Build your own Berkey

H2ofilters.com now offers one of the webs most comprehensive Gravity Water Filter sites by allowing it's customers the ability to configure their own Big Berkey gravity water filter system. Check out this new feature at H2oFilters.com

Possible diabetes link to arsenic in water

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with type 2 diabetes, researchers say.

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H2oFilters Gravity Filter Comparison chart

Dunedin, Fl — H2oFilters has created two helpful comparison charts comparing the sizes on the Berkey gravity water filters as well as the sizes and flow rates of British Berkefeld and Doulton Super Sterasyl gravity filter elements.

The charts are designed to make decision making easier depending on your size and capacity requirements.

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GravityFilter.com a new dedicated site from H2oFilters.Com

H2oFilters.Com, due to the rapidly growing demand for gravity filters and emergency water filtration products, has created a new store, exclusively for these types of products.

Carrying top of the line products, GravityFilter.com stocks most Doulton, British Berkefeld, and Katadyn products, including the extremely popular "Big Berkey" and the Katadyn "Pocket Filter". GravityFilter.com also has a large assortment of Filtered Sports bottles for the active biker, hiker, or climber.

Free Shipping is even offered on certain orders (see store for details).

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The WaterBOB emergency drinking water storage system

The WaterBOB emergency drinking water storage system is now available at GravityFilters.com, home to a large variety of emergency water filtration products.

The waterBOB™ is a water containment system that holds up to 100 gallons of fresh drinking water in any standard bathtub in the event of an emergency. Constructed of heavy duty food grade plastic, the waterBOB™ keeps water fresh and clean for drinking, cooking, washing and flushing. Water stored in an open bathtub, with dirt, soap film and exposure to debris will spoil and become useless.

During a hurricane or tropical storm, water main breaks and storm surges can interrupt or even contaminate your water supply. It is during these conditions the waterBOB™ may be used for temporary water storage. Constructed of heavy duty plastic that is FDA compliant for food storage, the waterBOB™ keeps water fresh and clean for up to 4 weeks.

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Ceramic Water filters used for household disinfection in developing countries

GENEVA — A study of four household-based technologies for water disinfection has found that household chlorination is the most cost-effective of the four for preventing diarrhea outbreaks in those parts of the developing world where piped-in public water is not feasible, a new World Health Organization (WHO) study has found.

In their recently released study, Dr. Thomas Clasen of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Laurence Haller of WHO note that diarrhea kills an estimated 1.8 million people annually worldwide, and accounts for 17 percent of deaths of children under age 5 in developing nations. Most of these deaths are attributable to poor drinking water supplies or poor sanitation.

Analyzing information from water quality programs in 28 nations, Clasen and Haller concluded that household-based chlorination, with a cost per disability-adjusted life year (DALY) of US$53, was the most cost-effective among the four technologies studied for improving water quality at the household level.

Other DALY cost-effectiveness ratings for household-level disinfection technologies calculated in the study were: solar disinfection, US$61; ceramic filtration, US$142; and household flocculation/disinfection, US$472.

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Earthquake may have caused Tennessee turbidity spike

ELIZABETHTON, TN — Some here are speculating that the April 18 Midwest earthquake may have caused a dramatic spike last week in turbidity of water drawn from wells supplying the Siam (TN) Utility District, according to an article in the April 29 Elizabethton Star.

Elizabethton is a few miles from Johnson City in far northeast Tennessee. News reports said the earthquake, centered in southern Illinois, registered a magnitude of 5.2 and was felt throughout the Midwest and Mid-South.

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