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Nearly one in five (17%) children in the United States has been diagnosed with one or more developmental, learning or behavioral disability. There is a growing consensus that disorders including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and autism are increasing in frequency. These disorders have widespread societal impacts, from health and education costs to the repercussions of criminal behavior. Research demonstrates that pervasive substances such as mercury, lead, PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, and others, are toxic to the developing child’s brain (neurotoxic).
 
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The Technological Advantage of Steam Distillation

Steam-distillation is the only treatment process that first boils the raw water and then condenses the pure steam to form very high purity water.

It is the single-most-effective broad-spectrum core method of water purification.

With broad efficacy, steam distillation is particularly advantageous for chemical, biological, and potential bio-terrorism situations.

Steam distillation mimics Nature's Hydrologic Cycle, a huge solar thermal-cycle which produces copious quantities of rainwater through evaporation, condensation and precipitation. 

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Nature's Hydrologic Cycle; the non-barrier solar thermal cycle which produces pure rainwater

1 Evaporation
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2 Condensation
+
3 Precipitation
=
99.99% pure drinking water

 

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Steam Distillation system utlizes the same non-barrier thermal cycle.

Barrier Methods of Water Purification
Traditional barrier methods of water purification (various filters and reverse osmosis) consist of a physical "barrier" placed into the water stream. This barrier, held in place with o-rings and seals, removes the contaminants from the raw water and only allows "filtered water" through.

Raw water containing contaminants meet the barrier which is designed to remove certain contaminants and allow "filtered-water" through. The contaminants can either build up at, or in the barrier or some can be "back-washed" and flushed down the drain.

Superiority of Steam Distillation in an Emergency or Bio-terrorist Attack on Water Supplies

In the event of an emergency or a bio-terrorism attack on the water supplies, the water, the incoming pipes, and the barrier will all become contaminated. The barrier will be rendered useless, and, assuming there is awareness of the attack, the water line would be shut down. In the event the attack has gone unnoticed, people will drink water passing through a contaminated barrier.

Biological agents are injected into the water and contaminate pipes. Some biological agents may migrate through the barrier through fissures, channels or around seals, and into the product water.  
As a result, the barrier itself is rendered unusable. 

 
Steam Distillation Method
Where a steam-distillation system has been installed, the water, incoming water line, and the water in the boiling chamber will become contaminated, but the steam-distilled water will be safe to drink. Steam distillation has three distinct advantages over barrier methods.  
  1. the contaminated water undergoes prolonged boiling, thus killing contaminants.

  2. a phase change from liquid (water) to vapor (steam) occurs, leaving virtually all contaminants in the boiling water.

  3. a sizeable air-gap between the surface of the water and the condensed steam-distilled water.
 
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