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Portable vs Regular Alkaline Water Ionizers: How do the Melody and Waterman Compare?

In my last blog I showed you the videos comparing the Waterman Portable Water Ionizer and the Melody Water Ionizer for pH and ORP. Pretty impressive, huh?

I promised I’d show you the comparison chart, and calculate the rH for both, so here it is:

2 1/3 Hours Later…

 The big news here is that the Waterman tiny little portable water-ionizer pitcher did so well in these tests! I’ve tested the Melody water ionizer so many times, I knew that would be great, but the little Waterman? Wow! That’s great news, because you can buy the Waterman for under $60.00. And the cartridges last for 800 liters! Also, replacement cartridges are only around $20.00 each! Nice!

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Comparing the pH and ORP of the Waterman Portable Water Ionizer Pitcher with the Melody Water Ionizer after 2 1/4 Hours

There were a few things I was still wondering about after I did my last testing, video and blog about the Waterman Portable Water Ionizer Pitcher.

First of all, I wondered if my ionized water from my Melody water ionizer would be improved by pouring the already ionized water through the Waterman pitcher to ionize it some more. My prediction was that it would be improved by this, but maybe only a little (because the Melody already ionizes my water really well!)

Secondly, I wondered if over time (around an hour — give or take) the pH and ORP of the water ionized with the Waterman Portable Water Ionizer Pitcher would drop just a little or would the ionization effect drop considerably. Also, since I was setting up a third test of pouring the Melody ionizer’s ionized water into the Waterman ionizer-pitcher, I wondered how this pH/ORP would hold up over time as well.

Here are the 4 videos that show the testing and the results…with a brief statement about what you’ll see on each video:

Video 1: melody ionized water vs waterman1of4 …This video (part 1 of 4) shows the rH and ORP testing of both the Melody at level 3 and the Waterman (freshly filtered and ionized).

Video 2: melody ionized water vs waterman2of4 …This video (part 2 of 4) I am killing some time while watching the Waterman filter work by sharing some of my own personal testimonials about drinking ionized water. It’s an interesting historical perspective on water ionizers & a good story.

Video 3: melody ionized water vs waterman3of4 …This video (part 3 of 4) shows the rH and ORP testing of the Melody ionized water poured through the Waterman [double-water-ionization).

Video 4: melody ionized water vs waterman4of4 ...This video (part 4 of 4)  shows the pH and ORP testing of all three [the Melody at level 3, the Waterman, and the Melody ionized water filtered through the Waterman water ionizer] after 2 1/4 hours have elapsed.

I’ve run out of time to evaluate this with a chart. I’ll include a chart in the next blog. But, the bottom line is…The Melody (as I suspected) is far better than the Waterman. The Waterman is far, far, far better than tap water. And to get the convenience of a water ionizer wherever you go, I would suggest you get yourself a Waterman Portable Water Ionizer to bring with you. It is impressive to me and is something that, now that I know how great it is, I don’t want to be without.

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Why are water ionizers so expensive?

Finally, I wanted to add a statement made by a friend of mine yesterday, “If I would have known all I know today 7 months ago when I bought this machine, I would have been willing to pay $20,000.00 for it…or even more.” My friend attributes being alive today to the fact that she started drinking Kangen water from her Enagic machine.

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There are several things you can do to extend the life of your water ionizer.

• You can purchase a gadget called “Protection Plus Ionized Armor” @ $82.00 (& never needs replacement) which magnetically causes the water to become negatively charged BEFORE it enters your water ionizer. This inhibits the elements in the water from sticking to the internal tubes, channels, electrodes, and spouts of the water ionizer. Negatively charging the water is also going help the water ionization process without adding any elements or chemicals into the water, so it’s a win-win-win situation.
• You can purchase what’s called an “EOS Anti-Scaling Device” @ $160.00 (to be replaced about every 2000 – 3000 gallons). EOS stands for “Environmentally-Friendly + Omits + Scaling”. This is perfect if you have any kind of hard water that you’re concerned about. Hard water is HARD on water ionizers, because the water ionizer concentrates the alkaline minerals (i.e. calcium) into one stream inside the water cell, and this concentration of calcium tends to cause a calcium build-up (otherwise known as lime) which if it coats the plates (electrodes) even a small amount, you can lose some of your pH and ORP values. The EOS is an environmentally friendly way to reduce the amount of scale in your water ionizer! Calcium normally occurs in a crystalline structure which makes it adhere to virtually any surface creating a hard scale deposit that can accumulate as time goes on.  The EOS works by using a process to dramatically change the crystalline structure of calcium to a smooth, soft, spherical structure that does not create damaging scale build-up in your water ionizer. If you already have scale, guess what? It will dissolve the existing calcium carbonate scale build up (de-scaling effect!).
• I also sell two specific prefilters for water hardness on my website, but honestly you don’t need this if you have the two devices I’ve described above! That’s great news, because these devices don’t take up any extra room and are not unsightly on your counter-top!

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Can You Hook Up a Water Ionizer When You Have a Whole-House Water Softener?

Yes, you certainly can AND SHOULD get a water ionizer if your house is set up on a whole-house water softener, but you need to read this article first. The problem with a whole house water softener system is that it removes the good minerals (for human consumption), such as calcium and magnesium and replaces it with sodium or potasium. This actually makes your water slightly alkaline, but it’s alkaline minerals are the wrong ones for your overall health. Sodium, in particular, is an alkaline mineral that you don’t need more of! Running softened water through a water ionizer will make your drinking water too concentrated in sodium. Since the nature of a water ionizer is to concentrate the alkaline minerals into your drinking water and sodium is alkaline, it follows that all the sodium in the softened water will be pulled over to the alkaline pole within your water ionizer and then come out the drinking water spout. This means that you’ll have double the concentration of sodium in yout ionized water than you have in your softened un-ionized tap water. This wouldn’t be healthy for your body. Some sodium is fine, but softened water has too much of it and is void of the good alkaline minerals, like calcium and magnesium.

I’ve seen some of what hapens to people who drink softened water, my parents for instance. It most likely contributes to health problems like osteoporosis and blood-pressure issues. It’s not in my opinion healthy to consume softened water on a regular basis, no matter what the water-softener people tell you. What’s good for your household plumbing does not mean it’s the right thing for human consumption. I understand that some people have to soften their water or they’d have rust-colored toilet bowls or clogged-up water heaters all the time, however when you make the choice to “save the life of your appliances and fixtures” with a water-softening system, you should also consider saving the lives of the human inhabitants of that house with a special RO Combo Water Ionizer system I will describe below.

There are two ways you can get healthy water for human consumption if you have a whole-house water softener.

One way is to tie right into your hard-water water line (prior to the softener). This may take some plumbing knowledge to do. It may not even be very expensive to do if you know a good handy-man (or family member) who can do the plumbing cheap. One more thing is you would need to get an EOS anti-scaling device to protect your water ionizer from the hard water. The cost for an EOS is around $160 every 2-3 years.

The other (possibly even better) alternative is to set yourself up with a reverse osmosis system, tank, presurizer, & remineralizer all under your sink [which all of that, total, costs only about $375.00] and then tie the water ionizer in the line right after the remineralizer. By the way, the remineralizer is designed especially to put back 70+ trace minerals plus plenty of calcium and magnesium for excellent water ionization! Then you can either get an undersink kit so all you see is the double alkaline/acid spout above the sink, or set the ionizer on the counter and drill a small hole in your sink or counter-top to run the water feed line directly in-line — just after the remineralizer).

If you have your water report (from your water company) and see your water hardness is caused mostly from clacium or magnesium, I think the best choice is to try to tie directly into your hard-water line (prior to it being softened). However if your hard water is coming from a variety of undesirable minerals, such as iron, lead, etc. the best choice is to get the RO Combined with Remineralizer and Water Ionizer system described above.

No matter what the source water, if you are using a whole house water softener system, you need to do something to make your drinking water healthy. Some people might think it’s better or easier just to drink bottled water. DO NOT DO THIS! Bottled water is not good, and is the subject of thousands of other blogs. I can’t think of a single brand of bottled water that is a desirable alternative for your health. If you have to drink bottled water for some odd reason, and you can’t yet do what I’m suggesting with an RO + Remineralizer + water ionizer combination, then buy only the bottled water that comes from high altitude mountain springs. It will be more expensive, but it will be the only bottled water that’s even remotely healthy for your consumption. The better choice, though, (and cheaper in the long run) is to go ahead and take the plunge and get yourself the system I’m describing in this article: Reverse Osmosis + Remineralizer + Water Ionizer which can go directly under your sink.

If you mention this article you can get the whole system [Reverse Osmosis System, 6 Galon Storage Tank, Pressurizer, Remineralizer, Melody Water Ionizer, and Under Sink Kit] all for $1650.00. Keep in mind we can get you set up with a customization of exactly what YOU want and need. Give me a call at 314-452-9560 or email me at support@alkaline-water-plus.info.

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Chanson Water Ionizers Has a Great New Gadget that Promises to Extend the Life of your Plates!

The new gadget is called the “Protection Plus Ionizer Armor”. Here’s what it does:

• Uses magnet technology to reduce or eliminate scaling and hard water build up on your water ionizer electrodes. This technology has been used in factories for years.
• Extends the life of your water ionizer’s performance. 
• Gives the ionized water a silky smooth, delicious taste.

One thing I like about this (other than the things listed above, of course, is the fact that it doesn’t add anything to the water. Here’s the video:

I like this new gadget and hope you do too! I’m buying mine today. It works with any water ionizer. I want to make sure my Melody water ionizer has the best advantage to last 20 or so years [which most water ionizers are designed to last], and I think this will help ensure it does that.

You can find this new gadget for sale on my website: http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/product/Armor  Mention this blog post in the comment section of the order form and I’ll give you a 10% discount on your Ionizer Armor order.  Enjoy!

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Will Reverse Osmosis and Distilled Water Kill You? And, Why is RO So Much Worse than Alkaline Ionized Water?

If you consider your body slowly rotting away from over-acidity, then I will say yes, you’re being killed by RO or Distilled water if you don’t properly remineralize your water. Why? Well, the key is the lack of beneficial alkaline minerals in RO and distilled water. Sixteen years ago I was introduced to the concept that the pH (not the purity) of the water was the most essential thing to consider when looking at maintaining a natural healthy life style. If you take all the good alkaline minerals out of the water, what is left will be or shortly become acidic because it will leach acids from the air. 

This is something that can be easily tested (by me, you or anyone with or without a water ionizer) with a simple pH test kit.

Go buy a bottle of RO or distilled water and test it. It will be acidic. Probably pH 6.0. Not healthy!

Water distillers and RO machines operate on very different techniques, but have one thing in common. That’s the elimination of all minerals from the water (the good and the bad). The Japanese call this “dead water”, because it’s unnatural and unhealthy to have water with no minerals in it. With a water ionizer, the alkaline minerals all get pulled toward the alkaline electrodes and the acidic minerals and elements get pulled toward the acidic electrodes. What comes out of the bottom hose of a water ionizer is acidic water, virtually void of alkaline minerals. It tests between 3 pH (highly acidic) and 6 pH (somewhat acidic). Out the top spout, comes the healthy, fresh, filtered, ionized alkaline-mineral-rich water.

Your body gives off more than enough acidity …the end process in each cell is acid wastes.

What your body needs is more alkalinity to buffer the excess acids, so your blood doesn’t need to rob your joints and bones of the alkaline minerals it needs to maintain the proper pH. Therefore the answer to finding good healthy water is NOT in reverse osmosis machines or water distillation…it’s in water ionization! If you have to use something like reverse osmosis, you should properly remineralize your water then you can ionize it and get fantastic healthy water!

What makes water ionization healthy when RO and water distillation are not?

1. First of all, the water ionizer filters the water and rids it of the undesirable elements while at the same time allows the good elements (alkaline minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, potasium, etc.) to pass through into your healthy-drinking alkaline ionized water. RO and water distillation just indescriminately get rid of everything (the good and the bad).
2. Secondly, the process of ionization forces the harmful acidic elements, such as chlorine and fluoride, out the bottom (non-drinking water) spout. Further protection for you.
3. Water Ionization also splits the water molecules, making the cluster-size smaller and more easily absorbed into cells.
4. Water Ionization increases the hydrogen (OH-) in the ionized water, making it an effective antioxidant free-radical scavenger. RO and distillation do not do this.
5. If there is a hard-water or contamination concern in your area, there are prefilters and devices you can get to go with your water ionizer to handle those problems. Or if you do need to use RO, then you should go the extra mile and remineralize it and then ionize your purified, remineralized water with a good water ionizer. This will likely add years and years of health and beauty to your life!

I have spoken to many people who used to use RO or distilled water, and made the switch to an alkaline water ionizer.

These people make some of the most profound changes (more proof of how unhealthy the RO or distilled water was for them). Just yesterday, a friend of mine who just made this switch (she used to purchase RO water in big 5-gallon jugs but felt something was wrong with it…it didn’t feel quite right). About a week ago she installed her new Melody water ionizer that I had sold her. She had purchased some pH test strips at the health food store and had been testing her saliva and urine before purchasing her water ionizer. Her urine and saliva were acidic (that’s with drinking the RO water for over 2 years).  After one week of drinking ionized water the urine and saliva tests showed up green (alkaline) for the first time!!!!! That’s after one week of switching to the right water. Here’s another thing she told me. After drinking water from her new Melody water ionizer for one day, she has had much more energy and has actually at the same time needed less sleep! Needless to say, she’s flabbergasted. I just love hearing stories like that, and I hear them a lot in this business. Alkaline ionized water is the real McCoy! I’ve experienced nothing else, health-wise, that tops it! Find out for yourself!

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Water Ionizer Certifications: What is the ISO Certification of Water Ionizers All About?

On most water ionizer comparison charts you’ll see the term “ISO 9001″ or “ISO 14000″. What this is all about is safety and quality for you, the consumer, the worker, and the world. I’ll explain.

ISO is the icon for the International Organization for Standardization, which is the world’s largest developer and publisher of international standards for manufacturers. It has a presense in 161 countries and is chaired by participants in both the governments of those countries and the industry representatives. The purpose of ISO is to develop and encourage standards to protect consumers, workers and the environment.

What’s the difference between ISO 9001 and ISO 140001?

ISO 9001 refers to a family of standards addressing the quality of management in a water ionizer or any other manufacturing facility. The quality of management affects many things related to the water ionizers you purchase: the quality of the water ionizers match the claims made, enhanced customer satisfaction and continual improvement of the water ionizer design and production.

ISO 14001 refers to the environment. The goal with this certification is to minimize the harmful effects on the environment caused by the production of water ionizers or any product.

Both of these certifications are important to look for in your water ionizer purchase.

All Jupiter/Emco Tech, Tyent and Enagic water ionizers have both of these certifications. Life, KYK and Chanson have the ISO 9001 certification.

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Why Should Your Water Ionizer Be UL Certified? And Which Water Ionizers Are?

First of all, why your water ionizer should be UL certified is for the safety of your home, your loved ones and the environment. Underwriters’ Laboratories (UL for short) tests new consumer equipment for the safety of electrical circuitry, environmental safety, etc. They provide us with a valuable service by doing this. UL has developed over a thousand rigorous safety standards.

What you can do as a customer to protect your family and home is look at the UL symbol in advertizements for products you buy that are electrical. Otherwise the item could start a fire in your home if it contained some sort of sub-standard safety hazard.

Here are the water ionizers that have either existing UL certificates or are pending this certification.

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The small, portable water ionizer filter/pitchers are a good idea. They don’t ionize the water as well (by far) as a regular undersink or countertop water ionizer would, but if you’re traveling, or away from home for more than 8 hours, you may run out of your ionized water. That’s where the portable water ionizer pitchers come in. There are two good ones (that I know of) and at some point I’ll buy them and test them. But right now, I’m just looking at the features they say they have and what-not and giving you the links to see the two products for yourself.

pHresh Portable Water-Ionizer Pitcher: http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/product/pHresh

Waterman Water-Ionizer Pitcher: http://www.alkalinewaterplus.com/product/Waterman

Here’s the comparison chart:

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