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Our Water |
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Quality spring
& distilled water |
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We offer quick reliable home and office delivery.
Or if you prefer, you can pick up at our convenient
location.
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Our water is manufactured to exacting standards dictated by
Health And Welfare Canada. Below you will find list of Questions
& Answers to help you understand the water you drink.
What is Puretap's source of water?
Can you tell me about your bottling process?
Who does Puretap sell to?
In what size containers can I buy Puretap water?
Will Puretap deliver to my home or office?
Is it important to drink water?
Are there different kinds of water?
What are the uses for Puretap distilled water?
What is Puretap's source of water?
With distilled water, we take municipal water(which in itself
is monitored by the Government), and boil it down until it
turns to steam. We then condense it into pure water and store
it in sterile stainless steel tanks until bottling.
Our spring water is drawn from a deep artesian well in the
Niagara Escarpment of Hillsburg, Ontario. Sterilized at source
through an ultraviolet light, it is pumped into a stainless
steel tanker used exclusively for transporting spring water.
When delivered to our location, we use stainless steel pumps
to pump it through our stainless steel lines ... and yes,
into our stainless steel storage tanks.
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Can you tell me about your bottling process?
When the water is ready to be bottled (both spring & distilled),
it is pumped through stainless steel pumps and tubing in our
state of the art bottling room. In the process, it passes
through UV (ultraviolet) sterilization to kill any bacteria
that may have developed. And finally, it is ozonated (O3)
during the bottling process. Ozonation is an extremely effective
sterilization process and is a way of ensuring that
you receive water that is bacteria-free.
The actuall filling of bottles is done in a clean room,
with recirculated bacteria-free air. All our bottling equipment
is made of high quality food grade stainless steel. Every
bottle is then date coded and each batch is tested daily for
100% quality control by an independent laboratory - Silliker
Labs. We offer a lab report
on every bottle that is filled on a particular day.
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Who does Puretap sell to?
We bottle spring and/or distilled water for a great number
of bottled water companies in Northern and Southwestern Ontario.
We also produce and supply bottled water for pharmaceutical
suppliers, major food chains and medical institutions. We
also offer custom labeling for private brands. Contact
us for more information.
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In what size containers can I buy Puretap
water?
Our bottle fill size ranges from 500 mL to 22.7L and most
sizes in between. We also supply spring and distilled water
in 46 gallon drums for commercial and industrial applications.
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Will Puretap deliver to my home or office?
At Puretap we offer convenient door-to-door delivery to your
home, office or business. Typically, you are placed on a specific
automatic rotation (eg., every 2 weeks). The frequency of
your delivery depends on your consumption and your needs.
Our delivery area includes the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
Alternatively, you can pick up your water at either of our
2 convenient locations.
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Is it important to drink water?
Water is many things. its physical and chemical makeup changes
with the environment wherever it is found. Pure water only
exists in the laboratory. Tap water, our primary source of
drinking water is a raw material subject to improvement for
the variety of ways it is used by mankind.
Water, next to air, is a substance we cannot do without. Living
cells depend on water. In the body, water can increase energy
and endurance, prevent kidney stones, aid digestion and elimination,
regulate body temperature and as a whole make you feel better.
It also acts as a lubricant aiding body movement.
Since 75% of the brain, 83% of the blood, 75% of the muscles
and 22% of bone matter is water, it's easy to see why drinking
water is so important to bodily functions.
The business of Puretap Water Distillers Ltd. is that of improving
the quality of water used primarily by humans. This is achieved
with the use of our products where water is used and in only
the amounts actually required.
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Are there different kinds of water?
Yes. In fact, there are at least 9 different types of water.
Let's look at them now.
Hard water: The term hard water
is used to describe water that is saturated with lime salts,
calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, copper, silicon, nitrates,
chlorides, viruses, bacteria, chemicals and many other inorganic
metals and chemicals. Most of the water we drink, which comes
from public water systems or private wells, is hard water.
Any water that runs through the ground has a certain degree
of hardness. The longer it filters through the soil, the harder
the water becomes.
Raw water: This is water that
the earth's rivers carry to the sea. Each year they carry
to the sea 5,000,000 tons of dissolved metals and other unnumbered
millions of tons of carbon compunds and factory pollutants.
Raw water can be hard or soft - as hard as lime water or as
soft as rain water. Its every drop is densely inhabited millions
of viruses and bacteria. The government has proved that chemicals
dumped into our rivers as raw sewage may cause cancer.
Boiled water: The idea of boiling
water originated at a time when the main danger was the possibility
of disease organism existing in water supplies. Heating the
water to 212 degrees Fahrenheit for several minutes effectively
kills harmful bacteria making it safe for human consumption
in emergency situations (boiling water does not always kill
viruses and cysts). However, modern water supplies can contain
excess salts, heavy metals and numerous complex toxic chemicals
from industrial and agricultural pollution and most of these
are not destroyed or removed by boiling.
Worse, many are actually concentrated if the water is boiled
because the purer water vapour is evaporated away. Also, when
water is boiled, the dead bacteria remains in the boiled water.
Although these dead bacteris do not pose a health problem,
such dead materials furnish a fertilized soil for rapid and
lusty propagation of germs. Boiled water may avoid live disease
germs, but still takes on bacterial soil for the growth of
other bacteria. While raw water is an aquarium, filled with
deadly micro-organisms, boiled water is a graveyard of dead
germs.
Natural water (from rain or snow):
Soft rain water which has been distilled by the sun should
contain no metal matter and no germs. But, when it falls from
the clouds as rain or snow, it falls through air filled with
bacteria, dust, smoke, chemicals, mud and metals. By the time
it reaches the earth as rain water, it is saturated with decaying
matter, dirt and chemicals, such as sulphuric and nitic acid.
Alas, the term acid rain. To really understand this, all one
has to do is look at snow. Snow also picks up metals, chemicals
and fallout. Even though snow looks white and clean, it contains
as many germs, metals and pollutants as rain water. Remember,
freezing does not destroy bacteria.
Filtered water: Filtered water
is water which has passed through a very fine strainer called
a "filter". The use of a filter to cleanse water
is very popular. The general public is led to believe that
filtered water is purified water. While it is true that some
solid particles are removed from water through filtering,
there is no filter made which can prevent bacteria or viruses
from passing through its fine meshes. Because filters have
no way of ridding themselves of the decaying bacteria, it
tends to accumulate at the bottom of the filter. This decaying
matter forms an excellent breeding ground for more bacteria.
After the filter has been used for several days, the filtered
water often contains more disease germs than the water which
originally passed through. Water filters, as a rule, become
less effective the more they are used.
Mineral water: Mineral water
is hard water which is drawn from certain mineral springs.
These mineral springs are known for their medicinal effects.
But, in fact minerals in water exist as mineral salts or so
called inorganic minerals. This form of minerals is not nearly
as biologically acceptable to the human body as are organic
forms of minerals found in all foods and quality mineral supplements.
Some inorganic minerals are harmful to human health (sodium,
nitrates, sulphates and toxic metals) and no water treatment
process can separate those from the inorganic minerals that
are not harmful.
Spring water: There are also
hard waters which are called spring waters- that is, waters
from certain underground springs. Practically, all kinds of
bottled water is spring water. Spring water may be bacteria
free because water is drawn from deep underground springs,
but it is saturated with lime salts, calcium, magnesium, sodium,
iron, copper and other inorganic metals. All spring water
is hard water because any water that runs through the ground
picks up a certain amount of hardness.
De-ionized water: Water processed
by the de-ionized method effectively removes metals and other
inorganic minerals, and compares favorably to distilled water.
De-ionization is a chemical way of purifying water and although
it is pure, it is an expensive way of water purification for
the home. Care must be taken not to contaminate the purified
water because it does become a breeding ground for bacteria,
pyrogenic matter and viruses.
Distilled water: Distillation
is similar to nature's own way of producing water by way of
vaporization and condensation resulting in distilled water.
It is a virtually pure form of water that has been heated
to boiling, creating steam vapour, leaving behind the vast
majority of contaminants. At the same time, it kills viruses,
bacteria, giardia and other forms of micro-organisms. When
the steam vapour is recondensed, the result is a virtually
pure form of water without contaminants. This process is the
most effective purification system in ridding water if bacteria,
chemicals and inorganic minerals including toxic organic substances.
Lab tests show nil amounts of impurities such as calcium,
chlorine, sodium and nitrates. Distilled water is so pure
and safe that the U.S. Department Of Agriculture endorses
a distiller as "the only proven way of correcting drinking
water pollution in the home".
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What are the uses for Puretap distilled
water?
Puretap provides better tasting drinking water by removing
impurities from your tap water. With these gone, the water
becomes a delicious thirst quenching regular treat for everyone
and can be served with pride and confidence. Here are some
of the most common uses:
- drinking water
- cooking
- juices and mixes
- coffe, tea & other beverages
- ice cubes
- low sodium diets
- weight loss diets
- plants
- baby formulas
- batteries
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- photography
- steam irons
- humidifiers
- cleaning concentrates
- automobile windshield washer
- automobile radiator
- spot free car rinse
- spot free rinsing of crystal
- aquariums
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Puretap water has:
No pesticides
No chlorine
No copper
No cyanide
No lead
No mercury
No nickel
No phenolics
No selenium
No silver
No zinc
No phenols
No volatile organics
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70% of the human body is
made up of water
Water in the body is completely replaced
every 3 to 4 days
It is recommended we drink
6 to 8 glasses of water a day
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