Homemade Mom: Zuvo Water Purator

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Zuvo Water Purator - Review

We all know the reasons we need to drink more water: weight loss, healthier bodies, better energy, exercise aid, cooking, the list is endless. The new Zuvo Water Purator, (Zuvo means to your health in Latin) a terrific new easy to use eco friendly device would be a great fit in any upcoming segments on hot new ideas for the home that improve the quality of your health, clean up your tap water, and a great way to kick off any New Year's resolutions that include drinking more water. The Zuvo is telegenic and visually fascinating to watch, once it's plugged in you see the water bubbling in a blue UV light and getting cleaner before your very eyes.

In our community there is a crazy high cancer rate and no explanations, of course. Doctors still can't tell us what causes many of the cancers, but I suspect that toxic drinking water and other environmental factors have something to do with it. I'm sure that our tap water passes the government requirements but that still doesn't mean that it's truly clean/safe drinking water. We don't buy water because I don't want to add to the pollution problem by using more and more water bottles. We always use reusable water bottles. We have more than we need. For quite some time we've been using a PUR water filter, but the space that it took up on my faucet was bugging me. It made it hard to get larger pots and pans underneath it to fill up.

That's when I found Zuvo. It sits on the counter or it can be mounted under the sink with an attachment on top. I was thrilled to have found something that would allow my family to have clean/safe drinking water and the price isn't too bad either. Granted, it's a bit more expensive than a PUR filter or a Brita but the benefits of this device are worth the extra cost. Here's what it does:

Step 1: Ozonation - Ozone mixes with tap water to treat and improve taste and odor; ozone is a powerful oxidizer.
Step 2: Ultraviolet(UV) light exposure - The ozone saturated water is flooded with high intensity UV-light to reduce microorganisms.
Step 3: Photo-oxidation - Ozone and UV work together to treat contaminants and microbes.
Step 4: Water goes through activated carbon filtration with lead removal.
Step 5: Post filtration UV - The filtered water is again exposed to UV light.

Zuvo Water sent me a Purator to try.

Zuvo offers user friendly new technology that reduces unwanted, potentially unhealthy contaminants in drinking water -- without stripping it of the trace minerals that give water its refreshing, distinctive taste. It works in real time with no waiting. No other water cleansing system can make this claim of cleanliness combined with good taste.

This small home water treatment appliance is based on a patented technology platform that reproduces the photo-oxidation process naturally occurring in the environment. It is an easy-to-install, cost-effective device ($.06 per gallon, compared to more than $1 per gallon for bottled water, over the course of a year) not requiring interim plastic pitchers or chemical additives. As an added bonus, eliminating the use of bottled water helps reduce the 32.8 billion water bottles that end up in landfills every year and it requires fewer filter changes that the famous name brand filter systems on the market.

The Zuvo Water Purator will revolutionize the way you think about easy to use home water filtration systems. A perfect gift idea, It's ecologically friendly and elegantly designed and has been awarded the Parent Tested Parent Approved Award for best new green products, and we are on track to receive the Good Housekeeping Seal.

The Zuvo Purators retail for $299.99 and are way more cost effective than disposable filter brands.