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How do Hurricanes affect our Drinking Water?

Hurricanes create danger and destruction on multiple levels, and the impact on drinking water is one that potential victims should especially be prepared for. Common disasters hurricane victims are forced to deal with include power outages, destroyed homes, and flooding. Special precautions are needed for each of these circumstances. Since hydration is a life-sustaining necessity, ensuring a supply of safe drinking water is essential.

What about hurricane rain?

Conditions in a hurricane can be compared to sailing on the ocean. There can be rain water everywhere, but even the rain should be considered unsafe to drink. Hurricane water is prone to contain contaminants and should therefore not be considered safe for drinking. The following are a few conditions that can impact the quality of hurricane rainwater:

• While gathering strength over the ocean, a hurricane churns up salt water that is undrinkable.
  
• The salt water rain from a hurricane can cause corrosive damage.
  
• The chemicals in hurricane water are similar to acid rain, which means that atmospheric pollution that can harm the environment is in the rainwater.
  
• Particularly in rural areas, private wells and karsts can rapidly become contaminated by chemicals in fertilizers and other substances, when flooding and heavy rains in a hurricane cause high volumes of runoff from fields.
  __A karst is an area in which irregular limestone has eroded and produced underground streams, fissures, caverns, and sinkholes.

Hazards of polluted floodwater and drinking water

Contaminated water is a health risk that can be serious to those most vulnerable, including infants, children, the elderly, and anyone with a weakened immune system.

According to FEMA, the contaminants in water following a major flooding event can cause diseases such as cholera, hepatitis, and dysentery. Drinking water can be contaminated after heavy inland flooding has occurred, and wastewater utilities can also be affected.

Tap water can be contaminated during a hurricane when pipes break as a result of things like uprooted trees and washouts. Sewage spills can affect utilities, as well. Good water pressure is a good sign, but water is more likely to be contaminated when there is a lack of pressure. The low water pressure provides evidence that the water has probably become contaminated as a result of unsanitary storm water infiltrating water lines.

Case studies

Superstorm Hurricane Sandy that severely impacted multiple states in 2012 caused massive water damage. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), more than 690 wastewater and drinking water utilities in Washington D.C. plus 11 states were negatively impacted in Hurricane Sandy’s destructive wake.

After 2016 Category 4 storm Hurricane Matthew devastated Haiti, thousands of people suffered from a cholera outbreak connected to a lack of potable water.

Water and hurricane survival

After a hurricane, it is essential to keep in mind that any water could be contaminated, including tap water. Once you realize the hazards associated with hurricane-tainted water, it’s best to ask the right questions from credible sources upfront, such as how to make tap water safe to drink. For businesses, using a purified and sanitized water cooler is a great step to take to ensure your employees have healthy, safe and pure drinking water available at all times.

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Converting Units: MG's, MCG's, and I.U.'s

In the metric system:
1000 milligrams (mg) is a unit of mass that equals to 1 gram
1000 micrograms (mcg) is equal to 1 milligram (mg). 
An IU (International Unit) is a unit of measurement for vitamins and other specific biologically active substances.

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One of the most common conversion enquiries from visitors to this website is regarding how to convert between International units (iu) and micrograms (mcg) and milligrams (mg). Commonly, people want to work out the amount of micrograms or milligrams in a medication or vitamin supplement.

I think that people wonder why the International unit isn't in the lists featured in the mass and weight converter. The reason for this is that the conversion isn't as simple as one might think. Let's start this article by discussing what an International unit is.
What is an International unit?

IU stands for International units and is a unit commonly used in the measurement of medications, vaccines and vitamins.

The volume or mass that makes up one International unit is dependent on the concentration or potency of the substance and therefore varies from substance to substance depending on what is being measured.

This means that converting between international units and micrograms or milligrams is not a simple calculation and we can't provide a converter to do this calculation for you (sorry about that). The exact measure of one IU of a substance is in fact established by international agreement for each substance ¹.

How to find out the conversion value?

If you want to find out how many micrograms (mcg) or milligrams (mg) are in one IU of your medication, you could contact your pharmacist to find out. As an alternative, you could try contacting the drug manufacturer directly. For a vitamin, consider contacting the vitamin manufacturer - their contact information is usually listed on the bottle.

Converting from mg or mcg to IU for Vitamins A, C, D and E

We've included mass equivalents of 1 IU for selected vitamins below. This information is from the Office of Dietary Supplements and the Ultimate Pharmacy Calculations Guide.

• Vitamin A: 1 IU is the biological equivalent of 0.3 mcg retinol, or of 0.6 mcg beta-carotene
• Vitamin C: 1 IU is 50 mcg L-ascorbic acid
• Vitamin D: 1 IU is the biological equivalent of 0.025 mcg cholecalciferol or ergocalciferol
• Vitamin E: 1 IU is the biological equivalent of about 0.67 mg d-alpha-tocopherol, or 0.9 mg of dl-alpha-tocopherol.

Example conversion

Let's say that I have a soft gel capsule that contains 500 IU of Vitamin A as retinol. To convert this to mcg, using the information above, I would multiply it by 0.3:

500 × 0.3 = 150mcg.

Conversely, if the soft gel capsule was described as '150mcg of Vitamin A as retinol' and I wanted to convert to IU, I would divide it by 0.3.

150 ÷ 0.3 = 500 IU.

Note that the information contained here is purely for casual interests and is not intended to replace your doctor's advice. Please use it at your own risk. 

As with all calculations where health could suffer from inaccurate conversions, you are advised to check with a health professional before taking a dosage of any vitamin or supplement.

Yes!  It is fine to take Supplements and Vitamins with Alkaline Water as it will enhance the potency of the ingredients for an over-all healthy system.  However; it is also recommended, for those on medication, to take the supplement/vitamin 60 up to 120 minutes.  This is due to allow the medication (most are time released) to properly work in the body for it's designed purpose.

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