For many people, water from a drinking fountain comes with a healthy dose of nostalgia. They remember being a kid in school and slurping delightedly at the fountain’s cool, refreshing, arching stream after working up a good sweat on the playground, in gym class, or sports practice.
You have to go back several decades, but there was a time when neither bottled water nor water bottles existed. The closest thing was a canteen, and you never saw anyone carrying one of those except for on long hikes or camping trips. In those years, a drinking water fountain was like an oasis in the desert, and the first one to get to it was the king or queen of that territory until they decided to step aside and let others partake!
Today, we have multiple ways to get the water our body needs to stay properly hydrated. That being the case, should water fountains still be our go-to hydration source?
It goes without saying that for you to be healthy, your heart must be able to move blood (and the life-giving oxygen and nutrients it contains) to all parts of your body effectively. And that requires good vein health.
Water drinkers have so many water choices to choose from these days. From tap, filtered, distilled or spring water, many consumers may not fully understand all of the differences. In a previous blog, we went over these different water types for drinking. Here we will be focusing specifically on home water filtration systems compared to natural spring water.
Water hardness can be defined simply as the amount of magnesium and calcium ions dissolved in a given water source. Many people believe that all water is the same, but its makeup varies depending on where it comes from and how it is treated.
Some sources of water, such as spring water, contain naturally occurring and important minerals and electrolytes due to environmental conditions where the water is found. Other sources of water for drinking utilize filters or water softeners to remove those valuable minerals or even to add fluoride.
As most people know, the benefits of drinking water are numerous and well-documented. If you drink water throughout your day, you may enjoy a decreased appetite and increased metabolism (and accompanying weight loss), greater alertness and productivity, and reduced risk of certain cancers.
You may also experience fewer headaches and backaches. Plus, you will boost your immune system, which means you’ll likely get sick less often and have milder symptoms if you catch a bug.
Most people know that proper hydration is essential to good health. Unfortunately, while drinking fluids comes naturally at times—like after exercising or in hot weather—your body needs plenty of fluids throughout the day, every day, to prevent dehydration.
So, it’s important to be aware of, and prevent, the health problems caused by dehydration. That includes one you may not be familiar with.
People are increasingly turning to natural spring water as a better option than tap water in their homes and businesses. Typically, they dispense bottled water from the “water jug” that is delivered directly to them using a free-standing water dispenser.
However, many will wonder—or ask us, specifically—whether there is another option for dispensing their delicious spring water. The good news is that the answer is, “Yes!”
You’re looking for an alternative to tap water and the chlorine and other chemicals it contains, and you see that purified water and natural spring water are two options. But which is better and why? With proper hydration being such an important part of overall health, it’s important that you have the facts before making your choice.
A common tap water treatment strategy across municipalities in America is called disinfection. Water treatment facilities use a disinfectant (chlorine and/or chloramine) to kill any viruses, parasites or bacteria. Artificial fluoride is also added in the hopes of improving dental hygiene. In some rare circumstances even after water leaves the treatment plant, old pipes can even put lead in tap water, as is the case in Denver. For households wishing not to have these additional substances added to their drinking water, there are some alternatives.
