[jimbo2012]

Well that's interesting but if it's the best thing since sliced bread why haven't other major manufactures picked up on it?????



Here's a review of it from this site

"By now, you’re probably a bit skeptical. What exactly are “healthy wavelengths”? How does wrapping your water supply with an aerial have any effect on the softness of water? A bit of digging reveals there are hundreds of similar water treatment systems out there, and electronic water treatment devices like the Water King are just one of many different “solutions” sold as alternative to typical ion-exchange softener systems.

Steven Lower, retired Faculty Member of the Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University runs the excellent H20 Dot Con/AquaScams website, where he has cataloged hundreds of different water treatment systems. He sums it up as:

The great economic importance of water softening has created a large and thriving industry that utilizes a number of proven methods based on well established scientific principles. It has also unfortunately attracted a variety of operators offering technologies that are purported to be better, less expensive, easier to install, or “chemical-free”, but which have never been validated scientifically and whose principles of operation are largely unexplained by the known laws of chemistry. This does not mean that such schemes cannot work (after all, we can use theory to show that under idealized conditions, water can never boil and it can never rain!), but it should inspire a good degree of skepticism.

Not surprisingly, the Water King is listed among many other devices on his site. (It’s also called the Aqua Rex.) So what exactly is the technology in the Water King supposed to do? It’s electromagnetic: passing current through the wires creates a magnetic field, which is supposed to cause small particulates of calcium and magnesium to form, reducing their effect. While Lower points out that there is some evidence that magnetism can have effects on water, he’s very skeptical about efficacy claims with these devices.

So do these “alternative” water treatments work? Given there’s no change in the total mineral content of the water, it’s difficult to say. Many of the claims seem to be based on anecdote, and testimonials related to efficacy could be strongly influenced by placebo effects. Perhaps that’s why I couldn’t find any regulator or agency that endorses these types of products as alternatives to traditional water softeners. Lower’s advice seems sensible:

The best advice I can give at this time is to choose a product for which actual performance data is available, and which offers a guarantee of sufficiently long duration that its efficacy can be tested in an actual installation. One should be wary of vendors who make over-hyped or scientifically unfounded claims for how their devices work.

Without objective information to evaluate the efficacy of these products, I’m going to remain skeptical of electronic water softeners."