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What The Frack
Fracking is the catch word for hydrolic fracturing. Essentially, it’s the process used by the energy to extract carbon based energy products like petroleum and, in particular, natural gas from the earth. The idea is to drill down to the depth of a natural gas reservoir and then inject a highly pressurized liquid with the intention of creating cracks in the rock that give the gas new pathways to get to the drilled hole, to the surface, and ultimately to gas pipelines.
Hydrolic fracturing has been around for a while. It’s often used to restore water to wells that have gone dry. But the fracking for water wells is done at a much much lower scale than the fracking done by the energy industry.
So whats the fracking problem?
You’ve probably seen commercials on TV from the natural gas industry telling you that fracking was a good thing because it would mean a bunch of jobs and greater energy independence… sort of the “drill baby drill” argument. Not everyone agrees with that point of view. There are two serious concerns in the scientific community.
The United States Geological Survey has documented a few earthquakes that have been induced by fracking in Japan, Canada and the USA.
There is concern that the chemical used in the fracking process are finding their way into drinking water. High levels of methane and carcinogens in well water have been found, but there has been debate in the scientific community about whether this is the direct effect of fracking and whether the problem was really sub-standing fracking operations.
The fracking truth
Well, it seems that The New York Times has been doing its homework about fracking and has released a rather eye opening article about the lax government regulations about and significant dangers of the fracking practice. Bottom line… it’s dangerous, the industry is not self-regulating and the government is not doing much in the way of regulation.
Read the article by clicking here.
Here is another informative video about the dangers lurking in the municipal water supplies we are drinking. Fluoride has serious negative impact on the developing bodies of infants and children. See why and what you can do.
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Now that Chloramines are getting some attention, there is quite a bit of chat about how to remove chloramines from water. This is not such an easy task. Here’s the trick. Chloramines are such persistent little chemicals that the water that contains them has to be in contact with the filtering material for some time in order to effectively remove them. This is very very different than chlorine, and the two should not be confused.
In previous posts, you have seen the effects of chloramines including severe rashes on the skin when people are exposed to them in bathing and showering. According to my friends at Conscious Living Systems, things like water pitcher filters can never effectively eliminate chloramines because the only way to acually eliminate them is to have the water in contact with an activated carbon filter for some time.
That also means that the screw on type of shower filters that claim to eliminate choramines are very unlikely to work. While they may reduce chloramines slightly, it is highly dubious that they actually eliminate chloramines because the flow of water through a shower filter is too high to result in contact of the water with the filtering compound for a long enough duration of time.
Word to the wise. Be sure to check out the claims of these chloramine filter manufacturers. Ask for independent research that proves the effectiveness of their shower filters. You probably won’t find it. We haven’t been able to find any, and we’ve contacted most of the major manufacturers.
At the moment, the only way to effectively remove chloramines in your shower is to have a whole house filtration system. There are a number of under the counter 4 canister filtration systems that will remove choramines from drinking water, but you can only be sure of choramine removal from water you bathe in with a whole house system.
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