Video debunks claims made by anti bottled water crowd. And, check out the historical photos of Mountain Valley Spring Water delivery trucks towards the end of the video.

We love passing on great internet resources for people interested in health and nutrition. VirtuallyKnoxville.com is a community group that disseminates news and promotes local businesses in Knoxville, and there are some great resources and coupons for people looking for health stores in Knoxville, Tennessee.

VirtuallyKnoxville.com emphasizes family interests, health and fitness. On this website you will find hot spots in Knoxville, Tennessee and family-friendly events and things to do in the area.

SURVIVE! A Family Guide to Thriving in a Toxic World, has recently been released. This is a 470-page informative reference guide to toxins in all walks of life, and it includes many alternative solutions—for thriving in a toxic world.

Mountain Valley Spring Water is mentioned on page 64 in chapter 2! The book covers thousands of topics—from toxins in air, water and food, to toxins in medical and dental procedures. It includes chapters on electromagnetic pollution, baby products, clothing, pets, vaccines—even toxic thoughts and emotions, and what to avoid when you travel.

SURVIVE! may be purchased from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com. It is also available on the authors’ Websites. Please visit: www.wyntersway.com for more detailed information or to purchase an autographed copy. If you would like to purchase in quantity, please email Sharyn Wynters at: drwynters@aol.com. 

Congratulations to our Mountain Valley Spring Water team for bringing home the gold in the 5th Annual Steuart Pennington Running of the Tubs.

Residents in the Boston area are reconsidering an unprecedented Bottled Water Ban after a water main ruptured and cut the supply of potable water to around 2 million people. This occured just 48 hours after residents voted to ban bottled water in an attempt to reduce plastic waste.

The new law will still take effect in January, but residents are second guessing the decision made by the 300 or so people at the town meeting that cated the vote affecting so many other people.

Read more about the Concord bottled water ban here at boston.com.

Mountain Valley and T.E.M.A. work together on Nashville flood relief efforts!

This is an interesting article about water testing in the Great Lakes that found the presence of nicotine byproducts and cholesterol drugs. The people urging addtional reserch are not left wing eco-radicals. The water sampling was done on the intake pipes of water utilities by the States surrounding the Great Lakes as well as the USGS. A link to the full report is available at the end.

by Amanda Smith-Teutsch

After testing of water in the Great Lakes revealed the presence of nicotine byproducts and cholesterol drugs, a group advocating for the protection of the inland seas is calling for more research into the long-term effects of drugs in drinking water.

The Alliance for The Great Lakes said a recent sampling of Lake Michigan revealed low levels of cotinine, a nicotine byproduct, and the cholesterol-modifying drug gemfibrozil, distributed throughout the water. Also found were substances including heart medications, herbicides, estrogen, antibiotics and pain anti-inflammatory agents.

“Broader use of pharmaceuticals and growing knowledge of the health effects from their chemical byproducts make drug pollution an emerging concern,” said Lyman Welch, Alliance Water Quality Program manager and lead author of the report, Protecting the Great Lakes from Pharmaceutical Pollution. “As we learn more about what dangers these drugs pose, we have to be ready to take precautionary steps to limit the amount that passes into the Great Lakes every day.”

While some experts say the levels are too low to impact human health, Welch said it could take up to 100 years to flush the pollutants out of the Great Lakes waterways. The report points out that some researchers worry human health could be threatened by long-term, low-level exposure to some of the chemicals found in the water, such as hormones and cell-change agents. These compounds are designed to work in the body at low concentrations, the Alliance said.

The U.S. Geological Survey indicated some aquatic wildlife were suffering endocrine changes due to exposure to the pharmaceuticals.

Great-Lakes.pdf

If this was a bottled water company instead of a public utility, the letter would make the front page of papers across the country!

Apparently 3 x the permissible EPA level of radon in the water is a "negligible risk" and the water is "safe to drink." I am not aware of a point of use filter that's going to take out radium so the Environmental Working Group, the National Resources Defense Council and Corporate Accountability International are going to have to come up with a different solution for those folks seeking to avoid the use of "environmentally irresponsible bottled water."

The FDA has zero tolerance for this type of stuff from bottled water companies. Tap water is regulated to a higher degree than bottled water?! Give me a break...

Click here to view this document in PDF.

Americans Not as Conscious of Calories in Beverages; Nestle Pure Life Purified Water Launches Pledge to Eliminate One Billion Calories from American Families' Diets Press Release Source: Nestle Pure Life On Monday April 12, 2010, 10:13 am EDT.

Take the Nestle Pure Life Pledge! If you are in the water business, you are free to substitute your own brand of water... 

http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/nestle-purelife/43449/

Notice the Mountain Valley Spring Water in this person's healthy kitchen.