| National news reported in February 2009 that the | | | | for nearly four decades. This is great news for |
| Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, California, had | | | | chemically sensitive people or people concerned with |
| switched from using chemicals to clean their hotel | | | | their health. These water machines called, water |
| guest rooms to using…WATER! Disinfecting acidic | | | | ionizers in the USA, hook up to your kitchen tap. |
| water to be exact. The water is electrolyzed with | | | | When tap water is filtered and run thought a water |
| low-voltage electricity creating a powerful yet | | | | ionizer, it is electrolyzed, which makes the water |
| non-toxic cleaning agent. The ions are converted into | | | | molecule smaller and able to penetrate your cells |
| sodium hydroxide, which becomes hypochlorous acid, | | | | better. The negative electrical charge also makes the |
| a potent disinfectant known as acid water. It also | | | | water an antioxidant so that it can pull toxins from |
| cleans and degreases like detergent. This change | | | | the body. This is very hydrating water that can help |
| created a $3,500 a month savings in cleaning | | | | balance your bodies pH. This water also makes more |
| chemicals for the hotel and an incalculable savings in | | | | oxygen available to the brain and your bodies cells. |
| their staffs health. Maids are enjoying working | | | | People, who consume alkaline water often report |
| without fumes and peeling skin. "I didn't believe in it | | | | being able to “think” better, sleep better and |
| at first because it didn't have foam or any scent," | | | | have more energy. A bi-product of the machine is |
| said housekeeper Flor Corona. "But I can tell you it | | | | the “acidic” water which is separated at the |
| works. My rooms are clean." | | | | time of electrolysis. |
| Scientists say it is powerful enough to kill anthrax | | | | In addition to disinfecting, many people use the lower |
| spores without harming people or the environment. | | | | levels of acid water on their skin as “beauty |
| "It's 10 times more effective than bleach in killing | | | | water.” Minnesota food scientist Joellen Feirtag |
| bacteria,”said Yen-Con Hung, a professor of food | | | | said she was skeptical. So she installed an electrolysis |
| science at the University of Georgia-Griffin, who has | | | | unit in her laboratory and began researching the |
| been researching electrolyzed water for more than a | | | | technology. She found that the acid water killed E. |
| decade. "And it's safe." | | | | coli, listeria and other nasty pathogens. Yet it was |
| The news did not report however, that units able to | | | | gentle enough to soothe her children's sunburns and |
| produce acidic disinfecting water and another type of | | | | acne. |
| antioxidant drinking water have been in use in Asia | | | | |