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presence in just-melted ice has been confirmed.” What my dog is accessing by eating ice is that bioavailable, fourth phase water. Raindrops also contain EZ water, as does melting snow. My dog’s water preference, it turns out, makes perfect sense; he’s rehydrating very efficiently because that same water is what’s in his cells. Water Flow [Legendary Austrian naturalist Viktor Schauberger] spent much of his life studying water. Lifelong observations convinced him that vortices lent water a special “vitality.” Schauberger considered water taken from fast-running, vortex-filled streams more “alive” than stagnant water, which he considered dead. — Dr. Gerald Pollack

A lecture I attended in the 1990s about water in the context of biodynamic agriculture talked about how water flows. Dr. Pollack shared the connection between biodynamics and water flow, specifically vortexing, in his book. “Rudolf Steiner invented the so-called biodynamic farming technique, whose central feature is water vortexing. To this day, some farmers and fruit growers tout this vortexed water as producing crop yields of stunning abundance without fertilizers.” The lecture also included a discussion of flowforms, which create the vortexing that wild streams have naturally. Dr. McMahon says in her paper on structured water, “One way or another, it is possible to create more structured water … . Various devices create specific flow and often contain other materials with precise geometry and conductivity that help

Flowforms help water attain structure like that found in free-flowing streams, with numerous applications in gardening and agriculture. Photo courtesy Simon Charter, Ebb and Flow Ltd.

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