Water Research
Summary
My interest in health and environmental issues has focused in recent years on water. After all what is more important than water? It is the very stuff of life. 70% of the surface of planet Earth is water. 70% of the human body is water.
Water is essential to each one of us individually and to the planet as a whole. Body and planet mirror each other and their health and well-being are intimately linked. The waterways of the planet are like the veins and arteries of the body and vice versa.
Water is involved in every function of the body. It helps transport nutrients and waste products in and out of cells. It is necessary for all digestive, absorption, circulatory, and excretory functions, as well as for the utilization of the water-soluble vitamins. It is also needed for the maintenance of proper body temperature.
The demand for water is increasing while supply is diminishing. We have designed our urban spaces so that the surface of the earth is now hard and does not absorb water. It runs off wastefully into the ocean. Climate change is bringing extremes of drought on the one hand and flood on the other.
I have completed one research project investigating whether water with high iron content from a natural spring can strengthen the immune system. The results have been encouraging and now I need to find funding to carry this project to the next stage.
But my interest has turned increasingly to fundamental issues of supply and demand - the many political, economic, social, environmental and technological questions involved in meeting this problem of diminishing supply and increasing and competing demands.
I am about to start a new research project investigating technology which will release billions of litres of water currently stored in Victoria’s vast brown coal reserves. Here is one way to ”create” a new supply of previously untapped water.
My next project after that will be concerned with the cleansing and re-energising of recycled water and the impact of this on consumer acceptance of recycled water.
I am also looking into a feasibility study for a sustainable water system for an urban community.
My latest research is taking me into the work of people like Masaru Emoto, Arnold Schaubrerger and and the WIRBLER technologies derived from his work.
I am also increasingly inspired by the new coming together of science and religion made possible through quantum mechanics.