Health Benefits

Health Benefits

Water is vital for life, and ensuring that you get an adequate daily intake is important for everyday health and well-being. While there are different ideas about exactly how much water should be consumed on a daily basis, few disagree on the benefits of drinking fresh, clean water.

Water supports a number of essential biological functions, including the regulation of body temperature, cushioning the nervous system and helping to flush contaminates and waste from the body. Water also plays an essential role in the maintenance of healthy skin, hair, nails and eyes.

One way to ensure that you are drinking enough water is to make it a habit. Drinking clean water when you wake up in the morning and keeping a jug of water near your work desk makes it easy to stay hydrated. You can also fill a bottle from your Triflow® System in the morning and keep it on hand throughout the day.

The British Nutrition Foundation emphasises the importance of replacing all the fluids lost by your body during an average day of working, socialising and exercising. Even if you think that you are drinking enough water, it is worth remembering that the human body is more than half water. So, keep filling up on filtered water and remember that whilst water isn’t a nutrient, it is essential to life. 

Water & Your Body: the facts

The human body is made up of 70% water. The brain is 90% water, blood is 95% water and even your bones are 25% water. In addition to the water that is always in us, some water is continuously lost from the body as moisture in the breath we exhale and evaporation from the skin as perspiration. In this way, the water in our bodies is continuously being refreshed with new supplies that we consume every day.

As part of this exchange process, approximately 5 pints of water enter the stomach each day in the form of drinks and food. Of this, about 4.5 pints pass into the bloodstream through the small intestine: 1 pint is lost as water vapour in exhaled breath, 1.3 pints as perspiration and 0.2 pints are excreted. The kidneys remove the remaining 2 pints as they purify the blood, and which is then excreted as urine.

This analysis means that 80% of the water we ingest is distributed throughout the body via the bloodstream. It is continuously replaced and used as a flushing agent by the kidneys. Our bodies’ intricate dependence on water for life means that is an essential part of our everyday survival. In the same way that “you are what you eat,” it is also true that “you are what you drink,” and we hope that everyone will choose to drink clean, filtered water. 

Water Quality 

Did you know that 71% of the world’s surface is water? So there must be more than enough to go around, right? Well, the real answer is no. Fresh and safe drinking is becoming increasingly scarce.

In a large part this is because most of the 71% is seawater and seawater, which is brackish and too high in solids to be consumable. In fact, just 2% of the world’s water is fresh, and of this about half is under ice caps - leaving only 1% to meet the drinking needs of 6 billion thirsty humans.

Water consumption trends show an increasingly thirsty and water intensive society. In the UK in 1961, the average domestic consumption of water – for all household purposes from washing the car to flushing the lavatory – was 24 gallons of water per person, per day. Today, that figure has increased to 37 gallons per person per day and continues to rise.

However, only 2% of this water is used for drinking and cooking. This means that we really only require a fraction of our total individual intake to meet daily drinking water requirements, and it is with this water that we must take the greatest care. That is why we have created advanced patented water filtration systems to meet a vital need – fresh, clean water at the turn of a tap.

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