What-er, what is it good for
wow, it's been a slow month in here, I think it's time for a daily dose of guilt!
Passing on some interesting information with regards to water!. This information isn’t necessarily new, but it is important. So I am going to share and filter some information direct from ‘the Laughing Lotus’ website (the mother ship of all Yoga studio that I trained with in New York city) with regards to buying, selling and drinking water from plastic bottles.
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WHY we will no longer be offering bottled water…
As we become more aware of the connections bottled water has to serious environmental issues, we are taking steps towards good environmental stewardship.
There are a few important things to understand about bottled water in terms of what it means for our health and the health of the planet:
1. Plastic is made of toxic chemicals. It leaches into the water.
“In simple terms, plastic is a petroleum-based mix of monomers that become polymers, to which additional chemicals are added for suppleness, inflammability, and other qualities.”
Many plastic drink containers are made with (PET) polyethylene terephthalate. Small amounts are released into the drinks. Studies have shown PET is carginogenic.
Harder plastic water bottles are made with Bisphenol A (BPA)
“Scientists are discovering it can wreak stunning havoc in the body.”
“Most alarming, these chemicals may disrupt the endocrine system—the delicately balanced set of hormones and glands that affect virtually every organ and cell—by mimicking the female hormone estrogen.” (Also you should know that nearly all cans contain a plastic liner made of BPA.)
2. Plastic never biodegrades, well practically, it’s with us for well over a hundred years.
It just breaks down into smaller pieces. Clear water bottles have to be made with new plastic (you can’t get a clean, clear plastic recycled plastic). With each recycling the materials degrade, and are more likely to leach into the substance it contains.
3. Plastic is polluting our oceans and waterways.
There are 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of ocean. Marine life is suffering and the plastic is entering our food chain.
So the point is we don’t want to encourage the making of more plastic!!
4. Water it is the ecological basis of all life. Just as we have a right to life, to being alive, we have a right to water.
By buying water we participate in the privatization of water and promote its status as a commodity when it should be a public good, available to all.
Water is mother nature’s gift to us which we must take care of by being good water stewards!
posted by Moray Watson @ 5:51 PM
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Plastics are the scourge of this planet.
Scourge: "n. 1. a whip or lash. 2. any source of punishment. 3. a source of calamity"."
Plastics are beating up the planet.
The Graduate 2 - Glass.
('Course, the big problem is too damn many people.)
South Florida, you may have heard, is still in the middle of a severe draught. No rain this winter. Lake Okeechobee is at an all time low level. Lawn watering restricted to once a week on parched lawns. Even GOLF COURSES are having water restrictions! (If they played links golf, they wouldn't have such worries. If I correctly understand links golf, Moray. Which I may not.)
Many years ago, about 1978 or so, when my son was in a hospital and we were spending a lot of time waiting around, I struck up a conversation with another parent of a child in the pediatrics ward. I still remember, the guy worked for the South Florida Management District. I asked him what he did, step by step, on his last full workday. He said that first he got a cup of coffee. That established his credibility with me. Then he said that he returned a call to a consulting group in Atlanta. They were consulting for Florida Power and Light Company, with respect to locating a site for a new power plant, and they needed data, all kinds of data, about water availability and population projections. The management district, it turned out, had loads and loads of data and studies and projections. (Which it basically gave for free to the consulting group, which then wrote it up for FPL for a presumably big fee, which FPL then recouped from customers.)
I asked the guy what the district projected for water supply in Palm Beach County in the future. Would there always be enough water to support projected populations? Answer: Yes. There would be. But "enough" had to be defined. There might not be enough to allow daily bathing!!! There would always be enough to brush one's teeth. Bottled water would see to that.
Towns here "inject" waste water into the lower aquifer, with assurances to the public that it will stay there and not migrate to upper level well water fields. There is considerable evidence that it presently migrates to Florida Bay, at the tip of Florida, which is biologically dying.
What is particularly enraging is the Enronization of water, the corporate push, the globalization you mention.
It gets one depressed.
BTW, I don't like the idea of drinking water from aluminum cans, either.
Glass.
When I was a kid, nobody drank water from a bottle. We had a different set of health problems then, and maybe current plagues existed then, but were camouflaged.
We drank water from public sources. Except our family drank some of our water directly from pipes that, with a pump, pulled it directly from a lake. (That was laced, I now think, with DDT.) And we drank hi-fat milk from glass bottles (later paraffin cartons), and coke from those distinctive glass bottles.
Now everybodies' water gets pushed through pvc pipes. Which must have been vouchsafed to us to be as safe as was DDT, and as innocuous as deep well injection, and as unthreatening as lead paint and asbestos and ....
I knew a guy who bought - and then sold, to Huizenga, the Miami Dolphins guy - a water company. Those big glass jugs that supply office water dispensers. They filled up the jugs directly from the municipal well field. Straight into the jugs. Then delivered the jugs of water to customers.
I was going to say that when I was a kid, water was free, or virtually so, at least for us, and so was air and so was dirt. "Cheap as dirt" was a phrase. So was "Cheap as Air." Now you buy topsoil from a store, you pay 75 cents or a buck to put air into your automobile tires, and selling little bottles of water (not to mention the big privatization projects) is a major industry.
It's everywhere. And not a drop to drink.
And thank you for the stimulus and opportunity to ventilate.
There! Now I feel better.
Well, maybe I don't.
Make that "South Florida Water Management District".
People don't know how big and important an operation a Florida water management district is.
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http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Po-Re/Pollution-of-the-Ocean-by-Plastic-and-Trash.html
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/ocean.htm
for my next blog I should really write about the spiritual downfall of man and how it’s connected to the mistreament of cows
http://cowsunite.org/
out of concern I'm having 'Cocoon the return' flash back
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