Water Ionizers - Electrolyzed Alkaline Water Filters

Forty years ago Russian scientists devised a simple method of separating water into two streams of alkaline mineral rich water and acid mineral rich water. They used a series of magnetically charged plates and a ceramic separator filament. As water passed between the plates, the magnetic field drew alkaline minerals to one side of the ceramic filament, and acid to the other.

 

Today alkaline and acid water is used in a huge number of hospitals and clinics, both for consumption and wound healing in place of expensive drug regimens, and the technology soon spread to Japan and Korea. Large companies like Akai, Panasonic, Toyo and Jupiter Science manufacture the bulk of the world¡¯s systems, with a combined output of well over one million units per annum. Korean alkalizes have taken the lead with the introduction of Far Infra Red technology to their systems.

 

A water alkalize may be attached to the kitchen tap or installed under sink. It filters the water first, and then alkalizes and acidifies it via the ionizing chamber, creating the two streams of water.

 

Alkaline water is used for drinking, with many, many people reporting health improvement and reduction of acid symptoms. Acid water is used for dermal application, with similarly, many users reporting improvement. It may also be used for household cleaning because it is a powerful antiseptic. Domestic models will provide water at the same rate as a kitchen tap.

 

Some other systems make claims of alkalizing your water but do not guarantee it. The catalytic converter (See No. 5) will alkalize approximately one pH point (ten times the input pH) but a water alkalizer can alkalize up to 1,000 times more than tap water - depending, of course, on input water. Other systems depend on the addition of calcium to the filter to achieve alkalization.

 

Your water must have minerals in to facilitate the magnetic process. For this reason water supplies that hold very little minerals may not be as suitable.

 

7. Other Water Filters

We have not been able to include all systems here. There is a plethora of small household systems on the supermarket shelves. They are almost all carbon-based and have small capacity filters. Although they may do a good job, we have not bothered to include them. In general they do not represent good value.

 

There is also a range of systems that we call the "Spin Doctor Specials". These use massive advertising campaigns enlisting the assistance of celebrities and tied dealers to convince you through fear and hype that you imply must buy their system and that all others will probably harm you.

Distasteful as it may be, it works, and I get many people who are calling me in real fear of making the wrong decision.

 

So just to calm the waters (pun intended), here¡¯s a simple fact. You are not going to die prematurely from any water system and you are not going to die from drinking tap water. (Fingers firmly crossed) It¡¯s just the quality of life you need to think about. Health is indeed the only wealth.

 

8. Bottled water

The bottled water craze is so big that Coca-Cola and Pepsi predict that within a short time, water will create more revenue for them than their less healthy products. By 2007 the market will be twice the size. Yet is it really worth almost double petrol?

 

The USA loves bottled water. We spend billions per annum on something supposed to be "pure", or drawn from "springs", and we fall for the epics of sparkling streams and idyllic waterfalls as we rush for the checkout.

 

How does bottled water compare with free tap water?

The Weekend Australian commissioned a report by the University of Technology, Sydney. The report stated that "the best-selling bottled water, Mount Franklin, was no cleaner than the cheapest brand".

 

Yet "premium" bottled water such as Mount Franklin sells in supermarkets for about 209,000% times more than tap water.

Dr. Grant Hose, research fellow in eco toxicology at UTS, who oversaw the analysis, said the results showed that the notion that bottled water was somehow more "pure" than tap water was incorrect. "Tap water is as healthy for you as bottled water - it¡¯s no different," Dr Hose said.

The analysis tested three tap water samples and three bottled waters for bacterial contamination, impurities that affect taste such as dissolved solids, and other factors It also screened the samples for the minerals calcium, magnesium, sodium (a measure of salt), fluoride and nitrate.water filter,water filters,Reverse osmosis water filter | Undersink water filter

 

Neither tap nor bottled water samples had detectable bacterial contamination, and all were well within guideline limits for the other substances.

 

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