And When You Get Your Factory Built, Would You Like to Rape My Sister?

 By Hardly Waite, Gazette Senior Editor

Not long ago, our fair city, as Click and Clack would say, was embroiled in a big controversy about a zoning permit granted by the city fathers to a wealthy Mexican company with more than a few shady deals in its past.  The corporation, which planned to build a copper smelter (although they never, ever called it that),  had wined and dined the city council who, save for a single councilman who was able to keep his wits about him, were so in love they were ready to skip all the usual formalities and get right on with the wedding..  Never mind that the proposed plant was to be a lead-belching smelter and its smokestacks had a straight and close downwind shot at a  large elementary school.  (more…)

What Are the Odds of Dying?The table below was prepared in response to frequent inquiries, especially from the media, asking questions such as, “What are the odds of being killed by lightning?” or “What are the chances of dying in a plane crash?”

The table has four columns. The first column gives the manner of injury such as motor-vehicle crash, fall, fire, etc. The second column gives the total number of deaths nationwide due to the manner of injury in 1999 (the latest year for which data are available). The third column gives the odds of dying in one year due to the manner of injury. The fourth column gives the lifetime odds of dying from the manner of injury. Statements about the odds or chances of dying from a given cause of death may be made as follows:

 

• The odds of dying from (manner of injury) in 1999 were 1 in (value given in the one-year odds column).
• The life-time odds of dying from (manner of injury) for a person born in 1999 were 1 in (value given in the lifetime odds column).

For example, referring to the first line of the table below:

• The odds of dying from an injury in 1999 were 1 in 1,805.
• The lifetime odds of dying from an injury for a person born in 1999 were 1 in 24.

The odds given below are statistical averages over the whole U.S. population and do not necessarily reflect the chances of death for a particular person from a particular external cause. Any individual’s odds of dying from various external causes are affected by the activities in which they participate, where they live and drive, what kind of work they do, and other factors.

Source: National Safety Council estimates based on data from National Center for Health Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau. Deaths are classified on the basis of the Tenth Revision of the World Health Organization’s “The International Classification of Diseases” (ICD). Numbers following titles refer to External Cause of Morbidity and Mortality classifications in ICD-10. One year odds are approximated by dividing the 1999 population (272,820,000) by the number of deaths. Lifetime odds are approximated by dividing the one-year odds by the life expectancy of a person born in 1999 (76.7 years).

 

Odds of Death Due to Injury, United States, 1999 Here is a sample of the list.  The entire list is massive.  Go here to see it all.

TYPE OF ACCIDENT OR MANNER OF INJURY	DEATHS, 1999	ONE YEAR ODDS	LIFETIME ODDS
All External Causes of Mortality, V01-Y98	151,109	1,805	24
Deaths Due to Unintentional (Accidental) Injuries, V01-X59, Y85-Y86	97,860	2,788	36
Transport Accidents, V01-V99, Y85	46,423	5,877	77
Pedestrian, V01-V09	6,047	45,117	588
Pedalcyclist, V10-V19	800	341,025	4,446
Motorcycle rider, V20-V29	2,316	117,798	1,536
Occupant of three-wheeled motor vehicle, V30-V39	33	8,267,273	107,787
Car occupant, V40-V49	14,549	18,752	244
Occupant of pick-up truck or van, V50-V59	3,133	87,079	1,135

The Number of Nights Before Christmas that’Twas: 1

by B. Bee Sharper

Editor’s Note:  Pure Water Gazette numerical wizard Bea Sharper writes only in the Harper’ s Index number format.  This makes fiction difficult, but you’ll see that she carries it off well in the piece below.  — Hardly Waite.

Number of nights before Christmas that ’twas: 1

Number of creatures, including mice, that were stirring: 0.

Stockings that were hung by the chimney with care: 16

Approximate number of visions of sugar plums dancing in Timmy’s head: 43.

Time when Timmy settled down for his long winter’s nap: 10:30.

Hardness level of the glass of water that Timmy drank before settling down for his long winter’s nap: 196 mg/L (11.5 grains per gallon).

Number of clatters that arose on the lawn: 1.

Total number of miniature sleighs seen by Timmy when he tore open the shutters and threw up the sash: 1.

Number of tiny reindeer that were pulling the sleigh: 8.

Exact number of little old lively and quick sleigh drivers seen by Timmy: 1

Number of little round bellies the lively and quick sleigh driver with a nose like a cherry had: 1.

Total number of toys he had in his bundle when he came down Timmy’s chimney: 176.

Number of stairs Timmy quietly crept down in order to watch Jolly Old St. Nick go about his work: 14.

Number of times you’ll have to click on this link to find out what happened next: 1.

 

 

Why I Don’t Celebrate Christmas

by Shirley Wilkes Johnson

The article below was originally printed in the paper Pure Water Gazette in 1990.  Shirley Wilkes Johnson lives in West Columbia, TX, near Houston. She is a renowned vegetarian cook with a special passion for vegetarian chili. She is also a sincere and sensitive human being who has been a long-time friend to non-human animals.

The year was 1972. People were dying in a senseless war in Vietnam. There didn’t seem to be much to celebrate. On Christmas Day, out of sympathy for those people, we ate beans and rice and spent a quiet day at home. In a search for a more meaningful lifestyle we decided to give up celebrating Christmas for many reasons. The world seemed more concerned about all forms of pollution, wastefulness and the energy problem then. The tons of wrapping paper, boxes and bows, the cutting of millions of trees, not to mention the enormous amount of electricity used nation-wide at this time of year, seemed wasteful to me. Then there are the countless gifts, given and received, that are unwanted and go unused. It seemed that all that money and effort could be put to so much better use. We have so many unsolved problems.

The increasing commercialism of Christmas bothered me, as it does many people. I read a newspaper article that said that there are many more depressed people, drunks, automobile accidents, family feuds and suicides at this time of year. The “good will toward men” that is supposed to prevail is not very apparent.

To lie to children about a fat man in a red suit may seem harmless to some people, but I question whether there is ever a reason to lie to our children.

As for gift giving, I prefer to choose to whom and when I give gifts. I don’t like the feeling of being expected to buy gifts for my hairdresser, mailman, etc.

December 25 is not Jesus’ birthday. In fact, during Biblical times only pagans celebrated birthdays. The date of December 25 was selected by the Christians as a way to bring pagans into Christianity: it was a concession to the pagan celebration of winter solstice.

I have read that 10% of the people do the thinking for the other 90% We all think we think for ourselves, don’t we? Someone once said, “A life unexamined is a life not worth living.” As I pondered these two ideas, I began to examine everything I did and asked myself, “Why do I do this? Is it because I want to, because I believe in it, or is it because I have been taught to do it?”

As my husband and I decided to quit celebrating Christmas, we decided it was important to celebrate LIFE–365 days a year. I wrote these thoughts in a letter to the Houston Post. They printed it on Christmas Day of that year. I braced myself, expecting to get letters calling me “Scrooge” and worse. But instead my mailbox was filled with letters from people thanking me for writing the letter.

I write this letter now, not to convince anyone to give up the celebration of Christmas, but to ask you to make a decision for yourself, whatever it might be. It is difficult to go against what everyone else is doing, as those of us who are vegetarians know. I hear a lot of people say they are tired of participating in the Christmas ritual. My purpose is to give them the moral support to give it up if they so choose.

 

Is Your Bathtub a Toxic Dump?

George Glasser and Andreas Schuld

The municipal water that your child drinks, bathes and plays in is a complex chemical mixture of dissolved minerals, contaminants and chemical additives. Chemicals are added to clarify the water, remove solid particulates and disinfect. And, when fluoride compounds are added to water supplies, polymers are added to inhibit corrosion of the water pipes.

The skin is the largest organ of the body. The EPA has concluded that the average person can absorb more contaminants from bathing and showering than from drinking polluted water.

Children are most at risk. Children’s bath times may range from 45 minutes to two hours. As the EPA acknowledged in a June 30, 1998 report, “Children have a greater surface-area-to-body-weight ratio than adults, which may lead to increased dermal absorption.”

Children’s tissues, organs and biological systems are still developing, with several stages of rapid growth and development occurring from infancy to adolescence. This rapid development, combined with the immaturity of body organs and systems, predisposes children to potentially more severe consequences within certain age ranges and windows of vulnerability.

Circulatory flow rates are generally higher in children, which may increase a child’s susceptibility to toxic effects. Despite these elevated risks, most toxicological data is based on occupational exposures for adults.

The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) reports that the U.S. has seen “a worrisome increase” in childhood diseases that may be linked to chemicals in the environment. According to the CEHN, “The incidence of two types of childhood cancers has risen significantly over the past 15 years.” Acute lymphocytic leukemia is up 10 percent and brain tumors are up more than 30 percent. Learning disabilities and attention-deficit disorders also appear to be increasing.

Toxins in the Bathwater

Depending on whether a child has eaten, or if there is residual food in the stomach, about 20-50 percent of chemical contaminants are metabolized when foods or beverages are consumed. With dermal exposure and inhalation, however, virtually 100 percent of the contaminants are absorbed directly into the bloodstream.

As one EPA scientist put it, “a shower cubicle can be considered an ‘exposure chamber.’ Exposure to volatile contaminants absorbed via the lung would be about double the same amount from drinking water. In the bath, underarms [axilla], scrotal and vaginal areas as well as the groin absorb far greater amounts than in the normal unwashed forearm test.”

The percentages for absorption of parathion are as follows: scalp (32 percent), ear canal (46 percent), forehead (36 percent), plant of foot (13 percent), forearm (9 percent), palm (12 percent), and scrotum (100 percent).

A study by Julian Andelman, Professor of Water Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health (published in the May 1984 American Journal of Public Health), found less chemical exposure from drinking contaminated water than from using it to wash clothes or take a shower .

Studies done by Brown, Bishop and Rowan in the early 1980s showed that an average of 64 percent of the total dose of waterborne contaminants is absorbed through the skin.

A study by British researchers at the Health and Safety Laboratory in Sheffield published in the February 19, 2000 issue of Human Experimental Toxicology suggests that toxicants such as fluorides can be stored in the skin and released over a period of time.

A review of nearly 40,000 research papers listed on National Institutes of Health and other U.S. government Internet sites has failed to discover a single study addressing water fluoridation and dermal absorption.

All dosage recommendations developed by EPA are based on ingestion alone. The EPA and Centers for Disease Control have never commissioned studies on the dermal absorption of fluoridated water and refuse to do so.

 

Brushing Teeth with Toxic Sludge

The most popular fluoridation agent is fluorosilicic acid, a toxic by-product of phosphate fertilizer production.

On May 10, 1999, U.S. Rep. Ken Calvert, who serves on the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, asked the EPA to answer a simple question: “What chronic toxicity test data are there on sodium fluorosilicate? On hydrofluorosilicic acid?”

On June 23, 1999, EPA Assistant Administrator J. Charles Fox replied that the “EPA was not able to identify chronic studies for these chemicals.”

On September 5, 2000, in response to an inquiry from the U.S. House Committee on Science, EPA Assistant Administrator Charles Fox admitted “there are no water quality criteria for fluoride either for the protection of aquatic life or for the protection of human health.”

The EPA earlier confirmed that water fluoridation puts “at risk” 52 million older Americans with calcium, magnesium and vitamin C deficiencies. People with cardiovascular and kidney disorders also may experience severe “dental fluorosis and skeletal fluorosis” from excessive exposure to fluorides.

The health threat from using fluorosilicates to fluoridate drinking water goes beyond bathing and drinking the treated water. The substances in the fluorosilicates do not magically vanish. All the pollution released from washing clothes and household items, evaporation from clothes dryers and dishwashers remains in the home. Water fluoridated with phosphate scrubber liquor becomes a vehicle to carry hazardous air pollutants directly into your home.

While this secondary contamination of children from fluoridated water is significant, it has never been investigated by the EPA or the U.S. Public Health Service — although both agencies are aware that pollution scrubber liquor is being used to fluoridate municipal water supplies.

Because children spend their days close to floors, carpets, lawns, and soils, and frequently pick up objects and put them in their mouths, they may be exposed to higher levels of chemicals in and around the home.

Physicians for Social Responsibility has warned: “Small amounts of air or water pollution that may have little or no impact on a healthy adult, can make children, especially newborns, seriously ill.” PSR notes that children’s longer lives also make them “more vulnerable to slow-acting hazards, like pesticides and dioxins.”

The EPA admits that “there are no federal safety standards which are applicable to additives, including those for use in fluoridating drinking water.” Although the reality of children’s vulnerability to environmental toxicants has been acknowledged, little is being done to address the threat. Children don’t vote and parents are uninformed. Only a few voices have expressed concern, but those voices are quickly smothered by the sound of money changing hands.

Printed Originally in the  Earth Island Journal
June 5, 2001

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Rethinking Chlorinated Tap Water by  Dr. Zoltan P. Rona MD MSc Most people never give it a thought. After all, our elected public officials keep assuring us that chlorinated city tap water is completely safe for human consumption. Numerous scientific studies, however, report that chlorinated tap water is a skin irritant and can be associated with rashes like eczema. Chlorinated water can destroy polyunsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E in the body while generating toxins capable of free radical damage (oxidation). This might explain why supplementation of the diet with essential fatty acids like flax seed oil, evening primrose oil, borage oil and antioxidants like vitamin E, selenium and others helps so many cases of eczema and dry skin. Chlorinated water destroys much of the intestinal flora, the friendly bacteria that help in the digestion of food and which protect the body from harmful pathogens. These bacteria are also responsible for the manufacture of several important vitamins like vitamin B12 and vitamin K. It is not uncommon for chronic digestive disorders as well as chronic skin conditions like acne, psoriasis, seborrhea and eczema to clear up or be significantly improved by switching to unchlorinated drinking water and supplementing the diet with lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidus. The World’s Greatest $77 Water Filter. Chlorinated water contains chemical compounds called trihalomethanes which are carcinogens resulting from the combination of chlorine with organic compounds in water. These chemicals, also known as organochlorides, do not degrade very well and are generally stored in the fatty tissues of the body (breast, other fatty areas, mothers’ milk, blood and semen). Organochlorides can cause mutations by altering DNA, suppress immune system function and interfere with the natural controls of cell growth. Chlorine has been documented to aggravate asthma, especially in those children who make frequent use of chlorinated swimming pools. Several studies also link chlorine and chlorinated by-products to a greater incidence of bladder, breast and bowel cancer as well as malignant melanoma. One study even links the use of chlorinated tap water to congenital cardiac anomalies. Anything you can do to filter tap and shower water that eliminates or even minimizes chlorine would certainly be helpful and possibly curative for some immune system problems. The use of at source water filtration devices is increasingly popular and affordable. Discuss their use with your health care practitioner. REFERENCES Fackelmann, K.A., Hints of a chlorine-cancer connection. Science News, July 11, 1992;142:23. Flaten, Trond Peter. Chlorination of drinking water and cancer incidence in Norway. International Journal of Epidemiology, 1992;21(1):6-15. Messina, Virginia. Chlorine and cancer. Good Medicine, Winter 1994;8-9. Morris, Robert D. Chlorination, Chlorination by-products and cancer. American Journal of Public Health, July 1992;82(7):955-963. Rothery, S.P., et al. Hazards of chlorine to asthmatic patients. British Journal of General Practice, Jan, 1991;39. Shaw, Gary M., et al. Chlorinated water exposures and congenital cardiac anomalies. Epidemiology, November 1991;2(6):459-460.

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Lesson from An Old Woman

by Hardly Waite

 

In the days just after the 9/11 events, when the President avowed that he had not a clue about “why they hate us,” I heard an old British woman, now a U.S. citizen, address the issue on an NPR call-in show.

She had a simple explanation.   “What Americans don’t understand,” she said, ” is how it sounds to the rest of the world when they brag constantly.  That’s the main thing that other nations notice about Americans. That they brag all the time.  What Americans need to do is stop bragging so much.”

After hearing her, I started to listen. I urge you to listen, too.  Try to imagine what it must sound like to our friends and foes alike to hear our current stable of arrogant politicians spewing constantly about how wonderful and superior America is and how terribly inadequate, weak,  and “evil” is the rest of the world by comparison.

And what’s really sad is that what most often passes for “patriotism” is nothing more than tasteless and unfounded boasting.

 

Water–Are You Drinking Enough?

by Hardly Waite, Gazette Senior Editor

Here are some facts from a brief article in The Compleat Mother, one of our favorite magazines (#64, Winter, 2001).

• In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
• 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.  (It is likely that this applies as well to half the world’s population.)
• Even mild dehydration slows down one’s metabolism as much as 3%.
  

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• In a University of Washington study, a single glass of water shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters.
• The #1 trigger of daytime fatigue is lack of water.
• Research indicates that eight to ten glasses of water per day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
• A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
• Drinking five glasses of water per day decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%,  the risk of breast cancer by 75%, and the risk of bladder cancer by 50%.

Another authority says: “Water is also the best medicine, both inside and outside the body. The finest prevention for malaise (after an evening of excess consumption!) is a pint of water before bed.”

So, drink up!

 

Dr. Batman Thumbs His Nose at “Bad Cholesterol”

 

By Hardly Waite, Pure Water Gazette Senior News Analyst

 

 —If all the primary ingredients are available for its normal functions, the human body does not engage in making things that are bad for its survival.–Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D. 

If there’s one thing medical science is incapable of, the late Dr. Robert Mendelsohn used to say, it is admitting that it doesn’t know something. That’s why every human ailment, real or imagined, very quickly gets a cause assigned to it.  Causes can change quickly and be replaced by more plausible and more profitable ones, but no disease goes long without its corresponding culpable germ or human foible to explain it. Lyme Disease, I am told, had 17 successive causes before a really good one was settled upon.  

Once a guilty microbe or lifestyle flaw gets assigned to a disease and thoroughly rooted into the public mind, there’s no way to change it. That’s because there quickly develops a powerful loop of self-interest that takes in the insurance industry, drug sellers, medical practitioners, university researchers, professional fundraisers, and even the victims and the would-be victims of the condition. Examples are  numerous. Polio and “AIDS” are the most obvious.   With “AIDS” we have an ill-defined disease caused by a fabricated virus and blown into a media-driven epidemic that has spawned a robust industry.  “AIDS, Inc.,” as researcher Jon Rappoport calls it. 

For a number of years one of the most sacred and seldom-challenged nuggets of medical dogma has been the idea that human heart ailments result from “bad cholesterol” and that heart disease can be kept in check by measuring this evil substance and controlling it through drugs. Although we vegetarians like to take comfort in the thought that it’s eating fatty flesh that causes human hearts and arteries to gum up and fail, I’ve never totally believed the cholesterol story. While there may be a correlation between cholesterol readings and the likelihood of having a heart attack, treating the cholesterol itself as if it were a disease is probably just one more example of the old medical strategy of shooting the messenger. Again, examples are numerous.  

Medical mythology, which is fond of depicting the human body as a war zone, makes good use of the metaphorical battle between the good and evil forces within us. On one hand, we have “good” cholesterol that is there to help us, but on the other is “bad cholesterol” that is as evil as the Demon Himself. This catchy concept grabs the public attention and is easily communicated to patients.  It gives the doctor something to treat with drugs, and lowering the amount of bad cholesterol while raising the good becomes the objective of treatment. 

 

This concept has not been without its detractors.  Back in the late 1960s, for example, Dr. Joseph Price put forth a very plausible alternative to the cholesterol theory in his interesting little book called Coronaries/Cholesterol/Chlorine.  Dr. Price argued convincingly that heart disease was virtually unknown before the 20th century, although high-cholesterol food consumption certainly wasn’t. What was new in the 20th century, he pointed out, and what seems to parallel exactly the onset of heart problems as a major disease, is the practice of disinfecting public water supplies with chlorine. 

To prove his theory, Dr. Price did an experiment with chickens and seemed to prove that chickens who eat a diet containing oleo and lots of chlorine quickly develop heart problems, while chickens eating oleo without the chlorine don’t. Price himself cautioned that no conclusion should be generalized to humans from animal research.  But the theory and some of the evidence he presents are strong. Although an EPA scientist replicated some of his research and basically endorsed his findings, Price was totally ignored by the medical community.

A more recent alternative to the cholesterol theory has been presented by Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, author of the popular and thought-provoking Your Body’s Many Cries for Water.While serving time as a political prisoner in an Iranian jail,  Dr. Batmanghelidj made some initial discoveries which led him to hold strong beliefs about the critical importance of water consumption.  He later applied his findings to heart disease as well a wide number of degenerative diseases, pains, and ailments–asthma and arthritis, for example. 

Regarding heart disease, Dr. Batmanghelidj takes the medical profession to task for ignoring the vital roles of cholesterol in the body, and he points out some obvious flaws in the cholesterol theory. “The pharmaceutical industry,” he says, “has capitalized on the slogan of ‘bad cholesterol’ and has produced toxic-to-the-body chemicals that minimally lower the level of cholesterol in the body and in the process cause liver damage to thousands of people, some who die as a result of using the medication.” 

Here’s how Dr. Batmanghelidj explains the cholesterol question: 

In truth, the so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol is actually far more beneficial than is appreciated. The reason for its rise in the body is because of complications caused by chronic unintentional dehydration and insufficient urine production. Dehydration produces concentrated, acidic blood that becomes even more dehydrated during its passage through the lungs before reaching the heart–because of evaporation of water in the lungs during breathing. The membranes of the blood vessels of the heart and main arteries going up to the brain become vulnerable to the shearing pressure produced by the thicker, acidic blood. This shearing force of toxic blood causes abrasions and minute tears in the lining of the arteries that can peel off and cause embolisms of the brain, kidneys and other organs. To prevent the damaged blood vessel walls from peeling, low-density (so-called ‘bad’) cholesterol coats and covers up the abrasions and protects the underlying tissue like a waterproof bandage until the tissue heals.

Dr. Batmanghelidj says, therefore, that low-density cholesterol actually performs a life saving function by compensating for the effects of dehydration.  He continues: 

Cholesterol is an element from which many of our hormones are made. Vitamin D is made by the body from cholesterol in our skin that is exposed to sunlight. Cholesterol is used in the insulating membranes that cover our nerve systems. There is no such a thing as bad cholesterol. If all the primary ingredients are available for its normal functions, the human body does not engage in making things that are bad for its survival. Until now we did not know water was a vital nutrient that the body needed at all times–and in sufficient quantity. Water itself–not caffeinated beverages that further dehydrate–is a better cholesterol-lowering medication than any chemical on the market. It is absolutely safe and is not harmful to the body like the dangerous medications now used.

As you can guess, Dr. Batman’s treatment for heart disease has about as much chance for immediate acceptance by the medical establishment as the idea that “AIDS” isn’t a communicable disease caused by a virus. Imagine the headline: 

PHARMACEUTICALS STOCKS PLUMMET AND CLINICS CLOSE WITH NEW AMA TREATMENT PLAN–“DRINK MORE WATER”   

The AMA notwithstanding, you should take a long look at Dr. Batmanghelidj’s website, where you’ll find some pretty amazing information about the importance of drinking adequate amounts of water. It’s at http://www.watercure.com/.   

And don’t forget Dr. Price’s advice about chlorine.  Actually the two go together, because people naturally drink much more water when it doesn’t have chlorine in it.  That’s a fact I’ve been observing in practice for a long time, so I was glad to find it described nicely by a genuine Kahuna.   Here’s how Lono Kahuna Kapua A’O describes the chlorine/water relationship in his book,Don’t Drink the Water (Without Reading this Book): 

Doctors and patients alike have a hard time understanding the problem of dehydration because the patient doesn’t feel thirsty. But it’s erroneous to assume that anyone who is dehydrated feels thirsty. That’s because thirst is a biological response subject to the influence of conditioning.  Humans instinctively dislike the taste of the chlorinated chemical beverage that passes for water in most places.  As a result, they learn to avoid drinking it, substituting flavored diuretic beverages like coffee, tea, soda and beer.  This causes even more water loss! Gradually, people who do this learn to turn off their thirst response and recognize thirst only when it is severe. That’s why those who drink water only when they feel thirsty are usually dehydrated! 

The Gazette urges you to find a source of pure, delicious, unchlorinated water and  drink copiously and  immoderately.