There's no chlorine or other sanitizers in the water. This same principle can be applied to virtually any water source on our planet today by using the Clearwater Purification System. If you can recall your high school chemistry days, an Ion is any atom with an electrical charge - positive if it is short an electron, negative if it has an extra electron. An ion with a positive charge is called a cation , while one with a negative charge is known as an anion . To ionize something means to transform the atom into one of these two ionic forms.
Water is passed through a specially built flow-cell chamber that houses the electrodes.
A current is passed between the cathode and the anode, thus producing copper and silver ions by normal plating. Basically, the current causes some of the outermost atoms of the electrodes to lose an electron, thus becoming positive ions. While the water is running through the chamber, many of these ions are swept away before they can reach the other side of the electrodes. As a result, copper and silver ions are dispersed into the body of water that is being purified. The amount of ions introduced is controlled by the microprocessor control box, an adjustable transformer that changes 110 or 220 volt AC current from the power source to a low voltage DC current.