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Sediment being removed from a city water storage tank.

Do you drink tap water?

This video offers a rare look inside a water storage tank. Sediment Being REMOVED by a Commercial Dive crew. Why should you care?

Sediment can be a habitat for bacteria viruses and protozoa. Keeping your water storage tanks clean may be one of the most overlooked maintenance procedures in the water industry. Out of sight and out of mind, sediment in the bottom of your water storage tanks is never seen and rarely thought of.

The sediment that builds up in almost all potable water tanks can be a habitat for bacteria and other contaminates like cryptosporidium. Contaminates can get a foothold in the sediment out of reach of the chlorine entering the tank.

In 2005 the a National Assessment of Tap Water Quality was published by the Environmental Working Group found that water suppliers across the U.S. detected 260 contaminants in water served to the public.

Keeping your tanks clean is the best way to ensure the health of your water system (its your water storage tank if you drink out of it!). If you know someone on a city council, water board or works for a water department please pass this video along to them. Information is power.

My mission is to show as many people as I can the health concerns of sediment in Public Water Supply storage tanks. Please take a few minutes to review my video, if you like it Vote me up, on the right side of the page and lets get this video on TV This would be a great way to get my message to thousands of people at a time.

Thanks for your help!

Get involved visit my DRINKING WATER PROJECT PAGE AT

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http://ronperrin.wordpress.com/ Watch the video and find out! . .. ... Sediment being removed from a city water storage tank. Do you drink tap water? ... more

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Divers Clean City Water Tower- Company profile 6.5 min.

Do you drink tap water?

This video offers a rare look inside a water storage tank. Sediment is being REMOVED by a Commercial Dive crew.

This short video of a company called Ron Perrin Water Technologies, located in Fort Worth, Texas shows why inspecting and cleaning potable water storage (tap Water) tanks is so important.

Sediment can be a habitat for bacteria viruses and protozoa. Keeping your water storage tanks clean may be one of the most overlooked maintenance procedures in the water industry. Out of sight and out of mind, sediment in the bottom of your water storage tanks is never seen and rarely thought of.

The sediment that builds up in almost all potable water tanks can be a habitat for bacteria and other contaminates like cryptosporidium. Contaminates can get a foothold in the sediment out of reach of the chlorine entering the tank.

In 2005 the a National Assessment of Tap Water Quality was published by the Environmental Working Group found that water suppliers across the U.S. detected 260 contaminants in water served to the public.

Keeping your tanks clean is the best way to ensure the health of your water system (its your water storage tank if you drink out of it!). If you know someone on a city council, water board or works for a water department please pass this video along to them. Information is power.

My mission is to show as many people as I can the health concerns of sediment in Public Water Supply storage tanks. Please take a few minutes to review my video, if you like it Vote me up, on the right side of the page and lets get this video on TV This would be a great way to get my message to thousands of people at a time.

Thanks for your help!

Get involved visit my DRINKING WATER PROJECT PAGE AT

http://ronperrin.wordpress.com/

visit www.ronperrin.com Do you drink tap water? ... more

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Gov't aims to fluoridate 75% of the US water supply by 2010 whether you want ...

50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation
by Paul Connett, PhD
Professor of Chemistry
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617

http://www.fluoridealert.org/50reasons.htm

"Water systems serving about 30 percent of Americans are not giving them fluoridated water, six decades after fluoridation was started as a public health measure to prevent tooth decay, officials said on Thursday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hails the reduction in dental cavities due to adding fluoride to public water supplies as one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century.

Most Americans get their water from municipal or regional community water systems. A new CDC report showed that as of 2006, 69 percent of people in the United States who get water from these systems received fluoridated water, up from 65 percent in 2000 and 62 percent in 1992.

That means that while 184 million Americans get fluoridated water from community water systems, 82 million do not.

"This is one of the dirty little secrets -- that the whole nation has not yet embraced fluoridation of water, which has enormous public health benefits," Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said in a telephone interview.

Fluoridation of public water supplies was introduced in 1945 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

"It's still an under-utilized, very effective public health measure," Dr. William Bailey of the CDC's Division of Oral Health, who led the report, said in a telephone interview.

Some major cities still do not fluoridate their water supplies, including: San Diego; Portland, Oregon; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Wichita, Kansas. San Diego has committed to begin fluoridating its water by May 2010.

In California, the most populous of the 50 U.S. states, only 27 percent of people served by community systems were getting fluoridated water as of 2006, the CDC said. Only Hawaii (8 percent) and New Jersey (23 percent) were lower.

Fluoridation has remained controversial among some people. In fact, some opponents in the 1950s denounced it as a communist plot, which was lampooned in director Stanley Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

Current opponents argue the fluoride being added to water may cause a health problems such as weak bones and bone cancer, an assertion the CDC rejects.

Asked if there is any responsible evidence showing negative health effects due to fluoridated water, Bailey said, "No, not at the levels that we use in community water systems."

The CDC report showed other states with low percentages of people served by community systems getting fluoridated water included: Oregon (27 percent), Montana (31), Idaho (31), Wyoming (36), Louisiana (40) and New Hampshire (43). Fourteen states topped 90 percent. Washington D.C., was at 100 percent.

"Most people are complacent about the issue because they just naturally assume they live in a city that's fluoridated," Bailey said.

Fluoride is added to water -- either in powder or liquid form -- at water treatment plants, normally at levels of about one part per million, Bailey said.

Roughly 10 percent of Americans, mostly in rural areas, get water from wells, and this typically is not fluoridated. Also, many Americans drink bottled water that is not fluoridated.

The government's goal is for 75 percent of U.S. residents on community systems to be getting fluoridated water by 2010."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080710/us_nm/water_usa_dc 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation by Paul Connett, PhD Professor of Chemistry St. Lawrence University Canton, NY 13617 ... more

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LSD in our water?

"A study by Royal College of Art graduate Tuur van Bulen has revealed that the way people live and behave in each zone of London is reflected in the quality of their tap water. A similar study was done in the US. Our scientist suggested being able to target law enforcement efforts in areas where the water tested highest in illicit substances!

Effectively the contents of our medicine cabinets - that’s everything from aspirin to LSD - ends up in the water we cook with, bathe in and drink everyday. The content of tap water in each area thus depends largely on what the residents of that area ingest. Who knows, the chemicals ingested by the concentration of hippies ... might even have made for an interesting tap water experience …" "A study by Royal College of Art graduate Tuur van Bulen has revealed that the way people live and behave in each zone of London ... more

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Tell bottled water corporations to come clean

In the face of a growing global water crisis, corporations are turning water into a profit-driven commodity. Nowhere is the corporate water-grab more insidious than the exploding corporate control of our drinking water.

Bottled water corporations use clever marketing and misleading advertising that makes people doubt the safety and quality of their own tap water. In reality, bottled water is less regulated than public water systems, and studies reveal that bottled water can actually contain harmful bacteria and other contaminants. Public water systems are required to disclose the source and quality of their water and are accountable to the public. Often, water bottlers are not.

Furthermore, the corporations threaten local control of water supplies in communities across the U.S. and around the world when they aggressively build bottled water plants over community protest.

Tell corporations to come clean about bottled water. Ask Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi to:

Reveal the sources and sites of the water used for bottling;

Publicly report breaches in bottled water quality comparable to reports by public water systems; and

Stop threatening local control of water when siting and operating bottled water plants.
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There is a link at the link provided to send your letter to call on corporations that bottle water to come clean about their practices. Please help bring accountabilty to an industry exploiting a human right for profit. Thank you! In the face of a growing global water crisis, corporations are turning water into a profit-driven commodity. Nowhere is the corporate ... more

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There's something in the water... and you may not believe what!

So, between gas prices and food prices going up and minimum wage barely budging in most states ... NOW not only do you have PROOF that there's drugs in the water, but there's no regulations regarding this stuff? Of course you all meet regulations, THERE ARE NONE! Are you kidding me?!

Maybe I am an insane conspiracy theorist, but it seems to be the NWO does exist and is doing its damnedest to control us and I don't know when, even with JUST food and gas, people are going to get angry enough to take arms.

Those are my thoughts ... what are yours? Am I a conspiracy theorist? If so, why were there so many cities SOO opposed to getting their water tested? I mean, I guess it's their right, but if a citizen wanted to, they could take their own water and test it.

So, like I said, what do you think is going on? How concerned should we be? So, between gas prices and food prices going up and minimum wage barely budging in most states ... NOW not only do you have PROOF that... more

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More than just pharmaceuticals in your tap water

"Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain...

Liquid waste from cadavers goes down the drain at the both the Mayo Clinic and the University of Florida, as does the liquid residue from human tissue and animal carcasses at alkaline hydrolysis sites elsewhere...

George Carlson, an industrial-waste manager for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, said things the public might find more troubling routinely flow into sewage treatment plants in the U.S. all the time. That includes blood and spillover embalming fluid from funeral homes".

Our protection of the world's most precious resource should be a priority now, not tomorrow.

CONCORD, N.H. "Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — d... more

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how safe is you're water

you can go and find how bad your tap water really is good to know

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Can the world run on water?

Thousands of successful water-conversions around the world are proof that this technology works and will soon catch on! From being used by this guy's torch, HHO gas can prove to be a means to fuel automobiles. The prospect of using HHO to fuel cars successfully almost seems like a dream come true. Thousands of successful water-conversions around the world are proof that this technology works and will soon catch on! From being u... more

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Sales of bottled water decline after environmental backlash

After ten years of soaring business, the tide is starting to turn against bottled water.

Shop sales were down by 9 per cent in the year to March to £284million, according to the retail analysts TNS.

This follows a widespread backlash by environmentalists who condemn it as wasteful and even immoral.

UK sales of bottled water had been growing at more than 6 per cent annually for more than a decade, reaching 2billion bottles a year.

One reason for its success is that many claim not to like the taste of what comes out of the tap. In some parts of the country there is a chlorine taint.

However, blind taste tests by Decanter magazine put London tap water ahead of many brands transported at a premium price from as far away as Fiji.

Fashionable labels such as Evian, Perrier and Volvic have recently faced a combined onslaught from Government ministers, consumer groups and green campaigners.

A 500ml bottle of Evian typically costs 42p in a supermarket, or 84p a litre. That is 840 times the price of tap water, which comes in at 0.1p a litre.

Among the environmental costs of bottled water are the energy needed for production, transport and disposal of the bottles. Compared with tap water, it generates more than 5,000 times the amount of carbon emissions per litre.
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Music to my ears. After ten years of soaring business, the tide is starting to turn against bottled water. ... more

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Rising Sales of Bottled Water Trigger Strong Reaction From U.S. Conservationists

Bottled water sales in the United States reached 8.82 billion gallons in 2007, worth $11.7 billion, making the U.S. market for bottled water the largest in the world, according to Beverage Marketing, a provider of beverage industry data. Worldwide, water bottlers sold 47 billion gallons, or 178 billion liters, in 2006, up from 43 billion gallons in 2005.

Campaigners against bottled water cite concerns that include energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, waste, the environmental effect of water extraction, the perils of privatization and social issues.

"We're at the beginning of an awakening of the costs of our bottled water use," said Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a sustainable development research organization in Oakland, California.

Last year, the institute saw "cities canceling contracts and prohibiting employees from buying bottled water," Gleick said. "We saw restaurants very publicly moving away from bottled water. We saw public campaigns starting. We saw local controversies."

In the United States, city, state, and county governments have legislated to limit bottled water use or promoting tap water. Restaurants, schools, and religious groups have adopted similar policies, according to the Earth Policy Institute, in Washington.

The energy required to make water bottles in the United States is equivalent to 17 million barrels of oil annually, Gleick said. Globally, the bottling industry uses the equivalent of nearly 100 million barrels of oil each year, excluding transportation. Gleick said the Fiji brand of bottled water sold in Los Angeles traveled about 2,000 miles, or more than 3,000 kilometers, from the source to the store, effectively doubling its use of energy.

Making plastic water bottles causes greenhouse gas emissions and uses water - about three liters of water to produce one liter of bottled water, Gleick said.

In the United States, less than 20 percent of water bottles are recycled, according to the Container Recycling Institute.

Jane Lazgin, spokeswoman for Nestlé Waters North America, said Nestlé was an industry leader in reducing the plastic in bottles. In April 2007, it introduced a bottle that used 30 percent less plastic than regular bottles. The company planned to move all of its products to the new bottle, she said.

Extraction also can have environmental effect. "Water is a renewable resource," Gleick said. "It's a cycle. But a renewable resource by definition is a flow-limited resource." Overextraction "affects everything around it: flows and rivers and streams, ecosystems, groundwater levels."

Climate change will increase pressure on freshwater supplies, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Gigi Kellett, director of the Think Outside the Bottle campaign with Corporate Accountability International, an organization that fights corporate abuse, said the water bottle industry was changing the public's opinion about water, from a basic right to a commodity. Bottled water sales in the United States reached 8.82 billion gallons in 2007, worth $11.7 billion, making the U.S. market for bottled... more

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U.S. And Canada Refuse To Recognize Water As A Human Right

The resolution, which will be voted on within the week, is currently being debated at the UNHRC session in Geneva that ends on March 28. Canada has presented numerous objections that have been echoed by the United States.

As it stands, Canada and the United States are the only two countries to go on record at the United Nations to oppose the right to water.

Canada is a member of the UNHRC until 2009; the United States is not an elected member but is allowed to engage under the rules of the Council.

The joint resolution promoted by Germany and Spain aims to establish a "special rapporteur" with the mandate to provide guidance on the right to water and sanitation, identify best practices, investigate country situations and promote the right internationally.

This follows a report by Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, stating that "specific, dedicated and sustained attention to safe drinking water and sanitation is currently lacking at the international level" and recommending that access to safe drinking water and sanitation be recognized as a human right.

Canada is working to weaken the resolution by demanding that references to the right to water and sanitation be removed and that the scope be reduced. Canada wants the proposed position of "special rapporteur" to be downgraded to "independent expert" serving for only one year instead of the proposed three years. Canada is also opposing visits by this expert to individual countries and the granting of a mandate enabling them to clarify the content of the right to water and sanitation.

This is the third time in six years that member nations of the UN have pushed for recognition of the human right to water. On each occasion, Canada has rejected the efforts to have water recognized as a right.

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NAFTA needs to be scrapped. To not recognize water as a human right is to condemn millions of people to drought, famine, and death, and leave the water they do have at the mercy of corporate raiders and political corruption. NAFTA has done nothing but reap benefits for the governments, but given little to nothing to the people. Water is not a commodity and not an investment, it is a human right and trust! The resolution, which will be voted on within the week, is currently being debated at the UNHRC session in Geneva that ends on March 2... more

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A Thirsty Planet Looks For Solutions To Water Shortage

Another important issue that should be on the news and in every newspaper, but isn't.
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Global economic growth, population pressures and the rise of mega-cities have all driven water use to record levels.

Mexico City, Jakarta and Bangkok, to name a few, have underground water sources -- some of them nonrenewable -- depleting at alarming rates.

In Beijing, home to 16 million, aquifers have fallen by more than a dozen metres (40 feet) in 30 years, forcing the government to earmark tens of billions of dollars for a scheme to ferry water from the Yangzte River in the south to the country's parched north.

Aggravating the shortages are pathogen and chemical pollution, which have transformed many primary sources of water in the developing world into toxic repositories of disease.

Desperation forces people to consume these contaminated waters.

"In the coming decades, water scarcity may be a watchword that prompts action ranging from wholesale population migration to war, unless new ways to supply clean water are found," comment a team of researchers in a review of water purification technology published Thursday in the British journal Nature.

But even as scientists and governments look for ways to satisfy a thirsty world, another threat looms on the horizon: global warming.

Rising sea levels are already forcing salt water into aquifers beneath megadeltas that are home to tens of millions, and changing weather patterns are set to intensify droughts in large swathes of Africa, southern Europe and Asia, according to UN's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).

Experts and policy makers point to three broad categories of initiatives to ease the shortage of clean, drinkable water, especially in the world's poorest regions: sanitation, purification, and water management.

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Enter the Contest — Food & Water Watch

Beginning at 12:00:01 am midnight EST on February 14th, 2008 and continuing until 11:59 am EST on April 14, 2008 you can submit your video to the I Heart Tap Water student video contest.

The Review Panel and Food & Water Watch staff will choose three (3) winning videos that are the most inspiring and entertaining, and that have a clear message.

* Inspiring (Does it make me want to do something?)
* Entertaining (Does it make me want to keep watching? Does it make me want to tell my friends about it?)
* Clear Message (Does it make it easy to understand the issue?) Beginning at 12:00:01 am midnight EST on February 14th, 2008 and continuing until 11:59 am EST on April 14, 2008 you can submit your v... more

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L.A. tap water wins 18th annual taste test

Their air might bring pollution complaints, but residents of Los Angeles drink the nation's tastiest tap water, according to the judges of an international competition. Their air might bring pollution complaints, but residents of Los Angeles drink the nation's tastiest tap water, according to the ... more

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Los Angeles tap water is the tastiest

They may have some of the worse pollution, but according to the judges at the 18th annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting held Saturday, LA has the tastiest tap water.


I don't know I am partial to Stockton, CA tap water.


Who do you think has the tastiest tap water? They may have some of the worse pollution, but according to the judges at the 18th annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting... more

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Bottled Water: Who Needs It?

Back in my day, we drank water straight from the tap and we liked it.

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Tap vs. Bottled Water

Here are four reasons to pick Tap:

1. Tap water is tested daily
2. Tap water is a bargain
3. Tap water is a tooth saver
4. Tap water is often tasty (dood Oakland tap water is TAAAASTY!)


What do you drink, tap or bottled, and why? Here are four reasons to pick Tap: 1. Tap water is tested daily 2. Tap water is a bargain 3. Tap water is a tooth saver ... more

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