written by
Ian Blair Hamilton AlkaWay Founder

Is It True? Are There Really Pharmaceuticals in our Drinking Water?

WATER FILTRATION 5 min read

When the World Health Organisation decides to commit to a study on pharmaceuticals in our water, you know there`s a reason.

Here`s an excerpt from the study.

Pharmaceuticals are synthetic or natural chemicals that can be found in prescription medicines, over-the-counter therapeutic drugs and veterinary drugs. Pharmaceuticals contain active ingredients that have been designed to have pharmacological effects and confer significant benefits to society. The occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment and the water cycle at trace levels (in the range of nanograms to low micrograms per litre) has been widely discussed and published in literature in the past decade. The increase in detection is largely attributable to the advances in analytical techniques and instrumentation. Many surveys and studies have confirmed the presence of pharmaceuticals in municipal wastewater and effluents, and these have been identified as a major source of pharmaceuticals in drinking water.

So yes, it is in our water. It comes from many sources, but one that surprised me was the simple act of taking a dip in a river. It appears that if we are ón meds`, then we are also sweating them out. This med-laden sweat ends up in the water.

Activated carbon is the simplest way to reduce pharmaceuticals in your home water. No, we can`t tell you exactly how much of every pharmaceutical they will remove, but the WHO report recommends their use.

(In my filter, I use catalytic carbon – around 8 x more effective than common activated carbon.)

Carbon, the report says, can achieve high removal of pharmaceutical target compounds, especially hydrophobic compounds. As with all contaminants, removal efficacy is a function of contact time, organic loading, chemical structure, solubility and carbon type (Ternes et al., 2002; Yoon Y. et al., 2003; Snyder et al., 2006) And there are some that are still resistant, such as: Iopromide, ibuprofen, meprobamate, sulfamethoxazole and diclofenac . (Khiari, 2007).

Here`s my take on this issue.

1. It`s a good thing we know about the problem.

2. The amounts of pharmaceuticals in our drinking water and their effects on us will relate – obviously – to how much tap water we drink.

3. We have had people criticising us about being alarmist to sell water filters.
I understand where they are coming from. The world has two kinds of people: those who believe they are taking in contaminants in a therapeutically negative amount, and those who simply choose not to believe it despite the evidence.

4. I am inspired by Erin Brockovitch more than by the Managing Director of Monsanto. Erin understood that we are all living on a polluted planet. She acted to change her region, and she succeeded.

We absorb contaminants through the plastics we use for almost everything, through the air, through our water, our food, through our clothes, even through our mattress as we sleep!

A report I read some years ago concluded that an average US female had a minimum of 600 contaminants in the body.

So yes, pharmaceuticals in your water are still what our experts label as low dose. But we all know that`s not all, is it? There`s the carcinogenic chlorine, its nasty co-carcinogen chloramine, there`s brain affecting fluoride, lead from old pipes…. and that`s just the water!

I prefer to see myself as a pragmatist than an alarmist and what I do with the lives of myself and my family matters first to me. In my position I read hundreds of reports on adverse water quality.. but I don`t snasties.ee it as the total picture. I see it as a factor I can affect – something I can consciously subtract from the daily list of contaminants I have unthinkingly absorbed and stored. By doing so I`m reducing the possibility of a tipping point event where my body metabolism simply gives up due to the overload of `safe`doses of hundreds of nasties.

Here`s my personal bottom line. What`s yours?
If indeed we do already have hundreds of different contaminants in our cells, my awareness gives me the chance to begin dismantling this growing threat to my health, even if I have to do it one by one.

I can`t dismiss the obvious observation that as a nation we all seem fat.
And yet we are also also seeing stranger symptoms. Manboobs. Sterility. Ongoing seemingly infinitely variable undiagnosable symptoms. As I see it, it`s very likely that these unheard-of symptoms may relate to a toxic soup of contaminants from all of the sources I mentioned earlier. Fat may simply be inflammation. medically speaking, it`s called chronic low level inflammation. Hmm. that word again. “Low level”.

I can`t remove all of them..
well, I may be able to – but it`d be a concerted and painful detoxification process… but I do have the power in my own hands to identify their source, and do whatever it takes to remove them from my life.

Just a water Filter Salesman?

To answer my critics who say I`m just trying to sell you a water filter.. yes, they are right.

But is there anyone else who has alerted you to the problem and handed you a solution? No.

If a doctor walked up to you on the street and said I am a doctor and I can tell you have …. disease, would you judge him for it?

I`m not a doctor. I`ve only spent the last 18 years studying our drinking water and supplying solutions.

So you make the call.
Am I worth listening to? Or am I just trying to sell you something? Or both?

I am the inventor of what I believe is the most advanced simple water filter on the market. We`ve broken the rules of the industry – one that (I have observed) prefers to tell the customer as little as possible about how well their products really work.

I have taken the steps to test its capability for the whole of its life: something I`ve never seen done before for any water filter. I`ve had it approved by the EU safety committee. I`ve run it through an exhaustive University lab. I`ve sourced every filter media from USA rather than the far east. I am proud of what I and my team have achieved in helping over 20,000 people, and receiving their letters of gratitude.
Learn more about my invention, the UltraStream here
Download the WHO report on pharmaceuticals in our water here

Ian Blair Hamilton
Founder
AlkaWay

How Do Banners Influence People?

Attention

Banner advertisements have been known to influence people. While they may be visually appealing and catchy, they can also have negative effects. One study found that banner advertisements with faces tend to draw more attention than those without faces. Furthermore, the presence of human faces in banners increases attention and helps people recall advertising information.

The impact of banners on attention was investigated in a study by Simola et al. (2011). In the study, banners appeared near important links on a webpage, but were ignored more often. The researchers also used different positions on a webpage to test whether banners capture attention. You can have a look at custom banner services. They found that banners that appeared near a centrally-located text received greater attention than banners located above the half-way mark.

Several studies conducted on banner advertising have shown that the location of banners affects people’s attention. The study also found that vertical banners are more effective at capturing people’s attention. The horizontal banners, on the other hand, captured less attention than those with faces. The researchers conducted a 2 x 3-factorial ANOVA to test the hypothesis that banner advertisements with faces increased attention.

The researchers concluded that banners are more likely to affect attention than banners without faces. However, future research should examine how the presence of faces affect people’s memory and attention. The results suggest that banners with faces may cause more attentional effects in females than in males. Check out the banner services. This is in line with research on how web-based ads can influence attention.

Banners should have a clear heading. The heading should be simple but descriptive. Headlines such as ‘Get 20% Off’ can grab people’s attention. Headlines can also be highlighted by using bold, colors, and typography. In addition, banners can also be designed to incorporate animations or motion design.

Implicit memory

The presence of faces in banner advertisements can influence a viewer’s implicit memory, according to a new study. Specifically, a banner with a face at the top of the advertisement may be more likely to elicit greater attention than one without a face. The findings are particularly striking for banners with an averted gaze.

The researchers tested whether viewers could retain the content of banner advertisements through implicit memory without conscious recall. This was done by randomly assigning participants to one of three conditions. Men and women were equally distributed across conditions. Then, the participants were required to complete a task that involved viewing an advertisement that included images, text, or product information. The participants’ implicit memory scores were based on their performance in this task. They were then asked to answer questions about the banners’ content.

The horizontal banner ads, on the other hand, did not appear to have an effect across face conditions. In addition, the horizontal banners received low dwell time for the product information in all conditions. However, the effect of the banners on their audiences’ memory is not clear. Read about the impact of banner ad styles. The study also found that banners in vertical locations were associated with increased attention capture.

The presence of a face in a vertical banner advertisements can increase a viewer’s attention. This can improve the memory of advertising information. Averted gaze cues improve the memory of advertising messages, brand names, and product details. This is contrary to mutual gaze cues. Although mutual gaze may not be effective for memory, it can improve a viewer’s memory.

This study also suggests that banners have an effect on a person’s implicit memory. It is thought that accidental exposure to an advertisement triggers an implicit positive association with the brand. This can lead to increased interest in the brand.

Face condition

In advertising, the face condition of banners can increase the attention that viewers pay to them. Human faces that are averted from each other in the face of a banner increase the attention of viewers and enhance the memory of information advertised. A mutual gaze, on the other hand, can reduce the attention that viewers pay to vertical banners.

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It has a powerful vacuum pump which draws water and other waste from the pipes. It then pumps it through a filtering system to remove any solid materials. The filtered water and waste are then pumped into a tank on the back of the truck where they are stored until they can be disposed of properly.

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