CONSUMERS ! BEWARE OF MINERAL WATER FRAUD

Text Matter of the Press Conference Held at Press Club, Kanpur
On April 22, 2007

Speakers : Sarabjeet Singh Johar ( President )

And

Dr. G. S. Johar ( Secretary )

CHEMISTRY FOR HUMANITY & DIVINITY
[ CHD ], KANPUR


WHY PACKAGED DRINKING WATERS
ARE THE WORST WATERS FOR HUMAN HEALTH ?

WHY HARD MINERAL WATER IS THE BEST
DRINKING WATER ?


Truth About Bottled Waters

Bottled water is big business in every country as it usually tastes better than what comes out of your tap. But is every bottled water is "healthy water ?" Not always ! "Is the water hard ? Is it moderately high in TDS ?" Most bottled water labels in the India and elsewhere do not give the information you need to know the answers to these questions. The bottling company must print the complete water analysis Test Report on the label. Keep in mind many bottled waters are simply processed water using distillation, reverse osmosis, de-ionization or simply filtration. With over 700 brands of bottled water available in the US, around 80% are processed water. Same is the situation in India. For maintaining good health, we must purchase only natural spring or artesian well waters that come closest to the "healthy water" criteria, which says that hardness should be around 170 mg / l and TDS around 300 mg / l. References ( N. WALKER-1974 : “WATER CAN UNDERMINE YOUR HEALTH” ).
DIRTY GAME OF “PURIFIED” WATERS ( PACKAGED WATERS )
De-mineralized water has little or no minerals. This is the result if you use a distiller, a reverse osmosis unit (RO), or de-ionization (ion exchange resins). However, the research on heart disease and cancer shows a healthy water is hard and moderately high in TDS (total dissolved solids). Why do people purchase these de-mineralized or water softening systems ? Usually their thinking goes something like this. "I know I should drink water, but it's so polluted with chlorine, chemicals and toxic metals, that it's not safe. So I'll get rid of these harmful things and all will be OK." Not really. Creating a "healthy water" means removing the harmful agents but keeping the beneficial minerals. "Minerals in drinking water are more easily and better absorbed than minerals from food," according to Dr. John Sorenson, a leading authority on mineral metabolism.
Devices like R.O. remove everything from the water, harmful bacteria as well as beneficial minerals. This stripped water cannot sustain life even in a fish bowl. All fish require minerals to prosper, and if allowed to live in these types of water will perish. If this type of water is ingested for long periods of time, it can leach out valuable body minerals such as potassium, magnesium, sodium and calcium. Mineralized water is needed for all cellular functions and if there are no minerals in your drinking water your body will rob the minerals from somewhere in your body to satisfy its needs. Mostly the bones and teeth are the worst victims to lose calcium, magnesium, etc. Although one can take mineral supplements to replace them however, but it is not easy to replace the minerals in our bodies in the same form that we lost them ( P. C. BRAGG & P. BRAGG, “The shocking truth about water”, Health Science, Volume 8, 1977 ).

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOUR BODY IS DEPLETED OF
CALCIUM ?

(1) Calcium is the most well known osteoporosis-preventing element. It maintains bones and teeth. It also helps in lowering blood pressure in people with hypertension. The regular daily intake ( RDI ) of Calcium for adults is around 800 - 1000 mg. The prolonged deficiency of Calcium will also cause muscle spasms.
(2) Witout Calcium the contraction of heart muscles, nerve impulses, blood clotting and wound-healing cannot take place.
(3) Most people get only about half of the amount of Calcium they actually need each day. Besides food, water is the best source to provide Calcium. And in case if we don’t get Calcium even from water, then the entire life process of the man will be at stake.
(4) Without Calcium, even the hormones and enzymes that regulate digestion and metabolism cannot be produced in the body.
(5) Drinking Calcium-less water will greatly reduce blood calcium, and for carrying out vital functions, the body will try to steal Calcium from the bones. Eventually the withdrawals of Calcium from the bones will make them highly porous and fragile, thus causing occasional fractures.
(6) Calcium also helps in reducing the irritating effects of Bile acids in the colon, thus reduces the incidence of colon cancer.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOUR BODY IS DEPLETED OF
MAGNESIUM ?

(1) Just like calcium, Magnesium is also the most vital element for maintaining good health. The RDI for magnesium is minimum 320 mg for men and 270 mg for women daily. This element controls around 300 enzyme - related processes in the human body. Many chronic diseases may be prevented or treated by the regular intake of magnesium. The magnesium levels are easily depleted by stress, or by certain diseases or medication or by intense physical activity.
(2) Magnesium is involved in energy production, nerve function, muscle relaxation and bone and tooth formation. In conjunction with calcium and potassium, magnesium regulates heart rhythm. It also has a role in the production and use of insulin in the body. Reaseachers at the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, have come to the conclusion that those people who have lowest magnesium levels in the body had a 94 % greater chance of developing type-two diabetes ( non-insulin-dependent ).

(3) Recent research indicates that magnesium helps to prevent and treat heart disease. Studies show that the risk of dying of a heart attack is lower in areas with ‘hard’ water, which contains high levels of magnesium. Some researchers speculate that, if everyone drank hard water, the number of deaths from heart attacks might decline by 19 %. Magnesium appears to lower blood pressure, and has also been found to aid recovery after a heart attack by inhibiting blood clots, widening the arteries and normalising the dangerous arrhythmias.

(4) Magnesium also helps in expanding the airways, which is helpful in treating asthma and bronchitis.

(5) The recommended ratio of Calcium and Magnesium in the body is 2:1. a lack of Magnesium can make a work-out harder. Magnesium also eases symptoms of Fibromyalgia ( muscle and joint pain ). It also reduces Spasms and Cramps, and lowers high B.P. too. In women it improves the symptoms of PMS ( Pre-menstrual syndrome ).

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HUMAN BODY IF
SILICA ( SiO2 ) IS REMOVED FROM WATER ?

S I L I C A ( SiO2 )
I M P O R T A N C E OF S I L I C A IN T H E H U M A N B O D Y

[ Silica-free Water Will Gradually Make You Old-Looking and Ugly ]

Silica ( SiO2 ) is another trace mineral ( ~ 10 to 35 mg / liter ) in the drinking water that strengthens the body's connective tissues – the muscles, tendons, hair, ligaments, nails, cartilage, and bone -- and is also vital for healthy skin. The synthesis of cartilage in human body takes place under the full involvement of silica. That is why Silica deficiency can result in reduced skin elasticity, and also hampers the body's ability to heal wounds. Solid food sources of silica include green onion, green beans, strawberries, cucumber, mango, asparagus, beet root, etc. But a large proportion of this ingested silica from these sources is not fully bio-available. Through further research it has also became apparent that healthy people always have higher levels of silica in their blood vessels and other tissues than those suffering from degenerative diseases. When people are young, Silica levels in their body are high and their bones and joints are also flexible ; our skin is also pliant, flexible and glowing. But with the growing age of the people, silica levels go on declining, and without adequate tissue levels of Silica, the human body manifests many of the symptoms of aging such as joint disease, weakened digestion, and wrinkled skin, etc.
The best of all the sources of readily absorbable form of silica is only pure natural drinking water wherein it is present in invisible, soluble colloidal form. The colloidal silica ( present in water as Silicic acid, H2SiO3 ) is much more bio-available to the body because it is absorbed rapidly after a short transit time in blood. The great binding ability of colloidal silica certainly makes it a most useful in the treatment of a whole range of conditions, but perhaps silica’s most exciting and innovative use is its ability to improve the strength and elasticity of the skin, hair, and nails by its direct action on the connective tissue. The colloidal Silica in water has the ability to undergo a process of binding with unwanted elements such as viruses, bacteria and inflammatory pathogens, rendering them immobile and harmless ! This natural power of silica makes it suitable for wound healing, as well as preventing to some extent the occurrence of acne vulgaris ( pimples ) and certain other inflammatory conditions.
The process of Reverse osmosis removes 85 - 90% of the silica content from the water. Up to 10 to 40 mg of silica are also lost from our bodies every day through excretion, skin shedding, hair cutting, nail clipping, etc. The R. O. technique either substantially reduces or completely eliminate this precious natural mineral—Silica from the water. The normal levels of Silica in direct natural sources of drinking water ( bore-well, well, or spring waters ) are around 10 to 35 milligrams per liter. But waters containing further higher levels ( > 50 mg/l Silica ) are dangerous to health because in that case there is a danger of the formation of Silica-containing kidney stones ( renal calculi ). But pure Silica stones are never formed because drinking water containing 50 mg or more of silica per liter are very rarely encountered in nature. But. On the contrary, after passing through R.O. instrument, silica levels drop to the alarmingly value of 0 to < 2 mg / liter, thus turning such a water sample unhealthy, or rather useless, not only for human consumption but for use by animals also. But the water-selling companies are unconcerned.
When our institution ( CHD ) subjected KINLEY and AQUAFINA waters for silica analysis, both the waters exhibited Zero value for SiO2. The “MOUNT KAILASH” and “NATURAL SPRING” waters also showed same results.


COCA-COLA ADMITS THAT IT SOLD TAP WATER OF PUBLIC SUPPLY SYSTEM, IN BOTTLES, IN UK, UNDER THE BRAND NAME “DASANI”

A news item to this effect was published online on March 4th, 2004, in ‘COMMON DREAMS’ : News Center.
Source : http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/0304-04.htm

It has been found that at least two out of every five bottles of water sold around the world are ‘DASANI’ type tap water only, rather than mineral water originating from some good natural source. The origin of UK ‘DASANI’ came to light when a complaint was made to the British Food Standards Agency over Coke’s use of the word “PURE” in its DASANI marketing. The word “PURE” is meant that the water has been to processed to make it pure. This strategy also implies that tap water is ‘IMPURE’. Coca Cola DASANI water had a great hit and the company had created seven million pounds marketing value.

COKE AND PEPSI’S FOOLING DRIVE
IN INDIA

After fooling the customer in UK, the Coca Cola company is now fleecing and harming consumers in India by selling its deadly harmful water under the brand name of “KINELY”. Adopting similar deceitful tactics, the Pepsi company has launched its DANGEROUS water under the brand name of “AQUAFINA”.
Both “KINELY” and “AQUAFINA” are virtually slow poisons for the Indian consumers. Both the waters have been analyzed by CHEMISTRY FOR HUMANITY AND DIVINITY, CHD, in its laboratory, and its results are shocking. The chemical analysis of these waters has proved that these are almost de-mineralized or virtually distilled water samples which cannot support life systems of the human body. The TDS value of KINELY is only 12 ( twelve ), and that of AQUAFINA only 5 ( five ). The required TDS value is 300 mg/lit.; similarly the total hardness value for KINELY is 12 and for AQUAFINA, it is 0 ( Zero ). The normal value should not be less than 170 mg/lit. Similarly the calcium content in KINELY and AQUAFINA both is zero. The Magnesium content in KINELY is 3 mg/lit, and AQUAFINA is 0 ( Zero ). These value suggest that both these waters are poisonous for human health. Those people who are proudly drinking these waters as a ‘lifestyle choice’, are likely to suffer from heart-attacks, diabetes, hypertension, muscle-cramps, etc, in the coming years.
Both Coke and Pepsi have declared that their bottled water conforms to I.S. 14543, unfortunately for the public, and very fortunately for the Coke and Pepsi, the specification for I.S. 14543, is so highly defective and useless that even ordinary tap water can satisfy its norms. This specification does not guarantee even the basic minimum requirement of TDS, Total Hardness, Calcium and Magnesium levels, without which the water is bound to create havoc in the human life. If there is no hardness, no TDS, and no Calcium and Magnesium, that sample of water is unfit even for an aquarium. Fish kept in such a water will soon die for lack of the minerals.
On account of all these facts and figures, the manufacturing of Kinely and Aquafina water should be banned with immediate effect. At the same time a specification of I.S. No. 14543 issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards ( B.I.S. ) must be declared obsolete and outdated. Instead all bottle waters manufactured in India should invariably be of natural ‘Mineral Water Quality’. “The packaged drinking water” system must be declared illegal. Every mineral water sold in the country must print a declaration on the label about the TDS, Total Hardness, Calcium and Magnesium contents. Preferably the values of these four parameters should be around 300, 170, 75 and 30 respectively. The R. O. system for the drinking water should also be banned in India as it strips the water of its life-sustaining mineral content, and health of the consumer suffers irreparable damage despite spending money.

PLEASE SEE TEST REPORT BELOW




Startling facts About Water as Revealed by
KANPUR TEST HOUSE
118/23, NAZIRABAD, GUMTI NO.5, KANPUR-208012
T e s t R e p o r t
ON THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF KINLEY AND AQUAFINA WATERS

Sl. No. Characteristic KINLEY AQUAFINA



1. T. D. S. 12 mg / litre 5 mg / litre



2. TOTAL HARDNESS 12 mg/litre NIL
( as CaCO3 )


3. CALCIUM ( as Ca2+ ) NIL NIL



4. MAGNESIUM ( as Mg2- ) 3 mg / litre NIL



5. SILICA ( as SiO2 ) NIL NIL .

ON THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF MOUNT KAILASH WATER ( Of M/s Peacock Minerl Waters Pvt. Ltd., Faridabad ; AND “NATURAL SPRING” WATER ( Of M/s G. C. Beverages ( P ) Ltd., Solan, H. P. )

Sl. No. Characteristic MOUNT KAILASH NATURAL SPRING

1. TOTAL HARDNESS 50 mg / litre 160
( as CaCO3 )

2. SILICA ( as SiO2 ) NIL NIL