There is much confusion in the marketplace
concerning Water Ionizers. The Internet, for example, is full of
information, misinformation, disinformation and general confusion about
what Water Ionizers do and don’t do.
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Q:
Where are Water Ionizers currently manufactured?
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Water Ionizers are manufactured in two
countries, Japan and Taiwan. None are currently manufactured in the
United States. There are water ionizers on the market being sold as
American Made, however all their parts are imported from Japan,
sometimes Taiwan, and simply assembled in the US.
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Q:
How long have Water Ionizers been on Market ?
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Water Ionizers have been available in the
orient for over forty years and in the United States for about 10 years.
They were popularized in Japanese and began to become somewhat common
there around the mid 1980's. Several Japanese models imported in recent
years from Japan are no longer being manufactured although getting
filters for those units usually does not pose a significant problem,
although they can sometimes be costly.
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Q:
Should a Water Ionizer have a fuse or a circuit breaker?
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A Water Ionizer should have a three prong
plug and thick electrical wire. Two prong plugs encourage overheating as
they do with any other appliance. It does not matter whether a Water
Ionizer has a fuse or a circuit breaker, although circuit breaker Water
Ionizers often have thin electrical wires, two prong plugs and weak
transformers that overheat. Thus they often require a circuit breaker
rather than a fuse which would often need to be replaced.
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Q:
Why do different
Water Ionizers come with a different selection levels of intensity?
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A Water Ionizer should have at least 3
levels of intensity to chose from. This is mainly because Ionized Water
is extremely detoxifying and people who have toxins built up in their
system can suffer reactions such as headaches or diarrhea. This is
especially true of the elderly because they often have built up many
toxins in their bodies over the years. Also those who have a very poor
diet or have taken a lot of medicine. Having 4 levels simply offers the
convenience of more levels of strength to chose from, thus allowing
people to build their tolerance for Ionized Water more slowly if they
wish.
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Q:
Does the volume of water that a Water Ionizer produces per minute an important
feature to consider? Are some Water Ionizers on the market stronger than other
Water Ionizers?
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All home Water Ionizers currently
manufactured that deliver approximately 1 to 1 1/2 gallons per minute.
There is very little difference between the strength of the various
Water Ionizers on the market. Ionized Water with a 10 pH or higher takes
only a unflattering taste, almost as though it is salty. The slower you
run water through a Water Ionizer, the stronger it will become because
the source water has more contact time with the electrodes. This is why
the flow rate of Water Ionizers essentially does not matter. If you wish
to drink strong Ionized Water then running the source water through it
very slowly will accomplish this.
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Q:
Does it matter
what the electrodes on a Water Ionizer are composed of?
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The electrodes are one of the most
important components of a Water Ionizer. It is sometimes suggested that
there are units on the market that have stainless steel electrodes and
this simply is not the case. All Water Ionizers currently
manufactured have titanium electrodes that have been dipped in platinum,
which is one of the biggest cost of a Water Ionizer. It is important to
note that the electrodes are coated with platinum, not electroplated
with it.
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Q:
There have been
claims made by water ionizer manufacturers that they use solid platinum
electrodes. Is this true?
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This can not be true because it would not
aid in the performance of the water ionizer. Water Ionizer manufacturers
use titanium because it is hard and lasts many years. They coat the
titanium with platinum because it is good conductor and it durable.
However, to manufacture electrodes that are solid platinum would make no
sense. It would be very costly, nearly tripling the prices of the
electrodes, and it would not improve the quality or strength of the
Ionized Water produced by them. Platinum is also a very soft metal,
which would not be suitable or practical for producing platinum-pure
electrodes since they must be comprised of a hard metal such as titanium
if they are expected to last several years. Electrodes comprised of pure
platinum would not last any longer than platinum-coated titanium
electrodes.
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Q:
Do all Water Ionizers have a carbon filter? Why do some carbon filter have
silver impregnation?
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All continuous flow Home Water Ionizers on
the market have a carbon filter. The carbon in the filter is silver
impregnated in order to retard bacterial growth. The silver that is
impregnated in the carbon will NOT leach into the water. Every major
manufacturer of carbon filters in the US produces carbon filters with
silver impregnation. There are no Water Ionizers currently manufactured
that use arsenic in their filters as has been suggested.
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Q:
What is the
advantage of having UV light on a Water Ionizer?
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The purpose of UV light is for bacterial
disinfection. However, on a Water Ionizer this is completely unnecessary
for several reasons. If you have city (municipal) water then your water
has already been disinfected through the use of chlorine. The carbon
filter on the Water Ionizer will remove the chlorine. The UV light
itself loses much of its effectiveness after the first six months of use
and should be replaced often, which is of course an expensive
proposition. Also, the glass tube that the water travels through in
order that it can be exposed to the UV light develops a film on it after
only a few months, which greatly lessens the effectiveness of the UV
light on the water which passes through the tube.
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Q:
Do Water
Ionizers remove fluoride from the water as some have claimed?
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There have been statements made regarding
Water Ionizers removing fluoride from municipal water. Water Ionizers
can not remove anything from the water. To Ionize means simply to gain
or loose an electron. The amount and type of minerals that are present
in the water before ionization is the same after ionization. In every
test we are aware of, no more than 50% of the fluoride in the water was
lost on the alkaline side of the Ionized Water. This means that half but
not all of the fluoride in the Ionized Water after ionization had
migrated to the acidic side of the ionization process which runs into
the drain. However, it must be clearly stated that the ionizing water
does NOT completely remove fluoride from the Ionized Water on the
alkaline side.
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