image – AP File Photo The United Nations General Assembly has declared that each person on the planet has a right to clean drinking water and sanitation facilities. World leaders in 2000 called for the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation to be cut in half by 2015 (see [...]
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To our readers Ensuring environmental sustainability is a goal – Goal 7 – of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and Muriella’s Corner is committed to support its implementation, in partnership with all who intend to help more than one billion people release their creative energies, to help free them from the shackles of a [...]
Forest Music, Water Music We honor our family from the various ecological zones (ecozones) who make up this planet, this one earth, in which we live and which we cherish so dearly. Our family can be found in forests, deserts (and these members are usually of a nomadic nature, really cherishing the planet by moving and [...]
Updated 29 June 2007 The article below reminds us of effects over time of actions taken to improve public health, effects which can cause more harm than good in the long run, with the consumer bearing the brunt of the consequences. The practice of adding fluoride to water started some 60 years ago, and is [...]
update: Friday, November 2, 2007 Chlorine and human health The Medical College Of Wisconsin research team asserts that there is an association between cancer and chlorinated water, based on one of their studies. After more than 100 years of chlorine being added to drinking water as a standard and cheap way of making water drinkable, [...]
Our free online newsletter – Muriella’s Corner -shares more information on Cancer. Click here for information on Living with Cancer; click here for information on Conversations with Cancer. Format for comments for documentary of ordinary, courageous women who are also celebrities dealing with breast cancer to be presented to Larry King or Dr Sanjay Gupta or the Oprah [...]
Update: Gene variant that could double risk of cancer in black men identified. While discovery could lead to new treatment, it could also affect other populations. It was reported in US News Health Day that almost twice as many black men develop prostate cancer as white men, researchers report. This study confirms that common genetic [...]
The spring or mineral water bottle is the choice of container among the health conscious; but at times economics get in the way of health consciousness as the bottle is refilled again and again with tap water . See article on Water in Muriella’s Corner – a free online newsletter (http://snipurl.com/1gtf0) Despite reuse of the plastic bottle, the [...]
Toxic Taps… We often take the purity of our tap water for granted — and we shouldn’t. The National Research Defense Council - NRDC – produced a document in 2001 called What’s on Tap?, a carefully researched, documented and peer-reviewed study of the drinking water systems of 19 U.S. cities. Among other things it found [...]
Here below are some links to other views on bottled vs tap water
What’s on tap? Thursday 22 March is World Water Day. This is Muriella’s Corner blog on tap water. We shared with you in our last blog information on bottled water. We often take the purity of our tap water for granted — and we shouldn’t. The National Resources Defense Council – NRDC – produced a [...]
