lotus Water Treatment System - LWT100

Decaying Infrastructure

The nation’s water infrastructure is in a state of neglect and disrepair. Towns, townships and other local agencies supply the public with drinking water and they also collect, treat and dispose of wastewater and storm water runoff. Pipes and plants built to bring clean and safe water to homes and remove wastewater continue to come to the end of their useful life. As older systems deteriorate and federal water quality rules tighten, local budgets simply cannot keep pace. Water infrastructure needs are large and unprecedented. In cities large and small, water mains have broken, sewers have overflowed and contaminants have crept into our drinking water. The best municipal water treatment facilities in the world are worthless if we cannot guarantee the safe delivery of drinking water into our homes.

Bottled Water Not the Answer

Sales of bottled water in the United States have exploded in recent years, largely as a result of a public perception of purity driven by advertisements and packaging labels featuring pristine glaciers and crystal-clear mountain springs. But bottled water sold in the United States is not necessarily cleaner or safer than most tap water, according to a four-year scientific study recently made public by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). NRDC's study included testing of more than 1,000 bottles of 103 brands of bottled water. While most of the tested waters were found to be of high quality, some brands were contaminated: about one-third of the waters tested contained levels of contamination including synthetic organic chemicals, bacteria, and arsenic. What's more, in 2003, only 12% of "custom" plastic bottles, a category dominated by water, were recycled. As a result, 40 million bottles per day went into the trash or became litter.

lotus to the Rescue!

The lotus Water Treatment System utilizes the same ozone technology employed by multi-million dollar municipal treatment plants to destroy up to 99.99% of the bacteria and toxins that can sometimes seep into your tap water.

Perhaps you have had concerns about impurities, pathogens and the like finding their way into your family's drinking water or have worried that the water filter you use cannot deal with bacteria. Well, the lotus Water Treatment System alleviates all of those fears by using a proprietary 2-stage process to deliver pure, great tasting drinking water to you and your family. The first stage super-oxygenates the water with O3 to destroy up to 99.99% of microorganisms and toxins that can sometimes find their way into tap water. The second stage uses a custom-formulated carbon block filter to remove any remaining contaminants and excess ozone for that great lotus taste.

What is the lotus® Water Treatment System designed to do?
The system makes tap water cleaner, safer, healthier and much better tasting. It does the same with well water and drinkable lake water, too. It does this quickly, easily and at very low cost - killing germs with ozone; then filtering contaminants with activated carbon.

Why do I need to sanitize the water I drink?
Although water leaving municipal water-treatment plants is clean, it becomes vulnerable to a variety of physical, chemical and biological impurities when it travels through underground pipes that carry the water to your home. These include contaminants like arsenic, iron, manganese, sulfur, asbestos, pesticides and other industrial chemicals. If the pipes have cracked and sediment has built up through the years, this encrusted buildup can become a breeding ground for bacteria.

How does the system work?
The system uses two complementary processes to kill germs and filter out contaminants.

First, it generates ozone (O₃) and adds it to the water to kill 99.99% of all living microorganisms, including viruses and bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella.

Second, it has an activated carbon block filter to remove pesticides, wastes, chemical contaminants, remaining ozone and 99.99% of parasites like Giardia and Cryptosporidium.

Isn't ozone dangerous?
In lotus, the ozone is only dangerous to germs! Essentially no ozone is released into the air by this process; and the ozone generated is converted back to oxygen in the process. No ozone is left in the treated water that you drink, and essentially none is released into the air.

What about bottled water?
If you drink bottled water because you think it is cleaner, healthier, safer or better tasting, think again. For starters, about 25% of bottled water is actually bottled tap water - a high price to pay. Also, about 40 million plastic water bottles per day go into the trash - i.e., they are not recycled. It costs about $1,265 a year to drink a gallon of a less-expensive bottled water daily; you could save 96% of that using the lotus® system. Some premium bottled waters cost more 100 times that!

With the lotus® advanced ozonation sanitizing and carbon filtration process, your own tap water will, in fact, be cleaner, healthier, safer and better tasting than any bottled water you could buy, at any price.

What types of water can be used?
Use with municipal tap water or visually clear well water or lake water. It is designed to disinfect and filter water that may be microbiologically contaminated but which meets all other public health standards. The water should not be colored, cloudy or turbid.

The system does not make undrinkable water drinkable. It is not intended for treating water with an obvious contamination source (such as raw sewage), nor is the system intended to convert wastewater into microbiologically safe water.

Has the system been tested?
Yes. It has been extensively tested and accredited by third party laboratories. These laboratories have been evaluated and approved by organizations, such as the EPA, to conduct specific testing. It has also been tested to NSF standards 42 and 53, with a seven-log reduction of germs.

How is the system superior to other water purification systems?
The lotus® system is the first to combine the two best methods at home - advanced ozonation and activated carbon filtration - into a simple, economical water purifying system unlike any other.

There are five methods for dealing with contaminated tap water: carbon filtration; ultraviolet light; ozonation; reverse osmosis; and bottled water.

Carbon filtration is good for chemicals, wastes, pesticides, tastes and odors. Alone, it is does not treat germs.

Ultraviolet light kills germs but not larger protozoa. It is expensive and requires significant pre-filtering.

Ozonation kills 99.99% of germs and also strips out iron, manganese and sulfur. It requires post-filtering.

Reverse osmosis is a filtering process that removes bacteria and other contaminants. Unfortunately, it also removes "good" minerals, which leaves water tasting bland.

Bottled water is outrageously expensive, and much of it is nothing more than bottled tap water.

How long will the carbon filter last?
The carbon filter should last about a year, or about a gallon a day. This converts to about 700 10-minute cycles. The system will tell you when it's time to change the filter.

How does one measure the sanitizing capability of ozone in the water?
The water and food-sanitizing industries use a term called Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP), which is a measure of ozonated water's potential to kill germs. The higher the ORP, the more efficient the sanitizing. This system generates an ORP between 600 and 700, a level appropriate for sterilizing drinking water.

The amount of ozone generated is measured in parts per million (ppm). This system generates 0.12 ppm of ozone and infuses it into water.

There are two lotus® systems - how do they compare?
The lotus® Water Treatment System uses ozone for purifying drinking water.

The lotus® Sanitizing System uses ozone for disinfecting surfaces and for reducing pesticides and killing germs on food.

The Sanitizing System generates about 8 times the amount of ozone. It is not to be used for drinking water.

The Water Treatment System has a carbon filter to remove contaminants. It is not to be used for sanitizing surfaces or food.

The systems are perfectly complementary in any home that cares about creating a cleaner, safer, healthier home environment - with many fewer pesticides, germs and chemical contaminants.