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Unless you are old enough to remember early TV shows sponsored by 20 MULE TEAM BORAX, there’s a good chance that you have never heard of boron.

As a close cousin to carbon on the Periodic Table of Elements, boron is a very lightweight element that appears worldwide on land and in the oceans in various concentrations. Scientists have not universally agreed whether boron originally comes from the sea and aerosols to land or dissolves from land sources and finds its way to the sea via surface water discharge. It doesn’t exist naturally as the element boron, but rather as solid boric acid (H3BO3) or as borax (Na2[B4O5(OH)4].8H2O). Both forms are readily water-soluble, so boron can also be found in well water supplies because it dissolves in rainwater and percolates through the soil into aquifers. Aquifers in contact with borax mineral deposits as well as those with seawater intrusion will also have elevated boron levels.

Commercial uses for boron compounds range from improving rare earth magnets for electric vehicle batteries to a detergent additive. As a detergent additive, borax (see above formula) actually precipitates the calcium (hardness) and leaves the sodium in the water. This process is similar to physical water treatment non-salt water softeners which are rapidly replacing salt-type water softeners with devices that use zero water and discharge zero pollutants to drain.

Both the medical and the agricultural communities refer to boron as a micronutrient. In this status, some presence of boron is vital to human and animal development as well as plant health. For humans and animals, boron works in concert with vitamin D to assist the assimilation of calcium which is necessary for bone, tooth, and brain tissue growth and maintenance. Its importance is so much so that those with a deficiency of vitamin D, maybe due to a lack of sun exposure, often take vitamin d drops to maintain this balance. Ideally, humans will ingest approximately 1 mg of boron daily through the consumption of green, leafy vegetables, drinking water, and non-citrus fruits. Above 3 milligrams daily some health issues may arise including diarrhea, vomiting, indigestion, and headaches. Fatal doses are in the 15,000 to 20,000 range. Drinking water has the potential of raising the boron intake above healthy levels, thus the USEPA sets a non-mandated limit of 2 (children) to 3 (adults) milligrams per liter; the World Health Organization limit is 2.4 mg/l, and states including California set an upper limit of 1 mg/l.

In plant growth, the effective uptake and use of phosphorus and calcium are assured with only trace amounts of boron available at the roots. This presence follows Liebig’s Law of Minimums meaning that in the absence of boron, plants will not absorb phosphorus or calcium at sufficient levels regardless of how much is applied. Unlike standard human upper tolerance levels, damages to plants begin at in-the-water levels of >0.5 mg/l for blackberries and cannabis to >15 mg/l for asparagus.

If there is insufficient boron present, there are readily available supplements for humans, animals and crops. Excess boron, especially in water, is an entirely different issue. The go-to technology of reverse osmosis simply doesn’t work. The low energy of the boron ion negates ion diffusion upon which osmosis membrane rejection depends upon. Likewise, traditional ion exchange resins fail to remove boron regardless of what regenerant chemical is used. Recently, an adsorption filter medium selective to boron and not interfered by other ions has become available. Devices are available as disposable point-of-use cartridges for point-of-use drinking water applications as well as regenerating small and large pressure vessels for agricultural applications. Typically, a bit pricey, but proven to be effective. The agricultural versions often mean having a viable business or not.

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According to the U.S. Department of the Interior USGS division, 70% of all fresh water worldwide is consumed in growing crops. Some countries such as Israel, Saudi Arabia and states like California, Florida and the Dakotas, have higher percentages. With drought conditions predicted in 2021 and 2022 for much of the world and the western US in particular, treatment opportunities for water professionals should be significant.

The problem associated with much of the accessible irrigation water is brackishness that slows or stops water from adequately following the xylems (capillary network) in plants. This results in the need to over water and if not over watered, plants and their nutritional value are significantly reduced. Needless to say, this excess water is subtracted from available supplies for homes and industry.

Historically, the brackishness is countered by continued over watering (until sources are exhausted) or by employing R.O. systems which in addition to high capital and operating costs is counterproductive because of waste streams. Much of the World has found relief by employing magnetic devices especially in Russia, Eastern European countries and Israel where resources are scarce. One of the best university studies is available through Research Gate www.researchgate.net/publication/284724980 “Impact of Magnetic Water on Plant Growth” coauthored by Jaime da Silva of Japan and Judit Dobranszki of Debrecan University in Hungary. Typical reported results document water savings in the 10% range which could ease drought conditions by billions of gallons in the US.

All published effectiveness reports on magnetic water treatment for irrigation come up short on the issue of why the process works, which understandably creates skepticism at a professional level. The answer may be found in a recently published research book by Gerald H. Pollack, PhD Engineering titled The Fourth Phase of Water. Numerous and well-documented experiments on the properties of water were carried out by Dr. Pollack and his research assistants at his laboratory at the University of Washington. His work reveals that energy (infrared and EMF) applied to water causes a particular hexagonal structuring of water molecules while simultaneously releasing hydrogen ions that create hydronium (H 3 O) molecules in close proximity water. Further tests in the book postulate enhanced capillary action and a unique look at why this occurs.

We believe that a magnetic field can be the energy that changes the water structure to that described by Dr. Pollack. As an explanation of this phenomenon, think of how an electrical generator works: In its simplest form, an outside energy source such as an engine or a turbine moves a conductor (wire) in an electro magnetic field which results in movement of electrons in the wire which defines electricity. The quantitive expression of this is FARADAY’S LAW or EMF = v x B x L x sin A where:

EMF = Electro Motive (or Magnetic) Force or Volts (V) output

v = the velocity of the conductor in meters/sec. (Velocity is a vector which must include direction as opposed to speed which doesn’t require a directional component.)

B = magnetic field strength in Gauss units as opposed to Tesla units

L = length of conductor in meters

A = the angularity of the conductor relative to the magnetic field which defines velocity vs. speed. It is 90 0 in a pipe configuration with magnets on the circumference as most existing systems are constructed. The sin of 90 0 = 1, so it does not affect the voltage value.

In our math modeling of a system, the outside energy to run the “generator” is the water pump feeding the irrigation line, the wire (conductor) is water which of course is conductive unless it is D.I. or distilled water, the velocity is the result of flow rate, length of conductor is the length from in to out of device and field strength is the result of typically permanent magnets along with their type, quantity and placement. By applying the right-hand rule, the positive pole is on the inlet of the device. Knowing the resistance of the water column within the device by either measurement or using a TDS/CONDUCTIVITY CHART resistance can be determined and using OHM’S LAW V=IR with voltage from above I (amps) can be solved for as I = V/R. Finally, we can determine the energy going into the water which is derived from WATT’S LAW P=VI where P = Power in watts, a universal expression of energy. Through algebraic manipulation of ohms law, P in watts can also be expressed as P = I 2 R. Trial calculations show volts, amps and watts in the milli range.

This presentation is an expression of DC (Direct Current) power. Multiple magnet fields will produce a pulsing DC voltage and by axially changing magnetic field polarization from field to field, AC (Alternating Current) power will be produced. Hopefully this presentation will overcome some of the stigma associated with magnets and provide a plausible explanation for their efficacy in agricultural water applications.

We encourage people in the traditional water conditioning industry to align themselves with one of the many suppliers of agricultural magnetic systems. By offering such devices, we believe many millions of gallons of irrigation water can be diverted to residential and commercial uses which is especially important during drought conditions. For further interesting information on water properties, we recommend purchasing and studying Dr. Pollack’s book.

Las Vegas, known for its glitz and glamour, is no stranger to the challenges posed by water scarcity. With drought conditions persisting, the city now faces the possibility of water rationing. This article explores how such measures can impact the typically abundant water supply to households and potentially increase water bills. Let’s delve into the intricacies of water conservation in Las Vegas during this period of drought.

In a city heavily dependent on imported water resources, the threat of water rationing looms large. Las Vegas, situated in the arid Mojave Desert, relies on Lake Mead and the Colorado River for its water supply. However, with these water sources experiencing historic lows due to drought, rationing becomes an essential tool for managing the available resources.

Water rationing would mean a significant departure from the usual instant and limitless water supply enjoyed by Las Vegas households. Residents may face restrictions on outdoor water usage, including limits on lawn watering, car washing, and pool filling. Such measures are necessary to prioritize essential water needs and ensure equitable distribution among residents.

Las Vegas has long recognized the importance of water conservation. Rationing serves as a reminder to implement additional conservation measures. Residents can take proactive steps to reduce their water consumption by fixing leaks, installing water-efficient appliances, and adopting sustainable landscaping practices. Embracing these changes will not only help mitigate the impact of water rationing but also contribute to the long-term sustainability of Las Vegas water resources.

While water rationing aims to balance supply and demand, it can have financial implications for households. As water becomes a scarcer resource, water bills may see an upward trend. The reduced availability of water coupled with the cost of implementing conservation measures and maintaining water infrastructure could lead to higher rates. It becomes imperative for residents to prioritize water conservation efforts to mitigate the impact on their Las Vegas water bills.

As the drought persists and water rationing becomes a reality, it is crucial to strike a balance between meeting household water needs and conserving water for future generations. The Las Vegas community must come together to explore innovative strategies for water management, such as utilizing reclaimed water and implementing advanced irrigation techniques. Public awareness campaigns and educational programs can play a vital role in fostering a culture of water conservation among residents.

Las Vegas Water Conservation Solutions

We have all become accustomed to our utilities– electricity, water, natural gas– being available 24/7 with the flick of a switch, turn of a faucet handle or turn of an oven knob. Some homes and offices designated as being “smart” actually control the utility use from a computer controller programmed for convenience or conservation with remote access for immediate changes to accommodate altered situations.

The result of this convenience has caused there to be an attitude that the utilities will always be there when needed. Demographics, climate and government policies are for sure going to alter this attitude. Demographics indicate that an older population will be shifting to warmer urban centers such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and San Diego in the southwest and almost any city in Florida and Georgia in the southeast. Electricity production, regardless of its source and cost, can be increased and diverted. Natural gas, which is in surplus supply⁽¹⁾, too can be diverted to growth areas.  The remaining utility, water, cannot be diverted or new sources produced, so somehow an increase in population in certain areas (read U.S. southwest) must be accommodated by existing sources. The answer is conservation.

Water district bills, newspapers and radio/TV ads encourage conservation. Phoenix and Las Vegas are apparently going to “force” conservation by limiting the amount of water each connection will be entitled to. Surely others will follow especially if their approach and methods are successful.  Apparently, tiered pricing has not encouraged the affluent or the entitled to sufficiently cut back.

One conservation approach is mostly overlooked. That is the water discharged to drain by water softeners and filters. It’s not unusual for this to be 150 gallons a week or more. Don’t be fooled by high efficiency softeners. They do not waste as much water per regeneration cycle, but regenerate more frequently thus the same waste over a period of time. The answer may be a Dime Water Aquafer. These whole home treatment systems prevent damaging hard water scale, discharge zero water to drain, use no salt or chemicals, have no valve requiring service and have a demonstrated service-free life averaging 15+ years. In addition, these systems filter chlorine out of water, significantly reduce chloramines, permanently remove heavy metals and the filter medium acts as a biocide to prevent fouling within the system. The Aquafer is an excellent replacement for an existing water wasting water softener or softener/filter combination. Inside, garage or outside installation. For space issues or the budget conscious, we offer the scale prevention feature only as our ESF-2.0 product.

1. The current crop of politicians is virtue signaling by turning thumbs down on natural gas. California is leading the drive by a mandate forbidding sale of all NG appliances and not issuing permits for gas lines to new construction. Unknown is how rapidly technology can overcome available mineral shortages, distribution buildout and supply chain issues to keep up with exponential growth in electricity needs.

Distillation is a process where water is heated until vapor is formed as steam which is then exposed to a cool surface which causes the steam to condense as liquid water.  As the vapor rises, almost all of the elements dissolved in the water are left behind so the total dissolved solids (TDS) of the condensed steam is a small fraction (<5%) of the original water. The heat is often high enough and of sufficient duration to kill bacteria and other pathogens in the water thus the net result is a water quality that was often prescribed for medical application and in larger sizes used for desalinization of sea water.

The described process dates back to antiquity.  More effective distillation equipment was developed during WWll.  Then, the advent of better ion exchange resins and reverse osmosis membranes along with ever increasing energy cost gradually reduced the need for water distillation almost to the point of extinction.  Because of chemical use, waste water streams and continued high energy costs and threatened fresh water sources, there is a good case to be made for a renewed look at distillation especially for turning seawater into drinking water.

Enter the brilliant research minds at MIT.  On October 31, 2023 in a campus paper their researchers discovered (serendipitously?) that under certain conditions light will cause water to evaporate without the presence of heat in a process they called the photomolecular effect.  Apparently, the water molecule-to-molecule hydrogen bond is broken and the singular molecules of water having a molecular weight less than that of air float away from the surface.  A follow-up April 23, 2024 article by the same MIT publication indicates that green light is most effective and that the evaporation rate is up to four times that produced by heat.  The angle of incidence light-to-water-surface is best at 45⁰.   We briefly described this process in an early 2024 blog hoping to see the information diffuse to a company or two in the water treatment industry or industry at large

I have actively looked on line, in newspapers and in technical publications since late 2023 to find any indication that this new technology has achieve any traction.  Nothing as of January 2025.  In the US and other developed nations where power and competent personnel are available, this photomolecular technology would probably create lower CAPEX and OPEX and allow for more rapid permitting because there is no discharge of extremely high TDS water back into the sea or ground.  However, in much of the world where the population often is thirsty and unable to feed itself because of non-existent or extremely scarce usable water this technology may indeed be life-saving.  As we envision a desal or highly brackish water distillation unit in its simplest form with this technology:

• Power requirements.  Aside from low-head pumps to transfer water to and from the system there will need to be LED lights aimed at the water surface at a 45⁰ angle, a fan to transfer vapor to the condensing chamber and a low delta T cooling surface to create the condensate.  Undoubtedly a candidate for solar. All things considered; power needs will be 5% of that for reverse osmosis.
• Complexity.  Aside from the fan and by incorporating mechanical fill/empty floats the only techy component would be a chiller and there a Peletier effect unit with only a fan could be employed.  Compressors, refrigerants and controls eliminated. Compared to reverse osmosis it is probably 1/10 or less.
• Materials of construction.  In the absence of high pressures, elevated temperatures and hardness scaling, many durable plastics, fiberglass and reasonably priced stainless steel alloys can be employed.

Hopefully, this technology will soon be picked up by a major player in the water treatment sphere and developed into a commercial product. In the meantime, let’s not lose sight of all of the new water beneath our feet as demonstrated by the incredible Stephan Riess 60+ years ago and brilliantly documented by Michael Salzman in his book New water for a thirsty world.

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THE STORY: Homoeopathy is a time honored practice of using extremely dilute solutions of agitating compounds to stimulate the immune system to fight the agitant within the body. Not unlike the vaccination process. It relies on the natural vibrations of the material and the memory abilities of water. Unlike the use of many prescription and OTC drugs, there are few, if any, recorded side effects from homeopathic compounds. Compounders and practitioners are highly trained and distribute the materials into a solvent via a process called pounding.

We received a water sample from a very successful doctor of homeopathy who has an exemplary record of success. The sample was analyzed and we immediately thought it would be a service to compounders, practitioners and patients of homeopathic compounds if we could develop a product to meet their needs. This we have done.

THE PRODUCT: Not only must the produced water be compatible for homeopathic use, but also safe, clear in appearance, perfect for hydration and pleasing to the pallet. All of this is accomplished through filtration down to 0.0002 mi- cron, 95% reduction of elements dissolved in the water, all chlorine and chloramines removed along with pharmaceuticals and radio nuclei.

Standard units are capable of producing 100 gallons per day at 70% plus water efficiency and have 2.6 gallons in pressurize storage available for immediate delivery from a 11” Dia. x 14”’ long tank supplied. Also provided are a dispensing faucet, drain saddle and an inlet water angle stop. Systems include a water quality meter to advise of component replacement.

HOW TO ORDER AND USE: Each system is custom constructed based on the chemistry of the water that will feed the unit during daily use and wet tested prior to shipment. For this reason, we need a water analysis, a water sample or the name of the water district supplying the facility. With this information in-hand, we utilize a computer program and make two calculations prior to construction.

Once installed and producing water, the instructions will advise you of the weight in milligrams and volume in laboratory spoons in milliliters of a common kitchen food item to add per gallon for a finished product. The system has a non–electric pump to insure a consistent high quality water with no distortion during storage due to what is called TDS creep. This pump uses drain water to drive it and makes a clicking noise while treated water is being produced.

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According to a February 2022 report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), of the 4.12 trillion kWh of electrical power generated in the U.S. in 2021, 899 billion kWh or 21.8% was generated by coal-fired generators. All fossil fuels, led by natural gas at 38.3%, produced 60.8%. Renewables (wind, solar, hydroelectric, and thermal wells) accounted for 20.1% and nuclear 18.9%.

All Electric Vehicles (EVs) with minimal exceptions get their battery charges from the electrical grid, so by extrapolation slightly over one in five of all EV cars are coal-powered and will remain so until either vehicle or power source technologies change.

On January 3, 2022, Tesla announce that worldwide they shipped one million new electric cars in 2021. This represents an 84% increase over 2020 and well ahead of the 50% increase predicted by the company early in 2021. Certainly, this news was greeted by investors and environmentalists as being fantastic and by all automotive manufacturers as the industry’s future.

There is a persistent concern, however, that the switch to all-electric, battery-powered automobiles has downsides that are seldom expressed. One that is easy to understand is the ability of the existing electrical grids to reliably deliver the surge in required energy. While there are companies like Aardvark Electric (a firm that provides EV home charger installation in Atlanta, GA), or similar ones providing the option of charging stations at home itself, not every household or region may have the required fund or access to such amenities. Parallel to that concern is electrical energy generation, especially in locations where energy sources declared as green are not available. This leaves new, what are called polluting sources as viable alternative generation sources thus consolidating polluting gasses in many areas. Other issues include sustainability because of the dependency on scarce battery materials from insecure sources and social concerns involving mining labor in some parts of the world. Finally, there are unsubstantiated numbers on the internet indicating that total CO₂ emissions in the EV battery supply chain are as high as the same vehicle being powered by a traditional gas engine.

The concerns may be effectively addressed by continuing with electric drive motors (whether a 72V BLDC or others), but replacing batteries with in-vehicle electrical generating using hydrogen fuel cells. Rather than employing tanks of high-pressure hydrogen as is being done by Hyundai, Toyota, and Nissan and the associated change in fueling infrastructure, consider using properly treated water and electrolytic technology to generate the hydrogen from the water right in the vehicle. The by-products of hydrogen production and fuel cells combined are water and heat. Not the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Currently, commercially available bulk hydrogen is mostly produced by splitting the hydrogen/carbon bond in natural gas. This is a heat with catalyst process that consumes considerable energy with carbon as a by-product that must be sequestered to prevent the atmospheric release of carbon dioxide.

Using the following conversion factors, it appears that water can indeed replace gasoline.

a. 1 gal. Water weighs 8.34 lbs.

b. Molecular Weight of water = (2 x 1)H +16(O) = 18

c. % wt. of Hydrogen in water = 2/18 = 11.1%

d. Wt. Hydrogen = .111 x 8.34 = 0.92 #/gal

e. Embedded Energy in 1 gal. gasoline = 132,000 BTU

f. Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Auto Efficiency is 20% per USDOE.

g. Applied energy in ICE vehicle = 20% or 0.2 x 132,000 BTU = 26,400 BTU/gallon

h. At .92# hydrogen per gallon, water contains 60,000 x .92 = 55,200 BTU hydrogen energy per gallon water

I. Hydrogen production energy requirement – 2.27 kWh per pound of hydrogen.

j. Hydrogen energy production parasitic loss in BTU 2.27 x 3,214 BTU/kWh= 7,296 BTU per # hydrogen

k. Net available hydrogen energy for a hydrogen fuel cell in a gallon of water is 55,200 – 7,296 = 47,904 BTU.

l. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Auto Efficiency is 60% per USDOE or 3X the efficiency of gasoline ICE vehicles

m. Comparing the gasoline consumption of an ICE engine with 20% use of 132,000 BTU or 26,400 BTU with 60% use of 47,904 BTU or 28,742 BTU for a hydrogen-fuel cell-electric motor propulsion system, the volumes of gasoline and water are close to equal.

Unavailable is a vehicle gross weight comparison when considering EV battery pack vs. filled high-pressure hydrogen tanks vs. in-car hydrogen production equipment. Presumably, the USDOE has included much of this data in its efficiency statements.

Numerous hurdles exist to turn this water as a fuel concept into a reality. The primary challenge is the energy required to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Italicized items j. and k. above are goals to be achieved and not currently available. Technologies such as refinements on PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) or newly emerging photon energy supplied by LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) could be what is needed. Existing microprocessors, algorithms, and AI technologies exist to integrate all systems. By- products of processes are heat, oxygen, and water, so a heat recovery/storage system to prevent water freezing should be doable. The water used needs to be treated with relatively inexpensive equipment currently available from multiple sources for home or service station use.

As with all status disruptions, vitally needed is someone with visionary qualities to champion and promote the concept, not unlike the late Bill Lear of Lear Jet fame or the late Steve Jobs who changed communications and music forever. As early as 1967, Bill Lear envisioned hydrogen-powered cars and patented Lear Dyne as the process, but he was far ahead of technologies now available. History tells us that Elon Musk actually applied his promotional and technological skills to an electric car conceived by someone else that went on to become Tesla. His example permeated the automotive industry worldwide causing a major shift by virtually all manufacturers to transition to EVs. There exists, however, the probability of energy shortages, specialty materials unavailability, and for certain, labor layoffs because electric vehicles are less labor intensive than their internal combustion engine equivalent.

Most electric vehicles are being produced in a sled or skateboard fashion consisting of drive wheels, directional wheels, and a low-profile battery and electronics assembly located between the two sets of wheels. The body is then dropped down from above and secured in place. Conceivably, a hydrogen-fueled electricity generating cell and hydrogen producing cell could be constructed with a similar geometry thus not requiring a complete structural change.

TECHNOLOGY OF TREATING IRRIGATION WELL WATER WITHOUT REVERSE OSMOSIS

Well water often contains high levels of minerals dissolved in it expressed as high Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and referred to as brackish or salty water. Once the TDS level of 1000 mg of minerals per liter (PPM) is measured in the water, crops require an additional quantity of water to continue to thrive. This doesn’t mean or imply that the minerals are toxic to the plants. Rather, the high TDS water fails to adequately flow within the circulatory system (xylems) of plants. The extra required watering levels are scary because of the possibility of running a well dry.

One popular way to overcome the issue of high TDS is to incorporate reverse osmosis to reduce the level of minerals in the water. There are pitfalls to this approach. First, as much as 50% of water is wasted in the process thus increasing the scarcity scare. Second, the capital and operating costs are extremely high. Finally, the disposal of wasted water becomes an issue.

We are convinced through testing years ago that reverse osmosis is effective not because dissolved solids are reduced but because the resulting surface tension reduction of water enhances the capillary action within plants allowing water to flow freely to the plant’s extremity. If a method to reduce surface tension without the pitfalls of reverse osmosis were available, significant cost and water savings would occur. Some refer to this as making water wetter.

If we look closely at the chemistry of water at the molecular level, there are two items that enter into its flowing/surface tension characteristics. One is directly related to the level of the dissolved solids in the water and is called the hydrated radius of ions (HRI). All dissolved solids in water exist as small, invisible charged particles called ions. These charges attract and loosely hold a small cluster of water molecules to each ion. These cluster formations last from nanoseconds to years and raise surface tension. The second is hydrogen bonding (HB) of multiple water molecules creating clusters. This bonding is due to the non-symmetric placement of the two hydrogen atoms around the single oxygen atom in water which leaves electrons to bond to the oxygen atom of adjacent water molecules. These bonds are transient and disappear/reappear in nanoseconds without rest. The bonding of molecules with clusters also increases the surface tension.

The entire issue of elevated surface tension and its negative effect on the successful watering of plants is the result of relatively small forces naturally occurring at the molecular level of water. It would appear that disruption or elimination of these forces would be extremely helpful in making less water go further in hydrating plants. How can this be done? By applying various frequencies of electrical energy into the water! In previous blogs, we have described how an electrical conductor (such as water containing dissolved solids) is passed through a magnetic field (such as Neodymium permanent magnets), and an alternating current is produced in the conductor (water) in accordance with Faradays Law upon which all electrical generators are based.

Dime Water, Inc. offers two product lines that produce this energy and have demonstrated their water-saving capabilities over many years. One is the MGM family designed exclusively for surface tension reduction and the other is the ESF family which not only reduces water surface tension but also prevents hardness scale in irrigation pipes and hardware. Neither requires electricity, chemicals, or field service. Both are constructed to last for many years in harsh environments and not waste a drop of water.

For those looking to improve the quality of their well water, exploring well water treatment systems is a wise step. These systems are designed to address various issues, including high levels of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and other minerals that can affect plant health. By incorporating well water treatment systems, such as ESF, MGM or other innovative technologies offered by Dime Water, Inc., crop growers can effectively reduce the mineral content in their water, leading to improved plant hydration and growth. Investing in well water treatment systems not only benefits plant life but also helps in conserving water resources, making it a sustainable choice for agricultural practices.

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Water Treatment Process

1. Water availability issues. For all of recorded time, crop growth and watering of livestock has depended on available rainfall, lakes, rivers, streams and natural reservoirs. All are classified as surface water. Some advanced societies diverted natural sources to locations where needed and soon thereafter hand dug wells tapped into shallow level aquifers. Water withdrawal was by bucket and rope. By the mid nineteenth century, hand pumps were available and soon after, windmills powered the pumps. It wasn’t until the 1950’s that reliable submersible electric pumps enabled large volume water withdrawal for irrigation and other applications. Too much of a good thing has forced ever lowering of ground water levels and dropping pump levels. Unfortunately, rain water has not been able to percolate through the ground to replenish the aquifer levels as quickly as it is being withdrawn so two things are happening – we are running out of available water and the quality is getting worse. Since 2014, the scientific community has been pursuing the possibility of there being as much as 3 times as much fresh water as there is sea water deep within the earth. Deep is an understatement because depth estimates range from 200 to 400 miles. The discovery and ongoing interest are based on seismic studies and our ever-increasing knowledge of tectonic plate physics. The water exists in a phase that is neither liquid, solid or vapor but in a 4th state (possibly as hydroxyl-OH) absorbed in a mineral called ringwoodite. This mineral is formed from magnesium silicate (Mg2SiO4) under high temperature and pressure. Sounds farfetched, but so did fracking for oil 30 years ago.
2. Number of agricultural wells in USA Latest (2018) USDA numbers are:
   1. 231,000 farms irrigated 56 million acres with 83.4 million acre-feet (27 trillion gallons) of water. This equates to 12,000,000 gallons per farm.
   2. Five states account for 50% of all agricultural wells
      1. California – 15%  35,000 farms
      2. Nebraska – 14%  32,000 farms
      3. Arkansas – 8%     18,000 farms
      4. Texas – 7%           16,000 farms
      5. Idaho – 6%           14,000 farms
3. Well water problems related to agriculture
   1. Crop production. 90% of problems are related to high Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) which is expressed as Parts Per Million (PPM). If a gallon of water were boiled until all wetness is gone and all that was left is typically a white to tan powder or scale, this Solid material would be everything from the periodic table of elements that were dissolved in the water. By weighing the Total of these solids and using arithmetic to determine their weight in a million pounds (120,000 gallons) of water. Distilled water has a TDS value of 0 and sea water is 32,000. Well water values are all over the range, but 350 PPM to 16,000 PPM are commonly found in agricultural well water tests. DS values above 750 PPM inhibit plants from freely up taking water from the soil and circulating it in the xylem system to deliver necessary nutrients. At higher levels and with certain chemical ratios such as that of sodium and calcium (SAR) can actually come close to stopping flow. The primary problem with high TDS is its directly proportional effect on the water’s surface tension which lowers its ability to climb in the plant due to capillary attraction. Also, there are often concentrations of one or two elements among the dozens or more in a particular well that inhibit growth or quality of a crop. State and/or county agricultural departments, working in concert with research universities, publish lists of water parameters for virtually all possible crops. One element in water that negatively affects both plants and animals is boron.
   2. Animal use. Unique to virtually all species of all farm animals is their ability to sense high TDS in the drinking water offered to them. Simply put, they will drink only enough to sustain life and will become dehydrated. Cattle and dairy farmers sell the weight of their product as a carcass or as a liquid both being over 90% water. Lower water intake and retention significantly reduces profitability. There are certain elements in water that are dangerous to animals that they do not sense.
      1. Sulfates. They act as a cathartic leading to diarrhea. Extreme fluid lost and rapid digestive transit time lowering nutrient uptake.
      2. Nitrates. Body changes nitrate to nitrite which lessens the blood’s ability to transport oxygen and leads to weakness and frailty.
      3. Insecticides, pesticides, fertilizers, etc. Neurotoxins causing difficult-to-diagnose behavioral and physical issues.
4. Current technologies for treatment of agricultural well water
   1. Reverse Osmosis (R.O.)
      This water treatment process has matured significantly since its inception in the 1960’s. In the last 10 years, changes in technology have been incremental, so the process is stable and results predictable. The technology revolves around a thin sheet of plastic material not unlike Saran Wrap through which water containing the dissolved elements discussed above. This material is referred to as a membrane and has the unique ability to pass water molecules and hold back or reject elements when the water/element combination is pressurized. The process is not 100% effective, so typical results are 70 to 99% removal of the dissolve elements based on element concentration (TDS), applied pressure, temperature, specific membrane chemistry and other equipment subtleties. The primary benefit of the RO is to lower the water surface tension to improve water transit through plant to deliver nutrients. Performance ranges are:
      1. Applied (pumping) pressures. 150 PSI at moderate TDS levels to 800 PSI at high TDS levels.
      2. Energy consumption. Using 35,000 gallons per day use of treated water and 65% recovery (35% of all water to drain) as a base line, electrical power required would be  5.7 kWh on the moderate TDS levels and 26 kWh for the high TDS levels
      3. Waste water. The rejected elements need to be carried away in a waste water stream that represents 25 to 50% of water delivered to the system. This water is almost always too bad to have any use.
      4. Equipment cost. CAPEX. Using the parameters from (2) above, the end user should expect to pay slightly over $100,000.00 installed on a prepared site and $300,000.00 for a high TDS system.
      5. Operating cost. OPEX. Plan on 5% annually of original purchase price PLUS cost of electricity over a 15-year effective system life for consumables, membrane cleaning and/or replacement, anti-scale chemicals, replacement parts, etc., etc.
   2. Ion exchange.
      This is a process dating to the late 1920’s where one to 3 contaminants such as nitrates, alkalinity, calcium, etc. can be removed from a well stream by substituting the offending element for chloride, sodium, hydrogen, hydroxide, etc. Although effective, there is a waste stream with chemicals that may percolate through the soil and contaminate the aquifer or it may need to be removed as hazmat.  Depending on the specific ion exchange (resin) used and its regenerating chemical, drain volume will run from 2 to 10% of total water requirement. The TDS reduction is minimal if at all so that there is seldom a measurable
      lowering of the surface tension.
   3. Absorption media holds on to contaminant, but adds nothing in exchange. Primary function is to remove selectively elements that are discarded. When media capacity is full, chemicals and/or backwashing take place or media is discarded. Classic uses are for iron, manganese, arsenic and boron. None reduce the TDS or the surface tension.
   4. Catalytic/magnetic and Magnetic.
      Both processes run a conductor (water) through a strong magnetic field. Faraday’s Law causes a voltage to be developed. This energy is known to lower the surface tension on many (but not all) high TDS water supplies. TDS is not reduced.
5. THE FUTURE
   Worldwide, water withdrawal from aquafers is estimated at 75 trillion gallons annually with replenishment at <2% from rainfall. Unfortunately, withdrawal in coastal areas is causing seawater intrusion that progressively makes the well water less acceptable and requiring even higher levels of treatment before use. There are no supportive numbers on the number of wells drying up, but it is happening. 8+ billion people on earth need to be fed but because of water scarcity many may die of starvation. We have established in this presentation that reverse osmosis is the go-to technology to obtain water with acceptable chemistry for plants and animals in spite of unrealistically high CAPEX and OPEX. Let’s pause for a moment and truly think of what is going on. Water containing only ½% by weight of minerals (5,000 PPM) is unsatisfactory for irrigation or animals, but the RO process uses energy-consuming pressures and expensive hardware to literally pull the 99-1/2% water away from the ½% minerals. Wouldn’t it make more sense to reach into unpressurized water and pull out the small weight of minerals? Basic arithmetic says this could reduce energy needs by as much as 99-1/2% and a high percentage reduction of hardware cost depending on the technology used. That technology is available as DIME IMPROVED CAPACITIVE DEIONIZATION (DICDI).Dime Improved Capacitive Deionization
6. DICDI equipment involves the use of a relatively large volume of a custom adsorbent assembly (cell) immersed in unpressurized high TDS water. A low voltage, low amperage (low power) current flows through the water and adsorbent causing minerals in the water to cling into the adsorbent thus removed from the water and resulting in a significant reduction in TDS and surface tension. Power requirements are low enough to be handled by a small solar array. When the adsorbent becomes saturated with minerals, electrical polarity is reversed for a short time and adsorbed minerals are discharged into a low volume of water to drain. The DICDI adsorbent is made of 3 low-cost sustainable materials and processing involves 2 steps and some easy to fabricate, low-cost fixtures. Scaling from a system producing 500 gallons daily to 5,000 or 50,000 gallons is nothing more than increasing the number of adsorbent cells and increasing the support frame size. The DICDI process can reasonably expect to lower the ex-factory equipment cost by 75% and operating cost by 90% when compared to Reverse Osmosis. The systems are designed and constructed to improve well water quality for growing edible crops and to help animals thrive on the water they drink by treatment of water with a TDS range from 750 to 18,000 PPM. At this stage it not intended to treat 32,000 PPM sea water though future iterations may be adapted for this use.

Las Vegas, ensconced in the heart of the parched Mojave Desert, is renowned for its opulence and extravagance. Yet, beneath the neon allure, the city grapples with an enduring quandary – water scarcity. Central to the discourse is the question: Does Las Vegas indeed face an acute water supply problem? This article illuminates Dime Water Inc.’s pioneering endeavors, spotlighting our groundbreaking product, the ESF 2.0. This technological marvel not only confronts hard water scaling but does so while rigorously adhering to the principles of water conservation.

The Arid Reality: The Predicament of Water Scarcity in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, characterized by an annual rainfall of a mere 4.2 inches, confronts a dire water scarcity challenge. This environmental constraint is exacerbated by a burgeoning population and a burgeoning tourism industry, which together exert tremendous pressure on water resources. At its core, Las Vegas relies heavily on the Colorado River, an affiliation that renders it susceptible to manifold challenges revolving around water allocation and availability.

Colorado’s Conundrum: Innovation Amidst Water Shortages

The Colorado River, a vital water source for several southwestern states, including Nevada, confronts an existential crisis. A confluence of factors—persistent drought, unwarranted water rights allocation, and the reverberations of climate change—has precipitated a precipitous decline in water levels in the region’s principal reservoirs, notably Lake Mead and Lake Powell. This phenomenon imperils Las Vegas with the specter of severe water shortages. In this perilous juncture, innovative solutions, notably exemplified by Dime Water’s ESF 2.0, assume paramount significance.

Innovative Solutions: The ESF 2.0’s Unveiling

Amidst the impending water crisis, Dime Water Inc. introduces the ESF 2.0, a multifaceted solution that synergistically addresses critical aspects of Las Vegas’ water challenge:

• Hard Water Scaling: The ESF 2.0 employs cutting-edge technology to combat hard water scaling, thereby enhancing the efficiency and lifespan of appliances and piping infrastructure.
• Water Conservation: A paramount facet of the ESF 2.0’s functionality is its capacity to prevent scale buildup without any concurrent water wastage. In stark contrast to conventional water softeners, this technology eliminates the need for water flushing during the regeneration process, ensuring every precious drop is conserved.

Dime Water’s Contribution: Forging Sustainability and Efficiency

The ESF 2.0 dovetails seamlessly with Las Vegas’ sustainability aspirations, synthesizing elements of innovation, resource conservation, and responsible water management:

• Resource Efficiency: The ESF 2.0 represents a paradigmatic shift in water management by mitigating hard water scaling, enhancing appliance longevity, and conserving water resources.
• Environmental Stewardship: By curtailing scale buildup and mitigating water waste, the ESF 2.0 delivers a substantial reduction in the environmental footprint associated with water treatment, echoing Dime Water’s resolute commitment to sustainability.

Charting a New Course Towards Water Security

In confronting the exigent challenge of water scarcity, Dime Water Inc.’s ESF 2.0 emerges as an oasis of hope. By adroitly addressing hard water scaling whilst fervently conserving water, this innovative technology embodies the type of progress required to surmount Las Vegas’ water tribulations. Our partnership with Las Vegas underscores the pivotal role of innovation, sustainability, and conscientious resource management in securing a flourishing desert oasis for generations to come. At Dime Water Inc., we proudly stand at the vanguard of this imperative endeavor, pioneering solutions for a water-secure world.

Water scarcity is a pressing issue faced by many regions around the world, and Las Vegas is no exception. With its arid climate and growing population, conserving water has become a critical priority for the city. In this article, we will explore how the ESF 2.0, an updated version of the ESF water treatment system, plays a significant role in water conservation efforts, particularly in the context of water rationing in Las Vegas.

The ESF 2.0 is a patented update to the ESF system initially introduced by Dime Water, Inc. in 1996. Renowned for its success in preventing hardness scale in various establishments such as hotels, motels, nursing homes, apartment buildings, and homes, the ESF has been a trusted solution for decades. Furthermore, it has effectively replaced costly water softeners and chemical feed systems in numerous commercial and industrial reverse osmosis systems.

Enhanced Performance and Innovative Design

The ESF 2.0 incorporates a unique magnetic chamber, which follows the catalytic chamber, revolutionizing the system’s overall performance. The proprietary magnetic field arrangement and field strength enhancement boost the unit’s efficiency by an impressive 25%. Utilizing Neodymium class 52 magnets, renowned for their strength, the ESF 2.0 ensures optimal results. It’s important to note that the magnets are not in direct contact with the water stream, ensuring water safety. The wetted parts are made of durable materials like 304 Stainless Steel, bronze/lead-free brass, schedule 80 PVC, and EPDM elastomers.

Space-Saving and Cost-Effective

One of the standout advantages of the ESF 2.0 is its ability to provide substantial capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expenditure (OPEX) savings while occupying minimal space. This feature is particularly valuable in applications such as motels, restaurants, and retail stores. The ESF 2.0 systems are often utilized to replace outdated salt-based water softeners, especially when removing the old system proves economically unfeasible. They also offer an alternative in situations where existing softeners are taken offline due to municipal salt restrictions.

Efficient Performance and Lasting Effects

Compared to traditional water softener construction, the ESF 2.0 significantly reduces pressure drop characteristics caused by valves, resin columns, and distributors. Its water scale prevention effects remain consistent from minimal to maximum flow rates, lasting for up to 72 hours. This reliability ensures long-term efficiency, contributing to water conservation efforts.

Water Rationing in Las Vegas

Las Vegas faces unique challenges when it comes to water supply due to its arid desert climate and limited natural water resources. As a result, the city has implemented water rationing measures to ensure the sustainable use of this precious resource. Water rationing involves the controlled distribution of water to individuals and businesses, aiming to limit usage and encourage conservation.

The ESF 2.0 and Water Rationing

In the context of water rationing, the ESF 2.0 plays a crucial role in promoting water conservation in Las Vegas. By effectively preventing hardness scale and reducing water consumption, the system helps extend the availability of water resources. Its superior performance and lasting effects provide a reliable solution for businesses and households, even during times of restricted water usage.

The ESF 2.0 stands as a remarkable advancement in water treatment technology, addressing the urgent need for water conservation and the necessity of water rationing in places like Las Vegas. With its enhanced performance, innovative design, and space-saving benefits, the ESF 2.0 offers a sustainable and cost-effective solution for preventing water scale while reducing water consumption. As water scarcity continues to be a global concern, the ESF 2.0 represents a significant step towards a more water-efficient future.

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Phoenix, AZ Drought

To combat the ongoing drought conditions and help with the necessary demand for water conservation in Phoenix, Dime Water offers product lines that revolutionize water treatment by eliminating water waste and the need for salt-based treatments. Building on our expertise since 1995, Dime Water has been established as a leading provider of environmentally friendly water purifiers, a large part is in thanks to our patented catalytic-magnetic process. This technology has been instrumental in conserving precious potable water and reducing environmental harm. We have estimated that our technology has already saved 130 million gallons of water from being lost to drainage and prevented the discharge of 30 million pounds of salt into the ecosystem.

A Great Solution For Phoenix Arizona

Our latest offerings, Aquafer and ESF 2.0, are enhanced versions of our renowned technology. They boast an extended effective treatment life for hardness scale prevention, providing customers with a 20% longer lifespan. Notably, the new units are designed to address a wider range of scaling issues. In addition to combating the common calcium carbonate scale, these units also tackle scaling caused by calcium sulfate, strontium sulfate, barium sulfate, calcium fluoride, and calcium phosphate. This expanded capability is particularly significant for residential and commercial reverse osmosis applications.

The technology operates by creating microscopic seeds of one or more scale-forming minerals. This unique approach triggers the formation of seeds for the remaining minerals, due to fascinating phenomena. Once these seeds are formed, the product’s powerful heterogeneous magnetic field interacts with the microscopic mineral particles, causing them to cluster together and remain suspended instead of dissolving back into the water. In this clustered state, the mineral particles lose their charge and cannot adhere to surfaces, effectively eliminating the formation of scale.

Dime Water Aims to Make a Substantial Impact

Treated water for less than $1 a day. By introducing Aquafer, Dime Water aims to make a substantial impact on water conservation in Phoenix, Arizona. With its ability to prevent scale formation and minimize wastage, Aquafer reduces the need for excessive water usage in homes, commercial establishments, and reverse osmosis systems. By conserving water resources and minimizing the discharge of harmful salts into the environment, Aquafer offers an eco-friendly solution that aligns with Phoenix’s efforts to combat water scarcity and preserve the region’s delicate ecosystem.

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Every few months, a vibrant brochure arrives in the mail from newly established water filter manufacturers, accompanied by alarming warnings about the quality of your home’s water. They offer an enticing new water treatment solution and even the chance to win a trip to Bermuda if you act immediately.

While it’s true that residential water filtration systems offer numerous health and quality-of-life benefits for your family, not all manufacturers can be trusted. Some unethical providers come and go quickly, charging exorbitant prices for water treatment systems that fail to deliver on their promises.

When you’re ready to explore your options, it’s important to choose a reputable company that has stood the test of time and presents factual information instead of exaggerated claims.

Our advice is to look beyond the sales pitch, scare tactics, and exaggerated assertions about maintenance-free systems that are supposedly cheaper than anything else on the market.

With over 20 years of experience, Dime Water is a reliable choice. We offer a range of water filtration solutions tailored to different situations, acknowledging that what works for one scenario may not be equally effective elsewhere.

Our proven residential water filtration solutions are designed to meet your current and future needs, and we’re always transparent about installation, maintenance, warranty, and cost.

Get the facts about water filtration by calling Dime Water now: (760) 734-5787.

ESF 2.0 (ENVIRO SCALE-FREE)

PREVENTS HARD WATER SCALE WITH:

• NO SALT OR CHEMICALS
• NO ELECTRICITY
• NO WATER TO DRAIN
• NO SERVICE —— EVER

The ESF-2.0 is a patented update to the ESF first offered by Dime Water, Inc. in 1996. The original and still available ESF has enjoyed decades of success preventing hardness scale in hotels, motels, nursing homes, apartment buildings, and homes. Additionally, they have successfully replaced costly, high-service water softeners and chemical feed systems pretreating hundreds of commercial and industrial reverse osmosis systems.

The 2.0 version incorporates a unique magnetic chamber following the catalytic chamber that employs a proprietary magnetic field arrangement and field strength enhancement that improves the unit’s overall performance by 25%. The magnets used are Neodymium class 52 which are the strongest permanent magnets available. Magnets are not in the water stream. Wetted parts are 304 Stainless Steel, bronze/lead-free brass, schedule 80 PVC, and EPDM elastomers.

In addition to tremendous CAPEX and OPEX savings, these ESF 2.0 systems occupy virtually no valuable space which is yet another cost benefit. This feature is particularly important in motel, restaurant, and retail store applications. Often used to replace aged salt-based water softeners especially when the old system is too large to be economically removed or in situations where existing softeners are taken offline because of municipal salt restrictions.

Pressure drop characteristics are a fraction of those created by the valves, resin columns, and distributors used in water softener construction. The water scale prevention effects remain relatively constant from minimal through maximum flow rates and last for up to 72 hours. Custom small hot water “booster” units are available for tank/recirculation hot water systems.

Available Models

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WASTE NOT. WANT NOT.

Often attributed to a writing by Benjamin Franklin shortly before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, these few words are particularly germane when thinking about water as drought conditions grip the US Southwest.

While catching up on reading March and April issues of Water Conditioning & Purification Magazine, I was intrigued by back-to-back articles about the reclamation of spent brine from the regeneration of water softeners. The authors were educated, experienced, and well-respected professionals in the water conditioning industry. One offered a process that would be relatively inexpensive to accomplish and looked to permit about 10% reuse. The other proposed process involves the addition of rather expensive components, but a net reclamation estimated at 40%.

As part of the April presentation, the following numbers were expressed:

1. 10,000,000 residential water softeners in the US
2. 60,000 commercial water softeners in the US

These units not only consume salt, but of equal if not more importance they discharge (waste water) to drain during regeneration in huge accumulated volumes. Based on the stated unit volumes, the wasted water is:

1. Residential(1) 31.2 BILLION GALLONS ANNUALLY
2. Commercial(2) 3.37 BILLION GALLONS ANNUALLY

Notes:

1. 40 gallons per regeneration. 1-1/2 regenerations weekly.
2. 360 gallons per regeneration. 3 regenerations weekly. 24” DIA. Media tank.

Admittedly, there is a small percentage of applications where there is a need to remove calcium and or magnesium from water and replace it with sodium from salt, but in the vast majority of applications, preventing hardness scale and soap scum is of primary concern. This can be accomplished with a number of time-tested technologies that waste zero water. These technologies include magnetic, catalytic and a combination of the two.

Beware of salt-based softeners advertised as being “efficient” or high efficiency” As salt consumption per regeneration is reduced, there is a corresponding reduction in system capacity. This means that such systems need to regenerate more frequently and as a result cause excess water wasted to drain.

DIME WATER, INC. has worked for decades to bring to market an extensive list of residential, commercial, and industrial products that have zero water to drain. Additionally, these systems use no chemicals or electricity. Specific models include our ESF, ESF PLUS, AQUAFER, AQUAFER  PLUS, and CARTRIDGE FILTERS. Aquafer provides treated water for less than $1 a day.

DIME WATER, INC. is in the final development stages of a home under counter reverse osmosis system that is 100% water efficient and has zero water to drain. This compares to competitors’ systems that waste 4 gallons of water for each treated gallon upon start up but easily go to 8 gallons or more to waste for each treated gallon as the tank fills and its back pressure rises. The net result is waste up and quality down.

In 2018 we embarked on a program to determine precisely what structured water truly consists of. People were spending obscene amounts on bizarre devices consisting of such things as revised food blenders, twisted strips of copper or stainless steel, tubes loaded with HDPE spheres, and glass cones with a water pump to name a few. Along with unsupportable high prices, two other common attributes the product providers offered were slick literature and a spokesperson with a questionable curricula vitae. Not a feasible description of the structure of the water in any of them.

A suggestion from a long-term customer led us to The Fourth Stage of Water by Dr. Gerald H. Pollack, Ph.D. The book, published in 2013, detailed a structure of water discovered by Dr. Pollack and his laboratory colleagues at the University of Washington. It went on to describe the benefits of this water structure to plant and animal (human) life.

We designed a system to replicate and enhance the effects detailed in the book’s laboratory reports and we went on to describe how the structuring process created columns of water adjacent to one another. Quite by accident, on April 10, 2022, the president of our company received the photo viewed here that definitely confirms the structural formation of water locked in ice. The photo date is unknown but taken in Switzerland in an area known for clear water and large ice crystals.

In response to the ongoing drought conditions as well as the overall worldwide shortage of potable water, Dime water has prepared for the imminent release of a vastly improved offering of zero water waste, no salt treatment products.

Since 1995, Dime Water has been an international leader in producing environmentally friendly water purifier products around their patented catalytic-magnetic process. From its inception through 2021, it is estimated that this technology has prevented the loss to drain of 130 MILLION GALLONS of potable water and the discharge of 30 MILLION POUNDS of salt into the environment.

The revised technology will be referred to as Aquafer and ESF 2 POINT O and offers the customer a 20 % longer effective water treatment hardness scale prevention life. Also, in addition to addressing the most common calcium carbonate scale, the revised units will also significantly reduce scaling caused by calcium sulfate, strontium sulfate, barium sulfate, calcium fluoride and calcium phosphate which are particularly important for home and commercial reverse osmosis applications. The Aquafer offers treated water for less than $1 a day.

The entire process relies on creating microscopic seeds of at least one of the scale forming minerals. For reasons often referred to as phenomena, this encourages formation of seeds of the remaining minerals mentioned. Once accomplished, a strong heterogeneous magnetic field in our products reacts on the microscopic mineral particles which causes them to cluster and not go back into solution. In the clustered form, there is no charge that permits them to cling to surfaces which then eliminates scale.

An April 3, 2021 climate report on a local CBS TV affiliate indicated that 74 million people living East of the Mississippi river will experience drought conditions in 2021 and 2022. This news was followed the next week by an article in the San Diego Union Tribune that snowpack levels in mountains to the North were at 50% of “normal”. This is a critical source of water for much of California and normal is quite low because of the averaging in of some terribly dry seasons the last few years.

It is incumbent upon all of us to do our part for conservation and yet the water conditioning industry continues to promote and sell water softeners and filters that waste precious water when viable alternatives have been available for well over 20 years. At most levels, water conditioning products are a push market, so sellers could more easily adapt to newer, water-saving products but few do. Pull markets created by more enlightened and educated consumers tend by a vastly higher percentage to favor the greener products.

Why the reluctance to change? One can only guess, but some reasons are:

• Big names in the industry that are heavily invested in machinery and facilities to produce components for traditional water and salt using systems such as control valves, ion exchange resins, and salt are loathed to promote a disruptive product
• The distribution channel is very fragmented and poorly informed at the seller/customer interface
• The dollars generated by the entire industry have been too low to attract talented, innovative, and highly educated people.

The base technology of the water wasting products dates to the 1930s with the widespread adoption of high surface area ion exchange resins dating to the 1980s. Most activity now appears to be in sensors and electronics on valves that use less salt with the goal being stoichiometric salt levels (a pound of salt removing a pound of hardness). Unfortunately, this is counterproductive because the corresponding loss in capacity requires more frequent regenerations so WASTE WATER INCREASES.

A more demanding and conscience-guided consumer base will eventually obsolete many of today’s products and replace them with products such as our residential and commercial ESF and Aquafer and hopefully, new distribution channels for these products will open up.

The ever-present message from news outlets, government officials from the top down, and peer pressure is that Worldwide we all must wear a mask to prevent the spread of Covid 19. There is compelling evidence that the most common materials used in their fabrication have pore sizes much larger than viruses thus not particularly effective. The analogy referred to is to think of throwing sand at a chain-link fence. Apparently, this has become common knowledge, thus a recent push to wear 2 masks simultaneously. Personal hygiene and immune improvement through diet and supplementation have all but disappeared from the dispensed advice.

The push for masks has been so effective that billions have been distributed and the numbers continue to grow. The vast majority are disposable and carelessly discarded as evidenced in parking lots, parks, and along roadways. This issue goes way beyond litter and affects our health and the food chain.

The most popular materials used to manufacture masks are cotton, polypropylene, and polyester with the last two being manmade plastic materials. The manmade materials are processed into microfibers for maximum filtration efficacy. This processing is responsible for microfibers getting into our water and food as the masks degrade. The primary effect in humans is the disruption of intestinal chemistry plus the unknown long-term exposure to slowly dissolving polymers in our gut. Environmentalists have now concluded that these particular microfibers are further degrading to Nanoparticles which plausibly causes uptake into the bloodstream.

What to do? The damage is done, so changes in mask material or disposal regulations will not change things because of lead times and delays. The only thing that can be done is to filter the drinking water in your home and the only filtration process that can remove harmful water particulates down to Nanosize is reverse osmosis. Add this situation to the ever-growing list of actual or potential health-compromising items in our drinking water that a functioning reverse osmosis unit can remove. Bottled water is NOT the answer.

We have all heard the cautionary statement “what could possibly go wrong here?” This usually applies to seeing someone standing on the top rung of a ladder, shaving while driving, or repairing an electrical device near a body of water, but not always. I have always had concerns about hack-prone remote control of everything from home appliances, home security systems, and even automobiles. Even worse would be control over the electrical grid or, heaven forbid, a public water system. The latter happened the week of Feb. 7, 2021, in Oldsmar, FL according to a report in today’s edition of Industrial Equipment News.

According to the article, a hacker took control of the chemical treatment process and released excess amounts of sodium hydroxide into the water supply. In properly controlled levels, this chemical is common and harmless and used to raise the water pH to prevent corrosion of the pipes in the distribution system. High levels are toxic and damaging to tissue. Fortunately, a utility employee was viewing the facility online, noticed what was occurring, and blocked his/her efforts.

Had the employee’s attention been diverted or delayed,  this could have been a disaster. Chances are this particular chemical would be noticed by taste or odor at points of use and consumer use minimized. Had it been a different chemical such as a fluoride compound frequently introduced in municipal water supplies, significant human damage could have occurred.

This scenario will probably be repeated more and more frequently as utilities rely heavily on remote control and monitoring to keep labor costs low and give the appearance of being technologically advanced.

What to do?  There’s no substitute for adding a layer of protection in your home — namely, an under-counter reverse osmosis system to provide much safer drinking and cooking water in your home. Properly installed and maintained, these units last for many years, provide peace-of-mind and safe water.

We offer multiple reverse osmosis systems. All provide extra safety with efficient water use and upscale systems can add ultra-high water use efficiency,  alkalinity addition, remineralizing, structured water, crystals, etc., etc.

Historically , the first recorded patent for magnetic water treatment for scale prevention was by a Belgian company in 1945. When you realize what Belgium needed to accomplish to rebuild in 1945, it is easy to conceive of their sense of urgency to keep steam boilers from being destroyed by scale in a country without a surviving chemical industry. In the 1960’s Russia began using magnets for the same application in addition to wound and burn therapy use. In 1964 Charles Sanderson founded Superior Water Conditioners in Ft. Wayne, IN devoted to designing, testing and producing magnetic scale prevention units. His endeavor is probably the first in the US to employ this technology.

The start of this technology was difficult. First, the effects on the water were not totally understood, so sales depended on testimonials and the process referred to as a phenomenon. Secondly, as it is today, the hardness scale prevention industry was dependent on people and companies promoting salt-based ion exchange resins and unwilling or unable to grasp an alternate technology that eliminates chemicals, electricity, and wastewater to drain, and service life-shortening moving parts. The unknown is the impact brought on trade associations and lobbyists by salt, resin, and valve companies protecting their markets and investments.

Through the efforts of universities and their extensive laboratories, the performance of the magnetic water treatment for scale prevention has moved from being a phenomenon to understanding that the magnetic field creates a hardness crystal called Aragonite. It forms this because a tiny percentage of water is always dissociating – hydrogen (proton) leaving and forming H3O or hydronium – and the energy imparted to the water by the magnet causes the percentage of hydronium to increase dramatically. Water missing the hydrogen reacts differently with calcium bicarbonate (calcium hardness) than does water with full hydrogen in the size, shape, and texture of calcium carbonate crystals formed as evidenced in electron microscope photos. All crystals are void of charge so they won’t adhere to metals, however, the aragonite form is softer and is easily flushed through plumbing. No magic and no mystery.

The performance relative to scale prevention is directly proportional to magnetic field strength and speed of water through alternating magnetic fields. To this end, we are developing a series of HIGH-T magnetic chambers for our line of catalytic/magnetic nonchemical scale prevention devices — ESF, AQUAFER, MAXI-CURE–as well as new yet-to-be-released devices. The T stands for Tesla which is used as a unit of measurement in strong magnetic fields. When water speed and alternating magnetic fields are thought through, it becomes apparent that an induced electrical field is generated which in turn is the energy needed to remove some hydrogen from water molecules not totally unlike hydrolysis.

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Zeolite has a long history in the water treatment industry dating back to 1925 when Bill Lindsay started a company to build water softeners for homes and businesses. His efforts attracted the attention of Emmitt Culligan about a decade later and a second manufacturer was founded. Both companies exist and thrive to this day, although the zeolite then used has been replaced with a synthetic material called ion exchange resin.

Zeolite is a name applied to a huge number of extremely porous natural minerals mined in a number of worldwide locations. All have in common aluminum and silicates and because of their porosity they all absorb water along with the minerals contained within the water. Unique to the chemistry of each the species of Zeolite, they attract and cling to the positively charged (cationic) minerals in the water with varying degrees of hold (affinity). So a particular species can hold calcium (hardness) and release it when flooded with sodium (salt) thus permitting its use as a water softening agent.

The water softening ability of zeolite has been surpassed by the synthetic ion exchange resins first popularized in Germany in about 1936. The synthetic version is made of roughly 90% styrene and 10% divinylbenzene with about 10 national and international manufacturers maintaining uniform performance and competitive prices. The popularity of zeolite for other than water treatment is so high in the chemical and other industries that they too are being produced synthetically to absorb particular molecular sizes for distillation and waste remediation processes. They are extremely robust and chemically inert compared to the ion exchange resins. Within the water treatment industry one particular species, clinoptilolite, is extremely popular for filtration applications because its irregular shape creates a tortuous path for particulates and its cationic charge attracts extremely fine particulates.

Where have the engineers gone? The canon of ethics for engineers would indicate a closer look at water softener application is in order.

We see specifications calling for salt using water softeners that quite frankly do not make sense. The cost to the facility owner can easily be in the $50,000 range and higher when installation and space costs are included. Additionally, thousands of dollars will be spent annually for salt and maintenance. In a competitive industry with a saturated room supply in some areas, these extra CAPEX and OPEX costs are an unfair burden.

Let’s look at the process:

First, why treat the water? Unless the source water is extremely hard (15 grains per gallon or more), treatment is probably to protect the facility from hard water scale that plugs pipes, ruins plumbing fixtures, shortens water heater/boiler life and causes laundry problems. If over 15 grains there may be a case to soften the water for guest comfort in upscale facilities although negative guest comments about “slippery feel” are not uncommon. A truly wasteful and costly habit is to treat all water in a facility when, if treatment is warranted, treating only water to the hot side is the only benefit to the owner. This would reduce all costs by 50% or more.

Next let’s look at the chemistry. Total hardness consists of two primary components — calcium (temporary) and magnesium (permanent) hardness. The damaging hardness is the calcium which drops out of solution and becomes scale when heat is applied. So, treating total hardness is really a waste of regeneration salt and water in this application. The chance of the calcium hardness component being an issue at all is based on three other factors— the presence and level of bicarbonate alkalinity, the pH and the application water temperature. These numbers combine in an equation to develop a unitless number referred to as the Langeliers Saturation Index or LSI. If the number is positive, treatment is warranted if negative, treatment, especially expensive softening, is in a word useless. Therefore, recommending a water softener without full knowledge of the water chemistry is unethical and unfortunately done all too often.

Lastly, even if treatment warranted for scale prevention, why an overpriced, space wasting softener that needlessly dumps high chloride brine and wasted water to drain? Many communities in a number of states and countries are banning their use which could mean illegal installation or possibly a post installation order to not use. A viable alternative is a commercial ESF (Enviro Scale Free) unit by Dime Water, Inc. 1/20th or less space required, typically 70% lower cost, no salt or chemicals, no electricity and historically a 15+ year life without service or repairs.

For over 20 years, Dime Water has been constructing nonchemical water treatment equipment. We have utilized very powerful Neodymium rare earth magnets to cause particles in the water to cling to one another (agglomerate) for particle life extension or filtration. I have personally dismissed the thought that a magnetic field could, in addition, react on the water itself. I believe that I have been in error.

Magnetized Water Testing

A recent summary of tests conducted to determine patient benefits for diabetes control related to drinking water exposed to a strong magnetic field or “magnetized water” showed positive results. Albeit animal studies under close clinical controls, such research often finds its way into what we call mainstream or western medicine and pharmacology. The summary states “it is suggested that the long-term intake of magnetized water over 8 weeks may be beneficial in both prevention and treatment of complications in diabetic patients”.
The study can be found online at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PCM3572224/
Magnetism apparently acts as an antioxidant and further in the report improvements to liver function and oral health are mentioned as are hexagonal structure clusters of water molecules.

Magnetic Water Usage

Magnetic fields have been used for decades in countries such as Russia to accelerate wound and burn healing via increased blood flow. This is intuitively understandable given the iron prevalence in human blood. The FDA has now approved devices for such uses and their benefits. The phenomenon of magnetized water has been promoted for many years for enhancement of irrigation water with claims for increased crop yields, larger plants, and less water required. Empirical data support the claims, but controlled tests are scarce.
For reference the following Dime Water products contain strong magnetic fields that plausibly have these additional consumer benefits:

• ESF
• ESF PLUS
• AQUAFER – Treated water for less than $1 a day.
• AQUAFER-AC
• AQUAFER PLUS
• MAXI-CURE
• MAXI-CURE PLUS
• STRUCTURED WATER R.0.

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One of the most important elements dissolved in water used to irrigate cannabis plants (and others as seen in the chart below) is Boron.

Too little or too much will cause severe withering and discoloration of a plant which severely reduces monetary value. The typically expressed range is from 0.05 to 0.5 mg/l in the irrigation water.

Boron in excessive amounts in well water sources is found in the US particularly in California, Russia, and Turkey. It is also found in membrane desalinated seawater throughout the world.

lf too low or absent, a simple, cost-effective “fix” is to mix a small amount of very soluble boric acid crystals (H3BO3) in water and feed it into the irrigation stream with an inexpensive chemical feed pump. Because of common consumer uses of boric acid such as a laundry aid or a foot bath, boric acid is available in drug stores, supermarkets, and, of course, online.

If too high (above 0.5 mg/l) it must be reduced. One would think that reverse osmosis would be the ideal solution. It is not. Reverse osmosis doesn’t reduce dissolved solids by forcing water through microscopic holes in the membrane, but instead by repelling charges between the membrane and the element (ion) in solution. Boron has no discernible charge so it passes through membranes. Even high-pressure seawater membranes allow too much through. Seawater can contain 5 PPM or more boron.

The removal is best accomplished using an extremely rare and expensive resin that is uniquely capable of being selective to boron and not blinded by other elements in the water. This feature permits minimal and relatively inexpensive pretreatment. The resin must be stripped of the boron with hydrochloric acid (HCl) and then returned to a boron removal state with sodium hydroxide(NaOH). The use of these chemicals in a sequential pattern necessitates special materials of construction and very unique controls for safety and efficacy.

Boron upper levels to minimize toxic sensitivity in mg/l*

<0.5 blackberry, cannabis

0.5-1 peach, cherry, plumb, grape, onion, garlic, sweet potato, wheat, barley, sunflower, strawberry

1-2 red pepper, pea, carrot, radish, potato, cucumber

2-4 lettuce, cabbage, celery, turnip, oat, corn, artichoke, tobacco, mustard squash

4-6 Tomato, alfalfa, parsley, sugar-beet

6-14 asparagus

* Information provided by the Australian Department of Agriculture

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ccording to the CDC website, as of April 3, 2020, there has been no report of COVID-19 being in a drinking water source. This particular virus went from being known and understood by a segment of the scientific community to general awareness in about 60 days. There is no direct statement by the CDC that the COVID-19 virus can be transmitted via drinking water, but they do state that filtration and disinfection chemical processes used by most municipal water systems should remove or inactivate the virus. Words like most and should are not particularly reassuring. Intuitively, if any of these particular viruses exist in the water, danger would exist via inhalation or facial and oral exposures.

The entrance of the virus into the water seems to be via incompletely treated sewerage being discharged into bodies of water that are ultimately used as drinking water sources. The sewerage has the virus present because it has recently been found in human stool samples. I would assume leachate from septic systems and land fill disposal sites containing diapers could also be sources. These sources will quite possibly remain active after the face-to-face transmission has subsided.

For protection at the entrance to a facility (POE) there are options such as adding extra chlorine with a properly sized retention tank or as a convenient alternative a properly sized Ultra Violet (UV) system matched with a 5 micron or finer cartridge filter. For protection where water for drinking and cooking is obtained (POU) a reverse osmosis unit paired with a small UV light is the approach to take.

Ozone systems can also be adapted for POE and POU applications.

Before committing to any company or individual for treatment of water for this virus or any related water issues, be certain that you are working with knowledgeable people that have a long history and an interest in your wellbeing.

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For over a century people knowledgeable about water and its critical importance to health and longevity have sought the perfect water which was referred to as STRUCTURED WATER. It can now be produced in homes or offices thanks to scientific work at the University of Washington and work done in Dime Water’s laboratory. It is a truly natural process of incorporating special surface areas, inert hyper hydrophilicity materials, infrared energy and multiple vortices. Nothing is added to the water.

This results in columns of hexagonal arrayed water molecules which are denser than untreated water, more viscous, have less hydrogen and a slightly elevated pH.

Some experiments indicate Structured Water replicates intercellular water closely thus being more bio-compatible. The model SW105 STRUCTURED WATER cell is shown here attached to the side of an under the sink kitchen cupboard and being fed by cold water from a supply valve that we in-clude. The treated water out of the top goes to a drinking/cooking water faucet mounted on or adjacent to the sink. The small (6 watt) power supply enhances the infrared energy. The compact size of 8”H x 6”W x 5”D permits installation in virtually all applications. Structured water on tap 24/7. No maintenance or replacement cartridges ever. For an approximately 25% improvement in quality add this cell to the faucet line from an existing under counter reverse osmosis unit.

The ultimate in treated drinking water is available in our compact under counter system Model Structured Water Cell R.O. This unit provides up to 100 gallons daily of treated water. 75% water efficiency (3 gal treated:1 gallon drain).

Processes include:
– Initial filtration to 5 micron
– Biocidal contact filtration
– Chlorine removal
– Heavy metals removal
– Chloramines removal
– Filtration to 0.002 micron
– 96.5% dissolved elements removal
– Magnetic field
– Hematite / crystals
– Catalytic Carbon
– STRUCTURED WATER

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Extra Clean Laundry Without Soaps or Detergents?

First, the history of ozone laundry treatment. Commercial launderers, like phs BeSafe (https://www.phsbesafe.co.uk/), have always had their services required by multiple industries – from hotels to construction companies – so they are always looking for ways to improve their efficiency and ways to keep their costs down. This is why years ago commercial launderers began cleaning huge loads of laundry from homes, hotels, hospitals, motels and other sources without soaps and detergents and also without hot water. Not only did they save huge amounts of money on cleaning products but energy costs plummeted when water heaters were turned off. This inexpensive, reliable technology is now available to homeowners.

Their “secret” is to add nature’s OZONE laundry treatment to COLD WATER.

Ozone is activated oxygen which is naturally produced during thunderstorms and gives the air that clean, fresh smell after the storm passes. Not a chemical, but nature’s own cleaning agent. Ozone is 3,000 times more powerful than household chlorine bleach in killing microorganisms, does not bleach out colors and actually disappears minutes after it does its work by reverting to oxygen.

Not only are odor-causing and dangerous bacteria killed by the ozone, but the ozone laundry treatment breaks down soiling and staining materials into hydrogen and carbon compounds that flush away without a trace, leaving even the most soiled fabrics clean and bright. Harsh chemicals and perfumes from detergents are eliminated which is healthier and improves fabric life. Fabrics smell clean because they are clean and not just masked with detergent perfume additives.

For home use, a small wall-mounted box is provided. The cold water line goes to it and then from it to the washing machine. Inside the box, air is passed through a manmade lightning bolt called a corona discharge which changes the oxygen in the air to ozone. Coldwater is used because it accepts and holds more ozone than hot water. These units are historically reliable requiring no maintenance or servicing. However, your washing machine might need regular maintenance and repair to prevent failure. In case of any breakdown, you can call a Washing Machine Repair company that can help in the quick fixation of your appliance.

Protect your family from unhealthy chemicals found in most detergents, have brighter, bacteria-free fabrics, save heater operating costs and forever forget buying more detergent with ozone laundry treatment.

To begin this discussion it helps if we first understand hard water. It was a term coined in the early 1800s by machinists trying to mix soap into water to be used as a coolant for drilling or lathe turning metal parts. When the soap wouldn’t readily dissolve in the water they referred to the water as being hard to mix and subsequently hard water. The problem went away when using water from certain streams and rivers and ultimately chemists determined the difference between acceptable water and hard water was the presence of calcium and bicarbonate alkalinity in the hard water and absent or in diminished quantity in the good water. With the opposite of hard being soft the term soft water was born. It was soon learned as industries developed that the hardness components in the water not only caused interference with soap but also interfered with food and chemical processing, caused boilers to explode because of scale formed as the calcium compounds dropped out of solution, plugged water pipes for the same reason and, of course, laundry problems, leading to people looking for a plumbing company near them who would be able to come out and fix the issues they were having.

The 100 Year Old Technology

Over a period of 100+ years, many processes were developed to overcome the hard water problems. Eventually, a natural mined mineral Zeolite was selected and soon followed by synthetic zeolite (currently called resin) which to this day is found in virtually all devices called water softeners. The water softeners using this now nearly 100-year-old technology remove the calcium along with magnesium and some other positively charged ions BUT they are replaced with Sodium and in some cases Potassium which must be replenished with bags of sodium chloride or potassium chloride. The definition of soft or more appropriately softened water is water with calcium removed and replaced with sodium or potassium. The softening process entails equipment that has numerous moving parts requiring occasional servicing, needs electricity, needs replenishment of salt, and of most importance discharges a relatively high volume of water to drain that is laden with salt.

Hard water’s high mineralization content can result in rock-hard, chalky limescale inside pipes. The longer hard water is allowed to flow through pipes, the thicker the build-up becomes. This can reduce the flow of water through your pipes and can cause clogs. If you continue to allow hard water to flow through your pipes, the blockages may worsen. Installing a water softening system may prevent your pipes from clogging further due to the hard water residue scale. As softer water runs through your pipes on a regular basis, the limescale might gradually begin to dissolve. In fact, a master plumber may use soft water to clear clogged pipes because it might leach heavy metals from pipes and appliances.

Soft Water Without Waste

Because of the discharge of salty water to drain and the high cost of service, alternatives to the salt-based softeners are dramatically increasing in popularity. There is absolutely no reason to remove a desirable electrolyte such as calcium from the water if the calcium and alkalinity can be brought together as water enters the home to form microscopic particles of hardness that flow through the plumbing system without attaching to water heaters, plumbing fixtures or pipes and will not interfere with cleaning products. But when it comes to having salt in water, it might affect the plumbing system. Salt can remain in the system for an extended period, either dissolved in saltwater or as salt crystals themselves. Salt might react with the lining of the pipes and cause them to corrode. If that is the case, it might require the assistance of Lynchburg plumbing services or plumbing services offered at any other place. And hence, need to be fixed as soon as possible so that the rest of the pipes are not affected. This is the reason, we offer a number of products based on the contemporary technology that uses no chemicals or salt, discharges no water to drain, uses no electricity and has no moving parts. The Aquafer offers treated water for less than $1 a day.
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It should be no surprise that because it is at least 92% water, beer brewing requires proper water treatment. Brewers need a particular setup, let’s explore what brewers need for their best beer.

At bare minimum chlorine must be removed because of its impact on the brewing process as well as potential taste issues. Additionally, attention must be given to the probable presence of chloramines which are present in most municipal supplies and are mostly not removed by traditional activated carbon filtration. Special highly reactive carbons often referred to as surface enhanced or catalytic carbons are essential for brewers to properly remove the common disinfectants and their byproducts from the water.

The above is a good beginning for the brew master but with the increasing market for specialty beers it’s only a beginning. As businesses in the West tried and failed in preparing New York pizza soon learned “it’s in the water stupid” so have brewing purists learned the same lesson. The answer is to remove most of the elements dissolved in the water with reverse osmosis and then either by blending or mineral feed or a combination of the two reconstitute the water to precisely what’s needed for that special, consistent brew. Because the effort is often made to replicate an old-world product we refer to the treated water as being indigenous.

Special care must be taken when utilizing sources from surface sources– rivers, lakes, reservoirs, etc. Unusual strains of bacteria and pH issues appear and can be problematic. The first step of treatment is an ultraviolet system to inactivate the microorganisms in the water without adding chemicals. This has the benefit of being safer for brewery workers, but it’s important for workers to still wear PPE when coming into contact with the water. Gloves from a site like unigloves.co.uk/ are essential to avoid cross-contamination and bacterial transmission. Hands often carry large amounts of bacteria picked up from dirty surfaces, but staying gloved up helps to keep the water clean.

Although instances of contamination are rare, it’s vital that rogue microorganisms are eliminated to protect the brewing process. To do this without using chemicals, an UltraViolet system must be utilized. The photon energy from the lamp disrupts the organism’s DNA effectively killing it. If the pH is too low either carefully selected buffering sacrificial minerals or a mineral feed system will need to be employed.

Tombstone Brewing Company

Tombstone Brewing Company needed the right water purification system for their brewing needs. After exploring a variety of water purification systems, they decided to use Dimewater.

Find out how we helped them with our case study.

Not sure what kind of system you need? Let’s discuss your specific needs to find the right solution for you.

When it comes to water filtration few systems are as effective as a reverse osmosis or RO system. With the ability to filter out organic and chemical contaminants down to the smallest micron, an RO system has the ability to provide the highest quality clean water. But, what is the secret to RO water purifier success? Easy, it’s the membranes.

The RO Membrane is the key feature in every reverse osmosis systems. The membrane is made of an extremely thin plastic sheet material that gets added to other permeable plastic sheets. Together, these sheets include a membrane support layer, a feed spacer, a permeate (or treated water carrier) and finally the outer wrap. They wrap themselves around a perforated product/permeate tube and function together.  The entire assembly becomes the RO element which houses the membrane and produces purified water.

Physicists, physical chemists and polymer chemists best explain how the RO Membrane works.  A simple explanation is: “the RO Membrane blocks contaminants that pass through the membrane under pressure and dissolve.  The membrane stops between 10% to 99.99% of dissolved particulates depending on applied pressures and the specific desired filtration needs of the users.

While a hearty workhorse, the RO Membrane is quite fragile. The membrane is protected by:

• Chlorine
• pH extremes
• high temperature
• hard water scale
• organics
• microbiology
• iron
• manganese
• dirt and silt

To avoid issues with an RO system, customers need to work with reputable companies and manufacturers. Dime Water not only sells the best products but knows exactly how to service these products to assure years of reliable use. Dime Water assures that our systems include the proper pretreatments and utilizes RO Membranes specifically designed to do the right job while lasting as long as possible.

Having clean water isn’t enough when it comes to home use. A water filtration system will give people clean water, but that water can still have elements that make it hard for other uses. Hard water is still safe to drink, but not all that tasty and very difficult to clean with. Enter the water softener experts like Silkflow.

The water softener that we know and use today was first started in the1940’s. As technology improved–major changes in non-corrosive materials, meters, timer electronics, etc.-so too did the function and reliability of water softeners.

A water softener is a device that utilizes either sodium chloride (salt) or potassium chloride (also salt) to remove calcium and magnesium from water, replacing them with either sodium or potassium. The softening process is also effective at removing iron, manganese and other metals. The end result is softened water without all the hard minerals.

Water can have little to no naturally occurring calcium or magnesium present and sometimes it needs to be removed by an exterior process. These processes can include membranes, EDI, or CDI. It will still be soft water, even if those minerals are replenished.

Softened water does well with multiple applications and reacts better with soaps, shampoos and detergents than hard water. An added bonus is the elimination of the dreaded bathtub ring. Also, it prevents mineral scale formation in pipes and faucets. There are lots of benefits of softened water compared to hard water, but you can get some help from aquariuswaterconditioning.com if you’d like to learn more.

Vibrant Water manufactures a complete line of water softeners for commercial and home use. Small homes, large hotels, motels, hospitals and factories-Vibrant Water has the perfect water softener to suit all needs.

Through our advanced processes, our systems minimize the wastewater created as well as the salt needed for softening. The waste stream from a water softener typically contains chlorides, however, the EPA frowns on that process. In accordance with that regulation, some water districts will not install these. Drought-prone areas also impose limits on their use. To overcome these restrictions, Dime Water offers a wide variety of systems that use no salt or safer chemicals and with minimal waste water.

Dime Water has the right system for any water softening needs.

DRO-100 RO Systems

The use of the words “RO Systems Water Purifier” often appears in written and verbal requests from residential and commercial customers seeking better water for their home or business. Such wording is an excellent place to begin the discussion about the final customer needs because the RO water purifier will:

• Filter water to a particulate size down to 0.002 microns or smaller. This is 1/38,000^th of a human hair and can prevent the passage of bacteria, viruses, and cysts.
• Remove up to 99.9% of everything dissolved in water including minerals, metals, radioactive materials and pharmaceuticals.

This creates water that is well on its way to becoming pure. Most systems designated as RO water purifiers also incorporate other filtration steps to protect the RO membrane and further purify the water by removing gas phase items such as chlorine and chloramines. Also, filters remove volatile organics such as insecticides and pesticides and often ultraviolet light is added for safety from any living organisms.

Pure has a broad definition of water that doesn’t leave spots on dishes to water that can be used to prepare medicines and beyond. RO water purifier thus can evolve with RO being the primary process into 10 or more filtration steps to meet customer needs.

It’s very difficult to respond to a customer requesting the best water filter. Are they referring to price, treated water quality, the quantity of water produced, number of treatment steps or what?

We believe that the best water filter is the one that does precisely what the customer needs and will do it reliably for years.

Reviewing some of the definitions for best:

• Price. Imported components, inexperienced assemblers, lack of post-sale service are popular ways to drive prices down but end up being costly
• Smaller unit. Undersized equipment running 24/7 to keep up is a short term savings.
• Missing or improper pre-treatment. Costly early and repeated R.O. membrane cleaning and or replacement
• owntime. What could be more costly than waiting for assistance or parts from a non existing or non knowledgeable customer service?
• Out of spec water quality. Too late. If the system is built wrong, replacement or rebuilding may be the only answer.

The only way to get the best water purifier is to work with a responsive manufacturer staffed with experienced engineers and express your expectations.

RO Membranes are the key component in all reverse osmosis systems. The membrane itself is an extremely thin plastic sheet material that is added to other plastic sheets including a membrane support layer, a feed spacer, a permeate (treated water) carrier, and finally an outer wrap. Once these items are wrapped around a perforated product/permeate tube the assembly becomes the RO element which has as its functional component the reverse osmosis membrane.

The exact mechanism of how the RO Membrane works is best explained by physicists, physical chemists, and polymer chemists. A basic explanation of its function is that water passes through under pressure but absolutely everything dissolved in the water is prevented from passage or rejected by the RO Membrane from 10% to 99.99% depending on applied pressures and the specific elements and compounds in the water being treated.

Though a workhorse the RO Membrane is quite fragile and must be protected from damage and plugging from chlorine, pH extremes, high temperature, hard water scale, organics, microbiology, iron, manganese,  dirt, and silt. This highlights the need to work with a company such as Dime Water, Inc. to be assured that your system includes the proper pretreatment and utilizes RO Membranes selected to do the job and last as long as possible.

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Thank you for helping us better identify the whole house water treatment systems that may best suit your needs. Based on your input we have determined that a combination of the DRO-100HE Plus & the Aquafer are the whole house water treatment systems that are perfect for you. Below is two quick videos explaining the benefits of using the DRO-100HE Plus & The Aquafer.

A member of our team will contact you shortly.

If you would like to speak with a member of our team now you can contact us at (760) 734-5787.

Thank you for helping us better identify the water filtration system that best suits your needs. Based on your input we have determined that the Aquafer is the perfect solution for your water filtration needs. Treated water for less than $1 a day.  Here is a quick video explaining the benefits of using the Aquafer. If you would like to speak with a member of our team now you can contact us at (760) 734-5787.

Have questions about purchasing commercial reverse osmosis filter equipment? As business people, you probably wouldn’t buy or lease a building based only on square footage, a vehicle based totally on length or a computer system focusing exclusively on storage capacity. Knowing reasonable details about each of these examples is the norm for long term useful and satisfactory purchases.

Strangely, all too often commercial reverse osmosis filter units are selected from a catalog or on-line provider based solely on how much water it can produce in a day. A few purchasers get lucky but the vast majority come up short on desired water quality, excessive maintenance, poor after-sale assistance and yes, even insufficiently treated water volume for the day.

To design and construct reverse osmosis equipment to meet customer’s needs at a competitive price Dime Water, Inc. processes all inquiries through experienced engineers that listen intently to all application requirements and then feed this information along with water chemistry data as well as ambient conditions into one or more computerized design programs. The result is systems that meet YOUR needs without fail.

In the event that you have acquired a reverse osmosis system after intensive research from a reputed supplier, you may require us to hire moving companies sparks nv (or wherever you live) to transport it to your business location. These companies will be able to assist you in safely and easily transporting your machines.

Prior to that, it seems critical to find an appropriate system for your business. If you are not asked about your treated water quality expectations, raw water source, job site location, storage volume, available space, and power along with control requirements you are in danger of not getting what you need.

If you are in the market for water treatment equipment whether a commercial or industrial reverse osmosis system, filter, softener, deionized or any other process contact us and let us put our decades of experience to work for you.

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There’s nothing you can buy to treat the water in your home that can do as much for you as the Aquafer Water Conditioner System. Treated water for less than $1 a day.

Do you need a water softener? In all but a very few parts of the world, the answer should be YES. After you answer the following questions about why soft water is for you to read on about exciting 21st-century technology to make it happen.

1. How does my laundry look? Water hardness interferes with soap and detergents. Result? Water that doesn’t get ‘sudsy’ enough to clean, a fabric-damaging film on clothes, and unsightly surface scum left behind in your washer.

2. Is there a white, chalky substance on my faucets and shower walls?
That’s mostly limescale, a material made of calcium carbonate. You can scrub it off but it will keep coming back as long as you use your sinks and shower. It’s one of the most obvious signs of hard water. If you’ve just had a renovation done, be it one with Glass Shower Direct shower walls or with other products, seeing this buildup can be frustrating, and water softeners may be the best counter you could do.

3. Has the water pressure dropped?
Once again, the culprit is limescale. It accumulates on the inside of your pipes when they are exposed to hard water, and those deposits will continue to build up until they begin restricting the flow of water.

We have offered products for years that solve hard water problems and are environmentally perfect — no use of salt or chemicals, not a single drop of water goes wastefully to drain, no electricity used and no moving parts that require service. Our Aquafer and ESF units replace traditional softeners that use technologies from the 1920s that discharge salt and wastewater to drain, require electricity, and are plagued with costly service calls. The Aquafer offers treated water for less than $1 a day.

You’ll find several environmentally friendly products on our website. Please contact us if you need help deciding which water softener solution is best for your home or business.

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It happens every few months – a colorful brochure arrives from new water filter manufacturers in the mail with dire warnings about the quality of the water in your home, and offering an exciting new water treatment solution, and maybe the chance to win a trip to Bermuda if you call right now.

These pitches are right about one thing – residential water filtration system offers many health and quality-of-life benefits for your family. But not all water filter manufacturers are alike. There are unscrupulous fly-by-night providers that will overcharge for water treatment while providing a product that doesn’t get the job done.

When you are ready to explore your options, you are more likely to get a quality product from a company that has been around for a while and offers facts instead of inflated claims.

Our advice? Look beyond the sales pitch, the scare tactics, and trumped-up claims about systems that are maintenance-free and cheaper than anything else on the market.

Dime Water has been around for more than 20 years. We offer an array of water treatment solutions, instead of trying to convince you that the same system that works for one type of situation would be equally effective elsewhere.

Our proven residential water filtration solutions include one that can meet your present and future needs, and we will always be upfront with you about installation, maintenance, warranty, and cost.

Get the facts about water filtration by calling Dime Water now: (760) 734-5787.

Water Treatment Values

Commercial Water Treatment filters provide better tasting and better smelling drinking water by removing chlorine and bacterial contaminants. Point-of-use water filters remove lead from drinking water immediately prior to consumption, thus preventing this harmful substance from entering the body. Dime Water, Inc.’s residential water softeners can help you feel the difference between good water and excellent water in San Diego, California!

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Your family’s safety is not merely your responsibility. It should be one of your greatest priorities in life. Dangers can come from different sources so you have to be vigilant all the time. You should be aware that some of the major culprits behind many serious health risks are likely penetrating your home on a daily basis through your water faucet. Dime Water can help you in providing filtered water for your family in San Diego, CA.

Dime Water in San Diego, California, a water treatment manufacturer, manufactures the best quality water systems at the lowest available prices. Call us now at (760) 734-5787 for inquiries.

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There is currently a huge increase in interest in water treatment products. This interest level crosses all market segments- residential, commercial and industrial and appears to be fueled by health and water shortage issues at the residential level. Water treatment products interest in the commercial and industrial markets is motivated by a number of factors primarily water conservation, product improvements, and regulatory demands.As time goes on we anticipate the interest in and demand for treatment products to continue at an even higher rate driven by the publicity of water contaminants, water scarcity, increase in industrial sophistication and bureaucratic pressures.

One of the more positive results of an interest increase is the increase in water treatment options. Prior to developments in the 1970s water treatment options consisted of ion exchange, distillation, and a few filter media selections. Water got treated but chemical and salt waste (pollution) were high, water waste was out of control, energy consumption was out of line and spent media disposal loaded with toxic materials was the norm. Today, we are equipped with better water treatment plants and also highly regulated waste water treatment centers. Also, there are different stormwater prevention plan companies in houston tx (and elsewhere) that could make sure that the waste water from sewer systems, construction sites, and industrial areas are treated properly.

Current water treatment options still include ion exchange, distillation and media filters to be used judiciously and are now supplemented by new treatment products including reverse osmosis, forward osmosis, electro deionization, capacitive deionization, ultraviolet, advanced oxidation process, cartridge filtration, non-chemical (physical) hardness scale prevention, long life redox media and ultrasonic devices.An entirely new family of water options appealing to a rapidly growing group of water purists consists of treatment products and processes to increase alkalinity, add electrolytes, add elemental hydrogen, add crystalline vibrations, add magnetic impulses, follow the Golden Ratio, energize via vortex and improve hydration through surface tension reduction.

As a prospective purchaser of water treatment products, there is wisdom in doing due diligence and explore your water treatment options to obtain precisely what is best for you. Further, you are best served by working with a prospective supplier that offers more than one or two options and is prepared to discuss them at a technical level and not simply provide a glossy brochure.

High-quality lab water derived from a laboratory water purification system is one of the most important components of a successful laboratory. Regarding the process of purifying lab water, consider thinking in terms of two processes — one is at the application point and the other is the pre-treatment. Because the requirements for lab water quality are so high, dedicated equipment (see Arrow Mixing, for examples) is often specified at each application point for purification as well as for blending of samples, sedimentation analyses, or staining. This type of scientific equipment can be purchased online from laboratory equipment specialists such as SciQuip. Such equipment does a beautiful job BUT typically their capacity in gallons is quite low and replacement filters, membranes, lamps, etc. can also be costly.

To maintain the desired application quality and minimize replacement costs it is best to add pre-treatment to your laboratory water purification system. This is most effective if it includes processes to eliminate chlorine, reduce TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) and eliminate chloramines and destroy microorganisms which would consist of filtration, reverse osmosis or deionization, and ultraviolet. Sophistication, instrumentation, and process steps for this lab water pre-treatment can be scaled to virtually any volume and flow requirement and pays for itself in a short period of time. To make sure that the water is at the right temperature as well as the lab, temperature mapping services will be advantageous in this instance, it will monitor the surrounding area making sure that any and all lab equipment and specimens are not compromised.

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There have been many changes in commercial water softeners. Gone (almost) are the days of metal pressure vessels (tanks) that have a horrible history of failure due to corrosion and a nest of diaphragm control valves that technologically date back to the 1930s and are a service nightmare.

Current commercial water softeners utilize corrosion-proof, extended life tanks constructed of polyethylene for chemical inertness and covered in epoxy and fiberglass for superior strength. In addition, the nest of valves has been replaced with a single serviceable fully automatic valve.

Complimenting the modern tanks and valves on commercial water softeners are integrated control systems with a multitude of features to reduce salt usage and wastewater discharge and multiple systems to guarantee softened water 24/7.

If contemplating the purchase of a commercial water softener, contact a manufacturer with the engineering expertise to understand your specific needs and provide the system that has not only a low cost but also the longest life and lowest operating cost.

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There are a number of items to consider when contemplating the purchase of a commercial reverse osmosis system. They include:

Commercial reverse osmosis systems are sized and priced based on the volume of treated water required in a 24 hour day expressed as GPD. For longevity of the system, a good duty cycle is 12-18 hours daily run time.

or an atmospheric tank with a re-pressure pump for release at desired flow rates when needed. Be aware of the tank space required.

There is a wastewater stream associated with commercial reverse osmosis units. The ratio of treated water volume to the total water entering the system is called its RECOVERY with this percentage dependent on raw water chemistry and ranges from 50% to 85%.

Systems cannot remove 100% of everything dissolved in the water. The percentage removed is called REJECTION and varies from 95% to 99% based on inlet water chemistry and system design. Custom commercial reverse osmosis units can be custom designed to provide even a higher rejection percentage to often eliminate the need for post-treatment with deionization.

Although we refer to systems as commercial reverse osmosis units the membranes can be replaced with NANO membranes and then called NANO systems that can offer advantages to the user. Advantages include lower operating pressures to save energy and longer system life; increased water efficiency with less drain water. Rejection is reduced to 85-90% but that water quality level may be adequate for your needs.

As a general rule when obtaining a quote or purchasing a commercial reverse osmosis system or NANO systems have full knowledge in advance of what quality water you need, daily peak use, peak flow requirement and source of water to be treated. If you are not prompted to provide this information by the prospective supplier, move on to one that will.

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New line of custom-built water treatment products

Wellness enthusiasts and water purists rejoice! Dime Water Inc. is proud to announce our new line of custom-built water treatment products in the wellness industry, which we call WFP (Water for Purists). Since our inception, we evolved with the thought that innovative ideas regarding our drinking water are most welcome, thus, we are always researching and experimenting with products that we believe can bring significant changes to a household’s drinking water quality.

Water for Purists is an idea born considering our human nature and the ever-growing need to know what it is in our water. People are becoming more and more informed and aware of water’s properties as a result of numerous scientific studies and publications. Many authors have contributed to elevate the awareness of the public as to how can water quality be improved, and many people have started taking action and considering various water treatment units for their homes and businesses.

We at Dime Water Inc. have a passion for water. Inspired by renowned scientists from all over the world such as Dr. Batmanghelidj, Wm. D. Holloway, Herb Joiner-Bey, Masaru Emoto, Viktor Schauberger, Dr. reverse osmosis Becker, Bruce Taino, just to name a few of those who contributed to elevate awareness of the mysteries of water, we have developed a new product line, actually series of products that we refer to as WFP (Water For Purists) units.

Dianne Kuypers, President of Dime Water Inc.

5 Series with Incredible Efficiency

These custom-built units are designed to treat a single point of use or the entire house, depending on what our clients request. The series developed by our talented, skillful and experienced team includes:

• WFP-1 Series: Filters
• WFP-2 Series: Oxygenation
• WFP-3 Series: Vortexing
• WFP-4 Series: Frequency Addition
• WFP-5 Series: Ozonation AOP (Advanced Oxidation Process)

WFP-1 Series: Filters

This series includes single and dual counter top cartridge filters. The units we provide are portable, adaptable to faucet spouts and allow selection of treated/untreated water through a diverter valve. They are specially designed to keep under control:

• alkalinity
• chloramines
• chlorine
• electrolytes
• fluoride
• heavy metals
• TDS
• volatile organics

WFP-2 Series: Oxygenation

These custom-built units restore the oxygen level in your drinking water to a level of your choosing. The units can also be added to existing reverse osmosis units or incorporated into other Dime Water Inc. products. Our custom-built systems use 80% pure oxygen. Another advantage is that the presence of oxygen in drinking water assists protective coating formation on the inside of metal water transport pipes.

WFP-3 Series: Vortexing

The WFP-3 Series are available for whole house systems, drinking water-only units but can also be incorporated in Maxicure™, Aquafer™, Aquafer Plus™ and ESF™ units. The vortex phenomenon, which these units are able to recreate, is able to bring back vital life into your water. The Aquafer offers treated water for less than $1 a day.

WFP-4 Series: Frequency Addition

We have designed custom units that impart the frequency of 62-68 cycles per second, which is believed to be a healthy body’s natural intracellular frequency. Users can also adjust the frequency from 8-20,000 cycles per seconds for drinking water-only or for all water in their home.

WFP-5 Series: Ozonation AOP (Advanced Oxidation Process)

Dime Water Inc. has designed and manufactured the WFP-5 Series for drinking water and whole house applications. Combined with UV light treatment, ozone is known to be extremely effective in removing bacteria and organics from the water, leaving your water free from any organic contaminants of concern.

We manufacture all items so you can be assured of excellent value in pricing, quality and durability. If anyone is interested in a process not displayed in our series, we can always be contacted with requests.

Michael Colburn, Vice President and Chief Engineer at Dime Water Inc.

Prices for our custom-built WFP units are all available upon request. Contact us at 760.734.5787 for more information about our products!

Resources:

• http://www.prweb.com/releases/pure-water/wellness/prweb12421348.htm

From a biological standpoint, lab water has many distinct properties that are critical for the proliferation of life. This transparent fluid is the major constituent of the fluids of living things. As a chemical compound, a water molecule contains 1 oxygen and 2 hydrogen atoms that are connected by covalent bonds. Lab water has many uses in our world, from drinking, washing, transportation, recreation, food processing, to industrial applications, chemical uses, and as a scientific standard.

We often take water quality for granted in daily life and our work, and we also might not be aware of the different grades of water, the appropriate water grade applications or the cost to obtain the desired grade. Laboratories need reagent grade water (RGW) for experiments and animal water in order to reduce the risk of scientific variability, or to prevent bacterial disease.

Common Water Contaminants and How to Measure Them

Water is known as the universal solvent because more substances dissolve in it to varying degrees than in any other solvent. Depending on what the water will be used for, it requires a certain purity. Water quality is dependent on the combination of water treatment systems and technologies employed to effectively remove contaminants to levels required for critical applications. Thus, purified water is mechanically filtered or processed in order to remove impurities and make it suitable for use. The impurities that may need to be removed are:

• bacteria
• endotoxins and nucleases
• gases
• inorganic ions
• organic compounds
• particulates

Tap water contains many substances that, if left untreated, may react or catalyze reactions in undesired ways. It is important to know: the conductivity of the water, the organic content of the water and the presence or absence of endotoxins. These are the most important things to consider along with storing dangerous goods correctly, as far as laboratory water is concerned. Conductivity is the tendency of water that contains ions to conduct electricity, and is measured in Siemen(S), microsiemens/centimeter or microohms/cm. This measurement is used to measure feed water and lower quantities of treated water.

In order to obtain pure water for a laboratory, it takes and incredibly sophisticated lab to test it to the level that lab technicians want for their water.

What Does Lab Water Grade Mean and Why Does It Matter?

Reagent grade water (RGW) is water that is suitable for use in a specified procedure, as it does not interfere with the accuracy, precision and specificity of the procedure. Water specifications have been described by ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) D1193, ASTM D5196, ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 3696 and CLSI ® (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (formerly NCCLS) C3-A4.

There are national specifications for a variety of different grades of water and depending on what the laboratory is doing, whether it is a clinical application, an industrial application, or manufacturing, they know which one of those grades of water they need. Typically, people say they want an “X” amount of water per day or per 8-hour shift and give a grade number: I, II, III or IV.

Different levels of quality are required for a vast range of applications, therefore different grades of water must be purified and utilized to match the required procedures or appliances.

At Dime Water Inc., we are not able to test to the levels that lab technicians want, but we can provide laboratories with custom-built water treatment systems to remove all impurities from the water. If the lab is on a municipal water supply, we can get enough information from that and the treatment processes are such that, regardless of what the water supply is, we can take care of it by knowing more about their water we can do a better job of sizing the equipment for a certain type of contaminant. A package-approach to treating lab water is going to have ultraviolet, mixed bed DI, reverse osmosis, recirculation, and there will be some ozone production on top of it all, for knocking down the organics.

Often, labs select the highest possible grade of water when it really is not necessary, and they are spending money on equipment and on maintenance that far exceeds what they really need. However, they can be just as safe and more in line economically if they used a grade of water that was more compatible to what their process is. If you build a water system for a certain grade of water but later on you need it for a higher grade, it can always be upgraded to a higher level. 2 or 3 components have to be replaced based on water volume and/or time.

After treatment, water should not be stored statically. Water of this grade is circulated through the treatment processes, so there is constantly a circulation taking place.

At Dime Water Inc., our engineers are always prepared to help you choose the right water treatment technology to meet your needs. Contact us at 760.734.5787!

Resources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water
• https://orf.od.nih.gov/PoliciesAndGuidelines/Documents/DTR%20White%20Papers/Laboratory%20Water-Its%20Importance%20and%20Application-March-2013_508.pdf

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Polluted Water Problem Resolved

In recent months, the public has learned that the 2 hot water tanks at Memorial Elementary School in Burlington, MA had failed. The tanks were installed with the new Memorial building in 2011 but failed before reaching their 5-year guarantee, leaving 14 months before they expired. This led to a variety of polluted water problems. In an effort to not have this as a recurring issue, the newly-installed tanks are stainless steel with a 15-year warranty.

High levels of copper and lead were reported in one sink in the cafeteria during one of the several water quality tests conducted annually by the town’s Water Department at each school. The sink was the only one found in the area to test positive for elevated levels of copper and lead. A water fountain was also tested and did not have the same levels.

The School Department subsequently conducted its own investigation with the help of some expert plumbing professionals similar to those at Metro Vancouver Plumbing. The results revealed the need for replacing a back-flow preventer. A new backflow preventer was installed and after another water test was conducted, the department reported copper and lead levels well below the Department of Environmental Protection’s threshold.

Everything is back on and usable except for the one sink in the kitchen, which is not being used for cooking. It is more of a discoloration issue, not a polluted water issue, as the levels are all below where they need to be. It just does not look attractive.

Craig reverse osmosisbinson, Director of Finance and Operations

Copper and Lead in Drinking Water

Copper and lead turn out in our water source as a result of erosion of natural deposits, corrosion of household plumbing systems, or a lack of safety equipment like a back-flow preventer. The latter two can be inspected for and resolved by a plumbing service similar to https://www.americaneagleplumbing.net/lago-vista-plumber/. Should these metals enter your fresh drinking water supply then they can cause health problems – especially if present in public or private water supplies in amounts greater than the drinking standards set by the EPA.

How Will I Know If There Is Copper or Lead in My Water?

If you are concerned about the presence of these metals in your drinking water, the first thing to do is to have your water tested by a certified laboratory. Water testing is the only sure way of telling whether there are harmful quantities of copper or lead in your drinking water since you cannot see, taste or smell these metals dissolved in water. Once the testing is done, you might want to call for a great plumber in Milford or somewhere near your location to check how this problem could be fixed. In our on-site laboratory at Dime Water Inc., we reverse osmosisutinely test for:

• Physical appearance -pH -DO -TDS -Conductivity –Copper
• Calcium and magnesium hardness -All forms of iron -Manganese -H2S
• Chloride -P and M alkalinity -Nitrates/Nitrite -Oil -Bacteria P/A -Calculate LSI
• Arsenic -Fluoride -Chlorine -Chloramines -CO2 -Tannins –Silica

How to Reduce Elevated Copper and Lead Level in Your Drinking Water

Public water suppliers should use corrosion control, which is an effective treatment technique to reduce the amount of copper in drinking water. As for lead, the more time water has been sitting in your home’s pipes, the more lead it may contain. Most lead in household water usually comes from the plumbing in your house, not the local water supply. You may want to have your pipes replaced by professionals such as those from this website (https://macvik.com/plumbing/plumbing-service-areas/denver/).To reduce lead in drinking water at home:

• flush your pipes before drinking
• only use cold water for consumption
• flush your cold water pipes by running the water until it becomes as cold as it will get, anytime a particular faucet has not been used for 6+ hours
• use only water from the cold water tap for drinking, cooking and baby formula

Call us at 760.734.5787 and get in touch with one of our water experts today to learn more about removing copper and lead from your drinking water.

Resources:

• https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/lead-and-copper-rule
• https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/drinking-water-regulations

Many people tend to imagine that purity is the ultimate indicator of the quality of drinking water. However, 100% ultra-pure water is not good for our health because water (H2O) purely comprised of hydrogen and oxygen does not provide our body with the natural electrolytes and salts that we need to survive.

Truly pure water does not exist in the natural world! You can take water from the purest springs and lakes, and analyze a sample and you would still find small amounts of dissolved minerals, such as sodium, calcium, potassium, magnesium, and chloride.

What Is Pure Water?

To better understand pure water, we need to clarify terminology. Ions, or electrolytes, are formed when minerals dissolve in water. You may have heard about the importance of electrolytes in our bodies, which are essential for transmitting electrical impulses along nerves and for muscle contraction, allowing all our “bioelectrical” functions to work properly. So, maintaining the correct concentrations of these ions in and outside cells in the body is important for our health and well-being.

Drinking plenty of pure water not only does not provide you with these essential electrolytes, but it also tries to “rob” you of the ones already in your body, creating a possible fatal imbalance.

Is Pure Water Harmful to Our Health?

Actual information concerning the health effects on the human body is hard to come by, but there is a plethora of opinions on this matter, including scientists and medical professionals who take strong positions on both sides of this issue. Purified water is an active absorber – when it comes into contact with air, it absorbs carbon dioxide, making itself acidic.

The more purified water a person drinks, the higher the body acidity becomes. Being essentially mineral-free, pure water is very aggressive, tending to dissolve substances with which it is in contact. Ultra-pure water will even strip the copper off the inside of a pipe, to understand just how aggressive it can be. However, as pure water enters the mouth, it mixes with our natural fluids and ceases to be aggressive.

People consume many commercial beverages and soft drinks that are made from purified water. There have been a number of studies, which have consistently shown that heavy consumers of soft drinks (with or without sugar) spill huge amounts of calcium, magnesium, and other trace minerals into the urine. This has been linked to a greater risk of developing osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, and a long list of degenerative diseases, generally associated with premature aging.

Purified water is extremely soft. There is a correlation between the consumption of soft water and the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Development of mineral deficiencies and an acid state can appear the longer one drinks pure water and if one consumes purified water exclusively. Even if you supplement your purified or distilled water intake with trace minerals, you will still be inadequately nourished in minerals considering other non-purified water drinking people. If this is something you were completely unaware of, and have been drinking pure water for quite some time now, it is high time you stop this practice. And it would also be advisable to get yourself checked for any mineral deficiency and your heart health examined for any cardiovascular problems (websites similar to https://cvgcares.com/ could be helpful in this regard).

Because purified water tends to be acidic, it can only be recommended as a way of drawing poisons out of the body, or for short-term detox treatments. Once this is accomplished, continuing to drink purified water is generally a bad idea.

Call us at 760.734.5787 and get in touch with one of our water experts today!

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Simply expressed, water is pressurized and forced through an extremely thin sheet of specially formulated plastic sheet. The higher the pressure, the more water passes through. The thin sheet (membrane) passes water and traps a high (95% plus) percentage (rejection) of everything (dissolved solids) in the water. The trapped items exit the membrane as a waste (concentrate) stream and the balance (permeate) stream is collected. The permeate stream normally represents 50% to 80% (recovery) of the water entering the membrane

There are basic steps in processing water with a commercial reverse system that must be considered in the design and application of the systems. They are:

1. PRETREATMENT. Often overlooked or poorly designed, this step determines system life cycle, maintenance requirements and overall performance. The following must be addressed —

• Turbidity (undissolved solids) reduction to at least 5 microns.  The porosity of the membrane down to 0.0002 microns makes it an excellent filter, but unaddressed turbidity will plug membranes in as little as hours.
• Iron and manganese removal to nondetectable or trace amounts. Both severely lower membrane life and/or cause frequent membrane cleaning.
• Hard water scale prevention. Hard water scale rapidly stops treated water flow. There are alternative prevention methods less costly and more environmentally friendly than water softeners. These include our ESF, Aquafer, Maxi-Cure and chemical feed systems.
• Chlorine and organics removal. Both shorten membrane life.
• Biologics removal. Like turbidity, biomasses plug membranes. Chemical feed (chlorine, hydrogen peroxide), ozone or Ultra Violet needs to be employed

2. HIGH-PRESSURE PUMP. It should be selected so that during system operation, the pump motor is not maxed out and is operating near the highest efficiency point.

3. MEMBRANE SELECTION. This should be tailored to your specific needs of optimizing water quality, water use efficiency, specific contaminant removal, etc. There is no universal type.

4. ELECTRICAL CONTROLS.  Ultimately, they all do the same thing, so simplicity, cost and serviceability are primary considerations. Being able to by-pass controls while producing water in an emergency is important.

5. DUTY CYCLE. It should not be a surprise that something running 24/7 will require more frequent service and parts replacement than one operating 1/3 to ½ the time. Selecting a larger system also provides business increase wiggle reverse osmosisom.

6. TREATED WATER STORAGE. reverse osmosis units seldom deliver treated water at a required flow rate. To overcome this, storage with re-pressurization is needed. Tanks should be sized in anticipation of occasional system downtime.

Over 15 million US households drink well water, according to the CDC. These private wells are not covered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that protect public drinking water systems. As a private well owner, this means that you are responsible for ensuring the quantity and quality of your own water supply.

Ground water has been used in California since the first inhabitants began using water that seeped from the springs. However, in some areas, the use of water is threatened by high rates of extraction and inadequate recharge, or by contamination of aquifers as a result of land use practices. Poor quality water is enough to make anyone want to change water providers. If you represent a commercial entity, you can find out how to switch your water supplier online. Although our country has one of the safest drinking water supplies in the world, sources can still become contaminated through:

• naturally occurring chemicals and minerals
• local land use practices
• malfunctioning wastewater treatment systems
• other sources

Top Causes of Outbreaks in Private Wells

If a private well was contaminated, it can impact not only the household it serves, but also nearby households using the same aquifer. Ground water is not 100% pure water and always contains some dissolved minerals, as it collects in the tiny pore spaces within sediments and in the fractures within bedrock. The presence of contaminants in drinking water can lead to health issues, including gastrointestinal illness, neurological disorders and reproductive problems.

The top 6 causes of outbreaks in individual (private) wells are:

• Hepatitis A
• Giardia
• Campylobacter and E. coli (tie)
• Shigella
• Cryptosporidium and Salmonella (tie)
• Arsenic, gasoline, nitrate, phenol and selenium (tie)

Private wells should be checked every year for mechanical problems, cleanliness, and the presence of coliform bacteria, nitrates and any other contaminants of concern. The well should be located so rainwater flows away from it, because rainwater can pick up harmful bacteria and chemicals on the land’s surface. If this water pools near your well, it can seep into it and could cause health problems.

Common Sources of Potential Ground Water Contamination

The following table shows the most common sources that lead to ground water contamination.

The Need for Water Testing

Because bacterial contamination cannot be detected by smell, sight or taste, the only way to know if a water supply contains bacteria is to have it tested. The EPA does not regulate wells and there is no requirement to have private wells, springs or other sources tested – it is up to the individual homeowner to do it. Those who depend on a private well should test their water source at least 4 times per year but if not possible, at least 1 time is mandatory. Also, checking for leakage in the pipes that supply the well water to the home, can be useful. Sometimes even when the well water is tested pure, people may get waterborne diseases due to some impurities in the water caused by the leakage in the supply pipe. It is advisable to get hold of a reliable plumbing service that can come in any time when requested to help with issues such as leakage. You can use the internet to find plumbers in your locality, for instance, someone from Sydney can just type ‘24 hr plumber Sydney‘ on the internet, and get many results for local plumbers that can help them. Additionally, private water supplies should generally be tested for bacterial safety as follows:

• any time a component of the water system is opened for repair
• at least once a year
• when a laboratory test indicates high nitrate and human or livestock waste is suspected
• when a new well is constructed
• when an existing well is returned to service
• whenever bacterial contamination is suspected, as might be indicated by continuing illness
• whenever the well is inundated by flood waters or surface runoff

Testing for all individual pathogens is impractical and expensive. Bacterial safety of drinking water is monitored by testing for coliform bacteria. If tests reveal the presence of coliform bacteria, there is an indication that pathogenic bacteria, protozoa and viruses may also be present in the water. Some city/county health department laboratories as well as most commercial water testing laboratories provide bacterial testing for private well owners, for a fee.

You can contact the nearest laboratory and ask for a drinking water bacterial purity test kit that will allow you to collect a sample of your well water and send it to the laboratory for testing. The laboratory must receive the sample within 48 hours of collection, otherwise it will not test it.

Well Water Treatment Options

If testing confirms the presence of coliform bacteria in your water, you should use an alternative water supply or disinfect your water supply until the problem can be corrected. Whilst a water heater can be used to kill off bacteria that enters the home it is best to err on the side of caution. First American amongst other advisors warn that if the temperature of the water heater is too low, bacteria like legionella can fester inside the heater itself. All in all, it is probably better to treat the bacteria at the source. Treatment methods that include the use of UV light disinfection tools (provided by the likes of R-Zero Systems) tend to be effective for the removal or inactivation of some pathogens like enteric viruses, Giardia, Legionella, or Cryptosporidium. Following are some of the most common treatment methods:

• disinfection and/or filtration
• disinfection with UV light
• disinfection with ozone
• disinfection with chlorine

The easiest cure and overall least expensive is to install an Ultra Violet (UV) system. Properly matched to the water peak flow, the UV will provide years of protection with the only maintenance required being an annual bulb change. Energy requirement is less than most light bulbs and installation is quite simple.

Resources:

• https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/private/wells/diseases.html
• https://water.epa.gov/drink/info/well/whatyoucando.cfm
• https://www.water.ca.gov/waterconditions/drought/wellinfo.cfm
• https://www.water-research.net/index.php/bacteria
• https://www.waterandhealth.org/newsletter/private_wells.html

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Nowadays, many businesses such as car washes are facing water treatment issues that include an ever-increasing demand for high-quality water. You might be surprised to learn that as well as having good quality maintenance carried out on the interior of your vehicle, at somewhere like Landmark which specializes in BMW repair in Bellevue, you also need to look after the exterior of your car if you want it to perform at its best level. This explains why there is now a new demand for car washes to improve the quality of water they use. Treatment and handling regulation compliance are major issues confronting many segments of the market. Water treatment technologies employed for businesses include a wide range of filters, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis systems, sulfate/nitrate removal units, UV systems, and water softeners.

Car washes, for example, are major water-consuming businesses and will require proper water treatment, in order to save water and provide the best results for their clients. A water softener takes less soap to break the bond between the dirt and the vehicle, making it a great water treatment system to consider.

Reverse Osmosis Systems for Car Washes

The wash-rinse cycle is done in 2 steps: the initial rinse and final rinse. The majority of car washes today use reverse osmosis systems to take the minerals out of the water. The final rinse uses water processed through reverse osmosis and by taking the dissolved solids or most of the dissolved solids from the water, they end up with a spot-free water.

In most cases, RO requires a minimum of 3 gallons of waste to 1 gallon of product water. Wastewater is required to carry the minerals away from the membrane so they will not clog up and stop producing mineral-free water. Most car washes blow the excess water with high-velocity air, but there are those who advertise the hand wash and there they have people with towels and shammies that take the water off, and, in both cases, the quality of washes greatly improves. There are other advantages as well, if anything happened to your car, the insurance would cover it. Insurance 4 MotorTrade can provide some insight into how these policies would work.
Industrial water in a car washing installation can be microbiologically contaminated so both personnel and customers need to be protected against a possible health endangerment.

Dime Water’s reverse osmosis systems produce ultra pure water, which can be used to flush away marks in the car wash. Also, reverse osmosis treated water leaves no line marks on the car lacquer while it dries up.

Washing cars out on the street has been restricted for a long time in many communities for ecological considerations. Washing water will end up in soils poses a threat to groundwater because it contains oils and lubricants, heavy metals, suspended matter, tar, and microorganisms.

For the disinfection of the water, the following procedures are most commonly used:

• ozonization
• UV treatment
• peroxide treatment
• thermal treatment

Water softeners, backwashing carbon filters, and backwashing turbidity filters can also be used in the car washing industry. We provide a wide range of award-winning water recycling solutions that are engineered considering our clients’ needs.

We can help you reduce your water and trade waste costs with systems that pay for themselves through savings. Our systems are durable and compact, built to last and provide guaranteed performance for your car washing business. Dime Water has the knowledge to provide any business with a tailored solution. Call us at 760.734.5787 and get in touch with one of our water experts today!

Resources:

• Brown, C. (2000) Water Conservation in the Professional Car Wash Industry

Throughout the United States, the process of treating sewage and then throwing the water away into an ocean outfall, or into a river or a lake someplace is becoming obsolete. Because water is so hard to get, the approach is going to be to take the water from whatever source the municipality has and treat it so that it becomes good, potable tap water.

Then, when the water is finally consumed and goes down the sewer, it will be collected, treated and reused as a source of good quality water. Although houses have different types of sewage, the aim is to save and reuse as much water as possible. For example, if you own a septic tank, it is crucial to get regular Colorado Springs septic tank cleaning, or septic tank cleaning wherever you are based, in order to try and preserve as much water as possible once it is clean enough to be recycled. The new way to save water is to treat the water that already exists.

“Indirect Potable Reuse” Got a Bad New Name: “Toilet to Tap Water”

The term that is used quite often is “toilet to tap” and this week in the city of San Diego, which is the 8th largest city in the United States, the city Council approved the “toilet to tap” approach and will be funding the treatment to do that. From the public standpoint there is what they call the “yuck factor”, as people think that they are drinking their own sewage water.

Modern water-purification technology is considered totally reliable, using micro-filtration and reverse osmosis, which pumps water through permeable membranes, and ultraviolet light to remove all contaminants. So the “yuck factor” will only be imaginary. So if you are wanting to see if you can install this water system into your house to start conserving water, you can have a look at sites such as https://bouldenbrothers.com/how-plumbing-services-help-conserve-water/ and others that will give you options to conserve on your water usage.

But from a realistic standpoint, this has been going on forever. If you go to cities like Milwaukee, Wisconsin or Chicago, Illinois, both of them being on the shores of Lake Michigan, they have a water intake in the lake and have been discharging their treated sewage out there for many years, probably 50 years or more. So in reality, “toilet to tap” has been taking place and it is a beautiful thing because we will finally be able to conserve water the way we should be conserving it.

Water Conservation to Help Meet Future Needs

Being in the water business the way we are and the number of years we have been in it, we know the technology is there to do it correctly. I think that the technical people, the Boards of Health and the regulatory agents should come out with a better study on the effectiveness of removing pharmaceuticals from the water. It is being done, but from a personal standpoint I do not know the molecular weight or the physical size of the pharmaceutical compounds that are in the sewage.

Having pharmaceutical distribution experts organizing the medication and ensuring that the deposits are safely stored and not entering water supplies is essential however in this case, I am sure that the technology will take it out but I would like to see the technical people involved in this process make the public more aware that one particular fact is that we know we can kill the bacteria, the viruses, the cysts, we know that we can make the water perfectly clear and clean-looking, we can take care of the taste issues, but the lingering concern from somebody like myself and many others in the industry is: can we prove to the public that the residual pharmaceuticals are coming out of their wastewater prior to being used as drinking water?

Public education campaigns are very important for spreading the news on the benefits of recycled sewage water. For example, every day, the outflow of L.A.’s treated wastewater (about 400 million-plus gallons) amounts to the state’s fifth-largest river running into the Pacific Ocean. In these dry times, it makes perfect sense to stop throwing it away! The secret to successful recycling programs is complete transparency from officials. Transparency and proper public education will lead to minimal opposition from the general public.

Resources:

• https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-op-haefele26aug26-story.html

Water Ionizers: Process Explained

Water ionizers claim to produce “pure alkaline water”, but it is extremely unlikely this “pure alkaline water” would have any effect on health. Because the pH of blood is tightly regulated at about 7.4, alkaline water would not have any effect on blood pH, nor would it be desirable to alter blood pH.

A water ionizer is a device where you pass in an electric current through water and when you do that, water will break apart. Instead of being H2O, it will break into an ion of Hydrogen and an ion of Hydroxyl, which is OH. The Hydrogen portion will make water quite acidic and the Hydroxyl portion will make water on that side basic. So, it is just a way of breaking water apart and ending up with two water sources or two water samples, one with a low pH and one with a high pH.

“Ionized water” is an essentially meaningless term. Water can contain dissolved ions (electrically-charged atoms or molecules) and almost all water found in nature acquires ions such as bicarbonate and calcium as it comes into contact with reverse osmosiscks and sediments. Pure water consists almost entirely of H2O molecules, which are loosely bound in a network-like structure in which individual molecules are constantly changing partners.

These water molecules do exhibit a very slight tendency to dissociate (ionize) into Hydrogen and Hydroxide ions. Because the reverse of this reaction is much more rapid, the extent of this reaction is severely limited and only about 2 out of every billion water molecules is dissociated. No electrical device or chemical additive is capable of increasing these ion concentrations in pure water above these levels.

Ionization Advantages and Disadvantages

In my opinion, “ionized water” is nothing more than sales fiction. The claims about the health benefits of drinking alkaline water are not supported by credible scientific evidence. Pure water can never be alkaline or acidic, nor can it be made so by electrolysis. Alas, there are many websites and companies with emphasize on the importance of drinking ionized and the health benefits it provides for those who want to achieve better health. Some of these advantages include:

• ionized water is up to 6 times more hydrating than conventional water
• ionized water improves cellular hydration
• ionized water acts a a powerful antioxidant
• ionized water restores the body’s pH balance
• ionized water improves the taste and quality of food

The disadvantages of alkaline water include:

• the cost
• there are no official studies to verify the validity of the claims deeming it pure and safe to drink
• it is an overpriced version of the water available on tap in nearly every American home

Purified water is a must not only for human consumption but for a variety of other purposes, including meeting the requirements of medical, pharmacological, chemical and industrial applications. Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from contaminated water, with the sole goal of producing water that fits a specific purpose.

In general, the methods used to purify water include:

• physical processes (filtration, sedimentation, distillation)
• biological processes (slow sand filters, biologically active carbon)
• chemical processes (flocculation, chlorination)
• electromagnetic radiation processes (ultraviolet light)

Sometimes, the general public hardly distinguishes scientific fact from pseudoscientific hype when the two are closely intertwined and when the public lacks the scientific background to do so. Many of the clinical uses of ionized water are done in Japan and Korea, where water ionizers are certified by the Korean and Japanese Ministries of Health as approved medical devices. They have been using them for over 40 years but they do not follow the same guidelines as the United States for testing.

To conclude, I hope that these two blogs have shed a little more light on water ionizers and deionzers, the processes they involve and the pros and cons of owning one of these water treatment devices.

Water Deionizers: Process Explained

There are many ways to deionize water, some are small and simple, while others are large and complex. The method used will be determined considering the volume of water deionizers and the desired purity. Deionization or ion exchange is a rapid and reversible process, in which impurity ions present in the water are replaced by ions released by an ion-exchange resin. Ion exchange resin has an attraction for dissolved inorganics, which are typically about 95% of known water contaminants.

The resin must be periodically regenerated to restore it to the original ionic form. There are 2 basic types of resin:

• cation-exchange resins – release Hydrogen (H+) ions or other positively-charged ions in exchange for impurity cations
• anion-exchange resins – release Hydroxyl (OH-) ions or other negatively-charged ions in exchange for impurity anions

Calcium and Magnesium ions are removed when the water passes through the first ion exchange material. The exchange material releases its Hydrogen ions on a chemically-equivalent basis as metallic ions in the water affix themselves to the exchange material. A Sodium ion (Na+) displaces one Hydrogen ion (H+), a Calcium ion (Ca++) displaces 2 Hydrogen ions and a Ferric ion (Fe+++) displaces 3 Hydrogen ions and so on.

The solution will become very acid as a result of a relatively high concentration of hydrogen ions, and, at this point, the deionizaion process is only half complete. Water now contains positive Hydrogen ions and the anions originally in the water before treatment. The partially treated water will flow through a second unit with anion exchange material, which consists of replaceable Hydroxyl anions and fixed irreplaceable cations.

The negative ions in solution (anions) will be absorbed into the anion exchange material, which releases Hydroxyl anions. The result of the entire process will be ion-free water, which contains:

• positive Hydrogen ions released in the initial exchange
• negative Hydroxyl ions released in the second exchange

Now, through their combination, these ions have produced water molecules, which are not different in any ways from the water in which they were produced. This two-stage ion exchange process results in mineral-free water.

Deionization Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages of deionization include:

• removes over 98% of contaminants
• no wasted water
• no need for electricity
• fast flow rate
• no need for a storage tank
• relatively inexpensive initial capital investment
• regenerable (service deionization)

Purified water is a must not only for human consumption but for a variety of other purposes, including meeting the requirements of medical, pharmacological, chemical and industrial applications.

Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from contaminated water, with the sole goal of producing water that fits a specific purpose.

Distilled water and deionized (DI) water are the most common forms of purified water. The first order of business is to determine what is meant by high purity for the proposed application. We must also consider suspended solids, dissolved solids, dissolved gases, organics, and the biology of the water. A few of the most common uses of distilled water are aquariums, laboratory experiments, steam irons, and car cooling systems. It is not uncommon for companies such as Golyath distilled water to promote their products for commercial purposes as well.

In general, the methods used to purify water include:

• physical processes (filtration, sedimentation, distillation)
• biological processes (slow sand filters, biologically active carbon)
• chemical processes (flocculation, chlorination)
• electromagnetic radiation processes (ultraviolet light)

If it is used in combination with activated carbon, deionization can remove organic chemicals and parasites, and can protect the resin from chlorine. The limitations of this process involve a diminished capacity when used on water supplies with a high mineral content.

Also, it does not effectively remove particles, pyrogens or bacteria. If the resin is not regenerated at proper intervals, contaminants can return to the water. Deionization beds can generate resin particles and culture bacteria over time. It also has high operating costs in the long run.

Resources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_purification
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water

The term waterborne diseases is reserved largely for infections that are predominantly transmitted through contact with or consumption of infected water.

Water quality has always been a concern to all of us, no matter where we live. When it comes to protecting your health from unsafe drinking water, it is vital to know as much as possible about the types of waterborne cysts, bacteria and viruses.

What Causes Waterborne Diseases?

The water supply of households and commercial properties can be contaminated due to many reasons. A rather common cause here is the leakage of sewage into the soil, which then seeps through walls, and sometimes, into ruptured pipelines.

To prevent the osmosis of microorganisms and other contaminants into the water supply, it would be advisable to find solutions at prosewerrepair.com/service/sewer-scope/ or a similar website. By availing sewer scope services like the one in the portal mentioned, you can ascertain the condition of the drainage system of your home or establishment. This can be insightful in understanding whether your water supply is affected by leaking waste underground, or a different reason.

When there are leaks or other forms of contamination, the diseases are mostly caused by pathogenic microorganisms that most commonly are transmitted in contaminated fresh water. The infection mostly results during bathing, washing, drinking, in the preparation of food, or the consumption of food thus infected.

The most prominent examples of infection include various forms of waterborne diarrheal disease, which affect mainly children in developing countries, according to the World Health Organization.

Types of Infections

Microorganisms causing disease that characteristically are waterborne include protozoa, bacteria, viruses and parasites.

The most common symptoms for these infections are represented by:

• abdominal discomfort
• abdominal pain
• allergic reactions
• bloating
• blurred and/or double vision
• cramps
• diarrhea
• dry mouth
• fatigue
• flatulence
• itches and rashes
• liver enlargement
• loss of weight
• muscle aches
• nausea
• nervous manifestations
• vomiting

If you have any of the above-mentioned urgent health problems that might require immediate attention, you can go for family urgent care to see a doctor who may be familiar with your previous medical records. And accordingly, he might provide you with medicines for instant relief. If you are unable to visit a local doctor due to an acute illness, you can make use of virtual consultation services for medical advice and prescription. Also, you can order prescribed medicines from an online chemist store (have a look at UK Pharmacy).

Socioeconomic Impact

Waterborne diseases can have a significant impact on the economy, locally, as well as internationally. The less developed countries are usually confronted with related costs and not seldom with a huge financial burden. Financial losses are mostly caused by:

• loss of manpower
• costs for transport and special food
• costs for medical treatment and medication

In developing countries, 4/5 of all the illnesses are caused by waterborne diseases, with diarrhea being the leading cause of childhood death. Some 1.1 billion people still lack access to improved drinking water sources and some 2.4 billion to adequate sanitation. The prevalence of waterborne diseases can be greatly reduced by provision of clean drinking water and safe disposal of feces. Water disinfection is used to prevent the growth of pathogenic organisms and to protect public health.

Common Methods of Water Purification

The 2 most common methods to kill microorganisms in the water supply are: oxidation with chemicals (chlorine, chlorine dioxide or ozone) and irradiation with ultra violets. Chlorine is universally accepted as a safe and effective water disinfectant. Becoming popular in the 1920’s, free chlorine (hypochlorous acid) is the most commonly used method of water purification in the world, saving millions of lives since it became popular to use.

As for UVs, the rays are known to prevent multiplying of organisms due to the disruption of their DNA/RNA. It is a truly chemical-free method of treating water for potability.

Home Water Treatments

More and more people are opting to use a home water treatment device. There are many different types of water treatment products on the market so it is important to first identify your specific water quality concerns. Home treatment water devices come in a wide range of styles, from plumbed-in systems (find more info here), to pour-through water pitchers and faucet-mount filters.

Before purchasing, verify that the system is tested and certified to meet your specific contaminant reduction needs. Most residential water systems require some type of regular maintenance or replacement of the entire unit after a certain number of gallons. Keep in mind that you will need to follow the manufacturer’s installation and maintenance instructions carefully in order to provide your family with the best protection.

Resources:

• https://www.nsf.org/newsroom/whats-in-your-drinking-water
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterborne_diseases

Reverse Osmosis Systems for High TDS Water

Dime Water was asked to provide a reverse osmosis system to reduce an extremely high TDS water measured at over 5,000 ppm, which also had high sodium and sulfate levels. The pictured reverse osmosis system was designed and constructed for a cattle ranch in South Dakota, with the help of the United State Department of Agricultures’ engineers.

Total dissolved solids (TDS) is a measure of the combined content of all inorganic and organic substances contained in a liquid in molecular or micro-granular (colloidal sol) suspended form. TDS is measured in mg/liter or parts per million (ppm). If the TDS is high, cattle will be reluctant to drink then, drink a large amount at once, causing the animal to become very sick and potentially die. The primary symptom of high TDS water in cattle is diarrhea.

The reverse osmosis system’s advantages:

• anti scale chemical feed to prolong equipment life
• fully automatic multi-tank filter system
• operation is fully automatic and controlled with a microprocessor housed in an environmentally sealed enclosure
• specially constructed for reverse osmosisbustness and exposure to harsh ambient conditions
• treated water quantity is over 16,000 gallons daily

Required for all life processes, water is the most important nutrient for range cattle. The total body water of cattle is usually between 56% and 81% of body weight and a loss of 20% of the body’s water will be fatal. This loss of body water occurs through milk production, fecal and urine excretion, sweat, and vapor loss. Water quality, especially sulfates, can affect animal gain and health. A water analysis is recommended if animal performance is disappointing.

What Is Ground Water Quality?

Groundwater quality is judged by the amounts and types of materials that are present in the water. Water contains a variety of dissolved substances including gases and ions, and it may also contain organic matter and suspended materials. Generally, good quality water is water that is safe for its intended use. A few substances such as lead, nitrate, or arsenic may be harmful to health, but most substances dissolved in water do not adversely affect the smell, appearance taste or hardness of the groundwater. The United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established enforceable and recommended drinking water standards for humans and livestock in the United States.

Dime Water also added a special feature to the system: a blending valve to adjust the final quality, get extra daily treated water volume, and maximize water efficiency.

The existing water chemistry found at the ranch prevented cattle from drinking as they should, which resulted in limited weight gain and a loss in revenue at the time of sale. Estimates showed weight gain may be as high as 50% once good water quality is provided. It is very important to do a TDS analysis for water quality and if the concentration is over 3,000 ppm TDS, then further analysis of sulfates should follow. Knowledge and management of stock water quality can be an important part of an effective ranch plan.

Resources:

• https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/30300000/Research/WATERQUALITYMKP6-09.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_dissolved_solids