Patriot Twin Analyst – Owner’s Manual – Revision 1.1
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Every day, thousands of billions of tons of
water evaporate from the earth's surface.
As the heat of the sun evaporates the water
and draws it from the earth's surface into the
atmosphere, many impurities are left behind.
The water vapor eventually cools to form
clouds and then falls back to earth as precip-
itation.
On its way from the clouds to your faucet,
soft rain water dissolves and absorbs a part
of almost everything is touches.
Falling rain cleans the air as it falls. Unfor-
tunately the impurities that were removed
from the air have not left; they have just
been relocated through the water onto the
ground. These gases and other airborne con-
taminants can cause undesirable tastes, col-
ors and odors in water.
Rain falls onto the ground, collecting sedi-
ments like rust, sand and even algae. The
water eventually finds its way to a surface water supply or percolates downward and collects in an aquifer.
As it percolates through the earth, the water can absorb hardness minerals, iron, heavy metals, radioactivity,
organic contaminants, and many other complex elements and compounds.
Water can also collect numerous harmful man-made chemical impurities during this cycle. These synthetic
chemicals are generally odorless, colorless, and tasteless; and can sometimes be life-threatening. The state-
ment, "my parents drank this water for 75 years and it never hurt them", is no longer a valid excuse to not be
concerned with water quality. There has been a massive global increase in harmful chemical waste over the
last 50 years.
The scientific and medical community has not had the time or budget to study the long-term health effects
of the more than 70,000 harmful chemicals that can be found in use today.
Approximately 1,000 new synthetic chemical compounds are entering the industrial marketplace each and
every year. Precipitation falls upon commercial and municipal dumpsites, toxic waste sites, industrial refuse
depots, military test sites, leach fields, mining operations, farmer’s fields etc... Where it dissolves minute
amounts of the toxic chemicals present and carries them along.
The United States Government estimated in 1986 that close to two percent of the nation's ground water sup-
plies were moderately polluted by sources such as hazardous waste dumps and leaking landfills.
Industrial wastewater is also a major source of water contamination. When certain chemicals come in con-
tact with others, they create new compounds. Chemicals that are considered generally acceptable in con-
trolled amounts may react with other elements and/or chemicals to form new compounds that could be high-
ly carcinogenic.
Chlorine is one of the best-publicized examples; it reacts with organic matter in water and forms deadly tri-
halomethanes.
