Lithia spring water
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Lithia Springs Water is a brand
of mineral water
that contains naturally occurring lithium carbonate
. LITHIA is sourced from Lithia Springs, Georgia located on the border of Cobb
and Douglas
counties, only 12 miles from the city of Atlanta. The water contains a very high mineral content as measured by Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) of 2,400. It contains the following chemical elements in amounts of 100 or more microgram
s per liter: lithium
, calcium
, chloride
, fluoride
, magnesium
, nitrate
, potassium
, silicon
, and sodium
. Owned by Lithia Mineral Water Inc. since 2009, LITHIA is currently marketed and sold only in the United States.
bearing granite
rock. The spring's mineral water is produced in limited quantities with a high mineral content that has seldom varied since it was first bottled and sold in 1888. It emerges from Lithia Springs at a temperature of 14.44°C (58 °F).
waters. The geological area from where Lithia spring flows from is a pluton
, primarily composed of blue quartz
bearing granite
rock that was formed during the formation of the Blue Ridge Mountains
, part of the Appalachian Mountains
about 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period.
an essential micro-nutrient that is necessary to maintain mental and physical wellbeing. In the Lithia Springs area local historians believe that the water has life extension qualities. On February 8, 2011, German researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena published their findings in the European Journal of Nutrition indicating that lithia waters lead to an increased life expectancy in humans and metazoans. Lithia waters are one of the most researched types of spring waters in the world because of their attributed health benefits.
and Muscogee people have legends about the mysterious ancients who left petroglyphs carved in granite
rock to beacon future generations to come to the health giving spring. Standing guard over Lithia Springs is a giant smiling turtle effigy
carved from granite
. This smiling giant is an ancient symbol of health and long life that has beaconed health seekers for thousands of years to come drink the springs curative waters. Until 1838 and the trail of tears
Lithia Springs was a healing center for the southern Cherokee Nation
. In October of 1887, the Congress of Physicians held their annual convention at Lithia Springs, Georgia. Historical records show that prestigious doctors of the day prescribed lithia water
for gout
, rheumatism
, urinary tract disease, depression
, alcoholism
, mood swings
, and many other ailments. In 1888 Judge Bowden started marketing and selling Lithia Spring water under the brand name Bowden Lithia Water. So popular was the water that the 300 room Sweet Water Health Resort opened in 1888 offering its guests, electric lights, inter communications system, indoor plumbing, custom made furniture from Michigan, European wines, Lithia water and the world's only Lithia vapor baths. Mark Twain
, the Vanderbilts
, Presidents Cleveland
, Taft
, McKinley
, and Theodore Roosevelt
were just some of the rich and famous people said to have come to Sweet Water Health Resort to experience the curative water that flowed from Lithia Springs. In 1889, Lithia Springs Mineral Water won the “Gold Metal Par Excellence” at the Piedmont Exposition in Atlanta.
Brand
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of mineral water
Mineral water
Mineral water is water containing minerals or other dissolved substances that alter its taste or give it therapeutic value, generally obtained from a naturally occurring mineral spring or source. Dissolved substances in the water may include various salts and sulfur compounds...
that contains naturally occurring lithium carbonate
Lithium carbonate
Lithium carbonate is a chemical compound of lithium, carbon, and oxygen with the formula Li2CO3. This colorless salt is widely used in the processing of metal oxides and has received attention for its use in psychiatry. It is found in nature as the rare mineral zabuyelite.-Properties:Like almost...
. LITHIA is sourced from Lithia Springs, Georgia located on the border of Cobb
Cobb County, Georgia
Cobb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat and largest city is Marietta, which is located in the center of the county. The county was named for Thomas Willis Cobb, who in the early 19th century was a United States representative and senator from Georgia...
and Douglas
Douglas County, Georgia
Douglas County, Georgia has been experiencing numerous natural disasters over the most recent decades. Being located in the South Eastern United States the county experiences strong storms and tornadoes often because of its location in Dixie Alley....
counties, only 12 miles from the city of Atlanta. The water contains a very high mineral content as measured by Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) of 2,400. It contains the following chemical elements in amounts of 100 or more microgram
Microgram
In the metric system, a microgram is a unit of mass equal to one millionth of a gram , or 1/1000 of a milligram. It is one of the smallest units of mass commonly used...
s per liter: lithium
Lithium
Lithium is a soft, silver-white metal that belongs to the alkali metal group of chemical elements. It is represented by the symbol Li, and it has the atomic number 3. Under standard conditions it is the lightest metal and the least dense solid element. Like all alkali metals, lithium is highly...
, calcium
Calcium
Calcium is the chemical element with the symbol Ca and atomic number 20. It has an atomic mass of 40.078 amu. Calcium is a soft gray alkaline earth metal, and is the fifth-most-abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust...
, chloride
Chloride
The chloride ion is formed when the element chlorine, a halogen, picks up one electron to form an anion Cl−. The salts of hydrochloric acid HCl contain chloride ions and can also be called chlorides. The chloride ion, and its salts such as sodium chloride, are very soluble in water...
, fluoride
Fluoride
Fluoride is the anion F−, the reduced form of fluorine when as an ion and when bonded to another element. Both organofluorine compounds and inorganic fluorine containing compounds are called fluorides. Fluoride, like other halides, is a monovalent ion . Its compounds often have properties that are...
, magnesium
Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element with the symbol Mg, atomic number 12, and common oxidation number +2. It is an alkaline earth metal and the eighth most abundant element in the Earth's crust and ninth in the known universe as a whole...
, nitrate
Nitrate
The nitrate ion is a polyatomic ion with the molecular formula NO and a molecular mass of 62.0049 g/mol. It is the conjugate base of nitric acid, consisting of one central nitrogen atom surrounded by three identically-bonded oxygen atoms in a trigonal planar arrangement. The nitrate ion carries a...
, potassium
Potassium
Potassium is the chemical element with the symbol K and atomic number 19. Elemental potassium is a soft silvery-white alkali metal that oxidizes rapidly in air and is very reactive with water, generating sufficient heat to ignite the hydrogen emitted in the reaction.Potassium and sodium are...
, silicon
Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. A tetravalent metalloid, it is less reactive than its chemical analog carbon, the nonmetal directly above it in the periodic table, but more reactive than germanium, the metalloid directly below it in the table...
, and sodium
Sodium
Sodium is a chemical element with the symbol Na and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal and is a member of the alkali metals; its only stable isotope is 23Na. It is an abundant element that exists in numerous minerals, most commonly as sodium chloride...
. Owned by Lithia Mineral Water Inc. since 2009, LITHIA is currently marketed and sold only in the United States.
Source
The distinctive properties of LITHIA is attributable to its source. The spring source originates from deep within the earth where pristine water slowly permeates through miles of fissures becoming mineralized from contact with blue quartzQuartz
Quartz is the second-most-abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust, after feldspar. It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2. There are many different varieties of quartz,...
bearing granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
rock. The spring's mineral water is produced in limited quantities with a high mineral content that has seldom varied since it was first bottled and sold in 1888. It emerges from Lithia Springs at a temperature of 14.44°C (58 °F).
Spring Geology
Certain rare geological conditions can only produce natural bearing lithiumLithium
Lithium is a soft, silver-white metal that belongs to the alkali metal group of chemical elements. It is represented by the symbol Li, and it has the atomic number 3. Under standard conditions it is the lightest metal and the least dense solid element. Like all alkali metals, lithium is highly...
waters. The geological area from where Lithia spring flows from is a pluton
Pluton
A pluton in geology is a body of intrusive igneous rock that crystallized from magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth. Plutons include batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, lopoliths, and other igneous bodies...
, primarily composed of blue quartz
Quartz
Quartz is the second-most-abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust, after feldspar. It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2. There are many different varieties of quartz,...
bearing granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
rock that was formed during the formation of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Blue Ridge Mountains
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range. This province consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap. The mountain range is located in the eastern United States, starting at its southern-most...
, part of the Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains #Whether the stressed vowel is or ,#Whether the "ch" is pronounced as a fricative or an affricate , and#Whether the final vowel is the monophthong or the diphthong .), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America. The Appalachians...
about 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period.
Lithium
Natural lithia waters are rare and have historically been sought after for their curative properties by health seekers and water connoisseurs alike. The spring naturally contains lithiumLithium
Lithium is a soft, silver-white metal that belongs to the alkali metal group of chemical elements. It is represented by the symbol Li, and it has the atomic number 3. Under standard conditions it is the lightest metal and the least dense solid element. Like all alkali metals, lithium is highly...
an essential micro-nutrient that is necessary to maintain mental and physical wellbeing. In the Lithia Springs area local historians believe that the water has life extension qualities. On February 8, 2011, German researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena published their findings in the European Journal of Nutrition indicating that lithia waters lead to an increased life expectancy in humans and metazoans. Lithia waters are one of the most researched types of spring waters in the world because of their attributed health benefits.
History
At the site of the springs, archeological explorations of the grounds have uncovered from the earth an ancient megalithic temple that artifacts suggest is thousands of years old. CherokeeCherokee
The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...
and Muscogee people have legends about the mysterious ancients who left petroglyphs carved in granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
rock to beacon future generations to come to the health giving spring. Standing guard over Lithia Springs is a giant smiling turtle effigy
Effigy
An effigy is a representation of a person, especially in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional form.The term is usually associated with full-length figures of a deceased person depicted in stone or wood on church monuments. These most often lie supine with hands together in prayer,...
carved from granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
. This smiling giant is an ancient symbol of health and long life that has beaconed health seekers for thousands of years to come drink the springs curative waters. Until 1838 and the trail of tears
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830...
Lithia Springs was a healing center for the southern Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation (19th century)
The Cherokee Nation of the 19th century —an historic entity —was a legal, autonomous, tribal government in North America existing from 1794–1906. Often referred to simply as The Nation by its inhabitants, it should not be confused with what is known today as the "modern" Cherokee Nation...
. In October of 1887, the Congress of Physicians held their annual convention at Lithia Springs, Georgia. Historical records show that prestigious doctors of the day prescribed lithia water
Lithia water
Lithia water is mineral water containing lithium salts.Lithia water can occur naturally in spring form. One example can be found in Ashland, Oregon's Lithia Park...
for gout
Gout
Gout is a medical condition usually characterized by recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis—a red, tender, hot, swollen joint. The metatarsal-phalangeal joint at the base of the big toe is the most commonly affected . However, it may also present as tophi, kidney stones, or urate...
, rheumatism
Rheumatism
Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder is a non-specific term for medical problems affecting the joints and connective tissue. The study of, and therapeutic interventions in, such disorders is called rheumatology.-Terminology:...
, urinary tract disease, depression
Depression
Depression or depress may refer to:-Medicine:* Depression , a state of low mood and aversion to activity** Mood disorder, a class of mental illnesses featuring depressed mood...
, alcoholism
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...
, mood swings
Mood Swings
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, and many other ailments. In 1888 Judge Bowden started marketing and selling Lithia Spring water under the brand name Bowden Lithia Water. So popular was the water that the 300 room Sweet Water Health Resort opened in 1888 offering its guests, electric lights, inter communications system, indoor plumbing, custom made furniture from Michigan, European wines, Lithia water and the world's only Lithia vapor baths. Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
, the Vanderbilts
Vanderbilt family
The Vanderbilt family is an American family of Dutch origin prominent during the Gilded Age. It started off with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy...
, Presidents Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...
, Taft
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...
, McKinley
William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...
, and Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
were just some of the rich and famous people said to have come to Sweet Water Health Resort to experience the curative water that flowed from Lithia Springs. In 1889, Lithia Springs Mineral Water won the “Gold Metal Par Excellence” at the Piedmont Exposition in Atlanta.