10 Facts About Water

1. Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.
2. At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
3. A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.
4. Soft drinks, coffee, and tea, while made up almost entirely of water, also contain caffeine. Caffeine can act as a mild diuretic, preventing water from traveling to necessary locations in the body.
5. Pure water (solely hydrogen and oxygen atoms) has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic nor basic.
6. Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Wherever it travels, water carries chemicals, minerals, and nutrients with it.
7. The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day.
8. The United States uses nearly 80 percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power.
9. The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.
10. Approximately 85 percent of U.S. residents receive their water from public water facilities. The remaining 15 percent supply their own water from private wells or other sources.

Contaminated laden water can be extremely hazardous and fatal in some cases. It is especially dangerous for people with compromised and/or underdeveloped immune system like children and elderly. Consider using point-of-use (personal use, end-of-tap, under sink) filters that remove particles one micrometer or less in diameter. Tap water is not a drinking water! Public water can have hundreds of dangerous chemicals and bacteria, for example, E-coli, Staphylococcus bacteria, Protozoa, Giardia cryptoporticus, as well as filtration of harmful metals such as lead, mercury; minerals to include asbestos, iron, sulphur; pesticides such as Lindane, Chloroform, Formaldehyde Dioxin; Carcinogenic Petroleum based chemicals, Trichloromethane, Benzene type chemicals.

Therefore, high quality filtration systems are necessary for filtration of the drinking water in your homes. For more information on water filtration systems of highest quality for a price of $ 0.35 / day follow links bellow.

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Some contaminants and their size in microns:

Giardia lamblia - 8 to 12 microns

Cryptosporidium parvum - 4 to 6 microns

Bacteria (such as E. coli and salmonella) - 0.2 to 4 microns

Viruses - 0.004 to 0.1 microns (Generally, only a few filters, such as ultrafilters and reverse osmosis, have holes small enough to assure removal of all viruses. However, viruses can be killed using a disinfectant).

This weeks titans of kitchen and bath design say:

"Go Green" - says Kitchen and Bath Desing News, according to their website:

There’s a color sweeping the nation…and it’s green! Many people are beginning to understand the impact, or carbon footprint, that their lifestyle choices make on the planet. As a result, they’re starting to seek ways to reduce their impact. One way they can do so is by turning their attention to their kitchens and tweaking what products they use in there.

“The good news is that [changes made in the way people use their kitchens and to what products are used there don’t] have to break the bank. People don’t have to do a 180º overnight. Making small changes here and there can add up to big results, over time,” says Chef Paul F. Magnant, dean of culinary at Stratford University, here.

Here are a few tips from Chef Magnant to help you start greening your kitchen:

• Start with what you bring into the kitchen. Buy as much food that is locally produced as you can so that fuel isn’t wasted trucking it to you. And forgo the paper-or-plastic debate by sticking to reusable bags you take to the store.
  

For more tips you can find the whole article at
http://www.kitchenbathdesign.com

Also a big breakthrough: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released the draft of its WaterSense specification for showerheads.


And last but not the least: National Association of the Remodeling Industry comes out with a research concluding that with market soft, homeowners turn to "phased remodeling.

“Serial remodels,” or phased remodeling projects, can take place over a span of several months, and even years, NARI officials said last month, citing a Consumer Reports poll which found that 36% of homeowners who plan to remodel plan to do so in phases.

To read more follow the link to the full article:

With Market Soft, Homeowners Turn to ‘Phased Remodeling’