Water Is More Than Just Water
Not all water is created equal. Water content varies greatly from our faucets to rivers and lakes, being composed of much more than simply hydrogen and oxygen molecules. Almost all water which is retrieved from a primary source includes a variety of minerals and organisms, some which may be beneficial for human consumption, and some which may be hazardous. Common practice in the drinking water industry is to use chlorine and other chemicals or treatments to attempt to prevent and limit the growth of these pathogens in the water, ensuring safe drinking water for consumers. Water is an essential for life, and safe water is of utmost importance to ensure a safe and healthy population. Seeing as water can vary in its properties depending on the day, or even by the hour, and can harbour dangerous pathogens, ways to efficiently standardize water quality at its optimal values are always sought after, especially regarding drinking water.
How Does Water Quality Affect Drinking Water Treatment?
As mentioned previously, it is essential that water quality is closely controlled to comply with industry and health safety parameters and to avoid hazardous effects. Optimal water quality creates favourable conditions for water treatment and reduces bacteria and pathogens, which can potentially affect the end consumer. Improved water implies maintaining several parameters within ideal ranges to ensure optimal treatment. These parameters are temperature: dissolved oxygen, salinity, alkalinity, pH, settleable solids, and conductivity, among others.
What Can Engeenuity Offer Your Drinking Water Treatment?
Improved Health Effects and Hydration
After testing the effect of our technology on normal bottled water, we were able to conclude that our technology has an improved hydration effect. Through an independent laboratory and scientist in the United States, we ran microscopic tests of red blood cells before and after consuming our water and were able to prove a reduction in rouleaux (agglutination of red blood cells). We also have multiple research agreements with prestigious universities around the world, to further study the effect of our technology in organisms, having already run successful tests in Malaria, immunology, and other areas. In a human hydration study, we were able to increase blood flow, on average, by >40%, and decrease Rouleaux by upward of 50%. We also increased urine pH from an average of 5.74 to 7.0, providing subjects with identical breakfasts.
Environmental Control/ Bacteria & Pathogen Reduction
By introducing our bacteriostatic mechanism of action in the water, we were able to prove our capacity to reduce the presence of bacteria and pathogen in wastewater treatment. By applying our Bacteriostatic Mechanism of Action, we can inhibit the reproduction of bacteria in any environment, especially water. By applying our technology in your processes, not only can you control the parameters of the water which enters your process, but also provide unparalleled water parameters to consumers. In river water, we decreased the growth rate and total count of microbial contamination in organic systems or in water by >90%, in five consecutive tests, which, in conclusion, helps to use considerably less amount of chemicals to achieve the desired results.
Reduced Chemicals in Water Management Systems & Products
One of the main water parameters which Engeenuity is able to modify is surface tension. By reducing surface tension in water, we can weaken the water’s molecular bonds, allowing more efficient unions between chemical and water molecules, which also causes for the water to soak into pores and organisms more readily. On several tests run in a chemical production plant in Panama, we were able to reduce by >50% the amount of active ingredients in Cleaner, Glass Cleaner, and Degreaser/Hard Surface Cleaner, yet provided improved cleaning capacity compared to the original mixtures. This effect has also been replicated in water used for human consumption, in the Panama Canal’s Miraflores Water Treatment Plant, where we reduced coliform bacteria by >90% and a decrease in total bacteria by upwards of 60%, without using chemicals. Engeenuity’ s technology required lower costs by eliminating chlorine and other chemicals used in treating process water and chemicals used in the product mixtures. It was also mentioned that one of the 4 quantifiable objectives of improvements caused by Engeenuity´ s technology was minimizing the use of chlorine and other chemicals used in their processes, which reduced costs and improved workers´ health.