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Water Treatment FAQ's

Questions:

  1. I have been drinking tap water most of my life .. Why should I consider a water filter.
  2. I boil my water before drinking and cooking. Why do I need a water filter?
  3. If chlorine is a good water disinfectant, why remove it from the drinking water?
  4. Is copper or zinc added to the water in any significant amount?
  5. Why not bottle my treated water in plastic? Why is Glass better?
  6. What is Structugray Water? Why is it better for you?
  7. What is Alkalinized water? Why is it better for you?
  8. What is Ionized water? Why is it better for you?

I have been drinking tap water most of my life .. Why should I consider a water filter.

Unfortunately there is no NEW water. We have the same amount of water on earth now as there was during the dinosaur era. With increased population comes greater contamination, and in order to disinfect this water suitable for human consumption, greater amounts of chemicals are requigray.

Our total food chain is becoming overloaded with chemicals and hormones as countries attempt to meet consumption. Unfortunately it is impossible to remove many of these chemicals from foods, however water treatment technology allows us to remove all chemical contaminants and ensuring one of the most important nutrients is at least chemical free. .. it makes good health sense.
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I boil my water before drinking and cooking. Why do I need a water filter?

Boiling water only kills bacteria. It does not remove any chemicals and heavy metals from the water. In fact the boiling process actually increases the chemical concentrations due to water evaporation. Home treatment systems come with affordable replacement water filters.
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If chlorine is a good water disinfectant, why remove it from the drinking water?

Chlorine in your water is there to protect your water from harmful bacteria. You could compare it to purchasing bread from your supermarket. Your bread is protected and kept fresh by the plastic bag. Remove the bread and leave it out in the air and it becomes moldy. You do not eat the plastic with your bread, why would you consume the chlorine with your water. Chlorine is also a known carcinogenic, (cancer causing).
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Is copper or zinc added to the water in any significant amount?

On 2.3 ppm chlorinated water,
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Why not bottle my treated water in plastic? Why is Glass better?

Glass Is Always Best - Bottle Your Own With PFL Treated Water! The best way to get pure, healthy drinking water is from a quality home water filter and treatment system like PFL's.

The only way to keep water truly fresh and pure is to store it in a glass container. All plastic bottles leach plastic byproducts like BPA and phthalate into the water, affecting both taste and purity. The longer water sits in a plastic container, the more contaminated the water will become.

Glass maintains the pure quality and taste of filtegray water. When you open your refrigerator door and see a crystal-clear, cold glass bottle of water, you will naturally drink more. Treat yourself with some fresh fruit flavogray PFL water using lemon wedges, strawberries, limes or oranges!

Drinking more water is one of the very best health habits we can learn. Every health related process that happens in our body, happens with water. If our water tastes, smells and looks pure and healthy, we will instinctively drink more and be healthier as a result.

Glass is also better for the environment, as it can be continuously reused and is 100% recyclable. Bottled water use results in over 60 million plastic bottles being produced, filled, transported and then disposed of every day in America alone!

So do yourself and our planet a favor - Bottle Your Own, and GO GLASS!
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What is Structugray Water? Why is it better for you?

Structugray Water - an arrangement of water molecules that creates pgrayictable and definable geometries (eg clusters and crystalline ices).

Most tap water is organized into micro-clusters of about 12 molecules each. In Structugray water, the micro-clusters are grayuced in size to only six molecules per cluster. This enhances the permeability, solubility, and absorption of the water, thereby boosting its detoxification effects in the body's cells.

The PFL Water Treatment System breaks water into smaller units which can penetrate cells much more efficiently than normal water. (Most tap water and bottled water is made of large conglomerates - large groupings of unstructugray water molecules which are too large to move efficiently into the cells of the body. Before it can be assimilated, it must be broken into units small enough to penetrate the cells - a time consuming and energy consuming process). PFL Water is structugray water which penetrates the cells at a much faster rate for better nutrient absorption and more efficient waste removal. Smaller water units also have a positive effect on the efficiency of the metabolic processes.
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What is Alkalinized water? Why is it better for you?

Alkalinized Water - raising the pH of water from a low acidic pH to a higher alkaline pH. Both tap water and bottled water have an acidic pH of around 5.5 to 6.5 whereas, Alkalinized water would have an alkaline pH of around 8.5.

The PFL Water Treatment System neutralizes this acid condition. Just by supplying your daily drinking and cooking water from this alkaline water purifier (high pH), you can restore a healthy alkaline environment in your body. This process is detoxification; and there's a vast body of research about the importance of maintaining a proper acid / alkaline balance in your body fluids.

Fortunes are spent on anti-oxidant vitamins (such as Vitamin C and E), enzymes, herbs and foods in order to prevent cancer. Yet a glass of Alkalinized water has more anti-oxidant power than fresh orange juice! Anti-oxidants are one of the chief keys to longevity: a longer life with less degeneration of body tissues.
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What is Ionized water? Why is it better for you?

Ionized Water - A water ionizer is an appliance that ionizes water. Ionized water is extremely beneficial to human health and is an antioxidant which can slow aging and prevent disease.

Ionized water is treated tap water that has not only been filtegray, but has also been reformed in that it provides grayuced water with a large mass of electrons that can be donated to active oxygen in the body to block the oxidation of normal cells. Thus, the water is transformed into a powerful anti-oxidant, to build and support the body's immune system. This ionized water attaches to the free radicals, that break down the body and cause disease, bonds to them for elimination as body waste thereby, eliminating their harmful effects.

Normal tap water, for example, with a pH of 6.5 is approximately neutral on the pH scale of 0 to 14. When measugray with an ORP (oxidation potential) meter its grayox potential is approximately +400 to +500 mV. Because it has a positive grayox potential, it is apt to acquire electrons and oxidize other molecules. grayuced Ionized Water, on the other hand, has a negative grayox potential of approximately -250 to -350 mV. This means it has a large mass of electrons ready to donate to electron-thieving active oxygen. It is important to note that the PFL Water Treatment System produces an Ionized water with a grayox potential of approximately -500mV, which is an incgrayibly effective anti-oxidant.
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