Everyone uses water. We clean, manufacture, farm, garden, eat, drink, and bathe with water. That’s why water is considered a critical resource in commercial, industrial, and residential projects. As a result, people and businesses increasingly want —and demand—water that has been treated for a particular purpose. Whether residential or industrial, De Anza Water Conditioning has a solution.

Take whole house water treatment. It’s a very good idea. It means bathing in soft water. It means washing your clothes, dishes, flatware, crystal, and glassware in water that leaves no residue of soap or minerals. It means using less soap, cleaners, and muscle to keep the house and clothes clean. It means protecting your investments in appliances — dishwasher, washing machine, water heater — from the damage caused by a build-up of minerals and calcium. It means keeping your pipes clear throughout their lifetime, which in turn keeps pipes open and water pressure normal. Soft water means protecting your faucets, granite, marble, shower doors, and porcelain from mineral spots and build-up. For me, I learned that I needed a water softener when my five-year-old water heater, which was guaranteed for ten years, blew up.

I investigated other brands, but the Kinetico is what I bought after much due diligence. I bought the Kinetico 4040s water softener, which features a carbon pre-filter to protect the resin from the chlorine that is already in our water supply. This small-footprint water softener is easy for me to maintain, and it will last as long as the 30-year mortgage on my house! I like that. How many times do you get to buy an appliance that lasts a virtual lifetime? For more information about the only non-electric, most cost-effective water softener on the market today, please contact http://deanzawater.com/consultation.html.

Whole house water treatment includes purified drinking water. With my Kinetico K-5 Drinking Water Station, installed in my kitchen with a fashionable, lead-free, designer faucet, I am drinking pure H2O. The K5 protects me from chromium, fluoride, perchlorate, or any other chemicals, bacteria, viruses, or bad tastes or odors in my water. My coffee tastes delicious. My Lipton tea is just the right color. My ice cubes are crystal clear. Water from my Kinetico K5 Drinking Water Station tastes better than bottled water. I bring a stainless steel water bottle filled with my purified tap water into the office or in my car or at the gym. I am spoiled. For more details on the K5, the K5, please visit http://www.kinetico.com/KineticoSystems/DrinkingWaterSystems.aspx.

What makes Kinetico products different? They have patented technology, non-electric parts, highly efficient regeneration, cost-effective use of consumables (either potassium or salt), lead-free faucets, and the longest, most comprehensive warranties in the industry. Additionally, Kinetico products are independently certified by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) for parts and operation and are certified by the Water Quality Association (WQA) as well.

For more information about Kinetico water softeners and reverse osmosis drinking water systems and to obtain a free water analysis, please contact De Anza Water Conditioning at 408.371.5521 or visit our website at http://deanzawater.com/consultation.html.

We look forwarding to helping you get the softest house water and the purest, best-tasting drinking water available.

Lynne Farris

It seems as if every week, we are learning of some new contaminant in our drinking water system.  The latest is fluoride, a mineral used to lower cavities in children.  It is found in toothpaste, dentists administer it to patients in the dental chair, and most municipalities across the country place it in the water supply.  Last Friday, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Department of Health of Human Services may decide to lower the level of fluoride in most municipal drinking water throughout the country to minimize health problems.

Two out of five children have tooth streaking or spottiness because of excess fluoride.  In extreme cases, teeth can be pitted by the mineral, even though many cases are so mild that only dentists can detect it.  While the problem is generally considered cosmetic, people are taking notice.  The splotchy tooth condition, called fluorosis, is unexpectedly common on adolescents aged 12 through 15, and the problem has grown since the 1980s.

Too much fluoride can also lead to crippling bone abnormalities and brittleness — just another reason for older women to watch what they drink.

The Kinetico K-5 Drinking Water Station can remove 96% of fluoride from your drinking water.  It also almost completely removes chromium, perchlorate, lead, mercury, cadmium, copper, and any other contaminant in the water that is not hydrogen and oxygen — H₂O—otherwise known as water.

It also removes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like pesticides, paints, cleaning supplies, and other materials.  Plus, the Kinetico K5 removes 99.99999% of bacteria and 99.99% of viruses, generating bio-pure drinking water as certified by trusted third-party regulators like National Sanitation Foundation International (NSF) and Water Quality Association (WQA).  In fact, the Kinetico K5 Drinking Water System is certified to remove more contaminants than any other system, and it can produce more than 40 gallons of drinking water daily.  In the May 2010 issue of Consumer Reports, the Kinetico K5 ranked number-one among all reverse-osmosis drinking water systems.

The Kinetico K5 Drinking Water System is fashionable as well, offering elegantly dispensed water in a variety of colors and styles—right from your kitchen sink.  For more information about the K5, please visit http://www.kinetico.com/KineticoSystems/DrinkingWaterSystems.aspx.

To obtain a free water analysis, please contact De Anza Water Conditioning at 408.371.5521 or visit our website at http://deanzawater.com/consultation.html.

We look forwarding to helping you get the purest, best-tasting drinking water available.

Lynne

Do you know what is in your drinking water?  Would you ever guess that a toxic chemical could find its way into your drinking water?

This morning, I read in the Los Angeles Times (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/11/barstow-water-contamination.html) that the city of Barstow, located in the southern California desert, warned its residents not to drink the water due to contamination by perchlorate.  An inorganic chemical, perchlorate interferes with the human thyroid gland, affecting hormones as well as prenatal growth during pregnancies.  Perchlorate is found in rocket propellant, fireworks, explosives, flares, matches, and industrial by-products.  Yikes! Perchlorate can be removed by compressed, activated carbon only if there is long contact time with the water — which precludes faucet or pitcher-type filters where water passes quickly through the carbon.  Continue reading →

Recently, my husband and I traveled out of state to a wedding.  We stayed at a wonderful B&B, which featured a romantic, heart-shaped hot tub, garden view, perfect bedding, and delicious breakfasts.  Having come from our home with its Kinetico water softener and Kinetico K5 Drinking Water System, we did not anticipate the discomfort we would encounter by less-than-perfect water.

Since we had to get dolled up for the rehearsal dinner and, the next day, for the wedding, we spent lots of time showering and pampering ourselves.  We realized, however, that hard water makes your skin dry.  Very dry.  And it was virtually impossible to wash off makeup without commercial makeup remover (which they so nicely offered in the bathroom basket and which I never use at home).  Even with the makeup remover, I still looked like a raccoon, with remnants of eyeliner and mascara smushed around my eyes.  Continue reading →