I knew we would be busy but the experience was in fact absolutely surreal... we were relentlessly bombarded for two days by hundreds of people who asked me what I thought was the best drinking water? The internet is a loaded with water information and still people seem to be more confused than ever, I walked away from that show understanding that people clearly just want the truth, their lives are now depending on it! We're definitely beginning to understand the benefits of drinking water daily but we're completely confused and simply asking what is the Best Drinking Water?

Alkaline Ionized Water was something I knew absolutely nothing about even with 26 years in the Groundwater industry, in fact it would've been typical of me to deem it some kind of snake oil without having the facts had I not decided to investigate. Yes, I know... that's pretty closed-minded, but I decided to just take a look!

I was introduced to Alkaline Ionized Water 19 months ago. Prior to that I was an enormous advocate of bottled water, so much so that I even built a Bottled Water Store, designing and constructing a large Reverse Osmosis System for processing the bottled water in our community called Mill Bay. That was several years back when there was little controversy regarding bottled water vs tap water... There was a huge movement towards bottled water at the time. I seen it as an ideal opportunity to contribute by building what I understood to be the best life-support quality water system for our community.

When I constructed the Water Store I feel now I was not educated with true facts... had I been the water store would've never been been built. Rarely is a Bottled Water Store a necessary or a true benefit to a community... It's simply a privately owned utility which processes, manipulates and strips minerals from drinking water then reselling the publicly owned and taxed water back to it's own community with little knowledge of how the processed bottled water may be affecting public health. Grocery store dispensers are just the same, just scaled down with less bells and whistles. In Canada bottled water facilities are primarily unregulated provided they're connected to an approved potable water source.

After many years of drinking bottled water my body broke down and I finally began to question the health effects and discovered I had been drinking my own Kool-Aid for far too long! I was injured in a car accident over five years ago, an accident which I should have easily been able to recover from.

Along with that I had a number of other health issues. I was sick... I was in constant pain, I had horrendous inflammation throughout my entire body, I had relentless gallbladder issues often leading to attacks (it was suggested that the gallbladder be removed), breast cancer was always on my mind as my breasts hurt all the time, I was unable to sleep and if I did it was for limited periods of time... my body would wake me up after a few hours because I was just so sore. Because of the chronic pain I became quite antisocial and most of the time knew I was depressed. I felt very anxious, uptight and often short tempered... I could not focus and experienced a lot of head fog.

I was the person that had always taken great pride in maintaining excellent health... Extremely careful with diet, not smoking and never consuming alcohol. I was told it may be chronic fatigue, I was told it may be fibromyalgia, I was told I may just be depressed and I should take some antidepressants, I was put in pain clinics for extended stays, thousands of dollars was spent on all kinds of therapies, my husband and I have roughly $15,000 worth of equipment in our home that was purchased in hope that it would help me... I think we own every infared device known to man!

Today I completely hold processed bottled water responsible for my past condition, without doubt!

Eighteen months ago I accepted the possibility that I just might be wrong... I've discovered that I was. Yes, I'm pretty good at building and designing water treatment systems and reverse osmosis systems and water store treatment plants but that doesn't mean they should be built! Today I think long and hard before I agree to design or build anything. I am of the opinion that there are simply no benefits to bottled water, in fact I'm of an even strong opinion that de-mineralized bottled water may be extremely detrimental to human health.

After switching from bottled water and strictly drinking alkaline ionized water for the past year and a half my health has turned around ~ completley... I no longer look or feel like the walking dead, that's for sure!

Since stricly drinking only Alkaline Ionized Water my health is even better than it was even prior to the car accident, remember I had been on bottled water long before the car accident. The gallbladder problems are nonexistent, I no longer suffer pain or inflammation... Ladies it's not normal to have your breasts hurting all the time, but we often just quietly accept it.

Although my recovery may seem remarkable I feel what's truly remarkable is that we're not understanding why we've become such an ill society? Are we overly focused on improving nutrition? My view on this is completely different I no longer purchase bottles of nutritionals because I do not need them!

I've been gathering information and researching for the past 19 months, I've have spoke with a few hundred people about Alkaline Ionized Water, I've listened to one remarkable water story after another, we have roughly one hundred Alkaline Ionized Water Machines in our own rural area... Many belonging to people who have been my clients for many years, it's been interesting to watch their progess.

Today, I see tremendous value in dedicating time to Publicly Speaking about the potential ill effects of bottled water and the benefits of alkaline ionized water. If you are not well then you may not be living a good quality of life, you may want to consider beginning your own alkaline ionized water journey. At least take a long look at the water you're drinking, in most cases municipal tap water is better than bottled water for a number of reasons.

If you're not interested in investing in an Alkaline Water Machine and you're questioning bottled water vs tap water... if I absolutely had to I would definitely choose the tap water over bottled water providing it's at least not contaminated and deemed potable by a certified lab.

As far as I'm concerned Alkaline Ionized Water should only be processed from a High Grade Water Ionizer, there are a lot of ionizers on the market, you really want to do you homework prior to purchasing.