Fast FACT's about Water

We all need to drink clean water to maintain a healthy and productive life, as well as to help prevent health problems and disease.

Water is needed to sustain life.

An average person needs approximately 50 gal of water per day for drinking purposes, cooking, bath, toilet, clothes washing and general hygiene.

More Important Health Information

(According to United Nation's World Health Organization Statistics)

An estimated 85% of all diseases are transmitted by water. This results in approximately 25 million deaths per year from water born disease. It is also known that Chlorine is added to kill these disease organisms, certain organic materials react to cause a suspected cancer causing agent called THM (Trihalomethane).

Toxic Chemicals which cannot be seen or tasted are also entering the world's drinking water systems at an alarming rate, causing possible birth defects and health problems. Note the problems around the world when disasters happen, such as earthquakes and floods. Ronak's Reverse Osmosis units economically reduce your exposure to these risks by removing up to 98% of the total dissolved chemicals and up to 99% of the bacteria, asbestos, cysts, spores, amoeba and other microscopic contaminants.

Slime turns Bays into Cesspools

Toxic algae is chocking marine life and turning crystal waters into pea soup. Spawned by sewage and fertilizer runoff, the problem could become a global epidemic.

HAVELOCK, NC - the attack of the phantom killers came on a warm September night in 1991. Schools of Menhaden, a herring like fish, were swimming down the Neuse River on their annual migration to the sea when they suddenly began battling an invisible foe. By the time the massacre ended six weeks later, more than a billion corpses were piled along three miles of beach and it took a caravan of bulldozers to clear the sand of rotting carcasses.

The mysterious fish fill - the worst in state history - was traced to a micro

organism that dwells in the phosphate laced waters of Pamlico Estuary, a bay along the Atlantic seashore overlooking the Outer Banks. The killer algae, which since has been detected in six states from Delaware to Florida, is the prime suspect in dozens of unsolved attacks on fish and shellfish.

Algae blooms are not new: they probably date back to biblical times. The first plague visited upon Egypt a "bloody" river, dead fish, stinking water - was almost certainly what is know today as a red tide.

But in recent years, algae slimes dense enough to suffocate marine life have ben swelling around the world, especially in costal bays such as Pamlico Estuary. They are largely caused by fertilizing pollutants called nutrients in human sewage and farm runoff.

Some marine experts call this "fertilization" a silent, global epidemic that if unabated could destroy America's most scenic and commercially valuable waters.

"It grows very rapidly and shades out the light so that eelgrass, which is essential for scallops and other marine organisms to use as a nursery area, dies. This (algae) has caused many millions of dollars in damage," said Edward Carpenter, a professor of Biological Oceanography at State University of New York who wrote a book on nitrogen pollution in 1981.

Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, is perhaps the most famous case of nitrogen overload. It has pea-soup water, no grasses where fish spawn and suffers periodic fish kills.

Making matters worse, there is no single cause such as a sewage plant. The huge bay catches the urban waste, air pollution and farm runoff that flows from one-quarter of the Eastern Seaboard.

An agreement drawn up by four states surrounding the Chesapeake calls for a 40% reduction in phosphorous and nitrogen by 2002, including efforts to build advanced sewage plants and implement environmentally safe biological treatment methods.

Other areas also are starting to search for solutions. In Pennsylvania dairy farms are installing costly systems to contain cow manure. In Delaware, a municipal sewage plant is spending $12 million to remove nutrients discharged into Rehoboth Bay.

Ronak's Organic Digester (216FP) can help (over time with consistent treatments) to reduce the nitrogen and phosphate levels in any type of water containing fish. The Dissolved Oxygen (DO) levels will go up and the Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) will go down. Our LWT-1 can also help by reducing the cow manure at the source ( the farm) before it enters the Bay.