The Case Of The Spiny Water Flea

Is there such a thing as a spiny water flea? And if so, is it as bothersome as a household flea is to a cat or dog? The spiny water flea some researchers have warned is indeed a destructive and invasive threat to Lake Champlain, as much as the common flea is to Fido or Fifi. Spiny fleas dine on small zooplankton, which happens to be 'bigger fish' food - hence, an invasion can be an environmental problem that spreads out on many levels. They can be transported in bilge water, bait buckets, anchor ropes, and fishing nets, which means that if not treated - a small infiltration can turn into a nasty invasion. Discovered in 1984 in Lake Huron, they spread to every great lake by 1987, to the point that they are now considered a permanent member of the Great Lakes eco system. As it is thought that freighters initially transported them by pumping water from their hold areas, now even small boats who dump water can help offset an invasion. Where there was once worry about chlorine, flouride and other such chemicals in our drinking water, now there's one more critter to be watchful of. Therefore a water cooler with a great filtration system might be a good idea to hatch right about now!

NJ Quandry - To Fluoridate Or Not

It was once strongly thought several decades ago that fluoridation added to a town's water supply would help to alleviate a public health issue regarding oral health. Fast forward in time and emerging studies that fluoridation did damage to tooth enamel caused thoughts to the contrary, that were equally as strong. Ever since, it seems that medical doctors, environmental groups, water companies and the local governments have not been able to make a single decision as to whether it's good for us or not. In January 2012, the NJ Public Water Supply Fluoridation Act was reintroduced in legislation again. This raises a debate whereas all parties involved, have begun to express their opinions, their conflicting research and occasional objections...all over again. Environmental groups are concerned about contaminants in the flouride and water companies are concerned about the costs involved in installing systems to disperse it. The CDC has teetered on both sides, as numerous studies have been done on the damaging effects of excess fluoridation on teeth, while certain test locations have proven increased oral health with the use of fluoride. The questions that arise are then - how do cities provide and regulate safe levels of fluoride to the population? What are the long term effects of fluoride on plants and rivers who take in the run off and how do we determine once and for all that the use of fluoride is better than the non-use of it? Aquaverve suggests that while the research and debates continue; homeowners continue to safeguard their water - in whatever ways they deem necessary. Of course, Aquaverve has a few helpful suggestions!

Study Says 3 Out Of 4 People Dehydrated

It's a truth we know so well and yet the habit to dismiss things most obvious, is a mysteriouly stubborn human condition it seems. Everyone KNOWS that the human body is at least, made up of 70% water, if not more. Everyone knows that water is the great toxin flusher. And yet despite this general knowledge, it's apparent that not many people have paid attention. Cornell Medical Center estimates that perhaps as many as three out of four Americans are chronically dehydrated; with 'chronic' being a key word. If one chronically forgets to water a house plant, usually it withers until it finally chokes and dies. If one chronically forgets to feed the cat, ultimately one pays a mighty big bill to the vet to save him from renal failure. If one chronically forgets to check the fish tank, evaporation sets in and the aqua environment turns to swampy muck. Which similarily, could be what our organs might actually resemble after feeding it man made dead foods all day. Perhaps it's time to forget the big debate between bottled and tap water and simply drink the best water that's readily available...and often. Aquaverve makes it easy to do. Installation is a snap and the coolly styled housing units are designed to match any decor.

Season's Greetings!

Team Aquaverve would like to wish everyone a wonderful and safe holiday season, as well as a joyous New Year 2012!

Proprietary Compounds - A Liscense to Kill?

The debate between big companies and environmentalists may go on forever, but in the meantime, we all have to live on the planet. There seems to be a huge discrepancy between the ethical behaviors exhibited by most living souls and the few who have found a way to benefit during their short term incarnational experience. These individuals will argue until death that the 'ends' to which they are all currently reaping (to extreme excess), justifies the means. Unfortunately, Earth is not set up as an official Karma school, whereas an action produces a direct & global reaction back to the individual who's taken it. Very often, Karma never bounces back to those who have blatantly stepped beyond the boundaries of moral codes. What to do...what to do with these incorrigable souls, we all ask? One such example of the craftiness of those benefitting, is through the legal system, which ironically, humans initially set up for the protection of humans. However, so deep in our legalese are we now, that the richest individuals in the world (and their companies) are protected under what's known as 'Proprietary Compounds'. Meaning; environmentalists out to save the Earth can't get a bird's eye view into the chemicals used in the fracking process. So the water that's being recycled back into the ground after being used, remains a huge mystery, in terms of the many toxic chemicals it may be harboring. Lack of disclosure prevents medical specialists to even know how to treat those poisoned. In the short term, many will become diseased and leave this Earth, most likely in debt to medical bills while the fat cats will ultimately depart Earth's bounty enshrined in golden coffins...without a clue as to how they helped to cripple the planet, her peoples, her animals and her plants. Are there Karma Lords waiting to receive us into the big hereafter? We'll never know. Will humanity's current issues ever resolve themselves? Most likely not. But in the meantime, those who have a conscience, can rest easy in the fact that they have some health protections in place. Aquaverve remains steadfast in it's mission to provide healthy alternatives to drinking frack-tainted well water.

New Study - BPA Chemicals Affecting Young Girls

The more we become actively focused on environmental issues, the more it seems we are finding that all man-made products are creating some form of toxic effect upon either our environment or on the human population. The latest research to come out in the plastic water bottle industry focuses on the chemical BPA that has been causing illness especially in female children who have been exposed to BPA before birth. What's astounding is that of 240 women tested, 97% of them were found to have BPA in their urine, as did that same percentage register also in their now born children. Since BPA is an estrogen-like chemical, it has been seen to have a connection to anxious behavior in young females. While there has been much focus in the bottled water industry on BPA in drinking water bottles, many more plastic products that we use on an everyday basis also come into play. Studies such as this latest research drives into global mindset the sobering fact that until we completely align our creativity with the life-giving properties of Mother Nature, we will continue to experience the adverse effects of our man-made products. As consumers, clearing ourselves of all plastic product purchases might be an effective accelerator toward ushering in new forms of environmentally friendly products. BPA, flouridation, clorox and other such chemicals we've become so dependant upon are part of a giant mix that will have to be 're-thought' - if we are to restore health of not only our planet but within our bodies as well. Aquaverve has for more than a decade, held one safe alternative to the bottled water industry. It's called, going 'Bottleless'.

Water Studies & Hydraulic Fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing and it's resultant health threat to humans and the environment has become the new heath-watch trend, as hundreds of blogs have directed people's focus toward the idea that fracturing may now cause human illness due to ground water contamination. Now pediatricians are becoming involved, so much so as to call state governors to order studies as to how fracturing might expose residents to air and water pollution. Why pediatricians? It seems that children are more susceptible to environmental toxins as they absorb chemicals at a higher rate due to smaller body mass. Since everyone knows that a 'Mommy' can instantly become a raging bull when her child is threatened, it seems likely that pediatricians are experiencing a higher rate of patient visits. While it's long been known that toxic chemicals are employed in hydraulic fracturing; in the beginning, no one was worried about where the chemicals would go, once used. Now it seems that too many people, both young and old are becoming sick in areas where there is alot of fracturing taking place. Aquaverve offers one small but safe alternative to ground water pollution. Just pop a filtered water cooler in the house, hook it up to the water line, sip and breath easy.

Is Wall Steet Brewing In Hot Water?

Life used to be easy. If you wanted hot water you boiled it on a stove, but humans always want more, more more! Soon people were ordering plumbers to install hot water fixtures directly into the kitchen sink, to stave off the few extra seconds it took for the water to warm up. Forever fascinated with technology we've continued to develop ways to make, brew and spew hot water. Now, the world kings of creative tinkering are IN hot water. A new movement has begun to put Wall Steet bankers and financiers in a Bull-style boilfest....why? For engufing the little people in a flood of foreclosures; for duping college grads into paying staggering tuitions for useless degrees and for draining the entire world economy by suckering all the little people to pay the bankers billions of bailout dollars (which has somehow evaporated into a big foggy mist.) Just where are the ultra wealthy thugs hiding these days? And just how does the 'little guy' tackle the gargantuan, Goliath's of Greed? Like water, a bunch of little guys are pooling in front of the big bull on Wall Street. In a non-violent protest, financially emaciated Americans from as far as Florida are gathering in solidarity like soupy muck to a dry sponge. Fatcat swanky suits now have to brush elbows with polite but unkempt squatters. Generally speaking, the rich are simply not equipped to swap spit with 'ordinary ones'. Until everyone figures it out all together and a few 'awakening' millionaires and billionaires give some of it rightfully back to society, Aquaverve will quietly continue to stick to the tradition of keeping life simple, stupid (K.I.S.S). Aquaverve can provide the people safe, hot drinking water via the flick of a finger on a faucet - at a pricetag both paupers and pirates can afford.

Shall We Rename The Pacific, 'The Plastic'?

In a recent C & EN magazine publication the American Chemical Society mentioned that plastic did not hold up very well, of all places - in museums! This tickles our senses when we contemplate the irony that as our society attempts to preserve within our sacred institutions, the fine works of 'plastic artists'; their art pieces are actually breaking down under the hot lights and moist air of the museums. In fact, we are still learning much about how insidious our man-made creations are, for in some cases, the broken down molecules of plastic art are drifting to other museum pieces and causing corrosion and staining. Scientists meanwhile, are scratching their heads over the fact that the new decade bio-degradable plastics are not breaking down nearly as fast as they'd predicted. Dazed in confusion, they continue to ponder over how a plastic bottle can break into a million pieces and still not manage to disappear in our vast salt water seas. It seems that if one wishes to amp up the break-down process, one only needs to submit one's garbage to a museum curator. Perhaps museums and kitchen cabinets may pave the way to solving the plastic garbage issue. As a matter of fact, if a scientific study were done on kitchen cabinets, we might find out that if we just left our food in plastic containers long enough, the plastic would eventually leech enough into our food, so as to morph into edible nuggets. It's too bad cancer is the result of leeching plastics because otherwise, we could all just age our container goods like fine wine and ultimately feast on plasti-cookies. Thus, we could solve the world pollution problem with just one well coordinated, globalized dinner meal! With that thought in mind, we suggest that a good healthy glass of clean, filtered water at this time may help us all to better digest the magnitude of our toxic waste issues.

Living Machines Via Water Technology!

Back in the 60's and early 70's, Hollywood produced an explosion of sci-fi movies and outer space television shows that delivered very entertaining scripts featuring inventions of our future times. Flash forward forty years and those of us now not willing to admit to watching such tv fodder for fear of aging ourselves, now get the pleasure of seeing old sci-fi ideas actually come into manifestation. One particular 1972 movie, 'Silent Running' with Bruce Dern says it all; as in the movie plot, he and three robots, Huey, Dewey and Louie prance about on a floating biosphere in space. Everything is self sustaining in the floating domes and in a heart-wrenching ending move, Freeman Lowell, the last remaining astronaut kills himself in order to save the last living forest. One remaining robot, Dewey floats away in space tending to the remaining plants. One can't help but wonder if movies such as that didn't have a heavy hand in turning the minds of baby boomers back toward Save-The-Earth endeavors; as we now witness in today's times, the creation and implementation of 'living machine systems' in the corporate world. What are THEY, one might ask? A corporate living machine system can look like a lush tropical garden area in a plush office or hotel lobby and yet beneath the beautiful foliage, lies a self sufficient wastewater system that produces clean water. These patented water technologies may have once been just the ideological means to which a script writer made his millions, but a few decades later, they've actually become REAL and WORKING inventions! With so many floods, water main breaks, oil spills and tsunamis of the past five years, our water concerns are indeed somewhat of a pressing matter. Luckily baby boomer scientists, now all grown up and yet still tinkering, can be proud that their imaginations ran away from them for just a bit. Because now what we have for the first time in history, are viable solutions for an infrastructure that has desperately needed water treatment and safe water management ideas. We at Aquaverve shall continue in our unique water cooler methodology for helping society keep the safe water flowing and along with the corporate powers that be; in simpatico, may we as a collective, mastermind even greater future water technologies.