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How safe is your tap water?

How safe is your tap water? We have to accept the fact that the tap water is not safe to drink. In this modern world we use chemicals largely in almost all walks of walks of life including agriculture. We use pesticides and insecticides in agriculture. We also use many drugs to grow our live stock. This results in polluting the groundwater to a great extent.

It is estimated that the tap water contains about 2000 toxic chemicals. This can cause many diseases including cancer. Moreover our pharmaceutical supply contain toxic chemicals and hence we get a lot of side effects when we consume such medicines.

We usually treat water with chlorine. It is quite unfortunate that Chlorine itself is a toxic chemical that should not be used in excess. It is pitiable that several thousands of deaths due to contaminated water are recorded every year.

We need to filter the water carefully before using for drinking purposes. It has been proved that a multi stage filtration process using activated carbon and ion exchange can remove up to 99% of contaminants from water. At the same time it leaves the essential minerals.

Therefore please understand that the tap water is dangerous. You need to filter your drinking water by multi stage filtration process using activated carbon. You would live a disease free life for many more years.

Different ways of cleaning your refrigerator
The first thing you need to do before cleaning the refrigerator is to remove all the food items which are inside and check for the labels and check it thoroughly for the outdated and spoiled stuff. Spoiled veggies can be put in the compost pile if you have one. If there are some good stuff, keep it in a cooler space or cover it with ice in a box until you finish off the cleaning. Turn the temperature mode to zero and then clean the drip tray if you have one. Take off the trays and shelves and whatever you can take outside and wash those from the kitchen sink, using warm water with a mild soap solution.
The next step is to clean the inside portion of the refrigerator. Take equal amounts of vinegar and warm water and with a wash cloth wipe it inside the refrigerator. If it still smells bad, then put activated charcoal or grinded coffee in a newspaper and place that on top of one tray in the refrigerator and keep it closed for 24 hours and throw it. This method will help getting rid of the bad smell in most cases. After that you can place a cut lemon or expose the baking powder inside the refrigerator. Still, if you want to have good smell, take a cotton ball dip init in a vanilla essence (or whatever essence you like) and place it on the door tray. Alternatively you can use eucalyptus leaves for an earthly smell. Also, always try to store the food in a sealed container. When you are switching the refrigerator off, don’t forget to keep it open by placing a towel on its door.

Expo for Decorating and Maintaining Your Home Gives A Lot of Information to Think About

When looking at home furnishings, it is very easy to get caught up in the big and extravagant. At a show like this, it is easy to see furnishings that cost above $400 grand. Instead you should look for designs that stand out and that relate to both children and adults alike. One such display there was one that included a train set into the display. It was hidden behind a decadent floral arrangement, but it was mystifying in its design and brought back memories of childhood.

Another great way to pick out furnishings for your home is free samples. The Cheese house brought along such food samples, giving out free cheese to everyone who visited their booth. It not only brought people to their booth but also encouraged people in the future to use them for catering of parties. A cool little idea is the Life Source whole-house watering system. The watering system used a granular activated carbon system to help clean out the bacteria and chemicals in your water. It did this as the water passed through the pipe so that no attachments had to be added. This idea was gleamed from at the tap water systems, but it is used in such a way that you do not even have to think about it. All in all, the Expo was great, and if you are looking into things for a house, definitely check out one of them for some interesting ideas.

The Best Water Filtration System The can be used for Home Use.

Water filtration systems are necessary more than ever for home use. As there are more and more toxins in our water, getting them out has become a home problem. Cities have done a notoriously bad job at removing the toxins from water. They either add in more chemicals which are bad for your body but get rid of bacteria that are even worse for you. They can also remove minerals from the water that your body needs, and are not given to you by other means of ingestion. Because of this, home filtration is the best way to go, as it is for your use only and will not cause filtration of things that are necessary for your body.

Using reverse osmosis removes the calcium and potassium from water while at the same time removing the harmful bacteria. So while it cleans the water, it also makes it less healthy. Reverse Osmosis also has the problem of being prohibitively expensive. The cost of electricity and the amount of water necessary to produce the drinking water is unnecessary. The best way to filtrate water at home is a carbon filter. The activated carbon removes 99% of harmful bacteria while keeping the nutrition of the water. So while looking for filtration at home, go with an activated carbon system.

DO NOT WASTE IN HASTE and Activated Carbon

One must say it makes great news. The brilliant idea implemented by the Saudi prince makes everyone sit up and take notice of things around us and makes us wonder if we are letting many such opportunities of reuse and recycling go by. Being a date-rich country, the project mooted by the Saudi prince to converted the carbon-rich date seeds into activated carbon , uses of which are significant, is to be commended. His advice to other date-rich countries to follow suit is very sound, in the circumstances.

All this use of waste product into something very useful, reminds me of another similar practice here, in our country. Coconuts are used in plenty for various auspicious occasions as well as for daily cooking too. Daily cooking in southern parts of India, without coconut is unimaginable and unheard of. Coconuts in food, coconut water as a daily drink to cool the system during summers, coconut oil as the medium in certain types of cooking, the list goes on. This leads to tons and tons of coconut shells getting accumulated. But herein, lies the interesting aspect. These shells, when they are fully dried, form excellent fuel for heating water for daily bath etc. People in the rural parts and in some suburban parts too, have their bathrooms fitted with huge copper containers with a provision to light fire under them. Here, the coconut wastes are kept and lit. To let the smoke pass, the bath rooms have chimneys too. It is a very common sight to see bathroom chimneys emitting smoke every morning.

In large weddings too, even to this date, food is cooked for the visitors using these dried coconut shells along with its coir as fuel. This system indisputably goes a long way in saving electricity which is scarce and undependable in the rural and suburban parts of South India.

Similarly, there is a unique way followed here in the case of cattle wastes too. Cattle wastes are flattened and dried in the sun, which become hard. These hardened pieces are in turn used as fuel again for the aforesaid purposes. The cattle wastes are considered to be eco-friendly too. A serious thought thus is to be invested in various aspects of our daily living, where we could make good use of wasteful products, which can otherwise accumulate in large quantities and pose problems. By coming up with such indigenous ideas, we could save so many other natural resources from getting depleted

CAR PURIFIERS

There was a time, say about 25 to 30 years ago, when things were totally different. We, as children, did as we pleased and ate what we came across. Parents left us to our own devices and did not keep vigil on what we ate or how we ate. Water purifiers were more or less unheard of; we merrily drank water directly from the tap.
On our way to school, we bought delicious cookies from the roadside vendors and feasted on them. Nobody worried about infections and such things. We climbed trees, plucked all sorts of fruits and ate them not bothering to wash them. Nothing serious ever happened and we always maintained sound health. Purifications of water were learnt in Chemistry class, but then that was restricted to books and exams.
Today, we pamper our children to no extent. We pay attention to every minute detail regarding hygiene and overreact to every small act of negligence. What we do not realize here is that we are slowly killing the immunity system in our children, making them very sensitive to slightest change in food habits or weather condition. We have even forgotten old and trusted home remedies, which worked wonders once upon a time, and rush to the doctor for every small complaint, which act makes them all the more vulnerable to diseases.
Times have changed drastically, and we have cleanser and purifiers of all kinds. Water purifiers, vacuum cleaners, room cleansers, air purifiers, you name and they have it, are all available in plenty, thus enslaving us to artificial devices.
My son, the moment he gets into the car, rolls up the windows, switches on the AC and the battery operated air cleanser. He does not even want to check if the air outside is worth inhaling. So much for dependence on latest gadgets. Not just for cars, you have purifiers for all types of vehicles on the road now. We blame it on pollution but we forget that it is our own doing and we have ourselves to blame for.
Very soon, a situation will arise when we will want to spray a person with a cleanser before greeting him or her with an embrace! Shake hands also might soon become a thing of past, for fear of contracting infection. God help our fetish for hygiene cleanliness.