LIfetime Water Products – FAQ

Q: Is Tap or Bottled Water really pure?

A: No

UNTREATED TAP WATER:

In several areas, polluting agents in tap water exceed 500 ppm or 500 parts of total dissolved solids (TDS) per million parts of water. Tap water can contain bacteria (a contamination of human or animal origin, coming from sewage sources, often coliform organisms); inorganic impurities (domestic and industrial wastes, infiltration from cess-pools, farm-yards, detergents, pesticides, bad taste and odors). Inorganic impurities such as chlorides, sulphates, calcium salts, magnesium, potassium, iron, boron, nitrates, fluorine, silicas, arsenic, chrome, cadmium, cyanides, lead, silver and thousands of other impurities.

BOTTLED WATER/SELF SERVE DISPENSERS:

      It is very difficult to evaluate the purity of these waters. Their use is costly and is not available to everyone. There are virtually no regulations on their quality. If you're buying bottled water, all you really know is you're getting water in a bottle!!!

Many "self serve" water dispensing stations are in retail stores. However, the quality is often questionable due to varied equipment, maintenance intervals and unqualified personnel.

Q: My water tastes bad. What could be the cause?

A: The bad taste of drinking water can be caused by one or a combination of several elements of contamination. The possibilities include manganese (characterized by a metallic flavour) and other minerals, industrial chemical wastes, detergents, organic compounds resulting from decaying vegetation, sulphur compounds, algae, etc.

Q: What could cause the bad odour in my water?

A: Here again there are several possibilities, but the most common causes are chlorine (municipal water), hydrogen sulphide (known as sulphur and characterized by a smell of rotten eggs), insecticides and industrial chemical wastes. Water seeping through decaying vegetation can create a swamp-like odour.

Q: What would cause dark colouring in water?

A: The water might originate from a swamp or a pond, might have passed through decaying vegetation in the earth, or might contain algae, iron or rust. Even if the water does not taste bad or does not have a bad odour, it certainly makes a poor drink.

There are also many polluting agents which have neither taste, nor odour, nor colour. It is thus quite possible and is often the case to be drinking dangerous water unknowingly. Some of these pollutants can accumulate in our systems over the years. Even if the use of such water does not seem to harm us, in the long run our health could be seriously affected.

Q: Could we become seriously ill from drinking contaminated water?

A: Yes! Doctor Victor Heiser, author of "The American Doctor's Odyssey" has produced actual proof that water contaminated by human excrement could be the origin of cholera epidemics which have occurred in several parts of the world. Moreover, this type of pollution can also cause epidemics of infectious hepatitis and of salmonella fever. All the preceding dangers exist without even including undesirable minerals such as arsenic, mercury and asbestos. Percentage of water in tissues, organs, fluids and blood in the human body:

Brain: 74.5% Bones: 22% Muscles 75.6% Kidneys: 82.7% Blood: 83%

• The year 2000 – Walkerton. Seven people died and hundreds were seriously ill from municipal well water containing lethal amounts of e-coli (Strain O157:H7)
• The year 2001 – North Battleford, SK – Hundreds sick from cryptosporidium parasites (Waterborne Cryptosporidiosis Outbreak)

Q: Can drinking water supplied by the municipality be contaminated?

A: In spite of efforts made by municipalities, unfortunately the answer is yes. It is reported that of 490 water systems observed intermittently in 1973 by the Environment Protection Service, 72% exceeded at least once the allowable maximum of four coliforms in their drinking water samples. This occurred in the province of Quebec in the year 2000. In July 1974, one municipality informed its 24,000 residents to boil their water before using. Another municipality saw 83% of its samples exceed 4 coliforms. Moreover, clean water at an aqueduct can become contaminated on its way to our taps.

Q: Does the human body not require minerals in drinking water?

A: The American Medical Journal states: "The mineral requirements of the human body are largely acquired from food and not from drinking water." Doctor Sherman, an eminent biochemist and nutritionist, maintains that the mineral content of water is not sufficient to be of any real value. Experts estimate you would have to drink approximately 2200 gallons of tap water per day to reach your required daily allowance of minerals!!

Q: Does nature not intend to include minerals in water?

A: Nature does not naturally include minerals in water. Pure water is in fact distilled by evaporation and subsequent condensation. This water then becomes loaded with impurities as it falls in the form of snow or rain and by erosion.

Q: What is the best source of distilled water?

A: The most economical way to proceed is to buy your own home-installed distiller. It will supply you with a source of drinking water at the cost of a few cents per gallon. If you are already using bottled water, you will obtain a financial saving which, in a very short while, will surpass the cost of your equipment. Moreover, you will have, for the rest of your life, a source of pure water that is both practical and economical. Automatic filling, auto-dispensing and auto-cleaning machines are the most popular now.

Q: What is the best Drinking Water System or Water Treatment System for me?

A: Please see the below Purification Comparison Chart: