Real solutions to save water are here!

​What is WATER? The chemical symbol and name for water is H2O, dihydrogen oxide. Water is made of 2 hydrogen atoms attached to 1 oxygen atom. Water is a clear, colorless, odorless, tasteless and nontoxic liquid, essential for life. Water exists in liquid form at ambient temperature, but it freezes to become ice below 0°C and boils above 100°C. Water covers 71% of the earth's surface. It consists of 97% salt water and 3% fresh water. Of the latter, 2% is in the form of ice and only 1% is liquid fresh water. The Earth has 2 lungs, one is represented by the oceans and the other one by the forests. In fact, 50% of the oxygen we breathe come from the oceans and the other 50% from the forests. The oceans and seas protect us from the worst effects of global warming, absorbing man-made CO2, and cushioning temperature changes. Water evaporates continuously, in a variable percentage depending on the temperature. In reality, it also evaporates from the soil, and from the living beings, including animal and vegetable, because both in the soil and in the living beings there is water. We are made up of 99% water molecules and only 1% of all other molecules. Biological science and current medical science only focus on the 1% and neglect the 99%, which the life of every living being is based on, including the human being. Current science therefore neglects the study of water and its key role in promoting and restoring health. Some key functions of water are thermoregulation like sweating, blood circulation, absorption of substances, and elimination of toxins that we introduce and produce during our cellular metabolism. Advanced research is increasingly highlighting a fundamental and strategic role of water in determining the precise sequence of metabolic reactions of our cells and creating an electromagnetic field. Water seems to have the extraordinary ability to organize matter. Air or soil pollution sooner or later tends to transfer to water. The more harmful and toxic agents we put into the environment, the lower the quality of the water because polluted by these substances. The quality of our life depends largely on the quality of the water that we drink, eat and use. We are basically what we drink and what we eat. Cooked pasta and rice, for example, are composed of 60-65% water, so we must also pay particular attention to the water we use for cooking. To keep our body healthy and in perfect shape, we need to introduce through food 8 fundamental substances that include water, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins, phytochemicals and fiber. The best quality water, the most functional water that promotes and restores health is tap water purified with reverse osmosis. Reverse osmosis or hyperfiltration is type of filtration that passes water through a membrane with pores that prevent the passage of particles greater than 0.0001 microns. Asbestos, spores, bacteria, paint particles are 0.1 microns in size, while pesticides, heavy metals, nitrates are 0.001 microns. This way we get very pure water because all the toxic and harmful chemical, physical and biological substances, that is possible to find even in tap water, are eliminated from your drinking water. A company called GROHE developed a filtration process in five steps to remove impurities and deposits, even the finest particles from tap water, giving you water that tastes better and preserving all essential minerals that have a positive effect on health. Keeping yourself constantly well hydrated throughout the day. Get used to drinking a lot of water, especially because it helps to eliminate much more easily the toxins. Drink an average of 2 liters of water a day, distributed throughout the day, preferably not with meals. Start the morning with two glasses of water, because the body dehydrates during the night. Then during the morning, and half an hour before meals. Then in the afternoon, and in the evening before going to bed.

The WATER crisis is happening now. The world is overpopulated with 7.7 billion people. How can you get clean drinking water to all? 2.2 billion people are already struggling to survive. With pollution, climate change, and old and inefficient wastewater collection systems, questions arise. How can we get enough drinkable water for everybody? How can we build strong and efficient infrastructures to supply clean water? And how can we make it all affordable and sustainable? One way is to use filtration systems to clean contaminated water. The Water Box is a movable machine that filters water contaminated by heavy metals and bacteria to deliver clean and odor-free water that is tested daily. But what if we don't have any water to filter? Where can we get water? The Namibian beetles get their water from the atmosphere, and there is 6 times more water in the atmosphere than anywhere else. But can we do the same? Majik Water is a machine that can extract clean water from the air. It works like a refrigerator or air conditioner. The air is pulled in by a fan, then it goes through a condenser coil and dispensed to a collecting tank to deliver clean drinking water. As long as we have air, we can have drinking water. But what if people don't have money to pay for their own filters? Water.org helps people financially so they can afford filters and fix their sanitation problems to have safe potable water. For example, instead of spending 60 dollars a month to get bottled water, they only pay 6 dollars a month. And then how to manage human waste? Sanivation is a company that provides home toilets and waste treatment to the local people. The waste is then treated to kill all pathogens and turned into a type of charcoal that has no carbon emission and burns 3 times longer, saving money and saving trees. Water treatment is another problem. Water contains phosphorous which can damage ecosystems and make algae and other aquatic plants to grow. If these plants grow too much, they can clog the waterway. Phosphorous is also a component of living organisms and is disappearing fast. So, some researchers found a way to remove phosphorous from water waste and turn it into a slow-release agriculture fertilizer. Algae produce oxygen and oxygen is used to clean wastewater. Algae can be created in 3 hours and researchers feed them with wastewater, sunshine, and nutrients. These algae are then converted into clean water and biofuel to run cars. Aquaporin proteins filtrate water in all living cells. 1 gram of these proteins can filtrate 700 liters of water each second. This membrane technology uses forward osmosis to extract freshwater from the oceans or remove contaminants and purify water. Transport of water from rivers to the city is expensive and requires a lot of energy. If every company contributes to reduce their environmental impact by cutting down water consumption and recycle water, the global water consumption for manufacturing can be reduced by 90%. Water from the dyeing process that contain toxic chemicals is now treated instead of being flushed into local waterways and rivers. Companies now reuse more than 90% of their wastewater. Rain harvesting systems is another way of getting fresh water. What can you do at home to save water? Hydraloop is a residential gray water recycling system that recycle water from bath, shower, washing machine, purifies it so it can be reuse again for toilet flushing, washing machine, garden, swimming pool. This system treats the water to give clean, clear, and safe, certified to the highest international standards. You can save up to 3000 liters of water in 1 month. The goal is to have in the future houses built with their own residential water recycling. What about in the space? Delivering water in the space is very expensive, so water recycling cuts down the costs. In the international space station, the only sources of water are recycled urine and recycled humidity condensate which is the water in your breath that you generate from eating foods. By using genetic engineering and other techniques, researchers made membranes that mimic the function of the small intestine to recycle water. So, you can bring a cup of water and it gets recycled over and over again.

​References Brave Blue World Foundation. Brave Blue World. 2020. https://www.braveblue.world/ National Center for Biotechnology Information (2023). PubChem Compound Summary for CID 962, Water. Retrieved June 2, 2023 from https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Water. Pagliara, Claudio. La Salute con l'Acqua. Layout srl, 2020. Grohe filters. Filters (grohe.co.uk).