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Drinking Water Minerals and Mineral Balance

Importance, Health Significance, Safety Precautions

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Ingegerd Rosborg

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

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  • The book provides the reader with a tool for evaluation of drinking water from a health perspective
  • The need of nutrients from drinking water is clearly explained
  • The book provides desired levels of minerals in re-mineralize Reverse Osmosis treated water
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  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 NihlgÃ¥rd, 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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About this book

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.

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

    Ingegerd Rosborg

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

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