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Mineral Water: Essential to Life, Health, and Wellness

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Minerals latu sensu and Human Health

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Mineral water is the natural water that is essential to life, health, and wellness and comes from aquifers, either superficial or underground, through pumping, deep wells, and springs. Mineral water is an essential constituent of the human body. Mineral water is rich in minerals and is used as it is or after undergoing purification. In general, mineral water for human consumption undergoes physical and chemical treatments, microbiological control, and monitoring too to ensure maximum purity. It is known for centuries that minerals existing in solution into drinking water are essential for humans, animals, and plants, different minerals having different functions. Water is an essential constituent of the human body, and minerals condition the physical, chemical, and physicochemical properties of the drinking mineral water that should be safe not only chemically but microbiologically too. Water quality issues are a major challenge that humanity is facing in the twenty-first century. The chapter reports basic and actual information on mineral water as an essential constituent of the human body and health conditioner, as well as on sources and resources, on sanitary safety, and on typologies and functions.

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Teixeira, F.J., Gomes, C.S.F. (2021). Mineral Water: Essential to Life, Health, and Wellness. In: Gomes, C., Rautureau, M. (eds) Minerals latu sensu and Human Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65706-2_13

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