水的用途 :
1. 75%的人的身體長期處於脫水狀態
2. 37%的人常常把口渴感覺誤作飢餓
3. 即使是輕微的水份不足也可令新陳代謝減慢3%之多
4. 水份不足是造成日間疲倦的主要原因
5. 研究亦指出每天飲8-10杯水可以減少腰背痛達80%
6. 2%水份下降就可以造成短暫記憶模糊﹐影響基本運算和集中能力
7. 多飲水亦可以減低患直腸癌的機會
可樂的用途:
1. 去除車頭保險桿的鐵銹:
把錫紙搓成一團, 點上可口可樂, 然後在有需要的地方擦
2. 清潔汽車電池端的腐蝕物﹕
把可樂倒在電池端便可
3. 生銹鎖頭:
用一塊沾有可樂的毛巾抹生銹部分
4. 焗火腿: 倒一罐可樂進焗盤,把火腿用錫紙包好﹐
完成前30分鐘打開錫紙,把汁液倒進可樂焗至有濃肉汁
5. 去除衣物油漬﹕
倒一罐可樂進洗衣機﹐加入洗衣粉﹐選擇普通衣物情序
6. 可樂亦能夠清理擋風玻璃
您知道嗎 ?!
1. 可樂中的活性成份磷酸﹔其PH值是2.8,可以在4日內溶解釘子。
磷酸亦會令骨骼中的鈣質流失﹐是骨質疏鬆症不斷上升的主要成因。
2 運載濃縮可樂的貨車需要掛上危險物品的警告牌。
3. 可樂分銷商用它來清潔引擎已有20年。
現在的您會選擇可樂 ? 還是水 ?!
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Zero Interest Installment plan for Diners Club member
Good news for Diners Club members from Singapore
Still hesitate to buy this Water Filtration System because you need to ford out a lump sum of S$1880/-. Now, we have arrangement with Diners Club for Zero Interest Rate Installment Plan.
We have 6 month, 9 months, 12 months and 24 months plan for you to choose.
For 6 months, the monthly installment is about S$313 per month
For 9 months, the monthly installment is about S$208 per month
For 12 months, the monthly installment is about S$156 per month
For 24 months, the monthly installment is about S$78 per month
If you do not have the Diners Club yet, you can apply on line http://www.diners.com.sg
There is no membership fees. The requirements for the approval is earning S$30,000/-per Annam.
We hope to see you here as soon as possible. Thank you.
Still hesitate to buy this Water Filtration System because you need to ford out a lump sum of S$1880/-. Now, we have arrangement with Diners Club for Zero Interest Rate Installment Plan.
We have 6 month, 9 months, 12 months and 24 months plan for you to choose.
For 6 months, the monthly installment is about S$313 per month
For 9 months, the monthly installment is about S$208 per month
For 12 months, the monthly installment is about S$156 per month
For 24 months, the monthly installment is about S$78 per month
If you do not have the Diners Club yet, you can apply on line http://www.diners.com.sg
There is no membership fees. The requirements for the approval is earning S$30,000/-per Annam.
We hope to see you here as soon as possible. Thank you.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
我国将与世卫携手 加强全球食水安全管理
● 林佩碧(斯德哥尔摩)
新加坡将与世界卫生组织合作推动加强食水安全的管理工作，为改善全球公共卫生问题做出贡献。
这相信是世卫组织首次与一个国家的政府有类似的合作协议。
双方代表昨天在瑞典斯德哥尔摩的“世界水资源周”大会上签署协议。环境及水源部长雅国博士也受邀出席并见证了签署仪式。
全球目前有超过11亿人缺乏安全食水供应，每年估计上百万人因没有干净的饮用水和妥善的公共卫生设备而染病死去，当中有不少是小孩。加上专家认为气候变化将首先影响淡水供应，因此寻找解决方案迫在眉睫。
世卫组织可持续发展及健康环境部助理总干事莫斯多夫（Susanne Weber-Mosdorf）说：“当一个地方缺水，人们逼于无奈得喝下不干净的水，在这些地方，妥善的管理更显得重要。新加坡在这方面可说是出类拔萃的楷模，世卫很高兴能与新加坡结成伙伴，共同解决问题，同时也让其他成员国一起来分享管理水源，以及再循环水的经验。”
根据协议，新加坡在接下来8年，为世卫组织成员国提供废水处理、间接饮用、城市集水管理、海水淡化、新生水及加强保障食水供应基础设施等方面的知识与经验分享，以及提供能力培训。
代表新加坡政府签署协议的环境部常任秘书陈荣顺指出，相关内容已经在策划中。双方合作的首个工作坊预计明年中举行。
新加坡也将与世卫组织合作展开水质、水科技及运作的研究项目，万一区域发生食水遭化学污染事故，新加坡会提供世卫所需的援助，例如进行水质测试和分析等。
过去40年，新加坡通过完善的水源管理制度、投资于科研项目，以及鼓励人们为保护水源负起责任的方式，成功克服水源挑战。
陈荣顺说：“我们相信通过与世卫的合作平台，将有助于更多人了解新加坡的四大水龙头策略，特别是新生水的故事，从而加强他们对再循环食水的信心和接受程度。”
新加坡的四个“水龙头”分别是利用集水区收集雨水、外来水供、新生水和海水淡化。政府多年来推出不少措施，确保所生产的饮用水品质符合世卫组织设定的标准。
新加坡将与世界卫生组织合作推动加强食水安全的管理工作，为改善全球公共卫生问题做出贡献。
这相信是世卫组织首次与一个国家的政府有类似的合作协议。
双方代表昨天在瑞典斯德哥尔摩的“世界水资源周”大会上签署协议。环境及水源部长雅国博士也受邀出席并见证了签署仪式。
全球目前有超过11亿人缺乏安全食水供应，每年估计上百万人因没有干净的饮用水和妥善的公共卫生设备而染病死去，当中有不少是小孩。加上专家认为气候变化将首先影响淡水供应，因此寻找解决方案迫在眉睫。
世卫组织可持续发展及健康环境部助理总干事莫斯多夫（Susanne Weber-Mosdorf）说：“当一个地方缺水，人们逼于无奈得喝下不干净的水，在这些地方，妥善的管理更显得重要。新加坡在这方面可说是出类拔萃的楷模，世卫很高兴能与新加坡结成伙伴，共同解决问题，同时也让其他成员国一起来分享管理水源，以及再循环水的经验。”
根据协议，新加坡在接下来8年，为世卫组织成员国提供废水处理、间接饮用、城市集水管理、海水淡化、新生水及加强保障食水供应基础设施等方面的知识与经验分享，以及提供能力培训。
代表新加坡政府签署协议的环境部常任秘书陈荣顺指出，相关内容已经在策划中。双方合作的首个工作坊预计明年中举行。
新加坡也将与世卫组织合作展开水质、水科技及运作的研究项目，万一区域发生食水遭化学污染事故，新加坡会提供世卫所需的援助，例如进行水质测试和分析等。
过去40年，新加坡通过完善的水源管理制度、投资于科研项目，以及鼓励人们为保护水源负起责任的方式，成功克服水源挑战。
陈荣顺说：“我们相信通过与世卫的合作平台，将有助于更多人了解新加坡的四大水龙头策略，特别是新生水的故事，从而加强他们对再循环食水的信心和接受程度。”
新加坡的四个“水龙头”分别是利用集水区收集雨水、外来水供、新生水和海水淡化。政府多年来推出不少措施，确保所生产的饮用水品质符合世卫组织设定的标准。
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Vegetable Storage Test on Parsley
This Taiwanese man has moved over to Indonesia more than 10 years. He owns a farm in Indonesia grows Parsley. They always look out ways to improve the storage and transportation for the vegetables.
When he learned that Piwater could help the vegetable store in the fridge for 14 days easily. He is very keen to find out more for this system.
I agreed to run a test for him. The following are the test results.
Parsley bought on 9 Aug 07 morning
One portion of Parsley was immersed in pi water for 3 mins
One portion of Parsley was immersed in tap water for 3 mins
One portion of Parsley was left untouched
They are wrapped in plastic bags and left in the fridge.
20 Aug 07 Parsley with pi water (After 11 days of storage)
When he learned that Piwater could help the vegetable store in the fridge for 14 days easily. He is very keen to find out more for this system.
I agreed to run a test for him. The following are the test results.
Parsley bought on 9 Aug 07 morning
One portion of Parsley was immersed in pi water for 3 mins
One portion of Parsley was immersed in tap water for 3 mins
One portion of Parsley was left untouched
They are wrapped in plastic bags and left in the fridge.
10 Aug 07 - Parsley with piwater and Parsley with tap water - after one day storage
10 Aug 07 - Parsley without water after one day storage
They are in the separate plastic bag and labelled. (11 Aug 07) - After 2 days storage.
11 Aug 07 The portion without water already weaken-after 2 days storage
12 Aug 07, the portion without water weaken further - after 3 days storage. The stem is not able to stand straight anymore.
The portion with tap water on 13 Aug 07 - after 4 days of storage
The portion with pi water on 13 Aug 07 - after 4 days of storage
18 Aug 07 without water. I soak it in the pi water. (After 9 days of storage)
18 Aug 07, the plant with pi water, I soak it in the pi water for hours. (After 9 days of storage)
18 Aug 07, the parsley with tap water. I soak it inside the pi water. (After 9 days of storage)
20 Aug 07 Parsley with pi water (After 11 days of storage)
20 Aug 07 Parsely with pi water (After 11 days of storage)
20 Aug 07 Parsely with tap water. (After 11 days of storage)
Monday, August 6, 2007
Bottled water-A river of money - by Charles Fishman for Fast Company published in MSN.com
Clean water comes out of the tap for next to nothing, yet Americans spend more on bottled water than on movie tickets or iPods -- a stunning $15 billion last year. Here's a look at a booming industry's economics and psychology.
The largest bottled-water factory in North America is on the outskirts of Hollis, Maine. In the back of the plant stretches the staging area for finished product: 24 million bottles of Poland Spring water.
As far as the eye can see, there are double-stacked pallets of half-pint bottles, half-liters, liters, "aquapods" for school lunches and 2.5-gallon jugs for refrigerators.
We Americans pitch 38 billion water bottles a year into landfills -- in excess of $1 billion worth of plastic. And 24% of the bottled water we buy is tap water repackaged by Coca-Cola (KO, news, msgs) and PepsiCo (PEP, news, msgs).
The Hollis factory holds a virtual lake of Poland Spring water, conveniently celled off in plastic and extending across 6 acres, 8 feet high. A week ago, the lake was still underground; within five days, it will all be gone, to supermarkets and convenience stores across the Northeast, replaced by another lake's worth of bottles.
Looking at the piles of water, you can have only one thought: We sure are thirsty.
Water, water everywhere Bottled water has become the indispensable prop in our lives and our culture. It starts the day in lunchboxes; it goes to every meeting, lecture hall and soccer match; it's in our cubicles at work and the cup holder of the treadmill at the gym; and it's rattling around half-finished on the floor of nearly every minivan in America.
Fiji Water shows up on the ABC show "Brothers & Sisters"; Poland Spring cameos routinely on NBC's "The Office." Many hotel rooms offer bottled water for sale alongside the increasingly ignored ice bucket and drinking glasses. At Whole Foods Market (WFMI, news, msgs), the upscale emporium of the organic and exotic, bottled water is the No. 1 item by units sold.
Thirty years ago, bottled water barely existed as a business in the United States. Last year, Americans spent more on Poland Spring, Fiji Water, Evian, Aquafina and Dasani water than they spent on iPods or movie tickets -- $15 billion. It's expected to be $16 billion this year.
Bottled water is a drink phenomenon of the times. American generations raised on tap water and water fountains now go through a billion bottles of water a week, and they're raising a generation that views tap water with disdain and water fountains with suspicion. Americans have come to pay good money -- two or three or four times the cost of gasoline -- for a product they've always gotten, and can still get, virtually for free, from taps in their homes.
A story gets swallowed When we buy a bottle of water, what we're often buying is the bottle itself, as much as the water. We're buying the convenience: A bottle at a 7-Eleven store isn't the same product as tap water, any more than a cup of coffee at Starbucks is the same as a cup of coffee from the Krups machine on your kitchen counter. And we're buying the artful story the water companies tell us about the water: where it comes from, how healthy it is, what it says about us. Surely, among the choices we can make, bottled water isn't just good -- it's positively virtuous.
Except for this: Bottled water is often simply an indulgence, and despite the stories we tell ourselves, it is not a benign indulgence. About 1 billion bottles of water a week are moved around in ships, trains and trucks in the United States alone. That's a weekly convoy equivalent to 37,800 18-wheelers delivering water. (Water weighs 8 1/3 pounds a gallon. It's so heavy you can't fill an 18-wheeler with bottled water -- you have to leave empty space.)
Billions lack safe water
Meanwhile, one out of six people in the world have no dependable, safe drinking water. The global economy denies the most fundamental element of life to 1 billion people while delivering to us an array of water "varieties" from around the globe, not one of which we actually need. That tension is complicated by the fact that if we suddenly decided not to purchase the "lake" of Poland Spring water in Maine, none of that water would find its way to people who really are thirsty.
A chilled plastic bottle of water in the convenience-store cooler is the perfect symbol of this moment in American commerce and culture. It acknowledges our demand for instant gratification, our vanity, our token concern for health. Its packaging and transport depend entirely on cheap fossil fuel.
Yes, it's just a bottle of water -- modest compared with the indulgence of driving a Hummer. But when a whole industry grows up around supplying us with something we don't need, when a whole industry is built on the packaging and the presentation, it's worth asking how that happened and what the impact is. And if you do ask, if you trace both the water and the business back to where they came from, you find a story more complicated, more bemusing and ultimately more sobering than the bottles we tote everywhere suggest.
In the town of San Pellegrino Terme, Italy, for example, is a spigot that runs all the time, providing water free to the local residents -- except the free Pellegrino has no bubbles. Pellegrino trucks in the bubbles for its bottling plant.
And in Fiji, a state-of-the-art factory spins out more than a million bottles a day of the hippest bottled water on the U.S. market today, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have safe, reliable drinking water. That means it is easier for the typical American in Beverly Hills or Baltimore to get a drink of safe, pure, refreshing Fiji water than it is for most people in Fiji.
At the Peninsula hotel in Beverly Hills, where the rooms start around $500 a night and the guest next door might well be an Oscar winner, the minibar in each of the 196 rooms contains six bottles of Fiji Water. Before Fiji Water displaced Evian, Diet Coke was the top-selling minibar item. Now, says Christian Boyens, the Peninsula's director of food and beverage, "the 1 liter of Fiji Water is No. 1. Diet Coke is No. 2. And the 500-milliliter bottle of Fiji is No. 3."
Being the water in the Peninsula minibar is so desirable -- not just for the money to be made but for the exposure with the Peninsula's clientele -- that Boyens gets sales calls each week from companies trying to dislodge Fiji.
'I thought water was water' Boyens, who has a master's degree in business administration from Cornell, used to be indifferent to water. Not anymore. His restaurants and bars carry 20 different waters.
"Sometimes a guest will ask for Poland Spring, and you can't get Poland Spring in California," he says.
So what does he do?
"We'll call the Peninsula in New York and have them FedEx out a case. I thought water was water. But our customers know what they want."
The marketing of bottled water is subtle compared with the marketing of, say, soft drinks or beer. The point of Fiji Water in the minibar at the Peninsula, or at the center of the table in a white-tablecloth restaurant, is that guests will try it, love it and buy it at a store the next time they see it.
Seeing it isn't difficult because the water aisle in a suburban supermarket typically stocks a dozen brands of water, not including those enhanced with flavors or vitamins or, yes, oxygen. In 1976, the average American drank 1.6 gallons of bottled water a year, according to Beverage Marketing. Last year, we each drank an average of 28.3 gallons of bottled water -- 18 half-liter bottles a month. We drink more bottled water than milk, coffee or beer. Only carbonated soft drinks, at 52.9 gallons annually, are more popular than bottled water.
No one has experienced this transformation more profoundly than Kim Jeffery. He began his career in the water business in the Midwest in 1978, selling Perrier.
"People didn't know whether to put it in their lawn mower or drink it," he says.
Now he's the CEO of Nestlé Waters North America, in charge of U.S. sales of Perrier, San Pellegrino, Poland Spring and a portfolio of other regional spring waters. Combined, his brands will sell about $4.5 billion worth of water this year, generating roughly $500 million in pretax profit. Jeffery insists that unlike the soda business, which is stoked by imaginative TV and marketing campaigns, the mainstream water business is, quite simply, "a force of nature."
"The entire bottled-water business today is half the size of the carbonated-beverage industry," says Jeffery, "but our marketing budget is 15% of what they spend. When you put a bottle of water in that cold box, it's the most thirst-quenching beverage there is. There's nothing in it that's not good for you. People just know that intuitively.
"A lot of people tell me, 'You guys have done some great marketing to get customers to pay for water,' " Jeffery says. "But we aren't that smart. We had to have a hell of a lot of help from the consumer."
Blame France
How an industry began Still, we needed help learning to drink bottled water. For that, we can thank the French.
Gustave Leven was the chairman of Source Perrier when he approached an American named Bruce Nevins in 1976. Nevins was working for athletic-wear company Pony. Leven was a major Pony investor.
"He wanted me to consider the water business in the U.S.," Nevins says. "I was a bit reluctant."
Back then, the American water industry was small and fusty, built on home and office delivery of big bottles and grocery sales of gallon jugs.
Nevins looked out across 1970s America, though, and had an epiphany: Perrier wasn't just water. It was a beverage. The opportunity was in persuading people to drink Perrier when they would otherwise have had a cocktail or a Coke. Americans were already drinking 30 gallons of soft drinks each a year, and the three-martini lunch was increasingly viewed as a problem. Nevins saw a niche.
From the start, Nevins pioneered a three-part strategy. First, he connected bottled water to exclusivity: In 1977, just before Perrier's U.S. launch, he flew 60 journalists to France to visit "the source," where Perrier bubbled out of the ground. He connected Perrier to health, sponsoring the New York City Marathon, just as long-distance running was exploding as a fad across America. And he associated Perrier with celebrity, launching it with $4 million in TV commercials featuring actor-director Orson Welles.
Nevins' strategy worked. In 1978, its first full year in the United States, Perrier sold $20 million of water. The next year, sales tripled to $60 million.
What made Perrier distinctive was that it was a sparkling water, served in a signature glass bottle. But that's also what left the door open for Evian, which came to the United States in 1984. Evian's U.S. marketing was built around images of toned young men and women in tight clothes sweating at a gym. Madonna drank Evian -- often onstage at concerts.
"If you were cool, you were drinking bottled water," says Ed Slade, who became Evian's vice president of marketing in 1990. "It was a status symbol."
Evian was also a still water, which Americans prefer, and it was the first to offer a plastic bottle nationwide. The clear bottle allowed us to see the water -- how clean and refreshing it looked on the shelf.
Americans have never wanted water in cans, which suggest a tinny aftertaste before you even take a sip. The plastic bottle, in fact, did for water what the pop-top can had done for soda: It turned water into an anywhere, anytime beverage, at just the moment when we decided we wanted a beverage, everywhere, all the time.
An alignment of convenience and virtue Perrier and Evian launched the bottled-water business just as it would prove irresistible. Two-career families, over-programmed children, prepared foods in place of home-cooked meals, the constant urging to eat more healthfully and drink less alcohol -- all reinforce the value of bottled water. But those trends also reinforce the mythology.
We buy bottled water because we think it's healthy. Which it is, of course: Every 12-year-old who buys a bottle of water from a vending machine instead of a 16-ounce Coke is inarguably making a healthier choice. But bottled water isn't healthier, or safer, than tap water in American homes.
Indeed, while the United States is the single biggest consumer in the world's $50 billion bottled-water market, it is the only one of the top four -- the others are Brazil, China and Mexico -- with nearly universally reliable tap water.
Tap water in the U.S., with rare exceptions, is impressively safe. It is monitored constantly, and the test results are made public. Mineral water has a long association with medicinal benefits -- and it can provide minerals that people need -- but there are no scientific studies establishing that routinely consuming mineral water improves your health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in fact, forbids mineral waters in the United States from making any health claims.
For this healthful convenience, we're paying what amounts to an unbelievable premium. You can buy a half-liter Evian for $1.35 -- 17 ounces of water imported from France for pocket change. That water seems cheap, but only because we aren't paying attention.
In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from Yosemite National Park. It's so good the Environmental Protection Agency doesn't require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, five months and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35. Put another way, if the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000.
The taste test
Taste, of course, is highly personal. New Yorkers excepted, Americans love to belittle the quality of their tap water. But in blind taste tests, with waters at equal temperatures, presented in identical glasses, ordinary people can rarely distinguish between tap water, spring water and luxury waters. At the height of Perrier's popularity, Bruce Nevins was asked on a live network radio show one morning to pick Perrier from a lineup of seven carbonated waters served in paper cups. It took him five tries.
The industry's comeback Americans are actually in the midst of a second love affair with bottled water. In the United States, many of the earliest, still-familiar brands of spring water -- Poland Spring, Saratoga Springs, Deer Park, Arrowhead -- were originally associated with resort and spa complexes. The water itself, pure at a time when cities struggled to provide safe water, was the source of the enterprise.
In the late 1800s, Poland Spring was already a renowned brand of healthful drinking water that you could get home-delivered in Boston, New York, Philadelphia or Chicago. It was also a sprawling summer resort complex, with thousands of guests and three Victorian hotels, some of which had bathtubs with spigots that allowed guests to bathe in Poland Spring water. The resort burned in 1976, but at the crest of a hill in Poland Spring, Maine, you can still visit a marble-and-granite temple built in 1906 to house the original spring.
The car, the Depression, World War II and, perhaps most important, clean, safe municipal water unwound the resorts and the first wave of water as business. We had to wait two generations for the second, which would turn out to be much different -- and much larger.
Today, for all the apparent variety on the shelf, bottled water is dominated in the United States and worldwide by four huge companies. PepsiCo has the nation's top-selling bottled water, Aquafina, with 13% of the market. Coca-Cola's Dasani is No. 2, with 11% of the market. Both are simply purified municipal water, so 24% of the bottled water we buy is tap water repackaged by Coke and Pepsi for our convenience. Evian is owned by Danone, a French food giant, and distributed in the United States by Coke.
The really big water company in the United States is Nestlé, which gradually bought up the nation's heritage brands and expanded them. The waters are slightly different – spring water must come from actual springs, identified specifically on the label -- but together, they add up to 26% of the market, according to Beverage Marketing, surpassing Coke's and Pepsi's brands combined.
Because most water brands are owned by larger companies, it's hard to get directly at the economics. But according to those inside the business, half the price of a typical $1.29 bottle goes to the retailer. As much as a third goes to the distributor and transport. An additional 12 to 15 cents is the cost of the water itself, the bottle and the cap. That leaves roughly a dime of profit. On multipacks, that profit is more like 2 cents a bottle.
Water sales to overtake soda As the abundance in the supermarket water aisle shows, that business is now trying to help us find new waters to drink and new occasions for drinking them. Aquafina's marketing vice president, Ahad Afridi, says his team has done the research to understand what kind of water drinkers we are. It has found six types, including the "water pure-fectionists," the "water explorers," the "image seekers" and the "strugglers" -- consumers who "don't really like water that much" and "will have a cheeseburger with a diet soda."
It's a startling level of thought and analysis, until you realize that within a decade, U.S. consumption of bottled water is expected to surpass soda. That kind of market can't be left to chance. Aquafina's fine segmentation is all about the newest explosion of waters that aren't really water -- flavored waters, enhanced waters, colored waters, water drinks branded after everything from Special K breakfast cereal to Tropicana juice.
Afridi is a true believer. He talks about water as if it were more than a drink, more than a product -- as if it were a character all its own, a superhero ready to take the pure-fectionist, the water explorer and the struggler by the hand and carry them to new adventures.
"Water as a beverage has more right to extend and enter into more territories than any other beverage," Afridi says. "Water has a right to travel where others can't."
Uh, meaning what?
"Water that's got vitamins in it. Water that's got some immunity-type benefit to it. Water that helps keep skin younger. Water that gives you energy."
Water: It's pure, it's healthy, it's perfect -- and it's been made better. The future of water sounds distinctly unlike water.
Visiting the source
The label on a bottle of Fiji Water says "from the islands of Fiji." Journey to the source of that water, and you realize just how extraordinary that promise is. From New York, for instance, it is an 18-hour plane ride west and south (via Los Angeles), almost to Australia, and then a four-hour drive along Fiji's two-lane King's Highway.
Every bottle of Fiji Water goes on its own version of this trip, in reverse, although by truck and ship. In fact, because the plastic for the bottles is shipped to Fiji first, the bottles' journey is even longer. Half of the wholesale cost of Fiji Water is transportation -- which is to say, it costs as much to ship Fiji Water across the Pacific Ocean and truck it to warehouses in the United States than it does to extract the water and bottle it.
The pollution behind the purity That is not the only environmental cost embedded in each bottle of Fiji Water. The Fiji Water plant is a state-of-the-art facility that runs 24 hours a day. That means it requires an uninterrupted supply of electricity, something the local utility structure cannot support. So the factory supplies its own electricity, with three big generators running on diesel fuel. The water may come from "one of the last pristine ecosystems on Earth," as some of the labels say, but out back of the bottling plant is a less pristine ecosystem veiled with a diesel haze.
Each water bottler has its own version of this oxymoron: that something as pure and clean as water leaves a contrail.
San Pellegrino's 1-liter glass bottles -- so much a part of the mystique of the water itself -- weigh five times what plastic bottles weigh, dramatically adding to freight costs and energy consumption. The bottles are washed and rinsed, with mineral water, before being filled with sparkling Pellegrino -- it takes up 2 liters of water to prepare the bottle for the liter that's sold.
The bubbles in San Pellegrino come naturally from the ground, as the label says, but not at the San Pellegrino source. Pellegrino chooses its carbon dioxide carefully -- it is extracted from supercarbonated volcanic spring waters in Tuscany, then trucked north and bubbled into Pellegrino.
Poland Spring may not have any oceans to traverse, but it still must be trucked hundreds of miles from Maine to markets and convenience stores across its territory in the northeast -- it is 312 miles from the Hollis plant to midtown Manhattan. Consumers' desire for Poland Spring has outgrown the springs at Poland Spring's two Maine plants; the company runs a fleet of 80 silver tanker trucks that crisscross Maine, delivering water from other springs to keep its bottling plants humming.
Clean water gets cleaned In transportation terms, perhaps the waters with the least environmental impact are Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola's Dasani. Both start with municipal water. That allows the companies to use dozens of bottling plants across the nation, reducing how far bottles must be shipped.
Yet Coca-Cola and Pepsi add a step. They put the local water through an energy-intensive reverse-osmosis filtration process more potent than that used to turn seawater into drinking water. The water they are purifying is ready to drink -- they are recleaning already-clean tap water. They do it so marketing can brag about the purity and to provide consistency -- so a bottle of Aquafina in Austin, Texas, and a bottle in Seattle taste the same, regardless of the municipal source.
There is one more item in bottled water's environmental ledger: the bottles themselves. The big spring-water companies tend to make their own bottles in their plants, just moments before they are filled with water -- 12, 19, 30 grams of molded plastic each.
Americans went through about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year, 167 for each person -- durable, lightweight containers manufactured just to be discarded. Water bottles are made of totally recyclable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, so we share responsibility for their impact: Americans' recycling rate for PET is only 23%, which means we pitch into landfills 38 billion water bottles a year -- more than $1 billion worth of plastic.
Another view John Mackey is the CEO and a co-founder of Whole Foods Market, the national organic-and-natural grocery chain. No one may think about the environmental and social impacts and the larger context of food more incisively than Mackey, so he's a good person to help frame the ethical questions around bottled water.
Mackey and his wife have a water filter at home and don't typically drink bottled water there.
"If I go to a movie," he says, "I'll smuggle in a bottle of filtered water from home. I don't want to buy a Coke there, and why buy another bottle of water -- $3 for 16 ounces?" But he does drink bottled water at work: Whole Foods' house brand, 365 Water.
"You can compare bottled water to tap water and reach one set of conclusions," says Mackey, referring both to environmental and social ramifications. "But if you compare it with other packaged beverages, you reach another set of conclusions.
"It's unfair to say bottled water is causing extra plastic in landfills and it's using energy transporting it," Mackey says. "There's a substitution effect -- it's substituting for juices and Coke and Pepsi."
Indeed, we still drink almost twice the amount of soda as water -- which is, in fact, 90% water and also in containers made to be discarded. If bottled water raises environmental and social issues, don't soft drinks raise all those issues, plus obesity concerns?
What's different about water, of course, is that it runs from taps in our homes and from fountains in public spaces. Soda does not.
'I don't think water should be picked on' As for the energy used to transport water from overseas, Mackey says it is no more or less wasteful than the energy used to bring merlot from France or coffee from Ethiopia, raspberries from Chile or iPods from China.
"Have we now decided that the use of any fossil fuel is somehow unethical?" Mackey asks. "I don't think water should be picked on. Why is the iPod OK and the water is not?"
The ethicist's approach
Mackey's is a merchant's approach to the issue of bottled water: It's a choice for people to make in the marketplace. Princeton University philosopher Peter Singer takes an ethicist's approach. Singer has co-authored two books that grapple specifically with the question of what it means to eat ethically -- how responsible are we for the negative impact, even unknowing, of our food choices on the world?
"Where the drinking water is safe, bottled water is simply a superfluous luxury that we should do without," he says. "How is it different than French merlot? One difference is the value of the product in comparison to the value of transporting and packaging it. It's far lower in the bottled water than in the wine.
"And buying the merlot may help sustain a tradition in the French countryside that we value -- a community, a way of life, a set of values that would disappear if we stopped buying French wines. I doubt if you travel to Fiji you would find a tradition of cultivation of Fiji water.
"We're completely thoughtless about handing out $1 for this bottle of water, when there are virtually identical alternatives for free. It's a level of affluence that we just take for granted. What could you do? Put that dollar in a jar on the counter instead, carry a water bottle, and at the end of the month, send all the money to Oxfam or CARE and help someone who has real needs. And you're no worse off."
Water goes out; money comes in In Fiji, the irony of shipping a precious product from a country without reliable water service is hard to avoid. Last spring, typhoid from contaminated drinking water sickened dozens of villagers and killed at least one. Fiji Water often quietly supplies emergency drinking water in such cases.
The reality is, if Fiji Water weren't tapping its aquifer, the underground water would slide into the Pacific Ocean, somewhere just off the coast. But the corresponding reality is, someone else -- the Fijian government, a nongovernmental organization -- could be tapping that supply and sending it through a pipe to villagers who need it.
Fiji Water has, in fact, done just that, to some degree -- 20 water projects in five nearby villages. Indeed, Fiji Water's parent company, Roll International, has reinvested every dollar of profit since 2004 back into the business and the country.
Jim Siplon, an American who manages Fiji Water's 10-year-old bottling plant in Fiji, acknowledges the risk of slipping into capitalistic neocolonialism.
"Does the world need Fiji Water?" he asks. "I'm not sure I agree with the critics on that. This company has the potential of delivering great value -- or the results a cynic might have expected."
Water is, in fact, often the perfect beverage -- healthy, refreshing and satisfying in a way soda or juice aren't.
Worldwide, 1 billion people have no reliable source of drinking water; 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from tainted water.
Nestlé Waters' Jeffery may be defending his industry when he calls bottled water "a force of nature," but he's also not wrong. Consumption of bottled water has outstripped any marketer's dreams or talent: If you break out the single-serve plastic bottle as its own category, Americans' consumption of bottled water grew a thousandfold between 1984 and 2005.
In the array of styles, choices, moods and messages available today, water has come to signify how we think of ourselves. We want to brand ourselves -- as Madonna did -- even with something as ordinary as a drink of water. We imagine there is a difference between showing up at the weekly staff meeting with Aquafina or Fiji or a small glass bottle of Pellegrino. Which is, of course, a little silly.
Bottled water is not a sin. But it is a choice.
Packing bottled water in lunchboxes, grabbing a half-liter from the fridge as we dash out the door, piling up half-finished bottles in the car cup holders -- that happens because of a fundamental thoughtlessness. It's only marginally more trouble to have reusable water bottles, cleaned and filled and tucked in the lunchbox or the fridge. We just can't be bothered. And in a world in which 1 billion people have no reliable source of drinking water and 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from tainted water, that conspicuous consumption of bottled water that we don't need seems wasteful and perhaps cavalier.
That is the sense in which Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, and Singer, the Princeton philosopher, are both right. Mackey is right that buying bottled water is a choice, and Singer is right that given the impact it has, the easy substitutes and the thoughtless spending involved, it's fair to ask whether it's always a good choice.
Once you understand the resources mustered to deliver the bottle of water, it's reasonable to ask as you reach for the next bottle, not just "Does the value to me equal the 99 cents I'm about to spend?" but "Does the value equal the impact I'm about to leave behind?"
This article was reported and written by Charles Fishman for Fast Company.
The largest bottled-water factory in North America is on the outskirts of Hollis, Maine. In the back of the plant stretches the staging area for finished product: 24 million bottles of Poland Spring water.
As far as the eye can see, there are double-stacked pallets of half-pint bottles, half-liters, liters, "aquapods" for school lunches and 2.5-gallon jugs for refrigerators.
We Americans pitch 38 billion water bottles a year into landfills -- in excess of $1 billion worth of plastic. And 24% of the bottled water we buy is tap water repackaged by Coca-Cola (KO, news, msgs) and PepsiCo (PEP, news, msgs).
The Hollis factory holds a virtual lake of Poland Spring water, conveniently celled off in plastic and extending across 6 acres, 8 feet high. A week ago, the lake was still underground; within five days, it will all be gone, to supermarkets and convenience stores across the Northeast, replaced by another lake's worth of bottles.
Looking at the piles of water, you can have only one thought: We sure are thirsty.
Water, water everywhere Bottled water has become the indispensable prop in our lives and our culture. It starts the day in lunchboxes; it goes to every meeting, lecture hall and soccer match; it's in our cubicles at work and the cup holder of the treadmill at the gym; and it's rattling around half-finished on the floor of nearly every minivan in America.
Fiji Water shows up on the ABC show "Brothers & Sisters"; Poland Spring cameos routinely on NBC's "The Office." Many hotel rooms offer bottled water for sale alongside the increasingly ignored ice bucket and drinking glasses. At Whole Foods Market (WFMI, news, msgs), the upscale emporium of the organic and exotic, bottled water is the No. 1 item by units sold.
Thirty years ago, bottled water barely existed as a business in the United States. Last year, Americans spent more on Poland Spring, Fiji Water, Evian, Aquafina and Dasani water than they spent on iPods or movie tickets -- $15 billion. It's expected to be $16 billion this year.
Bottled water is a drink phenomenon of the times. American generations raised on tap water and water fountains now go through a billion bottles of water a week, and they're raising a generation that views tap water with disdain and water fountains with suspicion. Americans have come to pay good money -- two or three or four times the cost of gasoline -- for a product they've always gotten, and can still get, virtually for free, from taps in their homes.
A story gets swallowed When we buy a bottle of water, what we're often buying is the bottle itself, as much as the water. We're buying the convenience: A bottle at a 7-Eleven store isn't the same product as tap water, any more than a cup of coffee at Starbucks is the same as a cup of coffee from the Krups machine on your kitchen counter. And we're buying the artful story the water companies tell us about the water: where it comes from, how healthy it is, what it says about us. Surely, among the choices we can make, bottled water isn't just good -- it's positively virtuous.
Except for this: Bottled water is often simply an indulgence, and despite the stories we tell ourselves, it is not a benign indulgence. About 1 billion bottles of water a week are moved around in ships, trains and trucks in the United States alone. That's a weekly convoy equivalent to 37,800 18-wheelers delivering water. (Water weighs 8 1/3 pounds a gallon. It's so heavy you can't fill an 18-wheeler with bottled water -- you have to leave empty space.)
Billions lack safe water
Meanwhile, one out of six people in the world have no dependable, safe drinking water. The global economy denies the most fundamental element of life to 1 billion people while delivering to us an array of water "varieties" from around the globe, not one of which we actually need. That tension is complicated by the fact that if we suddenly decided not to purchase the "lake" of Poland Spring water in Maine, none of that water would find its way to people who really are thirsty.
A chilled plastic bottle of water in the convenience-store cooler is the perfect symbol of this moment in American commerce and culture. It acknowledges our demand for instant gratification, our vanity, our token concern for health. Its packaging and transport depend entirely on cheap fossil fuel.
Yes, it's just a bottle of water -- modest compared with the indulgence of driving a Hummer. But when a whole industry grows up around supplying us with something we don't need, when a whole industry is built on the packaging and the presentation, it's worth asking how that happened and what the impact is. And if you do ask, if you trace both the water and the business back to where they came from, you find a story more complicated, more bemusing and ultimately more sobering than the bottles we tote everywhere suggest.
In the town of San Pellegrino Terme, Italy, for example, is a spigot that runs all the time, providing water free to the local residents -- except the free Pellegrino has no bubbles. Pellegrino trucks in the bubbles for its bottling plant.
And in Fiji, a state-of-the-art factory spins out more than a million bottles a day of the hippest bottled water on the U.S. market today, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have safe, reliable drinking water. That means it is easier for the typical American in Beverly Hills or Baltimore to get a drink of safe, pure, refreshing Fiji water than it is for most people in Fiji.
At the Peninsula hotel in Beverly Hills, where the rooms start around $500 a night and the guest next door might well be an Oscar winner, the minibar in each of the 196 rooms contains six bottles of Fiji Water. Before Fiji Water displaced Evian, Diet Coke was the top-selling minibar item. Now, says Christian Boyens, the Peninsula's director of food and beverage, "the 1 liter of Fiji Water is No. 1. Diet Coke is No. 2. And the 500-milliliter bottle of Fiji is No. 3."
Being the water in the Peninsula minibar is so desirable -- not just for the money to be made but for the exposure with the Peninsula's clientele -- that Boyens gets sales calls each week from companies trying to dislodge Fiji.
'I thought water was water' Boyens, who has a master's degree in business administration from Cornell, used to be indifferent to water. Not anymore. His restaurants and bars carry 20 different waters.
"Sometimes a guest will ask for Poland Spring, and you can't get Poland Spring in California," he says.
So what does he do?
"We'll call the Peninsula in New York and have them FedEx out a case. I thought water was water. But our customers know what they want."
The marketing of bottled water is subtle compared with the marketing of, say, soft drinks or beer. The point of Fiji Water in the minibar at the Peninsula, or at the center of the table in a white-tablecloth restaurant, is that guests will try it, love it and buy it at a store the next time they see it.
Seeing it isn't difficult because the water aisle in a suburban supermarket typically stocks a dozen brands of water, not including those enhanced with flavors or vitamins or, yes, oxygen. In 1976, the average American drank 1.6 gallons of bottled water a year, according to Beverage Marketing. Last year, we each drank an average of 28.3 gallons of bottled water -- 18 half-liter bottles a month. We drink more bottled water than milk, coffee or beer. Only carbonated soft drinks, at 52.9 gallons annually, are more popular than bottled water.
No one has experienced this transformation more profoundly than Kim Jeffery. He began his career in the water business in the Midwest in 1978, selling Perrier.
"People didn't know whether to put it in their lawn mower or drink it," he says.
Now he's the CEO of Nestlé Waters North America, in charge of U.S. sales of Perrier, San Pellegrino, Poland Spring and a portfolio of other regional spring waters. Combined, his brands will sell about $4.5 billion worth of water this year, generating roughly $500 million in pretax profit. Jeffery insists that unlike the soda business, which is stoked by imaginative TV and marketing campaigns, the mainstream water business is, quite simply, "a force of nature."
"The entire bottled-water business today is half the size of the carbonated-beverage industry," says Jeffery, "but our marketing budget is 15% of what they spend. When you put a bottle of water in that cold box, it's the most thirst-quenching beverage there is. There's nothing in it that's not good for you. People just know that intuitively.
"A lot of people tell me, 'You guys have done some great marketing to get customers to pay for water,' " Jeffery says. "But we aren't that smart. We had to have a hell of a lot of help from the consumer."
Blame France
How an industry began Still, we needed help learning to drink bottled water. For that, we can thank the French.
Gustave Leven was the chairman of Source Perrier when he approached an American named Bruce Nevins in 1976. Nevins was working for athletic-wear company Pony. Leven was a major Pony investor.
"He wanted me to consider the water business in the U.S.," Nevins says. "I was a bit reluctant."
Back then, the American water industry was small and fusty, built on home and office delivery of big bottles and grocery sales of gallon jugs.
Nevins looked out across 1970s America, though, and had an epiphany: Perrier wasn't just water. It was a beverage. The opportunity was in persuading people to drink Perrier when they would otherwise have had a cocktail or a Coke. Americans were already drinking 30 gallons of soft drinks each a year, and the three-martini lunch was increasingly viewed as a problem. Nevins saw a niche.
From the start, Nevins pioneered a three-part strategy. First, he connected bottled water to exclusivity: In 1977, just before Perrier's U.S. launch, he flew 60 journalists to France to visit "the source," where Perrier bubbled out of the ground. He connected Perrier to health, sponsoring the New York City Marathon, just as long-distance running was exploding as a fad across America. And he associated Perrier with celebrity, launching it with $4 million in TV commercials featuring actor-director Orson Welles.
Nevins' strategy worked. In 1978, its first full year in the United States, Perrier sold $20 million of water. The next year, sales tripled to $60 million.
What made Perrier distinctive was that it was a sparkling water, served in a signature glass bottle. But that's also what left the door open for Evian, which came to the United States in 1984. Evian's U.S. marketing was built around images of toned young men and women in tight clothes sweating at a gym. Madonna drank Evian -- often onstage at concerts.
"If you were cool, you were drinking bottled water," says Ed Slade, who became Evian's vice president of marketing in 1990. "It was a status symbol."
Evian was also a still water, which Americans prefer, and it was the first to offer a plastic bottle nationwide. The clear bottle allowed us to see the water -- how clean and refreshing it looked on the shelf.
Americans have never wanted water in cans, which suggest a tinny aftertaste before you even take a sip. The plastic bottle, in fact, did for water what the pop-top can had done for soda: It turned water into an anywhere, anytime beverage, at just the moment when we decided we wanted a beverage, everywhere, all the time.
An alignment of convenience and virtue Perrier and Evian launched the bottled-water business just as it would prove irresistible. Two-career families, over-programmed children, prepared foods in place of home-cooked meals, the constant urging to eat more healthfully and drink less alcohol -- all reinforce the value of bottled water. But those trends also reinforce the mythology.
We buy bottled water because we think it's healthy. Which it is, of course: Every 12-year-old who buys a bottle of water from a vending machine instead of a 16-ounce Coke is inarguably making a healthier choice. But bottled water isn't healthier, or safer, than tap water in American homes.
Indeed, while the United States is the single biggest consumer in the world's $50 billion bottled-water market, it is the only one of the top four -- the others are Brazil, China and Mexico -- with nearly universally reliable tap water.
Tap water in the U.S., with rare exceptions, is impressively safe. It is monitored constantly, and the test results are made public. Mineral water has a long association with medicinal benefits -- and it can provide minerals that people need -- but there are no scientific studies establishing that routinely consuming mineral water improves your health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in fact, forbids mineral waters in the United States from making any health claims.
For this healthful convenience, we're paying what amounts to an unbelievable premium. You can buy a half-liter Evian for $1.35 -- 17 ounces of water imported from France for pocket change. That water seems cheap, but only because we aren't paying attention.
In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from Yosemite National Park. It's so good the Environmental Protection Agency doesn't require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, five months and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35. Put another way, if the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000.
The taste test
Taste, of course, is highly personal. New Yorkers excepted, Americans love to belittle the quality of their tap water. But in blind taste tests, with waters at equal temperatures, presented in identical glasses, ordinary people can rarely distinguish between tap water, spring water and luxury waters. At the height of Perrier's popularity, Bruce Nevins was asked on a live network radio show one morning to pick Perrier from a lineup of seven carbonated waters served in paper cups. It took him five tries.
The industry's comeback Americans are actually in the midst of a second love affair with bottled water. In the United States, many of the earliest, still-familiar brands of spring water -- Poland Spring, Saratoga Springs, Deer Park, Arrowhead -- were originally associated with resort and spa complexes. The water itself, pure at a time when cities struggled to provide safe water, was the source of the enterprise.
In the late 1800s, Poland Spring was already a renowned brand of healthful drinking water that you could get home-delivered in Boston, New York, Philadelphia or Chicago. It was also a sprawling summer resort complex, with thousands of guests and three Victorian hotels, some of which had bathtubs with spigots that allowed guests to bathe in Poland Spring water. The resort burned in 1976, but at the crest of a hill in Poland Spring, Maine, you can still visit a marble-and-granite temple built in 1906 to house the original spring.
The car, the Depression, World War II and, perhaps most important, clean, safe municipal water unwound the resorts and the first wave of water as business. We had to wait two generations for the second, which would turn out to be much different -- and much larger.
Today, for all the apparent variety on the shelf, bottled water is dominated in the United States and worldwide by four huge companies. PepsiCo has the nation's top-selling bottled water, Aquafina, with 13% of the market. Coca-Cola's Dasani is No. 2, with 11% of the market. Both are simply purified municipal water, so 24% of the bottled water we buy is tap water repackaged by Coke and Pepsi for our convenience. Evian is owned by Danone, a French food giant, and distributed in the United States by Coke.
The really big water company in the United States is Nestlé, which gradually bought up the nation's heritage brands and expanded them. The waters are slightly different – spring water must come from actual springs, identified specifically on the label -- but together, they add up to 26% of the market, according to Beverage Marketing, surpassing Coke's and Pepsi's brands combined.
Because most water brands are owned by larger companies, it's hard to get directly at the economics. But according to those inside the business, half the price of a typical $1.29 bottle goes to the retailer. As much as a third goes to the distributor and transport. An additional 12 to 15 cents is the cost of the water itself, the bottle and the cap. That leaves roughly a dime of profit. On multipacks, that profit is more like 2 cents a bottle.
Water sales to overtake soda As the abundance in the supermarket water aisle shows, that business is now trying to help us find new waters to drink and new occasions for drinking them. Aquafina's marketing vice president, Ahad Afridi, says his team has done the research to understand what kind of water drinkers we are. It has found six types, including the "water pure-fectionists," the "water explorers," the "image seekers" and the "strugglers" -- consumers who "don't really like water that much" and "will have a cheeseburger with a diet soda."
It's a startling level of thought and analysis, until you realize that within a decade, U.S. consumption of bottled water is expected to surpass soda. That kind of market can't be left to chance. Aquafina's fine segmentation is all about the newest explosion of waters that aren't really water -- flavored waters, enhanced waters, colored waters, water drinks branded after everything from Special K breakfast cereal to Tropicana juice.
Afridi is a true believer. He talks about water as if it were more than a drink, more than a product -- as if it were a character all its own, a superhero ready to take the pure-fectionist, the water explorer and the struggler by the hand and carry them to new adventures.
"Water as a beverage has more right to extend and enter into more territories than any other beverage," Afridi says. "Water has a right to travel where others can't."
Uh, meaning what?
"Water that's got vitamins in it. Water that's got some immunity-type benefit to it. Water that helps keep skin younger. Water that gives you energy."
Water: It's pure, it's healthy, it's perfect -- and it's been made better. The future of water sounds distinctly unlike water.
Visiting the source
The label on a bottle of Fiji Water says "from the islands of Fiji." Journey to the source of that water, and you realize just how extraordinary that promise is. From New York, for instance, it is an 18-hour plane ride west and south (via Los Angeles), almost to Australia, and then a four-hour drive along Fiji's two-lane King's Highway.
Every bottle of Fiji Water goes on its own version of this trip, in reverse, although by truck and ship. In fact, because the plastic for the bottles is shipped to Fiji first, the bottles' journey is even longer. Half of the wholesale cost of Fiji Water is transportation -- which is to say, it costs as much to ship Fiji Water across the Pacific Ocean and truck it to warehouses in the United States than it does to extract the water and bottle it.
The pollution behind the purity That is not the only environmental cost embedded in each bottle of Fiji Water. The Fiji Water plant is a state-of-the-art facility that runs 24 hours a day. That means it requires an uninterrupted supply of electricity, something the local utility structure cannot support. So the factory supplies its own electricity, with three big generators running on diesel fuel. The water may come from "one of the last pristine ecosystems on Earth," as some of the labels say, but out back of the bottling plant is a less pristine ecosystem veiled with a diesel haze.
Each water bottler has its own version of this oxymoron: that something as pure and clean as water leaves a contrail.
San Pellegrino's 1-liter glass bottles -- so much a part of the mystique of the water itself -- weigh five times what plastic bottles weigh, dramatically adding to freight costs and energy consumption. The bottles are washed and rinsed, with mineral water, before being filled with sparkling Pellegrino -- it takes up 2 liters of water to prepare the bottle for the liter that's sold.
The bubbles in San Pellegrino come naturally from the ground, as the label says, but not at the San Pellegrino source. Pellegrino chooses its carbon dioxide carefully -- it is extracted from supercarbonated volcanic spring waters in Tuscany, then trucked north and bubbled into Pellegrino.
Poland Spring may not have any oceans to traverse, but it still must be trucked hundreds of miles from Maine to markets and convenience stores across its territory in the northeast -- it is 312 miles from the Hollis plant to midtown Manhattan. Consumers' desire for Poland Spring has outgrown the springs at Poland Spring's two Maine plants; the company runs a fleet of 80 silver tanker trucks that crisscross Maine, delivering water from other springs to keep its bottling plants humming.
Clean water gets cleaned In transportation terms, perhaps the waters with the least environmental impact are Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola's Dasani. Both start with municipal water. That allows the companies to use dozens of bottling plants across the nation, reducing how far bottles must be shipped.
Yet Coca-Cola and Pepsi add a step. They put the local water through an energy-intensive reverse-osmosis filtration process more potent than that used to turn seawater into drinking water. The water they are purifying is ready to drink -- they are recleaning already-clean tap water. They do it so marketing can brag about the purity and to provide consistency -- so a bottle of Aquafina in Austin, Texas, and a bottle in Seattle taste the same, regardless of the municipal source.
There is one more item in bottled water's environmental ledger: the bottles themselves. The big spring-water companies tend to make their own bottles in their plants, just moments before they are filled with water -- 12, 19, 30 grams of molded plastic each.
Americans went through about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year, 167 for each person -- durable, lightweight containers manufactured just to be discarded. Water bottles are made of totally recyclable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, so we share responsibility for their impact: Americans' recycling rate for PET is only 23%, which means we pitch into landfills 38 billion water bottles a year -- more than $1 billion worth of plastic.
Another view John Mackey is the CEO and a co-founder of Whole Foods Market, the national organic-and-natural grocery chain. No one may think about the environmental and social impacts and the larger context of food more incisively than Mackey, so he's a good person to help frame the ethical questions around bottled water.
Mackey and his wife have a water filter at home and don't typically drink bottled water there.
"If I go to a movie," he says, "I'll smuggle in a bottle of filtered water from home. I don't want to buy a Coke there, and why buy another bottle of water -- $3 for 16 ounces?" But he does drink bottled water at work: Whole Foods' house brand, 365 Water.
"You can compare bottled water to tap water and reach one set of conclusions," says Mackey, referring both to environmental and social ramifications. "But if you compare it with other packaged beverages, you reach another set of conclusions.
"It's unfair to say bottled water is causing extra plastic in landfills and it's using energy transporting it," Mackey says. "There's a substitution effect -- it's substituting for juices and Coke and Pepsi."
Indeed, we still drink almost twice the amount of soda as water -- which is, in fact, 90% water and also in containers made to be discarded. If bottled water raises environmental and social issues, don't soft drinks raise all those issues, plus obesity concerns?
What's different about water, of course, is that it runs from taps in our homes and from fountains in public spaces. Soda does not.
'I don't think water should be picked on' As for the energy used to transport water from overseas, Mackey says it is no more or less wasteful than the energy used to bring merlot from France or coffee from Ethiopia, raspberries from Chile or iPods from China.
"Have we now decided that the use of any fossil fuel is somehow unethical?" Mackey asks. "I don't think water should be picked on. Why is the iPod OK and the water is not?"
The ethicist's approach
Mackey's is a merchant's approach to the issue of bottled water: It's a choice for people to make in the marketplace. Princeton University philosopher Peter Singer takes an ethicist's approach. Singer has co-authored two books that grapple specifically with the question of what it means to eat ethically -- how responsible are we for the negative impact, even unknowing, of our food choices on the world?
"Where the drinking water is safe, bottled water is simply a superfluous luxury that we should do without," he says. "How is it different than French merlot? One difference is the value of the product in comparison to the value of transporting and packaging it. It's far lower in the bottled water than in the wine.
"And buying the merlot may help sustain a tradition in the French countryside that we value -- a community, a way of life, a set of values that would disappear if we stopped buying French wines. I doubt if you travel to Fiji you would find a tradition of cultivation of Fiji water.
"We're completely thoughtless about handing out $1 for this bottle of water, when there are virtually identical alternatives for free. It's a level of affluence that we just take for granted. What could you do? Put that dollar in a jar on the counter instead, carry a water bottle, and at the end of the month, send all the money to Oxfam or CARE and help someone who has real needs. And you're no worse off."
Water goes out; money comes in In Fiji, the irony of shipping a precious product from a country without reliable water service is hard to avoid. Last spring, typhoid from contaminated drinking water sickened dozens of villagers and killed at least one. Fiji Water often quietly supplies emergency drinking water in such cases.
The reality is, if Fiji Water weren't tapping its aquifer, the underground water would slide into the Pacific Ocean, somewhere just off the coast. But the corresponding reality is, someone else -- the Fijian government, a nongovernmental organization -- could be tapping that supply and sending it through a pipe to villagers who need it.
Fiji Water has, in fact, done just that, to some degree -- 20 water projects in five nearby villages. Indeed, Fiji Water's parent company, Roll International, has reinvested every dollar of profit since 2004 back into the business and the country.
Jim Siplon, an American who manages Fiji Water's 10-year-old bottling plant in Fiji, acknowledges the risk of slipping into capitalistic neocolonialism.
"Does the world need Fiji Water?" he asks. "I'm not sure I agree with the critics on that. This company has the potential of delivering great value -- or the results a cynic might have expected."
Water is, in fact, often the perfect beverage -- healthy, refreshing and satisfying in a way soda or juice aren't.
Worldwide, 1 billion people have no reliable source of drinking water; 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from tainted water.
Nestlé Waters' Jeffery may be defending his industry when he calls bottled water "a force of nature," but he's also not wrong. Consumption of bottled water has outstripped any marketer's dreams or talent: If you break out the single-serve plastic bottle as its own category, Americans' consumption of bottled water grew a thousandfold between 1984 and 2005.
In the array of styles, choices, moods and messages available today, water has come to signify how we think of ourselves. We want to brand ourselves -- as Madonna did -- even with something as ordinary as a drink of water. We imagine there is a difference between showing up at the weekly staff meeting with Aquafina or Fiji or a small glass bottle of Pellegrino. Which is, of course, a little silly.
Bottled water is not a sin. But it is a choice.
Packing bottled water in lunchboxes, grabbing a half-liter from the fridge as we dash out the door, piling up half-finished bottles in the car cup holders -- that happens because of a fundamental thoughtlessness. It's only marginally more trouble to have reusable water bottles, cleaned and filled and tucked in the lunchbox or the fridge. We just can't be bothered. And in a world in which 1 billion people have no reliable source of drinking water and 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from tainted water, that conspicuous consumption of bottled water that we don't need seems wasteful and perhaps cavalier.
That is the sense in which Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, and Singer, the Princeton philosopher, are both right. Mackey is right that buying bottled water is a choice, and Singer is right that given the impact it has, the easy substitutes and the thoughtless spending involved, it's fair to ask whether it's always a good choice.
Once you understand the resources mustered to deliver the bottle of water, it's reasonable to ask as you reach for the next bottle, not just "Does the value to me equal the 99 cents I'm about to spend?" but "Does the value equal the impact I'm about to leave behind?"
This article was reported and written by Charles Fishman for Fast Company.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Membranes Filter as prefilter
Our recommendation
For customers who want not only Pi water system for their drinking water, food preparation etc but also want clean water into their whole house, we suggest they install an membranes filter at point of water entry (POE) or at point of use (POU). It will not only give you whole house of clean water and it helps to extend the usage life of the prefilter, ceramic filter and the active carbon block of our Pi Water system.
For customers who want not only Pi water system for their drinking water, food preparation etc but also want clean water into their whole house, we suggest they install an membranes filter at point of water entry (POE) or at point of use (POU). It will not only give you whole house of clean water and it helps to extend the usage life of the prefilter, ceramic filter and the active carbon block of our Pi Water system.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell why we recommended this membranes filter as pre filter, it doesn't require replacement of filter, just need to wash and rinse the membranes. For S$450/- more in initiate investment, you no need to worry about future replacement of parts. Cool!
Superior membrane materiall
The key raw material used in membranes is Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). This polymer is not harmful, odourless and tasteless and also has excellent properties of resistance to weather, radiation, ozone and ultraviolet. All this make PVDF an ideal material for manufacturing high performance membranes. It has been widely used in various fields and industries due to its unique and excellent properties.
Principle of the membranes filter
Under the pressure of tap water, municipal water flows into the UF purifier. Pure water together with minerals penetrate through UF membrane wall and flow to the purified water outlet. In the same time, bacteria, rust, colloids, suspensions and other impurities are blocked at the outside of the hollow fibre membrane and will be flushed out through the flushing water outlet when it is open. The purifier can be effectively cleaned by flushing water due to the application of vertical cross-flow filtration. The water purifiers can greatly improve water quality without the problem of fouling / blockage facing most ordinary purifiers.
The Installation diagram of Membranes Filter
Superior membrane materiall
The key raw material used in membranes is Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). This polymer is not harmful, odourless and tasteless and also has excellent properties of resistance to weather, radiation, ozone and ultraviolet. All this make PVDF an ideal material for manufacturing high performance membranes. It has been widely used in various fields and industries due to its unique and excellent properties.
Principle of the membranes filter
Under the pressure of tap water, municipal water flows into the UF purifier. Pure water together with minerals penetrate through UF membrane wall and flow to the purified water outlet. In the same time, bacteria, rust, colloids, suspensions and other impurities are blocked at the outside of the hollow fibre membrane and will be flushed out through the flushing water outlet when it is open. The purifier can be effectively cleaned by flushing water due to the application of vertical cross-flow filtration. The water purifiers can greatly improve water quality without the problem of fouling / blockage facing most ordinary purifiers.
The Installation diagram of Membranes Filter
The Principle of Membranes Filter
Specification
Model : DUE500A,DUE500
Material : PVDF hollow-fibre membrane, very stable, resistant to contamination/fouling, long lasting, safe and reliable. Stainless steel casing or ABS casing with stainless steel decoration noble appearance, durable.
Design : Out-in pressure filtration, good design, easy installation, dismounting, cleaning and maintenance.
Volume : Small volume, safe space and easy to install and dismount.
Application : Wide application, suitable for a small condominium apartment/ordinary family and small commercial environment.
Material : PVDF hollow-fibre membrane, very stable, resistant to contamination/fouling, long lasting, safe and reliable. Stainless steel casing or ABS casing with stainless steel decoration noble appearance, durable.
Design : Out-in pressure filtration, good design, easy installation, dismounting, cleaning and maintenance.
Volume : Small volume, safe space and easy to install and dismount.
Application : Wide application, suitable for a small condominium apartment/ordinary family and small commercial environment.
Retail price : S$450/- if purchase Water Master Pi Water Energized Water Filter, we can help you to do the installation, no extra charges for the labour cost.
You are not sick, you are thirsty
Water prevents and helps to cure heartburn.
Heartburn is a signal of water shortage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a major thirst signal of the human body. The use of antacids or tablet medications in the treatment of this pain does not correct dehydration, and the body continues to suffer as a result of its water shortage.
Body's Many Cries for Water. you are not sick, you are thirsty. Don't treat thirst with medicines. http://www.watercure.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=3
Not recognizing heartburn as a sign of dehydration and treating it with antacids and pill medications will, in time, produce inflammation of the stomach and duodenum, hiatal hernia, ulceration, and eventually cancers in the gastrointestinal tract, including the liver and pancreas.
"Obesity Cancer Depression" http://www.watercure.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=10
"Water Cures : Drugs Kill - How water cured incurable diseases" http://www.watercure.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=8
"Water : For Health For Healing For Life" http://www.watercure.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=7
Where to get these books? Check out http://2659432965.monstercommercesites.com/AffiliateWiz/aw.aspx?A=43&Task=Click
Dr. B. wrote his first groundbreaking self-help book Your Body's Many Cries for Water in 1992. His pioneering work of the water cure has become part of the powerful movement of natural healing. Dr. B.'s message, You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty; Don't Treat Thirst With Medication, has reached millions and continues to inspire his readers all over the world.
This book, the result of 24 years of research, is the sixth of You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty Series. It looks at the conditions of obesity, cancer and depression through a new physiological perspective. It provides new knowledge and new possibilities for improving and maintaining good health that the public need and deserve to know.
These books are tribute to Dr. B. and his tireless efforts to transform our commerce-driven medical system to a people-friendly, natural one. We invite you to get these books, learn more about the water cure and share it with your family and friends. We encourage you to join us in spreading the word about the healing powers of water.
Heartburn is a signal of water shortage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a major thirst signal of the human body. The use of antacids or tablet medications in the treatment of this pain does not correct dehydration, and the body continues to suffer as a result of its water shortage.
Body's Many Cries for Water. you are not sick, you are thirsty. Don't treat thirst with medicines. http://www.watercure.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=3
Not recognizing heartburn as a sign of dehydration and treating it with antacids and pill medications will, in time, produce inflammation of the stomach and duodenum, hiatal hernia, ulceration, and eventually cancers in the gastrointestinal tract, including the liver and pancreas.Water prevents and helps to cure arthritis.
Rheumatoid joint pain - arthritis - is a signal of water shortage in the painful joint. It can affect the young as well as the old. The use of pain-killers does not cure the problem, but exposes the person to further damage from pain medications. Intake of water and small amounts of salt will cure this problem.
Water prevents and helps to cure back pain.
Low back pain and ankylosing arthritis of the spine are signs of water shortage in the spinal column and discs - the water cushions that support the weight of the body. These conditions should be treated with increased water intake - not a commercial treatment, but a very effective one. Not recognizing arthritis and low back pain as signs of dehydration in the joint cavities and treating them with pain-killers, manipulation, acupuncture, and eventually surgery will, in time, produce osteoarthritis when the cartilage cells in the joints have eventually all died. It will produce deformity of the spine. It will produce crippling deformities of the limbs. Pain medications have their own life-threatening complications.
Water prevents and helps to cure angina.
Heart pain - angina - is a sign of water shortage in the heart/lung axis. It should be treated with increased water intake until the patient is free of pain and independent of medications. Medical supervision is prudent. However, increased water intake is angina's cure.
Water prevents and helps to cure migraines.
Migraine headache is a sign of water need by the brain and the eyes. It will totally clear up if dehydration is prevented from establishing in the body. The type of dehydration that causes migraine might eventually cause inflammation of the back of the eye and possibly loss of eye sight.
Water prevents and helps to cure colitis.
Colitis pain is a signal of water shortage in the large gut. It is associated with constipation because the large intestine constricts to squeeze the last drop of water from the excrements - thus the lack of water lubrication. Not recognizing colitis pain as a sign of dehydration will cause persistent constipation. Later in life, it will cause fecal impacting: it can cause diverticulitis, hemorrhoids and polyps, and appreciably increases the possibility of developing cancer of the colon and rectum.
Water and salt prevent and helps to cure asthma.
Asthma, which also affects 14 million children and kills several thousand of them every year, is a complication of dehydration in the body. It is caused by the drought management programs of the body. In asthma free passage of air is obstructed so that water does not leave the body in the form of vapor - the winter steam. Increased water intake will prevent asthma attacks. Asthmatics need also to take more salt to break the mucus plugs in the lungs that obstruct the free flow of air in and out of the air sacs. Not recognizing asthma as the indicator of dehydration in the body of a growing child not only will sentence many thousands of children to die every year, but will permit irreversible genetic damage to establish in the remaining 14 million asthmatic children.
Water prevents and helps to cure high blood pressure.
Hypertension is a state of adaptation of the body to a generalized drought, when there is not enough water to fill all the blood vessels that diffuse water into vital cells. As part of the mechanism of reverse osmosis, when water from the blood serum is filtered and injected into important cells through minute holes in their membranes, extra pressure is needed for the "injection process." Just as we inject I.V. "water" in hospitals, so the body injects water into tens of trillions of cells all at the same time. Water and some salt intake will bring blood pressure back to normal! Not recognizing hypertension as one of the major indicators of dehydration in the human body, and treating it with diuretics that further dehydrate the body will, in time, cause blockage by cholesterol of the heart arteries and the arteries that go to the brain. It will cause heart attacks and small or massive strokes that paralyze. It will eventually cause kidney disease. It will cause brain damage and neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.
Water prevents and helps to cure early adult-onset diabetes.
Adult-onset diabetes is another adaptive state to severe dehydration of the human body. To have adequate water in circulation and for the brain's priority water needs, the release of insulin is inhibited to prevent insulin from pushing water into all body cells. In diabetes, only some cells get survival rations of water. Water and some salt will reverse adult-onset diabetes in its early stages before it becomes an autoimmune disease with a destruction of insulin-producing cells.
Tragedy: Not recognizing adult-onset diabetes as a complication of dehydration will, in time, cause massive damage to the blood vessels all over the body. It will cause eventual loss of the toes, feet and legs from gangrene. It will cause eye damage, even blindness.
Water lowers blood cholesterol.
High cholesterol levels are an indicator of early drought management by the body. Cholesterol is a clay-like material that is poured in the gaps of some cell membranes to safeguard them against losing their vital water content to the osmotically more powerful blood circulating in their vicinity. Cholesterol, apart from being used to manufacture nerve cell membranes and hormones, is also used as a "shield" against water taxation of other vital cells that would normally exchange water through their cell membranes.
Pain
Scientific Information on Dehydration Pain Signifies Thirst For Water
F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
There has been a groundbreaking medical breakthrough that you need to be aware of. It has already shaken the foundation of mainstream medical establishment in this country. Simply put, it is the "new scientific understanding" that chronic unintentional dehydration can manifest itself in as many ways as we in medicine have invented diseases.
Tragically, this Medical Breakthrough is not reaching the public through the Health maintenance systems in this country.
It is estimated that more than 110 million people in America are prone to suffer from various pains; in some cases with crippling intensity. "Pain of dehydration" afflicts Americans in various ways not usually associated with dehydration. They are:
Arthritic Pain - By far the largest sector of our society reveal their chronic unintentional dehydration in form of arthritic pains.
Heartburn - Heartburn, reflecting dehydration, destroys many a night's rest or a day's peace of mind for many millions.
Back Pain - This devastating pain is a periodic yearly affliction for over 30 million people.
Migraines - This debilitating pain devastate the lives of the young and the old.
Colitis pain - This pain is associated with constipation. They are everyday companions and concern of a large sector of our society.
Fibromyalgia - The pain felt in the muscles and joints all over the body is a crippling problem suffered by millions.
Angina pain - Since angina is an ominous sign of impending heart attacks and possible death, it is the most feared of all body pains.
To relieve these devastating pains, a variety of pain medications have been produced and prescribed by doctors who never realized the physiologic significance of why the human body possesses a pain alarm system at all, and what is the common factor and trigger mechanism for these pains. Since these pains are felt in different locations, obviously they meant different diseases, or so it seemed! Because pain research has until now focused entirely on its solid composition, the common factor of water shortage in the interior of the body had not been apparent.
The new scientific understanding since 1987 is that localized or regional dehydration is the primary common factor and pain-producing problem of the human body. It becomes established when there is persistent regional water shortage, including in the interior of the pain-sensing nerve cells in the human body. This is the common factor to all body pains. In drought management mode, and when there is not enough "fresh water" to go around and wash out the toxic by-products of metabolism from the areas that are engaged in continuous activity, the nerve endings in those areas sense the increased toxicity, sound the alarm of pain and force the person to stop doing whatever that would increase toxic waste production - hence the loss of function in painful areas.
As an example - when the heart muscle itself is short of "fresh water" and yet has to beat faster and forcefully to cope with any strenuous physical undertaking, pain is produced. In that instance, pain means thirst for "fresh water," even if it is believed that the blood flow to the heart muscle is reduced because of narrowing of its blood vessels. Interestingly, even cholesterol plaque formations in the heart arteries are caused by the same dehydration.
In treatment of chronic pains of the body, simple water has natural medicinal effects far superior to any pain medication. Pain medications shut down the crisis calls of the body for water, but do not correct the "fresh water" shortage in the interior of the body. Whereas, water intake corrects the basic pain-producing drought and saves the body from further danger.
Want to know more about Health and Water? please read the following books.
"Obesity Cancer Depression" http://www.watercure.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=10
"Water Cures : Drugs Kill - How water cured incurable diseases" http://www.watercure.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=8"Water : For Health For Healing For Life" http://www.watercure.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=7Where to get these books? Check out http://2659432965.monstercommercesites.com/AffiliateWiz/aw.aspx?A=43&Task=Click
Dr. B. wrote his first groundbreaking self-help book Your Body's Many Cries for Water in 1992. His pioneering work of the water cure has become part of the powerful movement of natural healing. Dr. B.'s message, You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty; Don't Treat Thirst With Medication, has reached millions and continues to inspire his readers all over the world.
This book, the result of 24 years of research, is the sixth of You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty Series. It looks at the conditions of obesity, cancer and depression through a new physiological perspective. It provides new knowledge and new possibilities for improving and maintaining good health that the public need and deserve to know.
These books are tribute to Dr. B. and his tireless efforts to transform our commerce-driven medical system to a people-friendly, natural one. We invite you to get these books, learn more about the water cure and share it with your family and friends. We encourage you to join us in spreading the word about the healing powers of water.
Friday, July 20, 2007
See what I do for the prawn with Pi water
I bought the prawn from the wet market for S$7 per kg, see ....so much. When I reached home, I soaked the prawns into the pi water, and use the scissor to cut the head and use a stick to take out the shits.
This is the stick I use to clean up the shit in the prawn. The shit can be pulled out in one piece.
See the dirty water. After the cleaning, I packed the prawns into 4 packets respectively, each packets about 15 prawns. I left them in the freezer.
I prepared the onion and chilli, with some cooking oil, I throwed the prawn into the wok directly without washing the second time. Of course, if you want to wash second time, I have no objection. The food not only fresher, I save a lot of time too.
Monday, July 16, 2007
From Shifting frequencies.com
Messages From Water : Water's Remarkable Expressions
by Ralph Suddath
Dr. Masaru Emoto and his captivating bookYou want to see the video of Dr. Masaru Emoto's water crystal. Click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425EQ6mhpzA
New research into the nature of water reveals an infinite variety of form and structure. These varieties are reflected in the forms of the crystals of frozen water. Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese researcher, in his groundbreaking book, Messages from Water and in his most recent book, Messages from Water Part 2, explains how he freezes different samples of water and then photographs their crystals. He is testing a variety of water samples from different sources and is investigating the effect of prayer, sound and words on the quality of water.
Magnetic Resonance
Frozen water from Fujiwara Dam before and after a prayerIn 1989 Dr. Emoto realized that we know almost nothing about the nature of this planet's most critical life-giving substance. He learned of a device developed by Ronald J. Weinstock called a "Bio Cellular Analyzer." Dr. Emoto got Mr. Weinstock's permission to change the name of the device to Magnetic Resonance Analyzer (MRA). Dr. Emoto found that this device gave him a new view on life and on his life in general.
Dr. Emoto discovered that all substances and phenomena have their own unique magnetic resonance field, which is converted electromagnetically into 4- or 5-digit numbers through a spectroscopy. MRA can be used for several functions including water quality inspection. Water has a very unusual property in that solid ice is about 10% lighter than water, causing it to float in liquid water. (This prevents lakes from freezing from the bottom on up and destroying the life that exists inside it). He observed that no two types of water have exactly the same crystals and that the shape of crystals mirrors properties of the actual substance. According to Dr. Emoto, modern medicine focuses its observations at the molecular level. However, in order to be able to understand the real cause of a disease so that we may cure it completely, he believes that we must look at the atomic level or even at the micro-particle level.
"HADO"
Distilled water exposed to Enya's "Gaia Symphony #1" and to heavy metal music Quantum physics describes laws of energy at the quantum level (a "quanta" or discrete particle can be a molecule, atom, nucleus, or micro particle). Discoveries in quantum physics (micro world) are helping us to understand the phenomena of our macro world. The MRA is able to measure, for the first time, quanta in micro levels smaller than molecules. This allowed Dr. Emoto to discover why diseases occur. He expressed his findings in his first two books, Prelude to the Hado Era (1992) and Studies of the Human Through Hado (1994). According to Dr. Emoto, Hado is a vibrational frequency, resonance wave--it is the source of energy behind the creation of all things. (Hado is the specific vibrating wave generated by the electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom). A field of magnetic resonance is always present wherever Hado exists. Thus, Hado can be interpreted as the magnetic resonance field itself, which is one type of electromagnetic wave. MRA measures the magnetic resonanceâ Hado. From his research with MRA, Dr. Emoto concluded that, "all things lie within your own consciousness." Thus, he believes that we should do our best to raise our Hado level by doing things such as saying blessings over our food and water, drinking good water and not accumulating negative feelings.
HADO AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Distilled water labeled with the Japanese word "soul" and the Japanese word "demon"
Through his understanding of Hado, Dr. Emoto has become convinced that microorganisms play an important role in our lives. He believes that people become ill due to negative thinking that triggers an imbalance of elements within our body. According to Dr. Emoto, when our body is in this state of illness, the only way to calm it down is to normalize the healing power or immunity of that person. It is his belief that immunity can only be recovered through a balanced peace of mind. Dr. Emoto feels that the most effective medicine for a severe disease would be an awareness that we are living in cooperation with microorganisms at each moment of our lives. He encourages us to keep them in mind at all times and to convey our honest appreciation for their contribution.
Dr. Emoto points out that, "MRA is beyond the conventional scientific common sense." What is required to operate the device in an effective way is flexibility, as well as an honest and sincere way of thinking, without any preconceived ideas of imprinted information in one's mind.
In 1994, Dr. Emoto and his colleagues at the MRA Research Institute began taking photographs of frozen water crystals. These photos are taken inside a freezer that is at a temperature of -5° C.
Distilled water labeled with the Japanese word "thank you"
The photos above are examples taken from Dr. Emoto's book Messages from Water, which documents his groundbreaking research into the effect of human consciousness on water. The book illustrates how water quality is reflected in its crystalline structure and how the consciousness of water can be affected by exposure to pollution, words, music, photos, and even prayer. When we reflect on how our bodies are primarily made of water, the implications of Dr. Emoto's work are staggering.
Ralph Suddath has been involved in comprehensive studies of water, energy, medical and agricultural technologies since 1989. He has developed a group of patented water treatment systems. Ralph has combined the studies and research of many scientists, and has worked to apply natural principles to the treatment of water. He observes water in nature, much the way Schauberger studied nature. Through his research he has come to know the magical properties of water. While most researchers work to develop theories and understanding, Ralph's expertise is in developing products that produce solutions to today's water problems.
© 2006 Shifting Frequencies, LLC.
Recently, I went to Japan to study and verify Dr. Emoto's work. I found him to be an exceptionally kind and compassionate man, full of honesty and integrity. I was able to take the pictures with him and indeed was able to verify his results. According to Dr. Emoto, Hado = Water = Energy. His work offers a major shift in our understanding of water and demonstrates the beneficial effects of prayer and healing sounds. It provides us with undeniable proof that water is alive and that it does have a memory. The door is now open for us to study many phenomena that we were unable to look at before, such as the quality of water at the crystal level. - Ralph Suddath
Friday, July 6, 2007
Frequent Asked Questions
Why Chlorinated Water is harmful to our body?
Chlorinated tap water is a skin irritant and can be associated with rashes like eczema. Chlorinated water can destroy polyunsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E in the body while generating toxins capable of free radical damage (oxidation)
(Excerpts from article by Dr. Zoltan P. Rona MD MSc)
Do you know what are the type of water that we are drinking now?
Water that we drink are recycled from rain, industrial plants and new water which recycled by Reverse Osmosis technology.
Tap Water are treated with Chlorine and Fluoride
What is Health Water?
Health water must contain essential minerals.
It must have the natural energy with high oxygen content.
Water with mild Alkaline of PH7.3 to 7.5 and smaller molecule clusters is easier absorbed by our body cells and it is more effective in cleansing toxins from our body.
What kind of water you get from the Pi-Water System?
The water that will have high energy (4500 energy level), high oxygen, smaller molecule clusters
is easier absorbed by our body cells and 23 minerals that are good for human body.
Why small water molecule is important to us?
Because our body cell size is about 50Hz & normal tap water size is about 128Hz and Pi-Water size is only 46Hz, so it is easier to be absorb by our body in order to clear toxin out from our body faster.
What is the effects of energizing Pi-Water ?
· Normal Growth
· Improvements of physical constitution
· Stop propagation of Bacillus & Microbe
· Elimination of harmful ion (make harmful chemicals to be harmless)
· Help Metabolism
· Accelerate the cure rate of injury & burn
· Make cell vital
· Improve the quality of bad water
· Effectively build our immune system
· Effectively detoxifying our body system
· Effectively removing 99.99% pesticide from fruits & vegetables
· Effectively removing heavy metal & other impurities
What else can Pi-Water do?
Flowers stay fresher & longer
For greener & healthier plants
Living fish growth stronger & healthier
Introducing odor free pets
Keep raw seafood at their freshest!
Why is drinking water so important to us?
Water is a fundamental part of our lives. It is easy to forget how completely we depend on it. Water has been ranked by experts as second only to oxygen as essential for life. We need lots of fresh water to stay healthy. Aside from aiding in digestion and absorption of food, water regulates body temperature and blood circulation, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, and removes toxins and other oxygen to cells, and removes toxins and other wastes. This "body water" also cushion joints and protects tissues and organs, including the apinal cord, from shock and damage. Conversely, lack of water may cause chronic dehydration which results in certain problems for the body, including hypertension, asthma, allergies, and migraine headaches.
Why do I need a water filter?
Although your water is treated by public water authority, no one can ensure that your water is free of sediments after passing through the series of distribution line to reach your home. So it is advisable to filter your water from the rust and dust or even small micro particles that is invisible to our naked eye.
Do I still need a filter if I boil my drinking water?
Harmful bacteria and cysts can be removed when the water is boiled and maintained at 100C for 15-20 minutes. And you are unable to remove dirt, heavy metal organic compounds and chlorine through boiling of water. Another disadvantage is that you will not be able to enjoy fresh, cool and healthy water instantly.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Pi-water save this plant!
Could you see the square shape of the soil? The plant was originally abandoned in the rubbish bin without the flower pot. When I brought it home, it was left with a few dead leaves. I know only Pi-Water can revive it's life. I water it with Pi-Water everyday, I saw the young leaves started to grow almost three days later. This plant is 6 months in my house now, it has grow taller and more blossom now.
What is the maintenance cost?
The maintenance cost is one of the important factors for considering a water filter system beside the type of output and the water quality. Overall the Water master water system's replacement cost is considerable low.
You will know when to change this disposable filter. When the water output is getting smaller and smaller, it is the time for change. The average time is about 3-6 months depends on the frequent of the usage of the system. They come in a box of 4 units. The price is S$70/box.
S$17.50/unit equivalent.
-5 micron Nominal Filtration
-Chlorine Taste & Odor Reduction
-No release of carbon fines
-Performance tested & verified by independent laboratory testing
PURE Activated Carbon Block Retail Price: S$38/pce
-2.5"X9.75"
-100% cicibyt shell carbon
-10 micron nominal filtration
-Chlorine, color & odor reduction
-No release of carbon fines
-formance tested & verified by independence laboratory testing
-ISO 9001:2000 standard
You will know when to change this disposable filter. When the water output is getting smaller and smaller, it is the time for change. The average time is about 3-6 months depends on the frequent of the usage of the system. They come in a box of 4 units. The price is S$70/box.
S$17.50/unit equivalent.
This is the particles that is bigger than 5 micro which separated out by the ceramic filter.You will know when to clean up the ceramic filter as the water output will be getting smaller. When you are changing the disposable filter, clean up the ceramic filter at the same time. The water output will become abundant again. Clean the ceramic filter with care as it is fragile. If you take care of it, it can use for easily 1.5-2 years. The price is S$70/pc.
This is the activated carbon block from USA. The recommended changing time is 1500 gallon and within 2 years. Water from Singapore is pretty clean, hence, there are people wait till 2000 to 2500 gallon, then they change. Whatever it is, try to change it within 2 years. The price is S$180/unit.
The replacement filter elements also available here.
PP Sediment Filter Cartridge (J.Pure) Retail Price : S$8/pce
-Micron rating : 1 micron (Nominal)
-Exceptional high dirt removal
-protects your ceramic/CTO/UF/RO filters
-Length : 250mm
-Maximum water temperature : 65C
-5 micron Nominal Filtration
-Chlorine Taste & Odor Reduction
-No release of carbon fines
-Performance tested & verified by independent laboratory testing
PURE Activated Carbon Block Retail Price: S$38/pce
-2.5"X9.75"
-100% cicibyt shell carbon
-10 micron nominal filtration
-Chlorine, color & odor reduction
-No release of carbon fines
-formance tested & verified by independence laboratory testing
-ISO 9001:2000 standard
Pi Water Excerpts from http://63.203.186.74
Natural Power of Pi Water
Amazing!! A gold fish could survive in high-energy Pi Water in air tight container for 216 days.
From calculation of necessary volume of oxygen in this air tight container, this gold fish can only survive for 3 to 4 days. However, within high-energy Pi Water, such a fact over common sense of our modern science can occur.
It is because high-energy Pi Water can provide necessary bio-energy to allow the gold fish to live.
Saltwater fish & fresh water fish can live together in high-energy Pi Water.
Normally, when salt water fish are placed into fresh water or when fresh water fish are placed into salt water, they will die within an hour. This because of the saturating pressure difference. You don't believed? See this video for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxgjJLuuS8M
High-energy Pi water can provide bio-energy to help their adjustability to severe circumstances.
Amazing Characteristic of Pi Water
Pi water has Bio-energy as Same as Body Water has
This photo (not available) shows difference of energy level coming from ordinary tap water versus Pi Water, using Kirlian photo. The same kind of bio-energy is coming from the human body.
When you drink Pi Water, this bio-energy is added to your body.
Pi Water Supports Living Tissues.
Photo (not available) shows mouse tissues placed in distilled water versus Pi Water. The distilled soon became germs and propagated cloudy. But, as shown on right side photo, tissues kept in high-energy Pi Water maintains its structure and high-energy Pi Water remains clear and never clouded. It is proven that high-energy Pi Water can keep structure of tissues after over 30 years. High-energy Pi Water is being used in some laboratories in Japan for keeping tissue samples instead of using hormarine. Body water is the key to maintain self-healing activities of your body cells.
When high-energy Pi Water is applied to cuts or burns on your body, you may see that they will heal quicker than usual.
Pi Water has Anti-oxidation Effects
Anti-oxidation effects suppress the increase of excessive free radical, (oxygen peroxide), and keep your body from oxidation attack. Increase of free radical can be shown as inflammation, such as irritation of skins. Also, one of the causes of premature aging is due to oxidation of your body systems. By strengthening anti-oxidation power, aging may slow.
Pi Water can Contain More Oxygen than Conventional Water
When Pi Water is absorbed into your body, it can carry more oxygen, which your body needs, than other conventional water.In Pi Water, aerobic microbes can be active in Pi Water and nonaerobic microbes can not be active in Pi Water. This helps to make severe circumstances for cancers in your body.
Pi Water is Made with One of Smallest Molecule Cluster Number
The smaller cluster size of water can go into cell membrane. While going into cell membrane with calcium ion, calcium ion is increased in cell membrane and cell cytoplasm. Generally cluster number is represented by half the width of 17-O-NMR(nuclear magnet resonance) spectrum. The smaller the value is, the smaller the cluster would be.
How was Pi Water Discovered?
Pi Water was discovered within the process of studying botanical physiology.
Flowers bloom in spring. Essentially, the buds to become flowers and those to become leaves are the same. In order to bloom, buds have to become flowers not leaves. This phenomenon is called "differentiation of flower buds". Many scholars, including Dr. Shoji Makino, studying about this phenomenon considered that there is hormone within plants that turns the buds into flowers. During the process of his study Dr. Yamashita discovered that what plays an important role in the flower bud differentiation is a very small amount of ferric ferrous salt (Fe2Fe3) in the body water contained in the plants. The Fe2Fe3 in the body water of the plants precisely retains the information of flower bud differentiation, therefore, this phenomenon occurs every year at spring time.
Memory retention of the body water in plants as well as in animals, also includes retaining information to normalize various functions of living things.
Thus, "Pi Water" was created by inducing a very small amount of ferric ferrous iron in the high energy state to well or tap water to become the water that is very similar to living water both in physical characteristics and biological activities.
Later, it was clarified that this Pi Water played an important role in normalization of various functions of plants and animals, not just flower bud differentiation.
Over 30 year' studies by many researchers have begun to prove that Pi Water possesses memory retention of information and that bio-energy and spontaneous cure (natural healing power) are transferred as information.
How Can Pi Water be Obtained?
There are two ways to obtain Pi Water.1. By diluting concentrated high-energy-Pi Water.2. By having water go through Pi Ceramic, which possesses information of Fe2,3, and copy the information in it.Above 1. is available by using our product Pi Sei Rei, and above 2. is available from our Pi Water processors.
What is the Advantage of Pi Water?
Pi Water supports normal activity of livings to keep healthy condition by providing bio-energy.Drinking or taking Pi Water with food can help healthy activity of your body from inside.Self-healing effect can be accelerated by applying concentrated high energy level Pi Water, Pi Sei Rei. Pi Water helps healthy grow of plants and fishes. Also, Pi Water helps to keep freshness of vegetables and meats, and thus helps good taste recipes.
What is Pi Process?
Since most of things contains water in it, almost everything can memorize information with water in it. Pi Process is to have things imprinted (with) certain information. By using this technology, things can be changed, it's characteristics to ideal one.
Where will Pi Water/Pi Process Technology Go in Future?
In addition to expand its utilization to medical field or healthy foods field, many other utilization is under investigation.
Through development of Pi Water, it is found that Pi process can work in many ways. Unknown characteristics of materials can be maximized and used.
Amazing!! A gold fish could survive in high-energy Pi Water in air tight container for 216 days.
From calculation of necessary volume of oxygen in this air tight container, this gold fish can only survive for 3 to 4 days. However, within high-energy Pi Water, such a fact over common sense of our modern science can occur.
It is because high-energy Pi Water can provide necessary bio-energy to allow the gold fish to live.
Saltwater fish & fresh water fish can live together in high-energy Pi Water.
Normally, when salt water fish are placed into fresh water or when fresh water fish are placed into salt water, they will die within an hour. This because of the saturating pressure difference. You don't believed? See this video for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxgjJLuuS8M
High-energy Pi water can provide bio-energy to help their adjustability to severe circumstances.
Amazing Characteristic of Pi Water
Pi water has Bio-energy as Same as Body Water has
This photo (not available) shows difference of energy level coming from ordinary tap water versus Pi Water, using Kirlian photo. The same kind of bio-energy is coming from the human body.
When you drink Pi Water, this bio-energy is added to your body.
Pi Water Supports Living Tissues.
Photo (not available) shows mouse tissues placed in distilled water versus Pi Water. The distilled soon became germs and propagated cloudy. But, as shown on right side photo, tissues kept in high-energy Pi Water maintains its structure and high-energy Pi Water remains clear and never clouded. It is proven that high-energy Pi Water can keep structure of tissues after over 30 years. High-energy Pi Water is being used in some laboratories in Japan for keeping tissue samples instead of using hormarine. Body water is the key to maintain self-healing activities of your body cells.
When high-energy Pi Water is applied to cuts or burns on your body, you may see that they will heal quicker than usual.
Pi Water has Anti-oxidation Effects
Anti-oxidation effects suppress the increase of excessive free radical, (oxygen peroxide), and keep your body from oxidation attack. Increase of free radical can be shown as inflammation, such as irritation of skins. Also, one of the causes of premature aging is due to oxidation of your body systems. By strengthening anti-oxidation power, aging may slow.
Pi Water can Contain More Oxygen than Conventional Water
When Pi Water is absorbed into your body, it can carry more oxygen, which your body needs, than other conventional water.In Pi Water, aerobic microbes can be active in Pi Water and nonaerobic microbes can not be active in Pi Water. This helps to make severe circumstances for cancers in your body.
Pi Water is Made with One of Smallest Molecule Cluster Number
The smaller cluster size of water can go into cell membrane. While going into cell membrane with calcium ion, calcium ion is increased in cell membrane and cell cytoplasm. Generally cluster number is represented by half the width of 17-O-NMR(nuclear magnet resonance) spectrum. The smaller the value is, the smaller the cluster would be.
How was Pi Water Discovered?
Pi Water was discovered within the process of studying botanical physiology.
Flowers bloom in spring. Essentially, the buds to become flowers and those to become leaves are the same. In order to bloom, buds have to become flowers not leaves. This phenomenon is called "differentiation of flower buds". Many scholars, including Dr. Shoji Makino, studying about this phenomenon considered that there is hormone within plants that turns the buds into flowers. During the process of his study Dr. Yamashita discovered that what plays an important role in the flower bud differentiation is a very small amount of ferric ferrous salt (Fe2Fe3) in the body water contained in the plants. The Fe2Fe3 in the body water of the plants precisely retains the information of flower bud differentiation, therefore, this phenomenon occurs every year at spring time.
Memory retention of the body water in plants as well as in animals, also includes retaining information to normalize various functions of living things.
Thus, "Pi Water" was created by inducing a very small amount of ferric ferrous iron in the high energy state to well or tap water to become the water that is very similar to living water both in physical characteristics and biological activities.
Later, it was clarified that this Pi Water played an important role in normalization of various functions of plants and animals, not just flower bud differentiation.
Over 30 year' studies by many researchers have begun to prove that Pi Water possesses memory retention of information and that bio-energy and spontaneous cure (natural healing power) are transferred as information.
How Can Pi Water be Obtained?
There are two ways to obtain Pi Water.1. By diluting concentrated high-energy-Pi Water.2. By having water go through Pi Ceramic, which possesses information of Fe2,3, and copy the information in it.Above 1. is available by using our product Pi Sei Rei, and above 2. is available from our Pi Water processors.
What is the Advantage of Pi Water?
Pi Water supports normal activity of livings to keep healthy condition by providing bio-energy.Drinking or taking Pi Water with food can help healthy activity of your body from inside.Self-healing effect can be accelerated by applying concentrated high energy level Pi Water, Pi Sei Rei. Pi Water helps healthy grow of plants and fishes. Also, Pi Water helps to keep freshness of vegetables and meats, and thus helps good taste recipes.
What is Pi Process?
Since most of things contains water in it, almost everything can memorize information with water in it. Pi Process is to have things imprinted (with) certain information. By using this technology, things can be changed, it's characteristics to ideal one.
Where will Pi Water/Pi Process Technology Go in Future?
In addition to expand its utilization to medical field or healthy foods field, many other utilization is under investigation.
Through development of Pi Water, it is found that Pi process can work in many ways. Unknown characteristics of materials can be maximized and used.
What Can Water Master's Pi-Water Do For You?
Some FACTS ABOUT PI WATER……..
1. Pi water is mild alkaline and has a pH level closest to our blood level with 23 kinds of water-soluble minerals essential for our body
2. Widely used in U.S.A, Japan, Taiwan, England in areas like medical field, healthy foods field, agricultural fields etc
3. Save electricity cause it shorten cooking time and it required no electricity to work on
4. Is small in water molecules and high in oxygen thus our body is able to absorb more easily n readily into each individual organs cells making them more vital
5. Helps to improve one’s immune system against illness
6. More effective in cleansing toxins from our body
7. Contains no impurities and it is proven through many experiments for its uses and advantages for the last 35 years at least
8. Vegetables and fruits can remain fresh for about 2 weeks (10-14days) in the refrigerator after being soaked in Pi Water for about 30 mines before storing
9. Fruits and vegetables that can be eaten raw ( lettuces, cucumber, tomatoes, grapes etc) will taste better with a crisp after having soak in Pi water for about 20 mins
10. Soak vegetables or fruits in Pi water for about 20 mins before storing can get rid of heavy metal and agricultural chemicals like pesticide
11. Use Pi water to wash your hands or containers to get rid of stench or fishy smell effectively even durian smell
12. It can prevent irritation to your eyes if you soak onions in Pi Water for about 5 mines before cutting
13. Use Pi water for cooking rice, rice will taste better and more fragrance and rice wont turn bad easily at room temperature
14. Use Pi water to boil soup and you need not worry about re-boiling it each time someone in the family wants to drink as chlorine has already been filtered out thus prevent other chemicals from forming with heat reaction
15. Is able to thaw frozen food faster upon rinsing or soaking
16. Is able to prevent constipation if you drink at least 2.5L of Pi water daily
17. Is able to help detoxify and balance one’s acidic body pH level if you drink at least 2.5L of Pi water daily
18. Is able to accelerate the cure rate of injuries, burn or bleeding if you wash or soak your wound in Pi water
19. Need not boil “luo han guo” or chrysanthemum. Just need soak it in Pi water for 30 minutes. Pi water can even melt sugar
20. Children tend not to have “sweet tooth” after at least having drank Pi water for 2 weeks and will be able to drink more water daily
21. Plants will grow better and more healthier if you use Pi water to water them
22. Can prevent water retention and puffy eyes even if you drink a big glass before you sleep
23. Drink at least 2L of Pi water daily, and use it to wash face daily, skin will be smoother and fairer
24. Drink at least 2L of Pi water daily and will enhance blood circulation and improve metabolism
25. Use Pi water to mix with alcohol, it will taste mellow and prevent hangover
26. Use Pi water to make coffee or tea, it can retain its original taste
27. Drinking at least 2.5L of Pi water daily will make your body feel less tiring even after long hours of work
28. Use Pi water showering filter (Slim Water), hair and skin will feel moisture and smooth as chlorine is removed
29. Use Pi water showering filter (Slim Water) for bathing and it can improve allergy skin conditions like eczema in long term
30. For diabetic patients, it’s advisable to drink at least 2.5L of Pi water daily. It could help flushes out the excess sugar in the body
31. For high cholesterol patients, it’s advisable to drink at least 2.5L of water everyday. It could help bring down the cholesterol level after about 2-3 months
32. For cancer patients, it’s advisable to drink at least 2.5L of Pi water daily to help neutralize the acidic body pH level
33. For baby having nappy rash, other than washing their bottom with Pi water daily, soak the baby’s bottom in Pi water for about 3-5 mines will help reduce itch
34. For patient having heart condition or asthma, start with drinking warm Pi water daily for about a month before drinking straight from the tap. Its advisable to drink at least 2L daily
35. For skin problems or allergy, soak body parts in Pi water for about 20 -30 mines daily, or place cotton soak in Pi water over wounds
36. For obesity patients, drink at least 500ml of Pi water every morning and evening, before meals and when hungry, reduced food intake and stop munching on tibits for 7 days straight could help detox toxins and improve health system (to do so twice a month on a regular basic for 3-6 months could bring down weight loss healthily )
30. When using Pi water to make milk for baby, Pi water helps to curtail the harms of preservatives found in the formula
37. Healthy person is advised to drink 2 glasses of Pi water every morning before brushing teeth and at least 2L of Pi water the rest of the day. It can help improve concentration and thinking.
38. And the lists goes on………………….
THE ABOVE IS BEST DRUNK “Raw” STRAIGHT FROM THE TAP FOR BEST RESULTS…. All rights reserved.
1. Pi water is mild alkaline and has a pH level closest to our blood level with 23 kinds of water-soluble minerals essential for our body
2. Widely used in U.S.A, Japan, Taiwan, England in areas like medical field, healthy foods field, agricultural fields etc
3. Save electricity cause it shorten cooking time and it required no electricity to work on
4. Is small in water molecules and high in oxygen thus our body is able to absorb more easily n readily into each individual organs cells making them more vital
5. Helps to improve one’s immune system against illness
6. More effective in cleansing toxins from our body
7. Contains no impurities and it is proven through many experiments for its uses and advantages for the last 35 years at least
8. Vegetables and fruits can remain fresh for about 2 weeks (10-14days) in the refrigerator after being soaked in Pi Water for about 30 mines before storing
9. Fruits and vegetables that can be eaten raw ( lettuces, cucumber, tomatoes, grapes etc) will taste better with a crisp after having soak in Pi water for about 20 mins
10. Soak vegetables or fruits in Pi water for about 20 mins before storing can get rid of heavy metal and agricultural chemicals like pesticide
11. Use Pi water to wash your hands or containers to get rid of stench or fishy smell effectively even durian smell
12. It can prevent irritation to your eyes if you soak onions in Pi Water for about 5 mines before cutting
13. Use Pi water for cooking rice, rice will taste better and more fragrance and rice wont turn bad easily at room temperature
14. Use Pi water to boil soup and you need not worry about re-boiling it each time someone in the family wants to drink as chlorine has already been filtered out thus prevent other chemicals from forming with heat reaction
15. Is able to thaw frozen food faster upon rinsing or soaking
16. Is able to prevent constipation if you drink at least 2.5L of Pi water daily
17. Is able to help detoxify and balance one’s acidic body pH level if you drink at least 2.5L of Pi water daily
18. Is able to accelerate the cure rate of injuries, burn or bleeding if you wash or soak your wound in Pi water
19. Need not boil “luo han guo” or chrysanthemum. Just need soak it in Pi water for 30 minutes. Pi water can even melt sugar
20. Children tend not to have “sweet tooth” after at least having drank Pi water for 2 weeks and will be able to drink more water daily
21. Plants will grow better and more healthier if you use Pi water to water them
22. Can prevent water retention and puffy eyes even if you drink a big glass before you sleep
23. Drink at least 2L of Pi water daily, and use it to wash face daily, skin will be smoother and fairer
24. Drink at least 2L of Pi water daily and will enhance blood circulation and improve metabolism
25. Use Pi water to mix with alcohol, it will taste mellow and prevent hangover
26. Use Pi water to make coffee or tea, it can retain its original taste
27. Drinking at least 2.5L of Pi water daily will make your body feel less tiring even after long hours of work
28. Use Pi water showering filter (Slim Water), hair and skin will feel moisture and smooth as chlorine is removed
29. Use Pi water showering filter (Slim Water) for bathing and it can improve allergy skin conditions like eczema in long term
30. For diabetic patients, it’s advisable to drink at least 2.5L of Pi water daily. It could help flushes out the excess sugar in the body
31. For high cholesterol patients, it’s advisable to drink at least 2.5L of water everyday. It could help bring down the cholesterol level after about 2-3 months
32. For cancer patients, it’s advisable to drink at least 2.5L of Pi water daily to help neutralize the acidic body pH level
33. For baby having nappy rash, other than washing their bottom with Pi water daily, soak the baby’s bottom in Pi water for about 3-5 mines will help reduce itch
34. For patient having heart condition or asthma, start with drinking warm Pi water daily for about a month before drinking straight from the tap. Its advisable to drink at least 2L daily
35. For skin problems or allergy, soak body parts in Pi water for about 20 -30 mines daily, or place cotton soak in Pi water over wounds
36. For obesity patients, drink at least 500ml of Pi water every morning and evening, before meals and when hungry, reduced food intake and stop munching on tibits for 7 days straight could help detox toxins and improve health system (to do so twice a month on a regular basic for 3-6 months could bring down weight loss healthily )
30. When using Pi water to make milk for baby, Pi water helps to curtail the harms of preservatives found in the formula
37. Healthy person is advised to drink 2 glasses of Pi water every morning before brushing teeth and at least 2L of Pi water the rest of the day. It can help improve concentration and thinking.
38. And the lists goes on………………….
THE ABOVE IS BEST DRUNK “Raw” STRAIGHT FROM THE TAP FOR BEST RESULTS…. All rights reserved.
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