Clear, pure knowledge about water
You may not know this but the water you use and drink is the same water that your grand parents used, and their grandparents and their grandparents. The water that exists on the earth today is the same water that has been here from the beginning. Water is the ultimate recyclable product. Water is used and recycled daily through a process called the Hydrologic Cycle or Water Cycle.
How much water is there to use?
97 percent of the earth's water is in the oceans with only 3 percent fresh water. Of that 3 percent over 2/3 is frozen in glaciers and icecaps. Less than 1 percent of the water on earth is drinkable but most of that is underground. In fact about 0.3 percent of the fresh water on earth is available to us in our daily lives.
In Canada we are fortunate to have some of the most abundant sources of freshwater on earth. While we have some of the highest quality water in the world there are issues that are causing concern. Increasingly industrial and agricultural run off and pharmaceutical contamination are contaminating our water supply. Recent tests have found manmade
pharmaceuticals in penguins at the South Pole; the contamination is all around us.
Municipal water treatment and delivery practices provide cleaning but also leave behind lead, heavy metals and chlorine byproducts. Increasingly, Canadians are becoming more concerned about their water and are looking for purified water options.
How much water do you need?
You lose at least 2 litres of water per day. It’s important to drink 2 to 3 litres of water per day. How many bottles of water per month, do you need to be properly hydrated?
How important is water to us?
The majority of our body is water. The percentage of our body that is water is:
Children 75% |
Adults 60% - 65% |
Seniors 50% |
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- You can survive for up to a month without food, but only five to seven days without water.
- 79% of our blood is water, 85% of our brain and even 10% of our teeth.
- Water is a nutrient in every cell in our body.
- Lack of water is the no. 1 cause of daytime fatigue.
- Even if your drinking water looks, tastes, and smells good, chances are it contains one or more contaminants — and you can't tell.
- One glass of water can shut down midnight hunger pangs.
- In 37% of Canadians, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
- 75% of Canadians are chronically dehydrated.
- Most baby formula manufacturers recommend using bottled water or boiled tap water.
- Water regulates the temperature of the human body, carries both nutrients and oxygen to cells, cushions joints and protects organs and tissues.
- Even mild dehydration will slow down an individual's metabolism as much as 3%.