WHOLLY WATER ®
The Ultimate Drinking Water Appliance
*Patented Multi-Media
Construction... 5 Filter Beds with 6 Different Filter Media in
Our Specially Designed and Engineered Pressure Vessel.
Here is a description of the media in the layers from the top
down.
The first Filter Bed
Granules have irregular surface characteristics affording maximum
removal of suspended matter throughout the filter bed. It is
very lightweight, which makes it backwash clean very easily,
removing suspended solids down to the 20-micron range; it has
a very high dirt-removal capacity. This keeps all the following
filter beds clean and free of these solids, thus improving their
performance.
The second Filter
Bed
A Natural Choice... A naturally mined mineral,which has been
used in water treatment for more than 80 years. This media works
on the principle of catalyst reaction, but itself remains relatively
unchanged; this makes it last almost indefinitely. This will
remove iron, sulfur, and manganese as well as certain heavy metals.
It will also remove chlorine without being used up like carbon.
Chlorine in municipal water supplies actually improves its performance,
making it remove more than it does on its own and keeps the filter
media clean. You already know how chlorine bleach removes stains.
It provides a higher level of contaminant-oxidizing power. It
can filter dissolved solids down to 20-microns. This keeps many
toxic materials out of succeeding filter beds for purer drinking
water and longer life.
The third Filter
Bed KDF is a patented media that is a giant step forward
in water
purification. In a nutshell (short version), KDF has several
strong points:
1. Removes heavy metals and inorganic toxins that other media
do not; so when it is used before our tightly packed coconut
shell, carbon bed (GAC), the drinking water will not contaminate
this filter bed, making it last many times longer.
2. Is proven to kill bacteria as copper and zinc ions are eluted
through the carbon bed. It has EPA approval as a non-toxic device
for controlling bacteria in drinking water systems. Unlike other
media like Silver impregnated carbon, which is toxic and has
to be registered with the EPA because of it. This media does
not, and besides, it is much superior.
3. Removes iron, sulfur, and other common minerals that at higher
levels are very offensive to smell and taste. These minerals
are removed from the surface of this media in the WHOLLY WATER
® backwash cycle so it can remain clean to keep on working,
protecting the carbon bed.
This media works on the principle of Oxidation-Reduction or Redox
potential. Redox media remove dissolved gases such as chlorine,
hydrogen sulfide, and methane from water. They can also remove
virtually any soluble heavy metal, help prevent mineral hardness
scale accumulation, and reduce levels of microorganisms.
NOTE: These upper 3 filter beds benefit greatly by the quick
and easy, leak-free, push-button, backwash cycle built into every
WHOLLY WATER ®.
Will it ruin the WHOLLY WATER ® if you don't back-wash it?
I have several owners who have never done this. Mrs. Shepherd
from California called recently, informing me that she has never
backwashed her 7-year-old unit, and she says it's working fine.
I even offered her our new, improved version at a greatly reduced
price. She just said, "No, I love the one I have. It is
still giving us great drinking water & ice."
From the beginning,
WHOLLY
WATER ® has
been excellent in removing these. My patented technology allow
me to enhance this purifier for specific contaminants without
affecting the broad range that it removes. Please note that Nitrates
and Nitrites will be the exception.
My research
has resulted in targetingarsenic and fluoride as they are extremely toxic and insidious. Their
toxicity is cumulative; they buildup in your body over time.
They are also very reactive and combine with other common substances
making toxic compounds. They may do bodily harm in much less
time. Example:Aluminum & Fluoride Aluminum is added to water at
virtually all water treatment facilities. It is left in the water
as a result of adding ALUM, a clarifying chemical.
Fluoride is
both natural and added to water as FLUORIDATION. However, it gets into
the water, it does not change the fact that it is pollution. For more on this,
read this Article by George Glasser.
Our newest WHOLLY WATER
® model will now remove much higher levels of arsenic and fluoride with the two new water purification media.
The fifth
Filter Bed contains: Six pounds of highest grade premium coconut
shell, de-dusted, Granulated Activated Carbon (GAC). This
carbon has 200 to 300% the contaminant-removal capacity of coal
carbon used in most filters. We pack it tightly with special
vibrating tables before installing the separator disk.
This is many times more carbon then other brands of filters.
Now what does GAC remove besides bad taste and odor?
GAC is best known for its ability to adsorb organic materials
including most pesticides & many poisonous materials. The list
is long, and that is great for you. GAC does have many draw backs
- most notably a short life. Short because there are many things
in water that GAC will filter out. When this fine material has
to filter out sediments - iron, sulfur, chlorine, and even calcium
will plug it up. GAC has billions of microscopic cavities and
acres of surface area. The removal capability is enormous. To
waste this area on filtering these other things robs it from
its ability to do what it does better than any other water filter
media. With Wholly Water ® we have removed the materials
that shorten its life. We keep it clean so it can do what it
does best for the longest possible time. One of the other major
drawbacks is that bacteria is growing in this media. As described
above for KDF, it solves that problem. But this patented
design does something else other filters don't, and we patented
it. Bacteria feed on the trapped materials (like the ones listed
above) that plug up the GAC.
Wholly Water ® removes most of these before they can get
to the GAC, so there is much less of a bacteria threat to begin
with.
So these are our 6 media that make this such an incredible water
purifying system!
*U.S. Patent
5,205,932
Trademark Reg. 1,727,385
Author: James
D. Fairgrieve, CEO/Owner LIFE STREAMS INT'L Mfg. CO. ALUM is
not a water filteration media used in water purifiers or filters.
ALUM (Aluminum
Sulfate Al2(SO4))
Most public water supply systems
add alum to reduce turbidity, so when you drink city
water, you are already consuming alum.
How safe is alum? The jury may be out for
a long time. If you eat a Big Mac at McDonald's, you have just
eaten alum. Most public water supply systems add alum to
reduce turbidity, so when you drink city water, you are already.
For years, researchers
have puzzled over the surprisingly high levels of aluminium that
turn up in the shrivelled brains of Alzheimer's disease victims.
While some scientists believe that the aluminium deposits are
only a side effect of Alzheimer's, a growing number of investigators
say that aluminium may play a central role in causing the disease
that afflicts mostly elderly people. Aluminium occurs naturally
in some waters but is also introduced as aluminium sulphate by
some municipal water departments to remove fine particles, colour
and bacteria. Municipal water departments usually control the
water to a slightly alkaline condition, i.e., pH between 7 and
8. In alkaline conditions aluminium precipitates as fine solid
particles, which are then filtered out by means of sand filters.
However, sand filters become less efficient for particles as
small as 4 to 5 microns and therefore fine particles slip through.
The latest evidence of a link emerged when Australian scientists
reported that aluminium used to purify water accumulated in the
brains of laboratory rats. The Australian study focused new interest
on the issue at a time when Ottawa’s environmental health
directorate is preparing to propose Canada's first national guidelines
for aluminium levels in drinking water. The Australian study
was important, said the directorate's chief, Dr. Barry Thomas,
because it showed that aluminium in drinking water can be absorbed
by the body. "As to whether it actually causes memory loss
and brain damage," added Thomas, "there is not conclusive
evidence. But we fear that it may." Although tiny amounts
of aluminium are used in a variety of products, including antacids,
antiperspirants, and some processed foods, the metal is pervasively
present in drinking water. The reason: municipalities in Canada
and other countries often use aluminium sulphate, or alum, to
remove mineral particles from water in filtration plants, a process
that leaves an aluminium residue in the water.
In the past, studies in Canada and other
countries have pointed to links between aluminium and Alzheimer's.
University of Toronto researchers found in a 1991 study that
they could slow the rate of deterioration in Alzheimer's patients
by treating them with a drug that removed some aluminium from
their brains.
In a far-reaching study published in January
(1995), William Forbes, a university of Waterloo gerontologist,
demonstrated an apparent connection between mental impairment
and aluminium in about 100 Ontario communities. In each community,
researchers determined the amount of aluminium in the water supply
and tested the mental state of people starting at the age of
45 and continuing over a period of 35 years. They concluded,
said Forbes, that the risk of impaired mental functions was "almost
10 times higher in areas where the aluminium levels in drinking
water were high."
