Drinking Water Minerals and Mineral Balance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Background

   • Frantisek Kozisek, Ingegerd Rosborg, Olle Selinus, Margherita Ferrante, Dragana Jovanovic

   Pages 1-23

3. Mineral Composition of Drinking Water and Daily Uptake

   • Ingegerd Rosborg, Bengt Nihlgård, Margherita Ferrante

   Pages 25-31

4. Macrominerals at Optimum Concentrations – Protective Against Diseases

   • Ingegerd Rosborg, Frantisek Kozisek

   Pages 33-52

5. Microminerals at Optimum Concentrations: Protection Against Diseases

   • Ingegerd Rosborg, Margherita Ferrante, Vasant Soni

   Pages 53-77

6. Potentially Toxic Elements in Drinking Water in Alphabetic Order

   • Ingegerd Rosborg, Vasant Soni, Frantisek Kozisek

   Pages 79-101

7. Technical and Mineral Level Effects of Water Treatment

   • Asher Brenner, Kenneth M. Persson, Larry Russell, Ingegerd Rosborg, Frantisek Kozisek

   Pages 103-117

8. Health Effects of Demineralization Drinking Water

   • Ingegerd Rosborg, Frantisek Kozisek, Margherita Ferrrante

   Pages 119-123

9. Interactions Between Different Elements – The Need for Mineral Balance?

   • Ingegerd Rosborg

   Pages 125-128

10. Drinking Water Regulations Today and a View for the Future

    • Ingegerd Rosborg, Frantisek Kozisek

    Pages 129-136

11. Back Matter

    Pages 137-140

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The various safety organizations working on drinking water all warn about unhealthy constituents, as well as elements that can cause corrosion or scaling on pipes and installations. However, drinking water may also provide a substantial portion of the daily mineral intake, especially for the elderly and children, or those at risk of deficiencies due to unhealthy eating habits or starvation. Thus, a holistic approach to drinking water is presented in this book and the scope is extended from standards for undesirable substances to the basic mineral composition of water, examining 22 nutrient elements and ions and 21 toxic substances. The function of the nutrients in the body, symptoms of deficiency and overload, and advantages of the minerals from drinking water are presented, as well as symptoms of toxic elements from drinking water. The authors also suggest healthy ranges of minerals and mineral ratios for drinking water.  The book offers a valuable resource for the health evaluation of drinking waters, for private well owners, public water producers and safety organizations alike.

• Drinking Water
• Macro Minerals
• Micro Minerals
• Mineral Balance
• Reverse OSmosis
• Water and Health
• water quality and water pollution

• Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Technology, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  Ingegerd Rosborg

The book is written by a group of international renowned experts on drinking water quality and health.

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