RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY?

In this drought-stricken country, the only thing as bad as a drought is a flood. Whether it rains enough to cause a flood or just plain rains, however, is only incidental to the fact that all of the chemicals used for crop and animal treatment (and probably more, for all I know) finish up passing through the dams’ treatment works where they are CHLORINATED. (1,2)

Chlorination is needed to kill the bacteria and protozoan flagellates that normally proliferate in summer (although cryptosporidia survive this process).

It also chlorinates the hydrocarbons that are pesticides etc., rendering them soluble and carcinogenic.

It is this necessary chlorination of perhaps unnecessary – and certainly unwanted - water contaminants that finishes up becoming stored in body fats.

That means that free radical damage is occurring it the body wherever these CHC’s appear in the body (arteries, heart, kidneys, brain – wherever we store fat). And the bowel, as we have seen above.

That’s where water filters come in handy for you AND your customers.

Not just ANY water filters. Oh, no. Ordinary filters get rid of a lot of things – but they will NEVER eliminate chlorinated hydrocarbons. Because, as mentioned, the chlorination process has changed them from fat-soluble to water-soluble entities (albeit ambi-phasic).

That means that the only way to take them out of the water supply is by osmosis.

The bottom line is that REVERSE OSMOSIS water filters are vastly more efficient at minimising cancer and other toxic effects from occasional toxic pollutants in drinking water.(1)

So, it is likely that these should be an essential sale item in every pharmacy. They should at least be used BY the pharmacy, unless you are one of the 1% of pharmacists who use FRESHLY BOILED aqua pura B.P.for your mixtures. (Please bear in mind, though, that ordinary distillation cannot remove pyrogens. R.O. filtration can). (Is the purified water currently sold by wholesalers TRIPLE-distilled – and if so, is it really RENDERING WATER pyrogen-free?)

Not only that, but you can also sell FRESHLY PREPARED bottled water to customers for use at work and home. Commercial water has its problems. (Have you ever considered what they have to do to commercial bottled water to sterilise it? It is not a pleasant thought). We as health practitioners should be alerting customers to the dangers of such things – AND at the same time, offering practical alternatives.

• Using a reverse-osmosis water filters.

References

1. Adlercreutz, Hermann et al, University of Helsinki, Colorectal and other cancers (table…urinary excretion of lignans and isoflavanoids…in urban Finnish and Japanese men) 1993c.

2. John Archer, The Water You Drink, 1996, Pearl Beach, Pure Water Press.