Healthy Water for Healthy Skin

Gender Bender

 

 

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet.com

Monday, March 2, 2009

 

Concerns about global warming will ensure that chemical poisons which have changed the gender of around one third of fish, as well as making them infertile, will remain in the British water supply.

 

In another example of how the manufactured problem of global warming is actually preventing real environmental crises from being addressed, water supplies will continue to be poisoned by substances which have also been linked to human infertility as sperm counts continue to drop.

 

Female hormones from contraceptive pills and HRT are making their way into the water supply at record levels, causing alarming “gender-bending” effects in male fish which cause them to produce eggs and make them infertile. Oestrogen-like compounds are also being released into the water supply through industrial waste, creating a toxic soup that literally feminizes every species of fish studied so far.

 

The chemicals are also found in food packaging, cleaning products, and plastics. Dozens of species besides fish, such as polar bears, bald eagles, otters and whales have also been affected and the problem is global.

 

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In a shocking new development, additional chemicals known as Antiandrogens have also been found recently. Antiandrogens are capable of preventing or inhibiting the biologic effects of androgens, male sex hormones, on normally responsive tissues in the body. Antiandrogens are given to transsexual men who want to become women and they are also given to sex offenders released from prison to reduce their sexual libido. These substances have the effect of counteracting masculinisation and effectively diminishing normal male biological characteristics associated with the release of testosterone.

 

In waterways that are located close to sewage treatment facilities, a staggering 80 per cent of male fish were found to have female characteristics as a result of such chemicals.

 

Fears that pollution of the water supply is also creating infertility in men is supported by the alarming fact that male sperm counts have dropped by more than a third since 1989.

 

“There is certainly the potential for it to have an effect in humans - and possibly a marked effect,” said Professor Charles Tyler of Exeter University, one of the country’s leading authorities on the effects of oestrogen.

 

It is also feared that bird populations could be devastated in the long run from chemicals being passed from infected fish when birds eat the fish. Veteran fishermen are already noticing a severe decline in fish populations across the country.

 

Calls for sewage treatment facilities to filter out the harmful chemicals have increased since a UK Environment Agency study confirmed the gender-bending effect the substances were having on fish.

 

However, as was highlighted in a BBC Countryfile segment yesterday, concerns about the “carbon footprint” of filtering machines means that the poisons will remain in the vast majority of the British water supply.

 

A pilot scheme to screen out the chemicals run by Severn Trent Water at Hallam Fields in Derbyshire has been successful, but according to John Churchly of Severn Trent Water, the UK Environment Agency will only mandate such filtering at “a few sites on the river system”.

 

“This won’t be at every site, certainly,” said Churchly, before explaining that the “additional carbon footprint” that the filtering machines produce was one of the main reasons why the system would not be installed at every site.

 

So the choice has largely been made, chemical poisons that feminize fish and increase infertility, and are widely suspected to have the same impact on humans, placing under threat the entire fishing industry and the very reproductive future of humanity, will remain in the British water supply because the government cannot allow the machines that filter them out to be installed due to the “carbon footprint” that they create.

 

The government is dragging its feet on getting these poisons out of the water supply, yet is all too willing to fast-track putting poisons like fluoride in the water supply, as was again proven recently in Southampton where, despite an overwhelming public opposition, plans to introduce sodium fluoride to the water supply were approved - after the government passed legislation to ensure that water companies would not be sued for the illegal activity of mass-medicating the population against their will.

 

In Southampton, the local health authority carried out a “consultation” with the local public and asked whether they supported plans to add fluoride to the water supply. 78 per cent said no, but the authorities went ahead and approved the measures anyway.

 

As Philip Johnston writes in the Telegraph, “If artificial fluoride is safe, what do the water companies need to be indemnified against? Furthermore, the law was changed to prevent the water companies thwarting the wishes of local people; yet it is now being used to do the precise opposite. This is democracy EU style: you can give any answer so long as it’s yes.”

 

The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany’s Nazi prison camps. The Nazis had little concern about fluoride’s supposed effect on children’s teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans, lower IQ’s, and force the people in their concentration camps into calm submission.

 

The government is doing everything in its power to add fluoride to water supplies nationwide, despite public opposition and clear research connecting the compound to teeth, bone and brain disorders, cancer, as well as IQ reduction.

 

Meanwhile, authorities are doing nothing in their power to filter out harmful chemicals that are already in the water supply that threaten the stability of the food chain and human reproductive health.

 

 

Discarded Cosmetics "Threat to Drinking Water"

Discarded cosmetics 'threat to drinking water'

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor

 

 

Drinking water in Britain is under threat from drugs and cosmetics being flushed down the drains in millions of households, chemists have warned.

 

New contaminants have entered the water system after use by the population in recent years, such as drugs used to treat epilepsy, depression and cancer, it is claimed.

 

Along with human sewage contaminated with medicines and their by-products, there are rising levels of cosmetic products such as shower gels and musk perfumes, according to a report by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

 

tBut the experts say water treatment waste works are unable to remove all of these types of chemicals, so currently some contaminants remain in the water sources.

 

Although at trace levels can only now be analysed with modern techniques, there are concerns about substances such as drugs, with data already suggesting that urine contaminated by the female contraceptive pill is affecting fish, for example.

 

The report called Sustainable Water: Chemical Science Priorities, which will be launched at the Royal Society of Chemistry at Burlington House in London, calls for greater research into the effects of these contaminants.

 

Dr Jeff Hardy, Environment and Energy Manager of the society, said many medicines that pass through the body are being seen in the environment.

 

"There are substances like antidepressants, painkillers, beta blockers, anticancer drugs and antibiotics. Many are designed so they do not degrade in the human body so that they can fulfil their function. It seems they are not degrading once they get into the environment."

 

"There are several key questions that chemists, and other scientists, are working hard on answering. How are contaminants broken down? What are the products of that breakdown? What are the properties of these breakdown products? The basic chemistry of these reactions needs to be understood to minimise risks to human and environmental health."

 

But he stresses "the outlook is positive" and that there is a great opportunity for green product design.

 

"If we have a complete understanding of the environmental fate of contaminants then it is possible to design chemicals and products that are highly effective in their use, and at end of life, are reusable and/or recyclable or degrade quickly in the environment to products with minimal risk to human and environmental health."

 

Dr Hardy added: "Whilst many people might not be interested in what happens to their nice smelling shower gel after it has disappeared down the drain, chemists and employees of the water industry most certainly are. The chemical sciences will play a vital role in progressing us towards sustainable water management.

 

"This report tackles all of the big issues and makes 57 recommendations to those with the authority to act upon them. This represents an important first step in an RSC campaign and over the coming months and years will be will working very hard to bring these recommendations to reality."

 

Chlorine and Swimming Pools

I read this very interesting article recently about Chlorine and swimming pools that thinly disguises the serious health effects of Chlorine, and expertly shifts the emphasis to the actual swimmers.

 

Any one who deals with Chlorine at any level will tell you that the smell is very much Chlorine, but because it is so volatile it chemically reacts with other substances to for a “cocktail” of unstable, unpredictable Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) all with unknown health and safety issues.

 

In fact the same reaction occurs in your household water supplies, so you bathe in it wash in it and even drink it! Try filling a glass with water straight from the tap first thing in the morning and give it a good sniff, just like wine tasters do, and you may be unpleasantly surprised.

 

So it is very important indeed for absolutely every one to have a thorough shower at the pool side (not just at home) before swimming, and also again immediately after to remove Chlorine and VOC’s from your body. There’s probably not very much you can do about breathing in the Chlorine gas given off from the pool, so wherever possible choose a salt water pool that has a very low level of Chlorine in it.

 

 

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When you walk into the area of an indoor pool, the first thing that likely hits you is the smell of what most of us think is chlorine. But it might surprise you to learn that what's in the air actually has a lot to do with what we bring into the water with us.

 

And whether it's taking swimming lesson's or doing laps, you're not only immersed in the water, but you likely drink a little, and breath in the air above.

 

 Lurinda Hoogstraten's two daughters visit the Gable swimming pool on WMU's Kalamazoo campus every week. According to state law, they're required shower before jumping in.” They know that's the rules of the pool, that's what they do," said Hoogstraten.

Still, at many indoor pools, people take a dip without rinsing off, which means they bring with them all the lotions, hair sprays, and make up from the day. But the even greater violators are sweat and urine, which like it or not, end up in our swimming pools as well.

"That's why the chlorine is there," said Hoogstraten.

 

 But how does the chlorine actually react? That question brought News channel 3 to Purdue University in Indiana, where researchers are looking at not just what's in the water, but what's in the air.

 

"You really aren't smelling chlorine, you are smelling some of these by-products," said Purdue Professor of Environmental Engineering, Ernest Blatchley.That's because volatile compounds form when chlorine mixes with the human substances that end up in pool water. Right now, Professor Blatchley says the environmental engineers at Purdue are studying samples from all sorts of sources, looking at levels of sweat and urine.

 

"They range from lap swimming pools at health clubs, pools at day care facilities, pools at high schools, and also indoor water parks, splash parks," said Professor Blatchley.

The goal is to improve the water and air in indoor swimming areas, in order to protect the health of swimmers.

 

"Some evidence to suggest in fact there is a link between use of indoor swimming pools and asthma, especially in children," said Prof. Blatchley. "We're interested in other adverse toxilogical effects in humans. What we really are interested in is how to prevent them."

 

The next study will go beyond sweat and urine, and target skin and hair care products, looking for signs of what happens indoors when people take the plunge.

 

"They should take it seriously because what they bring into the pool inadvertently will react with the chlorine present in the pool," said Prof. Blatchley. "So they are effecting themselves as well as other people using the pool."

 

Researchers want to remind swimmers that when they walk into a pool area, it's not chlorine they smell, but the by-products of the chlorine combing with other substances. It's not a sign that the pool is really clean.

 

 

Chlorine on Chichen Meat

 

 

Associated Press

EU agency recommends change in chicken meat rules

Associated Press 05.28.08, 5:00 PM ET

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission on Wednesday recommended that European Union nations allow the sale of poultry meat that has been treated with chemicals to clean it of bacteria.

The change of rules - proposed primarily to accommodate the import of chlorine-treated U.S. chicken, which has been banned since 1997 - needs unanimous support by food security experts from the EU's 27 member states.

But approval is far from certain since France is fiercely opposed to chemical treatment of chicken meat, and several countries have expressed doubts about the need to change the rules. In the EU, poultry is cleaned without the help of chemicals.

The draft guidelines would allow EU farmers to treat it with a chlorine solution, on condition the meat is rinsed with water afterward and is clearly labelled as decontaminated by chemicals. They also would allow the sale of U.S. chicken on the EU market after an 11-year ban on health and food security grounds.

"This is a proposal that puts everybody on the same competitive footing," said European Commission spokesman Johannes Laitenberger.

The proposal was immediately denounced by a key European Parliament committee, which said chlorination of chicken intended for human consumption should not be acceptable within the EU.

Lifting the ban would be "outrageous and unacceptable, and would degrade EU citizens to guinea pigs," said British lawmaker John Bowis of the assembly's environmental committee.

Greenpeace said the European Commission has "buckled up under U.S. pressure and surrendered the EU's high standards on food hygiene."

COPA-COGECA, Europe's biggest farming lobby, also condemned the proposal. It said hygiene measures applied in chicken production in Europe are sufficient and do not need to be enhanced by chemicals.

The chicken ban has long been a sticking point in EU-U.S. trade relations, and Americans have pushed hard for it to be scrapped. Earlier this month, EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said a new scientific opinion did not support the ban.

The EU measures have cost American producers an estimated $180 million a year in lost sales.

Beauty Products and Cleaners in Water

Beauty products and household Cleaners

More and more pressure is put onto your local water company to continue giving you clean healthy water and they are losing the battle.

According to a new report from the Royal Society of Chemistry, ingredients from beauty products and other everyday household items such as medicines are contaminating UK water supplies even after being processed at water treatment plants.

The organisation called for more research into the problem and for Government and the industry to place greater emphasis on the future quality of water to protect human and environmental health.

A team of nearly 30 scientists found that contaminants are entering the water system through excretion of medicines and by-products and the use of personal health care products - releasing chemicals that UK water treatment waste works are not designed to remove.

The publication of the report is the first step in a campaign to make water supplies more sustainable in the face of massive population growth, climate change and man-made pollution.

Dr Jeff Hardy, environment and energy manager at the Royal Society of Chemistry, said: "If we have a complete understanding of the environmental fate of contaminants then it is possible to design chemicals and products that are highly effective in their use, and at end of life, are reusable, recyclable or degrade quickly in the environment with minimal risk to human and environmental health."

He added: "While many people might not be interested in what happens to their nice smelling shower gel after it has disappeared down the drain, chemists and employees of the water industry most certainly are.

"The chemical sciences will play a vital role in progressing us towards sustainable water management."

The report contained 57 recommendations for Government, the water industry and environmental bodies.

This includes making research into water contaminants a priority, promoting the development of new disinfection processes, and developing better technology to detect contaminants.