Pipeline Map – thanks to Western Wilderness Committee

• The Alberta tar sands are the largest environmental disaster of our times.
• Vancouver (and British Columbia) are being used as the gateway to China and the U.S. for this dirty tar sands oil.
• Notice the growing number of oil tankers skulking under the Lion’s Gate bridge.
• Super tankers, 3 times the size of the ill-fated Exxon Valdez, within our city’s waterways, Vancouver’s centrepiece.
• Plans are under way to triple this tanker traffic going through Vancouver’s busy harbour.
• This radically increases the odds of an unfathomable environmental accident right on our doorstep.
• Look at the impact an oil spill would have on your health and our local economy, not to mention the environment.
• We can STOP this.
• SPEAK UP for clean energy, clean air, clean water, clean oceans, healthy forests and healthy people.
• STOP the Enbridge Pipeline and say NO to tankers in Vancouver’s harbour.

• Inform your family, friends and colleagues.
• Sign the NO TANKERS petition
• Stop the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.

• Support the City of Vancouver’s Anti-Tankers Resolution.

• Support First Nations initiatives to protect our watersheds.

• Add your signature to 10,000 supporting  ‘Save the Fraser Declaration’.

• Donate to the Western Wilderness Committee and Lead Now.

• Watch this inspired event.

This $820 million project was originally scheduled for completion in 2009. Fraught with delays, the tunnels are still not in service. Consequently, unfiltered water from Capilano Reservoir that supplies tap water to western Metro Vancouver during the summer, remains too murky to use in the winter months. The latest projected completion date and start-of-service using the Twin Tunnels is now 2014.

Since September 2011, your tap water has been coming from the Seymour Filtration Plant because the Capilano reservoir was closed for the winter season. Winter rains wash excessive dirt and sediment into the Capilano reservoir, making  the water murky and too difficult to disinfect effectively.

On April 18, 2012, Metro Vancouver put the unfiltered Capilano reservoir back in service. You may have noticed a change in the clarity of your water in the week following this change, as did Metro Vancouver. Heavy rains at the end of April stirred up so much sediment that the Capilano reservoir was temporarily taken back out of service.

According to an official at Metro Vancouver’s water quality department, a decision is being made on May 7, 2012 about when to re-open the Capilano reservoir for summer use. Turbidity levels of tap water from the 3 reservoirs (Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam) are posted daily on the front page of the Vancouver Sun and on Metro Vancouver’s website.

What this means for you

If you receive your tap water from the Capilano reservoir in the summer months (approximately April/May to September), you may notice that your water is not as clear during this period.

If your water is coming from the Capilano reservoir, the pH of your tap water may drop below 7 to the acidic side of the pH scale.
Lime is added to water coming from the Seymour reservoir after it passes through the Seymour Filtration Plant. This raises the pH to make tap water slightly alkaline. The reason why Metro Vancouver makes this pH adjustment is because acidic water is corrosive. By making tap water slightly alkaline, water supply lines last longer with fewer leaks. Leaching of heavy metals is also minimized when tap water pH is above 7.

Impact on water filter performance

If you use a good quality water filter, you may find that the water flow though your filter slows down more rapidly in the summer months due to elevated sediment levels (turbidity) in your tap water that may clog the filter.  Similarly, shower filters may lose their ability to reduce chlorine more quickly during this summer period. Filter cartridges should be changed if this slow down occurs.

Future changes to your water

If you live or work in western Metro Vancouver, you can expect your tap water supply to switch back and forth, seasonally, between Capilano Reservoir and the Seymour Filtration plant until the Twin Tunnels that join these two sources are finally put into service. This is now anticipated to happen in early 2014.

All tap water in Metro Vancouver is chlorinated

Chlorine is introduced to all tap water in Metro Vancouver, regardless of whether it comes from the Capilano or Coquitlam reservoirs, or from the Seymour Filtration Plant. The purpose of adding chlorine to our tap water is to disinfect it.

Cleaning the shungite chips

Making your first batch of shungite water
Place the well-rinsed shungite chips in a 2 litre glass or enamel container and fill with cold tap water.  Use 2 liter of water for each 200g of shungite chips.

Let the water stand with the shungite chips for 24 hours. The container must be open to breathe during this process. A thin, natural fibre cloth can be used to cover the container to exclude dust and insects.

Using shungite-infused water
Pour the shungite-infused water into another lidded glass or enamel container. This water is the finished water, ready for use. Refill the original shungite container with tap water to prepare a new batch.
Excellent as a hair rinse. Useful for pets, birds and plants.

Maintenance
Once a month, briefly re-soak and stir the shungite chips in the baking soda/water mix as described above. Then thoroughly rinse the shungite chips under running water. Put the chips in the sun for an hour to recharge. Sterilize the container at regular intervals. Replace the shungite chips with new chips approximately every 6 – 12 months, depending on the quality of the source water.

More about Shungite here:

What is Shungite?
Shungite Products

Disclaimer
The information provided on this page has not been evaluated by Health Canada. The products mentioned herein are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.  Information and statements made herein are for education purposes and are not intended to replace the advice of your family doctor.

We are bio-electrical beings. Each one of us has experienced the rejuvenating effects of walking barefoot in grass, strolling shoeless along a sandy beach or hanging out in a forest. Direct contact with nature profoundly discharges accumulated electrical stress while permeating our bodies with healing, negatively charged free electrons. This equalizes our body to the same energy potential as the Earth, our native home. Our internal biological rhythms and hormonal processes are normalized, as nature intended. Stress leaves and we feel good again.

The purpose of Earthing products is to duplicate these benefits of standing barefoot directly on the Earth. ‘Earthing’ safely enables this transfer of free electrons from the Earth to our body while we are indoors and otherwise disconnected from direct contact with the natural world’s healing impact.

Earthing products do not connect to or run on the electrical power that operates your lights and appliances. They plug into the ground outlet (third hole) of an electrical socket which is properly grounded by being connected to the earth. Free electrons from the earth pass through a cord attached to the Earthing sheet or mat. When your skin comes in contact with the Earthing device, your body is supplied with beneficial and restorative earth energy.

Direct skin contact is most beneficial for earthing, both in nature and with Earthing products. Our body is mostly water and minerals, making it a natural conductor of electrons. The skin is our largest organ, and a very important one, because it actively interfaces between our internal and external worlds. Free electrons easily transfer to bare skin. Electron transfer may occur through conductive clothing, if there is sufficient moisture present from body sweat. Bare is best.

When we make even a small point of skin contact with these healthy electron flows, our nervous system is calmed, our immune system is assisted and internal electron deficiencies are corrected, reducing inflammation. Better sleep, less stress, reduced pain, faster recovery are the result.

Reduced inflammation and rapid wound repair are among the many significant benefits reported by users of Earthing products. This is because Earthing has an antioxidant effect. Inflammation is caused by excessive, positively charged molecules called free radicals. Free radicals are neutralized when there are sufficient negatively charged electrons available. Earthing supplies these essential negatively charged electrons.

You can’t beat walking barefoot directly on the earth. The next best thing is Earthing.

Reported benefits of Earthing

• Reduced inflammation
• Reduced chronic pain.
• Improved sleep.
• Increased energy.
• Less stress, more calmness.
• Normalized biological rhythms.
• Thinner blood, improved blood pressure & flow.
• Relief from muscle tension and headaches.
• Improved hormonal & menstrual cycles.
• Rapid healing & prevention of bedsores.
• Rapid recovery for athletes.
• Reduced jet lag.
• Protection from electromagnetic fields.

Research studies about earthing
Earthing the Human Body Influences Physiologic Processes
Pilot Study on the Effect of Grounding on Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness

More studies here.

Disclaimer
The information provided on this page has not been evaluated by Health Canada. The products mentioned herein are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.  Information and statements made herein are for education purposes and are not intended to replace the advice of your family doctor.