checked for herbicides and pesticides if you live in an agricultural area. You may also choose to have tests performed for radon or arsenic, especially if these contaminants are a common problem in groundwater in your region. Finding the Right Filter Filters can be configured in many ways, and they have varying types of mechanical and chemical reduction capabilities." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"With much better public health measures like cleaner water supplies, more years of education, improved social-economic status, these things are all reducing the number of lottery balls. The best way to think about reaching 100 is: "The older you get, the healthier you've been." Ponce de Leon's legendary search for the Fountain of Youth is one of the many tales that illustrate the desire to overcome aging. Steven Austad: The question is—and here's where I think the best health practices are really important—if you live to be 100 years old, what sort of 100-year-old are you going to be?" - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"More than fifty thousand different chemicals now contaminate our water supplies. Here's a frightening fact: the average water treatment plant can test for only thirty to forty of these chemicals. In addition heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and aluminum contaminate most of our water supplies. More than fifty-five thousand regulated chemical dumps in America, in addition to the estimated two hundred thousand unregulated chemical dumps, are leaking into the water tables across the nation. When we ingest this contaminated water, the production of free radicals increases significantly." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"Kung are self-sufficient hunter-gatherers with reasonably adequate water supplies for six to eight weeks a year and more limited, permanent water holes to use the rest of the time. Years of plenty sometimes give way to El Nino-induced droughts. The Kalahari is never well watered, so the !Kung are used to long dry spells, during which they fall back on the most reliable water holes and eat a far wider range of plant foods. Having consumed just a handful of them in normal years, they have a cushion of alternative foods to fall back on." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"To escape poisoned water supplies, these small towns are trying to hook up to large cities' supplies, which are dug deeper to avoid nitrates and pesticides," Frantz said. "But there is a lot of red tape and bureaucracy in Sacramento that makes this difficult." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "But the state has picked up more and more land in its quest to protect its water supplies and so by now forty percent of Adirondack Pack is forest preserve and ten percent of the acreage consists of conservation easements. "When the Nature Conservancy and New York State began working with Domtar Industries to obtain conservation easements and preserve some of the land as deep ecology, people naturally had strong emotions and concerns," he said. "They really worried over whether they would lose use of their lands." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Melting along the Himalayan glaciers would accelerate, disrupting water supplies for more than 40 percent of the Earth's population, causing billions of desperate refugees to seek drinking water. Mass migrations would heighten nuclear tensions. Floating ice in the northern polar seas, which had already lost 40 percent of its mass from 1970 to 2003, would be mostly gone during summer. As glacial ice melts, sea levels rise, and as wintertime sea extent decreases, ocean waves increase in intensity, damaging coastal cities." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Whilst flows initially increase by between 14 and 90 per cent depending on the speed of the warming, later in the century the model projects decreasing water supplies by up to 90 per cent. At Skardu, gateway to the Karakoram and a major stopping point for high-altitude climbers heading to K2 and Broad Peak, modelled flows on the Indus River peak in 2030 but then drop by half by 2080, whilst further upstream still, at Shyok in Ladakh, the river could be running dry by 2090." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Around 2020, conflict will emerge within Europe over food and water supplies, leading to skirmishes and strained diplomatic relations. ?A strategic agreement between Japan and Russia is reached for Siberian and Sakhalin Island energy resources, depriving American oil companies of natural gas reserves. China is choked off for more fossil fuels. ?Russia joins the EU and provides energy resources as Siberian permafrost lifts and natural gas reserves are tapped. Late in the decade, China intervenes in Kazakhstan to protect pipelines regularly disrupted by rebels and criminals. Second Decade ?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"With Sierra Nevada snowpack declining and earlier melt producing earlier spring run-off, surface water supplies to 85 per cent of Californians - orange growers and city dwellers alike - will be reduced. Nor would the changes be limited to California: a second study projects snowpack declines in Oregon and Washington too, with the northern Rockies and Cascades seeing declines of 20 to 70 per cent. With more rain and earlier snowmelt, the likelihood of winter flooding will also increase, even whilst reduced run-off causes water shortages in the summer." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Elsewhere in the world, disappearing mountain glaciers pose a major threat to downstream water supplies. But Kilimanjaro's ice cap is so small that its final disappearance will make little difference to the two major rivers - the Pangani and the Galana - which rise on its flanks. Instead, the crucial water link for Kilimanjaro is not the glaciers, but the forests." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Survival Where no refuge is available, and crops and water supplies fail, civil war and a collapse into race or community conflicts seems - sadly - the most likely outcome. By and large history teaches us that humans do not sit and starve in situ when times get bad - they take what weapons they can find and move to more promising regions, triggering warfare with whatever groups already inhabit the contested area." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"It spreads easily through unprotected water supplies when soiled clothes or bed linens are washed in rivers, ponds, and lakes, or through sewage runoff. And again, cholera actually has an advantage in evolving toward virulence—as the bacteria reproduces ruthlessly, causing more and more diarrhea, the infected person may excrete as many as a billion copies of the organism, increasing the likelihood that some bacteria finds its way to a new host." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Neolithic settlements that emerged after the Younger Dryas were located at sites ideally suited for agriculture with rich soils and ample water supplies. Charred remains of domesticated wheat dating from 10,000 years ago are found in sites neat Damascus, in northwestern Jordan, and on the Middle Euphrates River. Domesticated crops then spread south to Jericho in the Jordan Valley and northwest into southern Turkey." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The first Greek settlements were located in valleys with good soils near reliable water supplies. As the landscape filled with people, farmers began Figure 6. Map of ancient Greece. advancing onto steeper, less productive slopes. Extensive tilling and grazing sttipped soil from hillsides and piled thick deposits of reworked dirt in valleys. Ancient agricultural artifacts can still be found on the rocky slopes of areas that lack enough soil to grow much vegeration." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

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