Our Technology

Our technology begins by incorporating the finest ceramic filtration media available in the world today. It makes a perfect pre-filter because ceramic material can be easily cleaned and re-used again and again.

While there are many makers of ceramic water filtration elements, Doulton Sterasyl® ceramic technology is recognized as the world’s finest. Doulton® has been manufacturing their water filters for over 150 years. Their technology is in daily use in over 130 countries around the world.

Our Doulton® pre-filtration elements are capable of removing 99.9% of all particles greater than a half micron in size. This means that 99.99% of pathogenic bacteria like E. Coli, Shigella, Salmonella, and Klebsiella, and 99.999% of cysts like Giardia and Cryptosporidium are also removed at this stage.

Doulton Sterasyl® Ceramic Technology is so efficient that many water treatment systems rely on it exclusively. In LIVINGWATERS™ Water Treatment Systems, it is only just the beginning of our technology.

Redox is the principle of opposites at work. Some atoms are positively charged and are attracted to the negative charge of the zinc. Others are negatively charged and attracted to the positive charge of the copper. Electrons are transferred away from some substances causing them to be oxidized. The element that keeps the electron is said to be reduced.

KDF®55 media uses the redox principle in the presence of dissolved oxygen to effectively remove chlorine, chlorinated hydrocarbons, hydrogen sulfide, iron, and metals like lead, arsenic, aluminum, mercury and cadmium from water.

As water containing dissolved substances enters a bed of high purity copper-zinc granules, copper becomes a cathode and zinc an anode. The tiny space between each granule becomes an electrolytic cell, with the water and its contents acting as the electrolyte.

As contaminants and oxygen pass through, heavy metals plate out on the surface of the granules. Chlorine and the disinfect ion by-products it creates are turned into harmless chloride ions and ozone. In the process, copper and zinc chelates are produced that are important nutrients for the human body.

One of the most important benefits of treating water with the KDF® in our technology is that as the water passes through the media, it takes on a load of excess electrons thus improving its redox potential.

Improved redox potential imparts two significant qualities to water as it pertains to health.

1. Along with the ozone created in the process, KDF® prevents viruses, algae, fungi, and bacteria, from growing in the product water.
2. The water with its increased load of electrons becomes a liquid antioxidant (a free-radical fighter like vitamin C).

Some water treatment products also claim their process imparts healing qualities to water. Some say these qualities magically appear because the water is made to travel next to a vessel containing water from some primative undisturbed aquifer. Others attribute their benefits to passing water through a vortex or some other strange metal shape.

With a LivingWaters™ Water Treatment System, you don't have to rely on some esoteric belief. The value of increased redox potential in our technology is based on solid science. The redox potential of water can be easily measured both before and after passing through our treatment process to demonstrate the not only the existence, but the magnitude of the effect.

Because of the amount of KDF® we use in our systems, and our design which provides maximum contact time for the water, the magnitude of this effect with our LivingWaters™ systems exceeds that of water exposed to magnets or even electrolysis.

No other system can make these claims and back them up with real science. With our technology we can. It is part of the reason we call our systems LIVINGWATERS™ Water Treatment Systems.

Independent Labs Confirm Superior Performance

• Compared to carbon-only units, KDF®55 lasts far longer, doesn’t permit bacterial growth, and removes a much wider range of inorganic matter (e.g. heavy metals).
• Compared to reverse osmosis, KDF®55 is less expensive, wastes no water, does not require membrane replacement, works at most water temperatures and pressures, and removes chlorine.
• Compared to ultraviolet lights, KDF®55 works in cloudy water, doesn’t require bulb replacement or electricity, and removes inorganics.
• Compared to ozone, KDF®55 provides a residual effect to keep bacteria from growing in water, does not require electricity, and costs far less to buy and maintain.

The third stage of our technology incorporates a premium Carbon Block Resin (CBR) media. This consists of a premium coconut shell carbon material that is powdered, mixed with a special resin that removes heavy metals, then extruded into a solid carbon block.
Most of our competitors that use carbon blocks make them from a carbon derived from coal. They do this for two reasons. First, coal based carbon is much cheaper than coconut shell carbon. Second, because they have no other way of dealing with dirt or chlorine in water, they need a media that will give adequate service life for those purposes. In short, they have to depend on one media to do lots of things.

In our technology, by the time water gets to our carbon block stage, dirt, chlorine and its disinfection by-products, heavy metals, and many other contaminants have already been removed by the preceeding ceramic/KDF™ stages. We use our carbon for an entirely different purpose.

Our coconut shell carbon is far superior to any coal based carbon at adsorbing a wide variety of organic contaminants including compounds that create tastes and odors in water, as well as insecticides, herbicides, pesticides, hormone and pharmaceutical residues, and other volatile organic chemicals (VOC’s) that are increasingly finding their way into our water supplies.

Of further benefit, the Doulton Ceramic and KDF® pretreatment causes our coconut shell CBR media to last over twice as long, thereby making LIVINGWATERS™ Water Treatment Systems among the most economical to maintain.

The difference between filtering water through regular granular activated carbon filters (GAC) vs. our carbon block resin (CBR) media is like the difference between passing water through sawdust vs. a solid block of wood. ALL water makes contact with the carbon instead of channeling through the media. Pore sizes are so small that 99.95% of dangerous cysts and most bacteria cannot make it through.

In our technology, this premium CBR media becomes an important backup to the Doulton Sterasyl® ceramic first stage which likewise does not permit the passage of cysts and kills bacteria. But ceramics, no matter how well they are made, if handled roughly, can develop minute cracks invisible to the human eye. Should this happen, they are useless against bacteria and cysts.

Our patented CBR media provides the first level of valuable back-up to our Doulton® ceramic technology. The next media we employ provides a second layer of back-up. That is why we offer the only water treatment system in the world that can honestly say that our technology is built to be “redundant and fail-safe”.
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Disease producing microorganisms are a growing problem in the nation’s water supply. They are a problem not only for well owners, but also for those who rely on city water. There are at least two significant reasons why this is true:

1. Most municipal or community systems rely on chlorination to disinfect water supplies. There are a variety of dangerous organisms that are not killed by chlorination. Recently, in Milwaukee Wisconsin, over 250,000 people became ill and over a hundred died from an epidemic caused by dangerous Cryptosporidium cysts found in the city’s water supply.
2. Treatment systems depend upon machinery and even the best machinery can fail. When this happens (as during floods or times of spring runoff), consumers of city tap water may become infected with dangerous microorganisms while drinking unsanitized water without knowing it.

Manufacturers of inexpensive systems like pour-through pitchers and certain faucet-mounted devices aggressively advertise they meet NSF Standard 53 by removing 99.95% of dangerous cyst-producing organisms.

As helpful as they are, they don’t make water safe! A device that can trap 99.95% of cysts can let dangerous bacteria pass through like a bowling ball through a barn door.

Bacteria can occur in unsanitized water at levels from 100,000 to 1,000,000 organisms per milliliter. Since there are approximately 250 milliliters in an 8-ounce glass of water, that glass can contain from 25 to 250 million bacteria of various types. The smallest of these can be as little as .3µ (µ = micron = one-millionth of an inch). The average human hair is about 100 microns in diameter.

Until recently, the only technologies other than chlorination that could claim they effectively control bacteria were reverse-osmosis, ozone, and ultraviolet light. But each of these has serious limitations. The problem with reverse-osmosis is that as membranes age, the diameter of the pores in the semi-permeable membrane through which the water is forced become larger. This is a phenomenon known as “breaks-through”. All RO systems are vulnerable to this process. As it happens dangerous bacteria find their way into the treated water without warning.

Ozone and ultraviolet light (UV) require electricity to operate. When power runs out so does your ability to have safe water! Another problem with UV is that if the water is not crystal clear, or the frequency of the bulb or the power supply changes slightly, UV systems lose their effectiveness.

Most of these systems advertise that they remove 99.9% of bacteria. This may sound efficient, but a system rated at 99.9% (log 3 removal) would leave in the above-mentioned glass between 25,000 to 250,000 organisms — easily more than enough to be an infectious dose depending on the microorganism.

Our technology uses a patented, entirely new process that focuses on the absolute physical removal of very small particles and microorganisms, achieving more than 99.9999999% (log 9 removal) of the smallest bacteria known. That means that in the aforementioned glass, no microorganism would be left that could cause a disease!

In-line pressure forces water through the carbon-block wall to the inner bore of the capillary bundle and then leaves the cartridge as filtered and sterile water.

By using a special polymer blend, Ster-O-Tap® has been able to achieve a combination of membrane properties that, until now, has never been achieved:


Benefits of Ster-O-Tap®

• Unlike RO, Ster-O-Tap® does not waste 3 – 7 gallons of water for every gallon it produces.
• Unlike RO, Ster-O-Tap® dispenses a continuous, ample supply of water. You can’t run out so you can use purified water to wash vegetables, boil pasta, make beverages, and pour glasses of water.
• Unlike RO, Ster-O-Tap® does not require a storage vessel. Apartment dwellers can invest in a portable system that is simple to transport and homeowners can free space under their sink.
• Most importantly, unlike RO, the Ster-O-Tap® membrane cannot “break-through” rendering product water unsafe without warning.

The Ster-O-Tap® micro-filtration capacity guarantees removal of 99.9999999% of bacteria, molds and spores, and 99.999% of viruses; thus rendering water safer from microorganisms than is possible with any other method, except prolonged boiling or distillation.
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The Advantages of LivingWaters™ Technology

Because of our technology, our family of LivingWaters™ customers enjoy the best quality drinking water in a way that is less expensive, more convenient, and far more reliable than is available with any other water treatment device.

Our KDF® media surpasses the performance of even the best RO systems at the removal of chlorine, the disinfection by-products of chlorination, heavy metals and other inorganic contaminants. It also turns your water into a powerful anti-oxidant.

When it comes to making water safe, our technology is without equal. Each LIVINGWATERS™ Water Treatment System employs FOUR technologies proven to control bacteria without electricity. First is the Doulton Sterasyl® silver-impregnated ceramic cartridge capable of removing 99.99% of pathogenic bacteria. Second is the KDF®55 media that uses its redox potential to destroy any remaining bacteria as well as viruses. These two technologies are contained in the first cartridge, and that is only our pre-filter!

In the second cartridge, our premium carbon block resin technology begins the third stage of treatment. Then we go further! All 4, 5, and 6 stage LIVINGWATERS™ Water Treatment Systems employ the recently developed capillary membrane, micro-filtration technology known as Ster-O-Tap®.

These four technologies form the heart of every LivingWaters™ Water Treatment System. From there, systems are configured for special water problems like fluoride, nitrate removal, and chloramine removal.

What this means is that for the first time, you can own a water system that you can trust to make your water safer and healthier than has ever before been possible. With our technology, no power is required; no break-through is possible and ALL these technologies work on cloudy or turbid water!

Not even the best ceramic, reverse-osmosis, or carbon-block technologies can meet that standard! It is a remarkable performance that has been confirmed over and over by independent laboratories.

Best of all, as we develop our technology, we commit to implementing our advancements in standard sized cartridges. That is why our family of customers who bought their systems from us years ago are enjoying our latest technology every time they change their filters!

With our technology, the result is a system that is so safe, economical, convenient, and efficient, that nothing else on the market can compare!
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