Water

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 life [...]

Music for the Environment – Green Music

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 laying fallow [...]

Tap water, fluoride, cavities – brush with bar soap

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 widely held [...]

Make your own bottled water and save the planet

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, the jury are now [...]

Ordinary women are also celebrities fighting breast cancer

 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 Show.
Further [...]

Blacks/African Americans and cancer – updated

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 [...]

More on bottled water in Muriella’s Corner

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 Earth Policy [...]

Muriella’s Corner on Tap Water

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 that pollution and [...]

Muriella’s Corner on bottled water

Here below are some links to other views on bottled vs tap water

drinking water issues – 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 [...]