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Being exposed to chronic irradiation
from a cell tower is not a good idea
Being exposed to chronic irradiation from a cell tower is not a
good idea anyway, but to put the antennas on water towers is
particularly bad because of the risk of electromagnetic contamination
of the water. Treating water with weak pulsed electromagnetic
radiation is the basis of many commercial “electronic water
conditioners”, which are now widely used to remove and prevent
lime scale in plumbing.
But it also has biological effects. Brief exposure of the water to
such fields (as when it flows through a conditioner) and supplying it
to yeast, plants and farm animals can, stimulate their growth.
However, when we tested exposures of more than about a minute (as it
might be in a water storage tank with an antenna attached), we found
that it inhibited the growth of yeast and was arguably harmful (See
Goldsworthy et al. 1999 “Biological effects of physically
conditioned water”. Water Research 33 (7) 1618-1626). [
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The mechanism of the conditioning effect is controversial, but it
appears to depend on the presence of colloidal impurities, and not
all water supplies are equally affected. Its biological effect is
probably because it removes structurally-important calcium ions from
cell membranes in much the same way as it removes lime scale from
plumbing. This would then make them leak and affect metabolism in the
same way as direct exposure to electromagnetic fields (See
http://tinyurl.com/28Lo82 ).
In so much as water treated with pulsed electromagnetic radiation
can have unusual and sometimes harmful biological effects, there
should be a moratorium on placing cell phone antennas on water tanks
until electromagnetically treated water has received full FDA
approval.
- Posted by: Andrew Goldsworthy
http://www.newsli.com/2007/12/05/long-island-residents-cell-towers-act-like-other-villages/
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