Benefits

Health Benefits

Getting your daily intake of H2O is vital and although health and nutritional experts hold varying views about the precise amount of water we should drink, few disagree on the basic benefits of drinking fresh, clean water.

Water regulates your body’s temperature, cushions the nervous system and flushes the body of waste. Skin, hair, nails and eyes all reap the rewards of drinking enough water.

Ensure you drink enough water by making it a habit. Keeping a jug of water on your desk makes it easy to keep your glass replenished. Fill a bottle from your Triflow System in the morning and keep it to hand all day.

The British Nutrition Foundation places an emphasis upon the importance of replacing the fluids lost from your body during a normal day’s working, socialising and exercising. So even if you think you drink enough water, it’s worth remembering that over half of the body consists of water. And, that whilst water isn’t a nutrient, it is impossible to survive without it.

Water Importance

The human body consists of 60% to 70% water. The brain is 90% water, blood plasma is 95% and even bones are 25% water. Water is continuously lost from the body as moisture in the breath we exhale and evaporation from the skin as perspiration, so the water in the body is continuously being changed.

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 via sweat glands as perspiration and 0.2 pints are excreted. The kidneys remove the remaining 2 pints as they purify the blood and it is excreted as urine.

So, 80% of the water we ingest is distributed throughout the body via the blood stream. It is continuously replaced and used as a flushing agent by the kidneys

Water Quality

Did you know that 71% of the world’s surface is water? So there must be more than enough to go around, mustn't there? Well, no.

That’s because most of this percentage is seawater and seawater is up to seventy times too high in solids. In fact, only 2% of the world’s water is fresh. And about half of that is under ice caps – leaving us with just 1% for drinking purposes.

Let’s look back a few years. 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 risen to 37 gallons per person per day and it is continuing to increase.

However, only 2% of this water is used for drinking and cooking. So although we really only require a fraction of our total individual intake to meet drinking water quality requirements, almost all of it is treated to drinking water standards.