OK so heres the deal and I am hoping theres people here that can help me out with some better answers then the ones I have.
I along with co workers had to sit through a demo for some water purification system that they are installing in our offices
and were subjected to the usual sales crap.
The lady doing the demo made a number of claims which when pressed on couldn’t provide any references besides
“I have a degree I know what in talking about”, “trust me” or the usual really bad analogies, “the government cant solve crime how are they going to make sure your water works”.
She also did an electrolysis on the tap water, which resulted in the tap water naturally breaking apart and forming a number of compounds, she called this processes precipitation and claimed that it was only removing the chlorine and leaving behind what was in the water.
The water turned a slight brownish shade with red/brown flecks floating in it. I know in distilled water this will cause a separation of hydrogen and oxygen and assumed that it was doing the same to the rest of the chemicals in the water and they were just recombining into different compounds based on what was available to them now. I would just like to know what they were cause I drank about half a glass of the stuff to see if there was a difference in taste. I couldn’t taste a difference but i don’t have the best taste buds.
There was the usual high pressure fear based selling which Im used to in these things, anyway the person made a number of claims which im having some trouble verifying.
- South african water’s chlorine levels are around 300 times higher then the World Health Standards
- Chlorine causes Cancer
- Chlorine causes high cholestorol
- the world health standard is 25 tdp (total dissolved particles), and most tap water is around 100 - 110, ie ITS REALY BAD!!
- Organic Calcium is better then inorganic calcium
I know the answer to 4 from the following links,
http://www.water-research.net/totaldissolvedsolids.htm
http://www.waterfiltersonline.com/tds-sources.asp
which seem to indicate that a TDS count of 100 is actually pretty darn good.
I cant find anything with regards to statement 1, and I cant find any scientific papers linking increased cancer and cholesterol with chlorinated tap water. All my searches reveal is commentary from the peanut gallery on water filtration systems sales pitches.
Since I disliked the whole thing and had a pretty bad head clash with her over the organic vs inorganic calcium claims, she went so far to say calcium in water is bad, calcium in milk is good cause its “organic”.
So yeah,
- can anyone tell me wtf I drank?
- provide any clarification on the other points.
- any tips on how to deal with similar situations in the future.
Dont know if anyone else has had to sit through one of these things and if so what other claims were made without evidence to back it up in your presentation.
I dont have any preference for Reverse ossmosis water/ filtered water and tap water so long as its of an acceptable quality and taste, just don’t try scare me into buying something.