Farmers in the Durg, Rajnandgaon and Dhamtari districts of Chhattisgarh say they have successfully used Pepsi and Coke to protect their rice plantations against pests. Agricultural scientists give them some backing – they say the high sugar content of the drinks can make them effective in combating pests.

 
“All that is happening is that plants get a direct supply of carbohydrates and sugar which in turn boosts the plants’ immunity” ~ Sanket Thakur, agricultural scientist.

 
It is a trend that has been seen in other parts of India, with farmers also using Indian brands of colas.
The practice of using soft drinks in lieu of pesticides, which are 10 times more expensive, is gaining so much popularity that sales of the drinks have increased drastically in remote villages. Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi have a pH below 3 and a positive ORP running around +250mV, making these so-called beverages a strong acid and toxic to humans, animals and insects.

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In exchange for a fee, the company becomes a member of WWW; for hotels this is US$1,000 per property. That bestows the right to use WWW branding and be included in the marketing campaign. The next step is to install the filtering system and start bottling sparking and still water. Lastly, the company agrees to give 10 per cent of the profit from the water sold to the World Water Fund, which aims to raise $1 billion a year to help the 1 billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean water.

The pair also say that switching from plastic bottles to filtering can boost the company’s bottom line by as much as 25 per cent.

“Everyone has been very receptive to the idea because it’s so simple,” says Ms Willig, who adds that filtration systems are fairly cheap and easy to install.

“Not only do they understand the size and scope of the water [problem] but everyone is also trying to figure out a way to reduce their use of plastic. I think the challenge now is how quickly everyone can bring it on board.”

In the UAE, nearly all water is desalinated. But Ms Albers is optimistic that the idea of filtering desalinated water is catching on.

“The standards of desalinated water [in the Gulf region] are very, very high,” she says. “People are starting to filter the desalinated water in their own homes. I think there is a big movement to look at new ways to address the fact the whole region is running out of water and the idea of shipping in millions of plastic bottles just isn’t a sustainable solution.”

So far, about 20 chains or individual hotels have signed up, including Dusit Hotels and Resorts, Jetwing and Virgin, where Sir Richard Branson is an adviser. WWW aims to have 1,000 hotels participating by the end of the year.

However, they might have their work cut out.

Gerald Lawless, the chief executive of Jumeirah Group, is seeking more clarification from WWW. He points out that Jumeirah provides guests with water in their rooms free of charge, but WWW wants hotels to charge guests for filtered water.

“We are in business to do business and, yes, we must have a very responsible approach to sustainability. But we must do it in a way that [is] sensible and measured and that is commercial,” Mr Lawless says. “And I don’t like that guests would have to pay for water that we are [currently] not charging for. For me, the jury is still out on that particular one.”

So can we live in a modern society without suffering from the adverse health effects of the radiation?

YES, but only if you are informed. From mobile and cordless phones to overhead power lines, baby monitors and electrical appliances, we are exposed to multiple sources of radiation on a continual basis. In the past 100 years, we have progressively added an enormous amount of man-made signals to the natural electromagnetic background of the planet to the extent that there is practically no where left that is not being influenced by it in some way. The frequencies of greatest concern are those used in telecommunications, household appliances and building wiring.

Electrical Hypersensitivity (EHS) is a 20th Century condition that was first acknowledged by the Swedish as a disability and more recently by the Canadians, when it was documented in computer workers in the 1980s. Since that time, household appliances, building wiring and the introduction of wireless devices including mobile phones, cordless phones, ipads, blue tooth devices, laptops, game consoles.. have become synonymous with modern day living. Like most household hazards, these technologies were introduced with little regard for their impact on human health.

The number of scientific papers and reports on man-made electromagnetic fields is rising daily with well over 25,000 papers published in the past 30 years (WHO, 2011). In 2012, progressive countries including Belgium, Sweden and Germany are implementing strategies to educate health professionals, day care centres and medical practitioners about the disorder, creating EMR-free zones in the community, and investing funds to research the disorder. Many schools throughout the United Kingdom and Europe are questioning and in some cases, banning the use of wireless technologies using the precautionary principle as their argument. Pressure is mounting on the World Health Organisation to recognise EHS as a disease.

EHS – an epidemic of underdiagnosis

An epidemic of under and mis diagnosis can be attributed to the fact that EHS is characterised by a range of non-specific symptoms which vary widely amongst sufferers. In addition there are no biomarkers to test what is occuring in the body and sadly, few practitioners who are trained to identify the symptoms. Consequently many sufferers are misdiagnosed with an autoimmune disorder, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ME, fibromyalgia, or fobbed off as being psychosomatic. This is further complicated by the fact that once a person’s threshold is reached, a snowball effect occurs whereby multiple systems become involved (immune, central nervous system, respiratory…) and sufferers consequently become sensitive to additional hazards such as chemicals (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) and mould.

Sufferers are likely to experience several of the following symptoms:

• general: insomnia, fatigue, nausea and headaches (often described as vice like or gripping)
• skin: burning, prickling and biting sensation on the skin like ‘electric shocks’. This intensifies the closer they get to an appliance or the walls (building wiring)
• nerve: restlessness, irritability, poor short term memory, difficulty concentrating, dizziness, dyslexia, forgetfulness and learning difficulties
• heart: palpitations, chest pain, increased heart rate and blood pressure changes
• musculoskeletal: body aches and joint pains, jaw and teeth pain, numbness or tingling sensations, muscle tremors
• hearing: ringing in the ears (tinnitus), hearing loss, impaired balance
• immune: impending flu like symptoms that dont eventuate
• eye: impaired vision

Long-term exposure to electromagnetic fields

• A doubling in the incidence of childhood leukaemia (when kids are exposed to more than 4mG) (Powerwatch, 2010). Government agencies around the world including the US National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences and the UK National Radiological Protection Board Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR) now agree that magnetic fields above 4mG arising from 50/60Hz are a possible carcinogen. In 2002 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified 50Hz magnetic fields as a possible carcinogen (International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2002).
• Mounting research indicates a possible connection between mobile phone use and specific forms of brain tumours namely gliomas and acoustic neuromas (Swedish Professor Lennart Hardell, 2008).
• There is a growing body of evidence to indicate that magnetic fields of around 12mG may increase the rate at which breast cancer cells multiply as a result of their ability to suppress the ‘anticancer’ hormone melatonin (Blackman et al, 2001 and Harland et al, 1997).
• Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS – Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) (Feychting et al, 2003) (Hakansson et al, 2003) (Ahlbom, 2001)
• Miscarriage (Lee et al, 2002) (De-Kun, 2002) (Cao et al, 2002)

SOURCES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN A BUILDING

Here are some sources of electromagnetic radiation likely to affect a building. For a detailed discussion on all sources both in and outside of a building, refer to the book Healthy Home, Healthy Family.

• Appliances and building wiring
• Baby monitors
• High voltage transmission & power lines
• Inverters from solar panels
• Lighting
• Mobile phone towers
• Phones
• Radioactivity
• Smart meters and the meter box
• Wireless technology

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