Santevia Adds New Tritan(TM) Water Bottles to Product Line

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2012 Santevia Water Systems, a leader in Alkaline Water Products, today announced the addition of it's NEW Santevia TRITAN

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Too Much Bottled Water Might Harm Kids' Teeth

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Vicky Hortman Changes Name of Bottleless Water Company to Pure Water Innovations

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2012Pure Water Technology of Central & Eastern NC Inc. is now Pure Water Innovations Inc.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC (1888PressRelease) July 28, 2012 - Vicky Hortman, President of Raleigh-based Pure Water Technology of Central & Eastern NC, Inc. announced it the company's name has changed to Pure Water Innovations, Inc.

The name change came as the company added Wellsys USA to their product line of coolers in addition to PHSI Pure Water Technology

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Santevia Water Systems Launches New Alkaline Water Pitcher

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2012 Santevia Water Systems, a division of Wellness Warehouse Inc (Delta BC), announced today their new Alkaline Water Pitcher for the North American market.

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Santevia Water Systems announces Fit Factory Fitness as new reseller in Toronto

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2012 Santevia Water Systems, a leader in Alkaline Water Products, today announced its new reseller in Toronto, Ontario. Fit Factory Fitness will market Santevia Products through fitness training programs and online at www.fitfactoryfitness.com.

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Health Tip: Work Out in Water

HealthDay – 2 hrs 57 mins ago (HealthDay News) -- Aquatics, another name for water exercises, are a low-impact way to strengthen muscles and burn calories.

The American Council on Exercise mentions these potential benefits of water exercises:

Reduced stress on the muscles and joints, often lowering the risk of injury and soreness after a workout.The water itself adds resistance, providing for a better workout.Offering greater flexibility of performing exercises that wouldn't always be possible out of the water. This is especially true for people with arthritis and other conditions that can limit range of motion.

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Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance

ScienceDaily (May 9, 2012) — Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

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Hari B. Krishnan and colleagues explain that the substance, Bowman-Birk Protease Inhibitor (BBI), has shown promise for preventing certain forms of cancer in clinical trials. Those human tests resulted from evidence of BBI's beneficial effects, including indications that BBI derived from the large amounts of soybeans in traditional Japanese diets might underpin low cancer mortality rates in Japan. However, the current method of extracting BBI from soybeans is time-consuming and involves harsh chemicals. The scientists set out to see if there might be a greener and more environmentally friendly way of obtaining BBI.

They found that soybean seeds incubated in water at 122 degrees Fahrenheit naturally release large amounts of BBI that can easily be harvested from the water. The protein appeared to be active, with tests showing that it stopped breast cancer cells from dividing in a laboratory dish. "The abundance of BBI in soybean seed exudates by incubating the seeds in warm water provides a simple and alternative method to isolate this low molecular weight protein," the researchers said.

The scientists acknowledge funding from the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Low water flows cause U.S. avian cholera outbreak

Reuters – 41 mins ago PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - More than 10,000 migrating birds have died from an avian cholera outbreak blamed on reduced water flows through vast marshlands of southern Oregon and northern California known as Western Everglades, federal wildlife officials said.

Avian cholera, which poses virtually no risk to human health, surfaces in the region nearly every year in wetlands of the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, but the recent waterfowl die-off there is the worst in over a decade, said Matt Baun, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

"We estimate 10,000 to 15,000 birds will die, after everything is said and done," he said, adding that snow geese, American coots, American wigeon ducks, white-fronted geese and Northern pintail ducks have been the hardest hit.

The 53,600-acre (22,900-hectare) refuge encompasses a patchwork of shallow lakes, freshwater marshes and grasslands that serve as key roosting, nesting and feeding grounds for some 2 million birds that pass through the region along the Western migratory corridor called the Pacific Flyway.

The refuge lies at the heart of the larger Klamath River Basin, an area long considered the Everglades of the West and fed mainly by runoff from melting snow in the Cascade mountain range.

Water flow into the basin is controlled through dams and reservoirs operated by the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which must balance of needs of birds and other wildlife with endangered fish and the irrigation demands of farmers and Indian tribes.

For the first few months of the 2012 winter-spring migration, the refuge received only enough water to cover about half the 30,000 acres of its wetlands, according to the American Bird Conservancy, an environmental group.

The drier conditions have forced birds to congregate in smaller areas, causing crowded conditions that accelerate the spread of avian cholera.

"We anticipate this continuing to happen until there is better management of the water," said Steve Holmer, senior policy adviser for the conservancy.

The problem was aggravated by below-normal snow pack levels in the Cascades until early March, said Kevin Moore, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said.

The snow pack, however, has rebounded since then, growing from 63 percent of normal in late February to 115 percent of normal today, he said.

As a result, Baun said, federal water managers were able to flood an additional 4,000 acres of the refuge since mid-March. Moreover, many of the birds that had crowded into the area have moved on, easing congestion, said John Beckstrand, a refuge biologist.

In the meantime, wildlife workers and volunteers have been gathering and incinerating the carcasses of dead birds to try to stem the cholera outbreak.

Water remains a highly contentious issue in this area. Several species of fish are listed as endangered or threatened, and the Endangered Species Act makes them a top priority for water management, Baun said.

"We also have legal contracts with agricultural irrigators to supply them with water, when water is available," Moore said.

Still, the American Bird Conservancy says it remains concerned about maintaining adequate water flows through the basin.

"We need to see a more equitable distribution of water and ways of managing this land," Holmer said. "Right now we are not getting it done."

(Editing by Steve Gorman)

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