Water: essential for life!

The announcement that liquid water has been discovered on Mars was big news, because water is essential for life.  While the presence of ice on Mars was confirmed seven years ago by NASA's Phoenix spacecraft, the liquid water found in September 28 suggests that there could be life on Mars.

Water does good things in your body...

• removes waste
• helps deliver oxygen
• helps the brain
• regulates body temperature

Come on in to the Central Library's Science & Technology Room on the First Floor to consult The Drinking Water Dictionary, or the Dictionary of Water & Waste Management, two great reference books.

Some books you can check out cover the topic of water from a variety of perspectives:

• Drinking water: a history by James Salzman.
• Don't drink the water (without reading this book): the essential guide to our contaminated drinking water and what you can do about it by Lono Kahuna Kupua Ao
• Water: the shocking truth that can save your life! by Paul C. Bragg and Patricia Bragg
• Cool waters: 50 refreshing, healthy, homemade thirst quenchers by Brian Preston-Campbell
• Healing waters: the powerful health benefits of ionized H2O by Ben Johnson
• Your body's many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty! Don't treat thirst with medications!: a preventive and self-education manual for those who prefer to adhere to the logic of the natural and the simple in medicine by F. Batmanghelidj

For exercise in water, try:

• Water exercise by Melissa Layne
• Fantastic water workouts by MaryBeth Pappas Baun

For exercise with water, there's

• The amazing water bottle workout: no gym? no weights? no problem! by Jason S. Greenspan and Lee Noonan