Water is the most important source of life on earth. Impure and polluted water have become a serious threat to human sustenance.Contaminated water is the major cause of serious diseases in both humans and animals.That is why it is very important to be cautious about the type of water you are drinking.

1. Mineral Water
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2. INTRODUCTION
• Water is the most important source of life on earth.
• Impure and polluted water have become a serious threat to
human sustenance.
• Contaminated water is the major cause of serious diseases in
both humans and animals.
• That is why it is very important to be cautious about the type
of water you are drinking.

3. What is Mineral Water
• Contrary to the common belief that the treated bottled water is
the best mineral water, the pure form of mineral water oozes
out from the depths of the earth.
• Practically water that contains several minerals including
sulphur compounds and salts and is usually obtained from a
mineral spring or well is called mineral water.
• Mineral water has been used traditionally to cure several skin
ailments.

4. Mineral Water Classification
• The water that sees daylight when it surfaces is known as
juvenile mineral water.
• The water produced by snow, rain and de-icing is known as
meteorological mineral water.
• The water produced from the sea floor’s sediment deposits is
known as fossil mineral water.
• The water composed of fossil water, meteoric and juvenile or
youth water is mixed mineral water.

5. Mineralized and Mineral Water-The Difference
• Mineralized water is water that is obtained from a source of
drinking water and replenished with added minerals.
• This means that mineralized water has artificial mineral
properties.
• On the other hand, mineral water is the naturally obtained
water without any human intervention.

6. Which Type of Water Do Humans Need?
• The human body needs minerals to carry out different
functions however these micronutrients are mostly overlooked
in the daily diet.
• Decades back the soil was enriched with minerals such as zinc,
calcium, magnesium etc., and these micronutrients reached our
body through fruits and vegetables.
• However the diet of present generation mostly includes
processed and packaged food which is deficient in minerals.
• This deficiency can be easily covered by drinking naturally
occurring mineral water which is pure and provides minerals
in its most natural form.

7. Minerals in Drinking Water Affect Your Health?
• If you drink around two liters of water in a day, your body
receives a supply of 15 percent of its daily requirement of
calcium, one third of magnesium and more.
• People suffering from blood pressure and having a magnesium
deficiency can lower their blood pressure by drinking one liter
of bottled mineral water every day.
• Regular water contains magnesium and calcium that are
essential for the strength and development of the bones.

8. Advantages of Drinking Mineral Water
• Improvement in immune function
• Improvement in cell health
• Overall better health
• Reduced inflammation

9. Why is Filtering Water Necessary?
• Due to deposit of waste and pollution, the naturally occurring
mineral water nowadays can carry several water contaminants
such as lead, nitrates, arsenic, cryptosporidium, giardia,
radium and pesticides.
• Instead of using artificial water purification treatments such as
ion exchange, complex and chemical filtration and distillation,
it is better that you opt for filtering the water naturally.

10. Does Boiling Make the Water Fit for Drinking?
• When a leading microbiologist, Professor Brett Neilan,
compared boiled and non-boiled water, he found out that one
drop of non-boiled water had many bacteria.
• In case of boiled water, he could see the presence of dead cells
that looked like debris within the water.
• Nevertheless, if you think that this makes the boiled water
safer, then you are surely in for a big surprise.

11. Different ways of filtering the mineral water
Sedimentation
• Naturally, natural sediments filter the water by the force of
gravity.
• This ensures that the heavier and suspended materials within
the water settles down and the lighter sedimentation float to
the top.
• This process involves flocculation and is carried out by using
iron salts or alum or even synthetic polymers.
• It is a low cost process, can be easily carried out at home
and provides pure mineral water.

13. Treating Water with Ultraviolet Light
• Ultraviolet light acts as a natural biological water filter.
• When the water is exposed to artificial ultraviolet rays, you get
clear, filtered and purified water.
• Ultraviolet rays effectively destroy cryptosporidium, a
microscopic parasite from the water that has been known to
cause intestinal infections in humans and animals

15. What is Reverse Osmosis?
• Reverse osmosis is considered the best way to get a pure glass
of mineral water. It is also an effective desalination treatment
(removal of salt from the seawater), waste water treatment,
used for recycling and also for producing energy.
• The process is also used to remove water from ethanol.

16. How Is It Carried Out?
• Reverse osmosis a process is based on diffusion.
• During diffusion, molecules move from one region having a
higher concentration to another region with lower
concentration.
• Osmosis is considered a special kind of diffusion process
during which the water molecules move across the semi
permeable membrane along with the concentration gradient.
• During osmosis, the semi permeable membrane ensures that
the water is allowed the passage from one region to the other
while particular ions of Na+, Ca 2+ or Cl- and bigger molecules
of bacteria, urea and glucose are restricted from passing.

17. • This process continues until equilibrium is reached as osmosis
and diffusion favors thermodynamics.
• During osmosis, the speed of the process can be reversed,
slowed or even stopped for a while to ensure that proper
pressure is being applied to the membrane.
• Reverse osmosis takes place when the water molecules move
against the regular concentration gradient- from the lower
region of concentration to the higher region of concentration.
• RO provides one of the purest and healthiest forms of mineral
water. You can use specialized RO filters for getting pure and
safe drinking water and protect your family from harmful
waterborne diseases.

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