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Just add, er… water.</div></div></div> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #0000c3; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#0000c3"><b>How Jesus made wine</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Water_woo" title="Water woo"><font size="5" color="White"><b>Water woo</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#bfd7ff;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Water_woo" title="Category:Water woo"><img alt="Icon water.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/5/5b/Icon_water.svg/100px-Icon_water.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/5/5b/Icon_water.svg/150px-Icon_water.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/5/5b/Icon_water.svg/200px-Icon_water.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#0000c3; text-align:center;"><b>Suckers getting soaked</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#bfd7ff;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Precious_Metals_Nano_Water" title="Precious Metals Nano Water">Precious Metals Nano Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colloidal_silver" title="Colloidal silver">Colloidal silver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_water" title="Holy water">Holy water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HHO_gas" title="HHO gas">HHO gas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bottled_water" title="Bottled water">Bottled water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Developmental_Fluoride_Neurotoxicity:_A_Systematic_Review_and_Meta-Analysis" title="Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis">Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaru_Emoto" title="Masaru Emoto">Masaru Emoto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_fluoridation" title="Water fluoridation">Water fluoridation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N8_State" title="N8 State">N8 State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water" title="Water">Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snow" title="Snow">Snow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fereydoon_Batmanghelidj" title="Fereydoon Batmanghelidj">Fereydoon Batmanghelidj</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Waternav" title="Template:Waternav">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Waternav" title="Template talk:Waternav">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Waternav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <table class="messagebox mb-brainwatermark plainlinks mb-info" style=""> <tbody><tr> <td class="mb-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Information_icon.svg" class="image"><img alt="Information icon.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/50px-Information_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="/w/images/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/75px-Information_icon.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/100px-Information_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></a> </td> <td class="mb-text"><b>This article requires expansion.</b> Please <b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit">help</a>.</b> <p>Though not a <b><a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:Stub" title="RationalWiki:Stub">stub</a></b> by pure word count, this article lacks depth of content. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Re<sup>2</sup>al Water</b>® was <a href="/wiki/Water_woo" title="Water woo">another marketing ploy</a> designed to separate customers from their cash by peddling what comes out of a domestic tap for a less than 1¢ a gallon<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[note 1]</a></sup> as a physically altered (and improved) premium product costing about $9 a gallon<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[2]</a></sup> — over 1000 times more expensive. As a bonus, Real Water was also toxic. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#The_claims"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">The claims</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#What_it_is"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">What it is</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Real_Water_Concentrate"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Real Water Concentrate</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Re2al_Plant_Water"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Re<sup>2</sup>al Plant Water</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#The_science_behind_Real_Water"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">The science behind Real Water</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Public-healthy_crisis"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Public-healthy crisis</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Lawsuit.28s.29"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Lawsuit(s)</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Official_.26_affiliated_sites"><span class="tocnumber">9.1</span> <span class="toctext">Official & affiliated sites</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_claims">The claims</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The claims">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Real Water claimed that the <a href="/wiki/Water" title="Water">water</a> that is delivered to your house is "damaged" by being "stripped of <a href="/wiki/Electron" title="Electron">electrons</a>(-)" as it travels "through pipes, filtration systems, and various devices". This makes the water <s>no longer water since atoms won't bond into molecules without electrons</s> "positive(+) ionized" and "very acidic". The details of how exactly this works is left to the readers' imaginations. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="What_it_is">What it is</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: What it is">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Real Water was filtered and sterilized municipal water with the claimed addition of "potassium and magnesium".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[note 2]</a></sup> The patented "E<sup>2</sup> electron energized technology" process is claimed to add "hundreds of millions of free <a href="/wiki/Electron" title="Electron">electrons</a>" to "unclump" the water and give it an alkaline <a href="/wiki/PH" title="PH">pH</a>. This caused chemists and physicists to clutch their hearts. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Real_Water_Concentrate">Real Water Concentrate</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Real Water Concentrate">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>No, it's not a joke. Re<sup>2</sup>al Water® was available as a concentrate.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[3]</a></sup> </p><p>A 4 oz (or 120 ml) bottle of "concentrated" Re<sup>2</sup>al Water was claimed to treat more than 7 gallons,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[note 3]</a></sup> a dilution rate of 1:240. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Re2al_Plant_Water">Re<sup>2</sup>al Plant Water</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Re2al Plant Water">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>If you were feeling particularly gullible, you could have splashed out on bottles of Re<sup>2</sup>al Water to water your garden.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[note 4]</a></sup> The website claims:<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[4]</a></sup> </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Real Plant Maximizer is a super growth enhancer. Like Real Water (tm) it contains negatively ionized water that enhances the absorption through the cell walls. Typically you can expect upt<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><i>sic</i></span>]</sup></small> to 30% faster plant growth and up to 20% larger fruit yeild.<small><sup>[<span title="short for: sic erat scriptum ('thus was it written'), meaning that it is intentionally spelled here like it was originally transcribed or translated from" style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><i>sic</i></span>]</sup></small></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>And this all for the bargain price of $39.95 a quart. Now, how far is a quart of water going to go in your garden? </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_science_behind_Real_Water">The science behind Real Water</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The science behind Real Water">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="center"><div class="floatnone"><a href="/wiki/File:Tumbleweed.gif" class="image"><img alt="Two tumbleweeds rolling across the screen, from left to right." src="/w/images/2/2f/Tumbleweed.gif" decoding="async" width="550" height="100" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="100" /></a></div></div> <p>We're <a href="/wiki/File:Realwaterscience.png" title="File:Realwaterscience.png">waiting</a>… </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Public-healthy_crisis">Public-healthy crisis</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Public-healthy crisis">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>On March 18, 2021, Real Water pulled its products after federal and local health officials advised people to stop drinking it after Real Water was linked to liver problems in five hospitalized children who lived in four different households. Six other people, three children and three adults, were investigated for less-severe symptoms. </p><p>"Acute non-viral hepatitis is a liver inflammation that can be caused by exposure to toxins, autoimmune disease or drinking too much alcohol, the district said," CBSNews.com reported. "Symptoms can include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine, light-colored stools, joint pain and yellow skin or eyes."<sup id="cite_ref-ap_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap-9">[5]</a></sup> </p><p>There was no mention of the magical properties Real Water claims, nor of the apparent impossibility of their claims. </p> <h2><span id="Lawsuit(s)"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Lawsuit.28s.29">Lawsuit(s)</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Lawsuit(s)">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>On March 16, 2021, a father filed a lawsuit in Nevada on behalf of himself, his wife, and their young son for allegedly becoming ill drinking the water. A daughter who did not drink the water did not become ill.<sup id="cite_ref-ap_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap-9">[5]</a></sup> According to court expert witness testimony, Real Water contained hydrazine (N<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>), which was formed during the untested manufacturing process.<sup id="cite_ref-mole_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mole-10">[6]</a></sup> A jury in the trial awarded the seven plaintiffs $228.5 million.<sup id="cite_ref-mole_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mole-10">[6]</a></sup> As of 2023, lawsuits by about a hundred people who claim to have been injured are still pending.<sup id="cite_ref-mole_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mole-10">[6]</a></sup> Hydrazine is highly toxic to humans in high doses.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[7]</a></sup> </p><p>According to Will Kemp, the plaintiffs' lawyer, the hydrazine was formed from electrifying titanium tubes that were bought "from some Russian guy in the 80s", and that the developer of the process worked in his basement for five months until he had something that didn't make him vomit or have diarrhea.<sup id="cite_ref-mole_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mole-10">[6]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alkaline_diet#Alkaline_water" title="Alkaline diet">Alkaline water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H2Om" title="H2Om">H2Om</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabbalah_water" title="Kabbalah water">Kabbalah water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raw_water" title="Raw water">Raw water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_woo" title="Water woo">Water woo</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/apr/21/real-water-added-electrons">Real Water – with added electrons!</a>, Rebecca Hill, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, 21 April 2011</li></ul> <h3><span id="Official_&_affiliated_sites"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Official_.26_affiliated_sites">Official & affiliated sites</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Official & affiliated sites">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul><li>Archives of the official site (now dead): <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170215214535/https://drinkrealwater.com/real-media/photo-gallery/">Official site</a> (2017, with <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_celebrity" title="Appeal to celebrity">celebrities</a> promoting the product)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210325165109/http://www.drinkrealwater.com/">Official site</a> (2021, announcing a recall of the product)</li></ul></li> <li><i>Astrology Zine</i>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504045422/http://www.astrologyzine.com/health/real-water.shtml">Real Water — The Healthy Water</a> (archived from 2012)</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">The largest monthly bill for a family of four using 50 gallons per person per day (4 × 30 × 50 = 6000 gal.) is $44, which equates to 0.7¢ per gallon.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">As potassium metal reacts violently with water (as does magnesium), the additives were likely salts such as potassium chloride, potassium carbonate, potassium bicarbonate, or magnesium chloride.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Dosage rate is 1 ml per 8 oz glass of water. So 120 ml would treat 120 × 8 oz = 60 pints = 7½ gallons.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">This put them into direct competition with <a href="/wiki/Idiocracy" title="Idiocracy">Brawndo</a>, which has electrolytes — it's what plants crave!</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Real_Water&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111127150243/http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/allstats590.jpg">Circle of Blue's urban water pricing survey</a> (archived from November 27, 2011).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://affinitywater.com/home.php">Real Water sales site</a>: 12 litres (3 gallons) for $28.00</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://affinitywater.com/product.php?productid=51">Re<sup>2</sup>al Water Concentrate sales page</a><span class="wigocapture"><sup><a href="/wiki/File:Capture_176d116b6ad11097bf9fb7d95df6934c1ad93c9e.png" title="File:Capture 176d116b6ad11097bf9fb7d95df6934c1ad93c9e.png">img</a></sup></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://affinitywater.com/product.php?productid=26">http://affinitywater.com/product.php?productid=26</a><span class="wigocapture"><sup><a href="/wiki/File:Capture_fd42ae53ab728a4b8b7034abadef73160dfca441.png" title="File:Capture fd42ae53ab728a4b8b7034abadef73160dfca441.png">img</a></sup></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ap-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ap_9-0">5.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ap_9-1">5.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/real-water-recall-hepatitis-vegas-hospitalization">"Real Water" recalled after it is linked to liver problems in kids</a> (March 18, 2021 / 11:16 AM) <i>AP</i> via <i>CBS News</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mole-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-mole_10-0">6.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-mole_10-1">6.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-mole_10-2">6.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-mole_10-3">6.3</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/jury-awards-229m-to-victims-of-real-water-tainted-with-rocket-fuel-chemical/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social">“Real Water” that poisoned dozens contained chemical from rocket fuel: An expert witness testified hydrazine was likely formed during an electrolysis process.</a> by Beth Mole (10/6/2023, 3:41 PM) <i>Ars Technica</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-09/documents/hydrazine.pdf">Hydrazine</a> <i>United States Environmental Protection 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