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We are born of water, a cocoon of comfort in a mother’s womb. As infants our bodies are almost exclusively liquid. Even as adults only a third of our physical being has solidity. Compress our bones, ligaments, muscles, sinew, extract platelets and cells from our blood, and the rest of us, nearly two-thirds of our weight, stripped clean and rinsed, would flow as easily as river to the sea.
- Grand Canyon – River at Risk by Wade Davis, anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer
Water is life. Our bodies comprise around 2/3 of water, with content in various parts of our bodies broken down as follows:
Saliva 95.5% Lymph 94% Blood 90.7% Plasma 90% Brain 80% Muscle Tissue 75% Bones 15%
Given the importance to our health, we need to drink more, and waste less!
Two of the greatest issues we have on the planet today are two sides of the same coin:
- We don’t drink enough of it
- The availability and supply of fresh, good quality, drinking water is dwindling Continue reading »
