Why You Should Never Drink Bottled Water Again

Nathaniel Berman, AlterNet August 15 2016

As the poet W.H. Auden put it, “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”

One of the main reasons water is so critical to life processes is that it is the ideal vehicle for transporting critical substances in and out of living cells. “The way they’re bonded together makes water this wonderful universal solvent,” which means that almost every substance can dissolve in water, said Brian Glazer, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. From regulating body temperature, transferring nutrients into cells and energizing muscles, controlling calorie intake, lubricating joints and flushing waste from the body, water is essential to life.

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