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Don't take
our word for it. The following is an excerpt from
the United States Hot Springs National Park Official
Website, as of July, 2008. Read on....
"The hot springs are a special natural resource.
... The pure tasting and orderless water of Hot
Springs National Park has long been considered among
the country's best. ...
Water is what attracts people to Hot Springs.
In fact they have been coming here since the first
person stumbled upon these springs perhaps 10,000
years ago. Stone artifacts found in the park give
evidence that Indians knew and used the hot springs.
For them the area was a neutral ground where
different tribes came to hunt, trade and bathe in
peace. Surely they drank the spring waters
too, for they found the waters with minerals and
gases have a pleasant taste and smell. These
traces of minerals, combined with a temperature of
143° F, are credited with giving the waters whatever
therapeutic properties they may have. ... Besides
determining the chemicals composition and origins of
the waters, scientists have determined that the
waters gushing from the hot springs are more than
4,000 years old. And the waters gush at an
average rate of 850,000 gallons a day.
The most important thing about Hot Springs' thermal
water is that it is sterile. For this reason the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration chose
this water, among others, in which to hold the moon
rocks while looking for signs of life. Even
during the many early years that the springs were
uncovered, the absence of bacteria in the water
helped prevent the spread of disease. ...
In
the past the baths were taken as a therapeutic
treatment for rheumatism and other ailments."
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Source: http://www.hot.springs.national-park.com/info.htm#water.
This is
exactly why you need to GET WHET! There is a
difference from your tap
water and the soda pop makers of AquaFina and Dasani
that merely re-filter water, such as you can get from
your home tap. That is why their waters are so
inexpensive. They can just turn on the spigot, and
sell it to you. Our water is a superior natural
product, as intended, thousands of years ago.
Here is
some additional information for inquisitive minds from
the United States Hot Springs National Park Official
Website, as of July, 2008. Again, their words,
not ours...
The words "hot springs" often conjure up images of
volcanoes, geysers, and underground chambers of
molton rock or magma, and usually these features are
found associated with hot springs.
But in this area, the earth is relatively quiet.
There is no evidence of magma lying close below the
earth's surface to heat underground water.
Instead geologists believe that just the right
combination of rock types and old faults exists here
to permit water to percolate deep, where it is
heated by surrounding rock.
Carbon - 14 dating methods and the measurement of
tritium (an isotope of hydrogen) show that the hot
springs water began as rainwater which fell over
4,000 years ago.
Two rock types in the area, Bigfork Chert and
Arkansas Novaculite, act like giant sponges, they
are porous or highly fractured. Lying in tilted
layers, these rocks absorb the rain and conduct it
slowly downward to a great depth. The water
travels downward for nearly 4,000 years to depths
between 2,000 and 8,000 feet.
A
natural thermal gradient heats the water, the deeper
into the earth it travels, the hotter it gets.
Heat is supplied from the radioactive breakdown of
particles found throughout the Earth's crust.
At
great depth the heated water comes into contact with
cracks and faults within the Hot Springs Sandstone.
These cracks bring the water quickly, in about a
year, back up to emerge as hot springs on the slope
of Hot Springs Mountain. The water retains
most of its heat during this relatively upward
journey and arrives at the surface at an average
temperature of 143 degrees Fahrenheit.
Summary
In
an arc from the northwest around to the east,
outcroppings of Bigfork Chert and Arkansas
Novaculite absorb rainfall. The pores and fractures
in the rocks conduct the water deep into the Earth.
As the water percolates downward, the increasingly
warmer rock heats it, and filters out the
impurities. In the process the water dissolves
minerals in the rocks. Eventually the water meets
the faults and joints in the Hot Springs Sandstone
leading up to the lower west side of Hot Springs
Mountain where it flows to the surface.
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Source: http://www.hot.springs.national-park.com/info.htm#water.
There is no
reason to pay more for foreign water! The United
States has been making it perfect, exactly as intended,
for thousands of years! The United State of
America is WHET Country! |
