Nearly two years after it had said its premium water brand Himalayan would go global piggybacking Starbucks, Tata Global Beverages has finally taken the product to Singapore. The tea, coffee and water business arm of the diversified Tata Group has said the response to the product has been on par with the French rival Evian. “It’s over a year (last October) that we test-launched the Himalayan water brand in […]
Sleep problems are near epidemic in modern society. You already have heard many of the tips to create the ideal environment for sleep–a darkened room, no light from electronics like computers or cellphones, reserving the bedroom for sleep and keeping out work and entertainment clutter. But if you are taking all these steps and still having trouble going to sleep or staying asleep, you might take a look at your […]
1: Drink Eight Glasses Each Day Scientists say there’s no clear health benefit to chugging or even sipping water all day. So where does the standard advice of drinking eight glasses each day come from? “Nobody really knows,” says Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a kidney expert at the University of Pennsylvania. Myth No. 2: Drinking Lots of Water Helps Clear Out Toxins The kidneys filter toxins from our bloodstreams. Then the […]
A new study finds that if temperatures rise and more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, it will reduce the total amount of water in rivers It is a surprising observation. One might expect the timing of water flow to change but not the overall volume. But this is precisely what scientists discovered when they examined the histories of 420 catchment basins in the US spanning the period 1948-2001. […]
In Pic :California’s Orange County Water District (OCWD), has a plant that recycles used water and returns it to the drinking supply. It is expanding production to 100 million gallons per day, enough for 850,000 people. A third successive year of California’s worst drought in a century has the Golden State’s reservoirs at record lows. Agriculture has been affected, hitting the local economy, while some small communities risk running out of […]
