Water Contamination May Be Cause of Brain Cancers in NY

If you live in Rochester, New York, I'm sure you are following the case of suspected groundwater contamination and the possible like to the number of people in that neighbourhood with brain cancer with much concern. The following article by Rochester News station 13 WHAM appeared yesterday.

13 WHAM TV: Sean Carroll (Victor, N.Y.) -- Michael Barry of Victor, Ontario County is convinced there's a link between air and ground water contaminants in his neighborhood and several cases of brain cancer.

He points out houses in his neighborhood where residents have died.

"The people that lived here, the wife died of a very serious brain cancer. The lady next door died of a very serious brain cancer, the same kind of brain cancer. And yet a third person down the road had the same brain cancer and she died,” he said. "I'm not playing Russian roulette with my family's life anymore."

Read the rest of the article.

The fact that this could happen in almost any neighbourhood is the worst part; and the fact that a number of people have to die before a connection is made. Even then, clean up will be delayed for years and perhaps decades while investigations take place.

Instead of the stance of the public protection agencies being to err on the side of caution and presume that there is a connection, they will presume no connection while studies are done and more people become ill. These are the people we have to depend on to protect our health. Are they doing enough, soon enough? What's your thoughts?

Linda
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Underground Storage Tanks Threating Our Health

In a report prepared by the Sierra Club, leaking Underground Storage Tanks (UST) are posing a health threat to one hundred million people in the United States.

According to the report, there are 680,000 USTs and a backlog of 130,000 cleanups with another 9,000 new leaks discovered annually. These UST post a serious threat to the groundwater in America.

Chemicals leaking from compromised USTs are able to contaminate vast amounts of land. For example, one gallon of petroleum can contaminate one million gallons of water. More than one hundred million people drink groundwater from states with a backlog of cleanups.

What is even worse is that there is money available for these cleanups but they are not getting done. The US Federal government has a surplus of $2.4 billion that it has collected from a fee on gasoline sales but the current administration proposed to spend only $73 million of those surplus funds for cleanup projects in 2006 - that is just 3% of the available surplus funds.

The following chart shows the number of people drinking groundwater in the states with the biggest backlogs of UST cleanups pending.



This is terrifying stuff! Read the entire report by the Sierra Club here.

Then, if you don't already have a water filter in your home, get one!

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Water With a Consciousness

It seems impossible to think of water as having a consciousness. At least, it does to me. I had never considered that water could be changed by it's surroundings and the "energy" around it.

After reading about the research of Masaru Emoto, I'm no so sure any more. Mr. Emoto has written several books on the subject of water crystalization and the messages that water has for us, including Messages from Water, Vol. 2.

In his book, Mr. Emoto suggests that the energy surrounding water, as well as contamination of that water, causes it to crystalize in different ways. Water that is contaminated is dark and ugly when frozen, whereas, pure water, or water infused with good energy, like prayer, has a beautiful crystaline structure.

Even dark, contaminated water can be changed simply with beautiful words like "love", to become brilliant and crystaline when frozen.

Sounds absurd, doesn't it? That is exactly what I thought. Until I read more about Mr. Emoto's research. Now, I'm not going to say that water has a consciousness, but this research is certainly one of those things that makes you go 'hmmm'.

Check out this website Miraculous Messages from Water about Mr. Emoto's research and judge for yourself.

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Chlorine in Water Connected to Heart Disease

This is from a very interesting website called Science Errors: "Evidence and principles of science clearly show that drinking chlorinated water is the main cause of arterial plaques, which is the most serious cause of heart disease."

The article goes on to describe just how chlorine attaches itself to walls of your arteries and along with the work of your white blood cells, it forms plaque. We all know what happens when your arteries become blocked with plaque - you have a heart attack and heart tissue dies and cannot be regenerated.

The US EPA actually recognizes the hazards of chlorination by-products in drinking water and regulates the amount that may be present. How much is too much? If this article speaks the truth, any chlorine that can clog arteries and cause more heart disease is too much.

The article is intereting and I'd encourage your to read it here and judge for yourself.

Linda Symonds
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Water Quality Reports From Your Water Supplier

Did you know that by law in the US, every water supplier in the country is required to provide, by July 1st of each year, an annual water quality report?

If you didn't know, you are not alone. Most people are unaware that these consumer confidence reports (CCR) are available.

The reports are required to tell you where your water comes from and what's in it. Any community water system that serves more than 100,000 people is also required to make its CCR available to customers on a publically accessible web site.

So now that you know about these reports, you want to know where to find them, right? Well, that's a bit of a complicated question.

Some water suppliers choose to link their water reports to the EPA site so their reports are available on the EPA Consumer Confidence Reports webpage. The water suppliers that don't post links to their reports on the EPA site are a bit harder to find.

The best way to locate a copy of the online Consumer Confidence Report for your area is to do a search on the internet for "Consumer Confidence Report MyCity". If you can't find a copy of the report online, phone your water supplier and ask for a copy or the website address where it can be found.

Check out these annual reports and be informed. You might be surprised at what really is in the water you drink.

Linda Symonds
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