Recently for Healthy Living magazine I explored Santevia enhanced drinking water, and if you're looking for terrific tasting real water without using bottled water this is the system.
Reducing Bottled Water Bottle Use
Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle, according to a recent online article.
All of those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels. They pollute the environment and make us ever more dependent as a nation on foreign oil.
On a more practical level, we don’t know about you but the prospect of carting more plastic water bottles up the stairs in our neck of the woods where the word “flat” doesn’t exist to the house from the car isn’t very appealing. Neither are all those plastic water bottles on the shoreline at the beach.
According to an April 7, 2008 online report from Rachel Oliver for CNN: “Plastic bottles meanwhile are among the most readily recycled plastic products of all, yet in some countries, as much as 90 percent of water bottles end up in landfills.
“Despite widespread media coverage presenting plastic bottles as a scourge on the environment, sales of water bottles keep going up. In 2005, 43 billion gallons hit worldwide stores; in 2006 it had risen to 47 billion gallons. In the U.S., the world's biggest consumer market for bottled water, sales hit a record 8.82 billion gallons in 2007, a 9.5 percent increase from 2005. Sales of bottled water in the U.S. have now overtaken sales of milk and are close to outselling beer. “
Historically, such increases in sales have run parallel to drops in recycling rates, unfortunately. In 1995, when there was just 1.95 billion pounds of polyethylene terephthalate ("PET 1") bottles in circulation in the U.S., the country boasted recycling rates of nearly 40 percent. By 2005, when retailers were stocking up to 5 billion pounds of PET bottles, recycling rates had dropped to 23 percent. We are trashing our future.
In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem, according to an online article. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.
In 2005 alone, the United States produced an estimated 9 million barrels of crude oil per day and imported 13.21 million barrels per day from other countries.
[i] If all of us went cold turkey on plastic water bottles for one single day and we refrained from wasting our oil resources with plastic water bottles alone, we could go almost a day and half without foreign oil.
By adding on plastic bags, then going for the big things like better miles per gallon, we could be free from the shackles of foreign oil. Petro-dictators will wonder where the money went and be unable to plot against us
Stainless steel American made water bottles filled with the best water in the world—inexpensive, high quality American water (just not bottled) is called immune protection for America.
We’ve been looking for the purest healthiest and safest water and one of the smartest choices today that we know is called Santevia. We are happy we can tell you about Santevia because we think it will change your life and make you healthier and the planet healthier too. It will save you money and it will give you the very best water.
In the beginning water came to us miraculously from God, sky, bubbling up from Earth, rushing over boulders in streams, pristine in alpine lakes, replete with tasty traces of healthful alkalizing minerals, with enhanced energy from the sunlight, embodying in each life-giving drop beauty, quality, clarity—more precious, really, than even a diamond when it came to life.
Water was once purified through a process of evaporation and condensation, resulting in rainfall—then gravity-filtered through the Earth’s crust becoming enriched with alkalinizing minerals while being vitalized by the Earth’s magnetic core. Eventually this organically complete water was distributed through clean running springs, rivers or wells. Exposure to the sun’s light spectrum is also thought to elicit energizing potential.
No longer, though. Our tap water comes to us only after being devitalized with chemicals and pollutants. The Mississippi River delivers water to millions of people in the South; yet, chemical plants line its shores spewing tons of toxins into its dark waters.
In the Midwest, water often is contaminated with dangerous herbicides such as astrazine, linked with breast, ovarian, prostate, and other cancers, or other dangerous herbicides.
To make modern water safe, it must be extensively treated and chemicalized, often with dangerous treatment options such as chlorination that produces carcinogenics trihalomethanes found in high levels in drinking water in urban cities that use chlorination.
Traces of these chemicals and others such as lead or arsenic end up in our bodies from what we imbibe; drinking water is linked with a wide range of deadly diseases from bladder and colo-rectal cancer and hypertension to birth defects. For most of us, tap water is a far cry from Nature’s origins.
Throughout America our tap water is an anemic second cousin to what our bodies crave and need.
Modern Day Water Woes—Back to Nature Solution
Unfortunately few, if any, sources of true, organically complete water exist due to global contamination of ground water. Municipal water treatment, water filters, distilled water and bottled water—while arguably clean, do nothing to restore water’s full organic potential. And bottled water has hit a backlash now with the public outcry over landfills (since, unfortunately, few plastic water bottles actually are eventually recycled) as well as a nation hungry to do everything practical to reduce its dependency on foreign oil. For all these reasons, not to mention their sheer bulk, bottled water is losing favor. (Please recycled your plastic water bottles.)
Pure Earth Water
The Closest Thing to a Pure Mountain Stream on Your Countertop
Santevia for H2O the Way Nature Truly Intended
Santevia™ recreates the Earth’s perfect process of purifying, mineralizing, alkalinizing and vitalizing water. Each drop of ordinary tap water is gravity dripped, resulting in long-contact exposure to earth-derived elements transforming it into the most vital and complete water anywhere.
Santevia™ is the first to re-create Pure EARTH Water. Santevia recreates the Earth’s perfect process of purifying, mineralizing, alkalinizing and vitalizing water. Each drop of ordinary tap water is gravity dripped, resulting in long-contact exposure to earth-derived elements transforming it into the most vital and complete water anywhere.
MORE Than a Water Filter
While water filtration is important to yield clean, contaminate-free water, if you look at nature’s complexity, this is merely one element of organically complete water. Santevia purifies your water as effectively as any high-tech water filter on the market.
However, Santevia does not use chemicals or artificial filter media, just all-natural and effective compounds such as earthenware ceramic, coconut carbon charcoal, volcanic zeolite and silica sand.
Once sparkling clean the real magic of transforming your water begins. People who use this amazing countertop filter system can never go back to just doing tap water again. The idea here is Slow Water.
Every night we fill out beautiful model with water and it takes hours and hours for the water to move the complex drip by drip filtration system. It is slow. But we want it slow because what is returned is water the way nature intended. No water bottles required for water that is tested free from harmful contaminants—including trihalomethanes, byproducts of the municipal chlorination process.
Slow is good! Think of water trickling through Vulcan rock in Tuscany, coming to you through age-old stones, completely energized. The Santevia™ Water System is based on long contact filtration. Gravity, rather than water pressure, maximizes filtration time and allows water to move naturally through the multiple levels of filtering and re-mineralization elements. It is designed to produce 5 gallons (20 liters) of water per day, which, based on optimal water consumption, should be adequate for a family of five for drinking and cooking. After a few tanks of water have flowed through, and the system is fully wetted, the time required should end up around 3-4 hours. You can ensure maximum flow through by soaking the ceramic pre-filter prior to assembly and by scrubbing both sides of it with a scrub sponge. Fill the tank at night before you go to bed and just before you leave for work. It’s worth the wait! Here’s how Santevia works its magic on your water:
ENERGIZES: Water is re-energized with bio-ceramic, which like the sun, emits the invisible yet beneficial far-infrared light spectrum. Magnets in the dispenser spout simulate the magnetism of the Earth’s core, thought to re-structure water for better bio-availability.
ALKALIZES: Bitter and acidic tap-water is transformed into terrific tasting and healthful alkaline water through contact with natural silica sand and mineral dense Maifan stone. Water pH is increased by as much as 100%!
REMINERALIZES: Mineral dense Maifan stones infuse highly beneficialand absorbable calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc and other trace minerals back into the water. (Maifan stones are mineral rocks used in Traditional Chinese Medicine composed of calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium, copper, and selenium, all essential to health. In ordinary cooking of both rice and tea, minerals from Maifan stones may benefit health.)
TASTES GREAT: Pure and naturally re-mineralized, alkaline and revitalized Santevia water is brilliant in clarity, mountain spring fresh unique to Pure EARTH Water.
HYDRATES: Alkaline and mineralized water refreshes and revitalizes your body. Bio-ceramic energy balls and aligned magnets serve to re-structure, and cluster water molecules for optimal absorption and hydration.
The water you drink is so incredibly important from just about every perspective. You could live only a few days without it. Your body is seventy percent water.
Buying bulky water containers is simply not an option.
Santevia enhanced water is one of the best ways to deliver water the way pristine Nature intended.
To learn more before our first purchase, we went to the website and found out there is a whole new community out there of people who want pure water but want extra protection.
Here’s what people are saying about Santevia:
“Last year (January 2009) I bought my first Santevia Water System. The taste of the Santevia water is amazing. You could clearly see and feel the difference. As a comparison we took a sample of our tap water, a bottled water sample, and a Santevia water sample to be tested. The results are amazing. The Santevia water sample was the only one with the most minerals and the one with the most purifeid of all the water samples. Beside all of this, the Santevia water pH values were the best, which was another benefit to it. Thank you Santevia Water System for inventing such a system.”
Dejan A. - Kitchener, ON
We bought our Santevia Water System in October 2009. We are a family of 8 and this has saved us hundreds of dollars. We previously used the big bottles of water and would go through about 8-10 of them a month at $8.00 a bottle. That adds up. I also found that it would taste like plastic from being stored so long in the bottles. Yuck. I will not drink water if it doesnot taste like water. When I got to taste the Santevia water that was sampled at our local health food store - I was like yes I want one of those. I love the Santevia water. I am back drinking my 8 plus cups of water a day. My kids also love their Santevia water. This has saved us time, money and taste. I also like the idea that it puts back some of the minerals that our bodies require.
Michelle I. - Mt. Currie, BC
The Santevia Water System is one of the best purchases we have ever made! Before getting our Santevia Water System a few months ago, we were going through 2 single-use plastic water jugs per week. Not having to buy water anymore saves us so much money as well as the work of going to the store, and loading the heavy water jugs home. We never felt good about buying our water, especially since we were paying for water and we didn't even know if it was better for us than tap water! Now with our Santevia water, we can just refill it with our tap water, and we know we're drinking great quality water! The Santevia water tastes great, and it's good to know that our water is healthy and free of chemicals! We recommend the Santevia Water System to everyone who comes in our house…especially because most people ask about it when they see it. We couldn't be more pleased with Santevia Water System...and it is so affordable!
