The Real Thing?

It’s the real thing, we are told. No it isn’t. It’s not even close. It is a lie. The real thing is water. Boxes, glass bottles, plastic bottles and cans of sodas and waters generate trillions in profits while taxing the atmosphere with tons and tons of CO2 in the production and distribution of the products. It also taxes the water supply using two liters of water for every liter of liquid produced. The soda industry bears heavy responsibility for the obesity epidemic. The light products, the sugarless alternatives, are worse than the sugared variations and cause greater weight increase as well. The artificial sweeteners confuse the body and encourage it to store energy. Deprived of energy the body hunts for food. The sweeteners themselves can cause all kinds of ailments, from minor tiredness to the most serious of afflictions. And, as the costs of packaged water in all forms are many times greater than the costs for tap water, abandoning commercial liquids would benefit the economy of people in general and strike at the profits of the wealthy. “Waterworks,” is the strategy of drinking pure tap water to save money, to save the environment, and to save our health. This should not be taken lightly. Anyone can commit to drinking tap water and encourage others to do the same. It’s a “Just do it” situation.

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Water is a basic condition of life. No water, no life. That rule applies to bacteria, beetles, bananas and bald Baptists from Baltimore.”
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Life needs water, H2O, hydrogen and oxygen. Together with carbon they are needed for every particle of life, whether a building block of protein, the wall of a cell or the links of DNA. You can’t improve water. Whatever you add must be removed by the chemical process of the body to utilize the hydrogen and oxygen. Whatever we do to complicate access to water complicates life. Survival is difficult enough without adding complications.
— from Captain Kate on Water

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”Is the shape of your anger
straightening your life?”
Dartwill Aquila

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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.