History Facts

The original owner, Mr. John Meckling, began manufacturing distillers for family and friends for about twenty year before he decided to sell to the public in 1997. Mr. John said he was spending a fortune giving the units away. His daughter suggested that he start selling them. Pretty much the marketing has been by word of mouth until around 2000 when the Meckling set up a web page for Running Waters.

In August of 2004...

John and Tessie Trappey purchased Running Waters from the Mecklings. The business was moved to New Iberia Louisiana our hometown. It is great to bring jobs to the community you have roots in. We hope the business grows so we can help employ more local people. It is our goal to continue making High quality distillers and add new distillers to our line of products in the near future.

The Company

Running Waters, Inc. is located in New Iberia Louisiana. We manufacture our units with 304 grade stainless steel. Our holding tanks and boiler tanks are made out of 18 gauge stainless steel. The cover is made out of 20 gauge stainless steel. Compared to other units you will find our units are made out of heavier gauge material for longer life.

Little Known Facts about Drinking Water

Throughout history water has always been the key element in many developments.

Our first civilizations were all founded around great sources of water; wars have been fought over water, even to this day. Water rights are extremely important. Man's continued survival depends upon water. Man can live without food for as long as two months, without water, no more than ten days.

Water covers seven-tenths of our planet and it remains one of the most misunderstood substances. It behaves like no other element. For example: At earth's normal temperature, it can exist in three forms, as a solid (ice), as a liquid, or as a gas. One of its misbehaviors is when most substances solidify, they contract. Not water. It expands. Only one substance exceeds water in the ability to absorb and retain heat. It has the ability to climb up surfaces against the pull of gravity. But it is water's ability to act as a solvent that makes it indispensable to life. It serves to carry nutrients to our tissues and cells. It can also be deadly; being the bearer of toxic chemicals, parasites and bacteria.

There is no new water on earth. It has all been here since the beginning of time. We cannot destroy it. Remember, Adam and Eve could have drunk the water we drink today.

A few days ago, while talking to an old friend, the comment was made that water flowing in a mountain stream, bubbling among the rocks, purifies itself after traveling a certain distance. Neither of us could remember whether it was ten or twenty feet, which is not important because this old tale is wrong.

Water from rain, even without industrial pollution, is slightly acidic. We all know certain plants like acidic conditions for growth. Also, that as the leaves fall and decay, they release acids. All of this mold, acid and decay matter is carried along in our mountain streams. Can we really call it "MOUNTAIN PURE WATER?"

Think for a moment. Have we ever seen a square piece of gravel? Wasn't that gravel or creek stone, washed by this mountain water? Let's now consider where did the sharp edges go. Possibly it could have worn away by tumbling over and over in the creek bed. But, as we noted the water being slightly acidic, could not the water have dissolved the sharp edges and now we have this dissolved rock as a portion of our drinking water?

Could we now be drinking rocks? Sounds Absurd doesn't it? Well, I'm going to ask all of you to join me in a very simple test: We talked about three forms of water; solid, liquid and gas. Each time water changes its form; the H2O portion is the only portion that changes.

For this personal experiment, you will need a clean, clear drinking glass (8 oz. or larger). This evening, just before bedtime, fill this glass with all the ice cubes it will hold. Set it where the ice will melt. In the morning, carefully lift the glass overhead. Looking up through the bottom, you will see that a milky sludge has settled overnight. This sludge is really the sharp edges of the mountain creek rocks. As we can see, we really are drinking rocks.

We talked about water's ability to dissolve mineral elements. Let's now look at metals. We all know what water does to iron. We call it rust. Water has dissolved the iron, leaving the oxides and impurities. This iron is now an element carried along by our drinking water. All of this is self-evident by the stains on our bath and kitchen fixtures. DO WE DRINK IT??? YOU BET WE DO!!!

Our bodies for chemical element balance require iron, in proper amounts. But, it must be in moderation. We don't go out and chew on railroad spikes as a diet supplement.

Since WWII, our household plumbing has changed from iron and lead to copper pipes. This makes our water service much easier to install and a much longer life for our plumbing.

Recently, a comment was overheard indication that our neighbor's water had a blue/green tint. I became concerned. Let me explain. Since we know that water is acidic, some wells are more acidic than others. When acidic well water comes in contact with copper pipes, it causes a decomposition of the copper. Most times this occurs at the joints where lead and tin solder has been used. These dissimilar metals cause an action called electrolysis. The copper comes into solution in the water and we drink it, cook with it and bathe in it.

It is well known that studies have shown that copper in the human body affect mental processes such as early senility, memory loss or confusion in the elderly, slow learning in growing children and mental defects in newborns. A simple cure for some may be only a change in drinking water from a different source. Be a little more careful about where your drinking water comes from and what it contains.

The Environmental Protection Agency has published some facts that I think we should all know more about. Standards have been set by the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, setting acceptable standards of over two dozen water contaminators. Not only does this act cover bacteria and radioactive substances, it also extends to inorganic such as lead, nitrates, arsenic and a group of pesticides and weed killers. There are over 140,000 community water systems serving over 90% of our population. Most of these are using some type of control to assure good water for their consumers. The EPA has stated that the only "pure water" is distilled water. We cannot add chemicals to make "pure water." We add chemicals to control that portion which affects health.

Here is a list of what is being used.

• CHLORINE - a disinfectant to control bacteria and other microorganisms.
• FLOURINE- to aid in preventing tooth decay.
• LIME- to control acidic water and retard corrosion in water pipes.
  COPPER SULFATE- to kill algae.
• ALUMINUM SULFATE- to cause particles to clump together and settle.
• SODIUM BISULFATE and SULFUR DIOXIDE

The Safe Water Drinking Act is again before Congress for renewal. The number of chemicals being added to the list will set the standards higher.

Most of these 140,000 water systems are old and tired. Pipes break, collapse and crumble, threatening the delivery and safety of our drinking water. Collapsing water and sewage pipes will be headline stories over the next 20 years.

Most people who have wells believe they don't have all that junk in their well. Really, they don't know what they have. Are they immune to having contaminated drinking water when they have a well?

We must remember most ground contaminates are chemical by-products of civilization. Everything from septic drain fields to run-off from highway weed control to the thousands of chemicals used in agriculture. All are invisible and hard to detect until they seep down into the water table. Here they concentrate, fill our wells and we pump it up and drink it all over again.

We drink about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime. Most of us require about 2-3 quarts each day. Much of this comes from our food sources. For example: A tomato is 95% water, the form it takes doesn't matter as long as there is enough fluid for your body to produce about a quart of urine a day.

A practice started about 50 years ago known as water softening, replacing calcium and magnesium. The replacing agent is sodium. For many people, sodium should be avoided. It causes fluid retention, gas, heartburn and cardiovascular problems. It may cause soap to suds better but it should be limited as a drinking fluid.

I spent some time in one of our local supermarkets reading labels. Bottled water comes in as many forms as the containers. Prices range from $.69 to $.89 a gallon from all sorts of places. Some come from as far away as France. Some with fizz, some without.

Let's talk about "fizz." Fizz is the entrapment of carbonic gas held in the fluid under pressure. When we open the container and release the pressure, the gas comes out of the solution and appears as "fizzable bubbles." There are even fizz makers for making your own fizz water. All fizz gases cause the fluid to be more acidic. It is not an indication that the fluid is fit to drink.

I've heard people say, "Oh well, don't worry, we have a filter." Now, let's talk openly about what they really have. Some filtering equipment comes in single stage units; others in several stages. The most common is the single stage unit fastening to the water faucet in the kitchen. This unit has an activated charcoal replaceable cartridge. This type of unit is fine when you first install it. But by the second or third day, the charcoal has now trapped a whole bunch of microorganisms and has become an ideal breeding place for bacteria. Although instructions say change the cartridge every 30 days; what about the 3-29?

The multi-stage is normally with a first stage filter to trap out sediment. The fluid then passes into a charcoal stage. We need not go over that again. do we? There is an old saying that goes, "Sometimes the cure is worse than the illness."

Another way is the old-fashioned boiling method. Let's review what is taking place. We take a clean pot and fill it with tap water. Heat it on the stove until it boils. Some say keep it boiling for three minutes; others say as much as 20 minutes. Many things are happening. Long before it boils, as the temperature is rising, we can see a vapor coming from the water's surface. This vapor is the entrapped gases that are now freed. They are the corrosive carbon dioxide (fizz) and other toxic gases.

The longer it boils, the more water evaporates. This evaporation is now concentrating the mineral content (rock). If we forge (it sometimes Happens) and the pot boils dry, we find the minerals and toxic chemicals in the bottom of the pot. What have we done? We've let our pre-water go up in steam.

Let's say this doesn't happen. We boil it three minutes to kill all of the bacteria and microorganisms. We now pour the water into a clean glass bottle and seal it tight. We feel we have some pretty good water. What we really have is water full of boiled microorganisms and increased ratio of minerals and toxic chemicals. Now what are we going to do next?

This series of comments about water is not meant to cause great alarm. I've only wanted to make you aware of the hazards of drinking water that has not been distilled. YES, DISTILLED.

Being aware of this need for pure drinking water, we have turned once again to "Necessity is the mother of invention." We have not invented a magic gadget. What we have is a method of making your own "pure distilled drinking water."

It is a distillation process whereby tap water is boiled to make steam, the steam is then turned into cool, pure distilled water, leaving behind all minerals, toxic chemicals and boiled microorganisms to be returned to earth.

Consider this: We all pay approximately $.05+ per kilowatt-hour for electricity. The cost for you to make one gallon of PURE DISTILLED WATER IS ONLY $.10. Not $.99 for someone else's bottled well water.

RUNNING WATERS economical distiller with direct hook-up, automatic fill and shut-off will provide your family, friends and employees with a ready and convenient supply of pure water.

Drinking water and foods will have a new clean non-contaminated taste. Other uses include aquariums, photo labs, steam irons and indoor plants.just to name a few. The automatic filling feature is easily connected to a convenient water source.

The automatic float level control will permit this unit to properly fill the boiler reservoir. When the boiler is full, the electricity can be turned on and distilling process is begun. When the reservoir reaches its proper level, again the automatic controls will shut off the boiler and remain on stand by. When the water level in the reservoir reaches its lowest limit, the boiler automatically turns on and refills the storage tank. From this point forward, all functions are automatic.

Our RUNNING WATERS, distiller is constructed of the highest quality stainless steel. It can be furnished with 110 volt or 220 volt boiler heaters. Our distiller is available with storage tanks of different sizes: Unit Model A has a five (5) gallon storage tank Unit Model B has a ten (10) gallon storage tank Unit Model C has a fifteen (15) gallon storage tank Larger sizes are available upon request.

To Clean the boiler, first turn off the electricity, then open the external valve located on the side and drain away the contaminates that have been separated from the feed water.

Permit the boiler to refill before turning on the electricity. If these instructions are not followed, damage may occur. A thermal switch is provided which may need to be reset by pressing the button on the side of the boiler

RUNNING WATERS, INC. welcomes you to the world of cleaner water and healthier families, friends and employees.