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The Importance of Filtration

Often when I receive an inquiry from an ionizer consumer, the first thing they typically ask me about is power and plates. While these are very important features to consider, it is even more important to consider water filtration. Clean water is a must. You can have the most powerful ionizer in the world, but if it doesn’t filter out lead or microscopic parasites from your drinking water, you will not feel secure about your drinking water.

Water Should be Simple

The quality of tap water is often considered to be absolute—that is, many people assume that the tap water they drink in El Paso, Texas is the same water they drink in Portland, Oregon. But this is not true.

The sad fact is that our drinking water encounters many unavoidable environmental pollutants before reaching our kitchen sink. These pollutants are a by-product of leaching metals, raw materials, processing plants, irrigation, pesticides, fertilizers, and even pharmaceuticals.

Arsenic

Arsenic is an odorless, tasteless, toxin caused by natural and manmade sources. It is found in over 200 natural mineral forms, and as such, is a common contaminant in groundwater. It leaches into our drinking water supplies from deep within the earth’s crust, from manufacturing processing byproducts. Arsenic accumulates up in the fatty tissues of the body, sometimes building up to deadly levels.

The best way to reduce arsenic is with a heavy metal pre-filter. And while it’s not a stand-alone solution, the actual ionization process itself neutralizes heavy metals.

Lead exposure in children can cause developmental defects and has been shown to contribute to deficits in attention and learning abilities. Over time, drinking water with lead contaminants can contribute to kidney problems and high blood pressure in adults.

Chloromines have been used in place of chlorine (for the last 70 years) adds ammonia to the chlorine mixture, because it’s cheaper, a lot of municipal water districts are moving to that to save costs. According to EPA, chloromines are safe for human, much more difficult to filter out than pure chlorine. a lot of media will remove chlorine, like carbon, most usual media, but it will not filter out the ammonia molecule of the chloromines. Trained water quality association professionals can assist you with determining the best method of reducing chloromines from your water.

Fluroride is a heavy metal derived from fertilizer manufacturing and aluminum manufacturing. Scientific studies have shown that it’s more toxic than lead, and only slightly less toxic than arsenic. We are the only civilized country that puts fluoride in our drinking water to prevent tooth decay, and there is no difference in the amount of tooth decay between USA and Europe. The risks greatly outweigh the benefits. Link to fluoride danger site. http://www.mbschachter.com/dangers_of_fluoride_and_fluorida.htm

Chlorine is the most common treatment for disinfecting drinking water, among other things, like swimming pools. a side effect is gas, which goes off when chemical kills off bacteria. the most effective way we have found to remove chlorine is with Granulated activated carbon used in conjunction with Vitamin C ceramic. Removed with GAC. Produces harmful by-products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and halo-acetic acids, which are known cancer-causing agents.

The single most common cause of bad-tasting water is hard water. The single most common cause of ionizer burn-out is heavy water (also known as scale). The solution to this is a combination of reverse osmosis and/or a pre-filter.

Significantly reduced with RO and GAC pre-filter. Two common industrial chemicals that are also pharmaceuticals — the antiseptics phenol and hydrogen peroxide — account for 92 percent of the 271 million pounds identified as coming from drugmakers and other manufacturers. Both can be toxic and both are considered to be ubiquitous in the environment. However, the list of 22 includes other troubling releases of chemicals that can be used to make drugs and other products: 8 million pounds of the skin bleaching cream hydroquinone, 3 million pounds of nicotine compounds that can be used in quit-smoking patches, 10,000 pounds of the antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride. Others include treatments for head lice and worms. http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2009/04/19/tons-of-released-drugs-taint-us-water.html

Giardia and the Cryptosporidium are two types of chlorine-resistant bacteria that are common in United States drinking water. MORE INFO HERE ON WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY AUSE IN HUMANS

The Solution

Now that you know about all of these threats present in our water, it’s important to know how you can filter them out! Ask your Water Ionizer Expert to help you target your water filtration solution with the following effective methods on the market:

Granular Activated Carbon

Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) is used by Jupiter, LIFE and Tyent in their internal filters. GAC is a fairly decent filter for just about anything, but its main drawback is that is doesn't filter out chloromines. They are saying that GAC will filter out chlorine, but it will not remove a significant component of chloromines, like ammonia.

Vitamin C Filters

LIFE's second filter will significantly reduce the amount of chloromines in the water. Using GAC and Vitamin C will take care of most of these together. Most hospitals will use a carbon-based filtration system in conjunction with a vitamin c filtration augment.

UV Light Disinfection

SHOW IMAGE OF WATER FILTRATION PLANT OR NYC (NYC they use UV light purification and they use less chlorine) We’ve heard the misinformation that in order for UV light to be even slightly effective, the water needs to be standing, but when you consider that NYC, which uses UV light purification in their water treatment facilities, and they have 4.4 billion gallons of water per day, their flow rate is pretty high, no? A technique that combined with electrolysis, significantly reduces all known bacteria and viruses/ EPA approved method of removing bacteria and virus in the water. http://www.usawaterquality.org/themes/health/research/ultraviolet.html

.01 Micron filtration

A 0.01 Micron Filter removes bacteria like giardia and cryptosporidium, and is an excellent method of disinfection when combined with UV light. Another helpful by-product of purifying with 0.01 Micron Filters is that it also helps in reducing scale build-up in a hard water areas. This measurment is 10 times smaller than the smallest filter used in most ionizers on the market.

Ionization

Ionization, also known as electrolysis, is an approved method of reducing heavy metals. Through the ionization process, heavy metals are drawn out of the alkaline water to the non-drinking acidic water that comes out of the ionizer when you pull alkaline water to drink. Ionization will also have a useful effect on reducing the amount of bacteria in the water, and has been shown to kill certain strains of bacteria and virus with weaker membranes.

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