The idea has been around for a while[1]. I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a major supplement market. It exists, but I don't see a major brand of lithium-added bottled water.
You ain't kidding about "for a while". A Google Scholar search found "Pure Water for Drinking: A Review of Essential and Toxic Metals in Health and Disease" from 1983 which says:
> Dawson at the University of Texas has found that admissions to state mental hospitals and homicide and suicide rates correlated inversely with the lithium content of drinking water (40). He espouses the extremely controversial view that it be added to the drinking water up to the level of that occurring naturally in other waters with a high lithium content.
(40) is: DAWSON, E. B., FIEVE, R. and SHEARD, M. L.: Shall We Add Lithium to Drinking Water? In Water, Its Effects on Life Quality. Proceedings Seventh Water Quality Symposium 47-52, 1974.
Google Scholar says 3 sources cite it, but that it's only known via a citation.
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> Dawson at the University of Texas has found that admissions to state mental hospitals and homicide and suicide rates correlated inversely with the lithium content of drinking water (40). He espouses the extremely controversial view that it be added to the drinking water up to the level of that occurring naturally in other waters with a high lithium content.
(40) is: DAWSON, E. B., FIEVE, R. and SHEARD, M. L.: Shall We Add Lithium to Drinking Water? In Water, Its Effects on Life Quality. Proceedings Seventh Water Quality Symposium 47-52, 1974.
Google Scholar says 3 sources cite it, but that it's only known via a citation.
Nowhere does it say that Li "should be added" to drinking water supplies to achieve these lower rates.