Wellness and Water: How Does a Builder Choose?

03 Jul Wellness and Water: How Does a Builder Choose?

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When the president of Pendragon Homes, first started building at Aberlin Springs — an agri-community near Lebanon, Ohio, — the information the company needed for things like geothermal and solar energy was available and fairly clear-cut.

Installed WateRx System

But choosing which whole-home water filtration system to offer was a more complicated decision. Most of the systems we know about use reverse osmosis and relatively small canisters containing filters. They’ve been shown to remove various heavy metals and toxins, but contaminants vary from location to location.These systems can leave water with an acidic PH, and it’s not clear how long the filters last before needing replacement. 

While bottled water has become a solution for many of us, it might not be safe. A recent study found that bottled water, much of which comes from municipal water plants before it is treated and bottled, contains nano-plastics, whether bottled in glass or plastic. 

“The main, well-known problem with reverse osmosis is that it removes needed minerals from the water, making it acidic,” the builder says. “So, you have to re-mineralize the body, and most people don’t know how to do that correctly, or even know that they need to.”

Because a Kangen Water distributor in Cincinnati, Ohio, showed up at an Aberlin Springs open house and told the builder about a combined WateRx — Kangen customizable tank system, a solution presented itself. The tanks contain multimedia layers of organic materials that filter out lead, fluoride and a multitude of other contaminants, while maintaining alkalinity and eliminating the need for water-softening systems. 

The proof of repeat business

That was about four years ago, when Lori Wedig lived at Aberlin Springs in a home equipped with a WateRx  system. 

Aberlin Springs, in Union Township, offers whole-home water purification; an onsite farm for fresh, organic produce; geothermal and solar power, which reduce energy bills; and exhaust-only indoor ventilation systems.; and, low-VOC paints and interior finishes.

Lori Wedig (left front), husband, Mike, daughter, Jesse Collins and grandson, Jansen Collins, stand near their Water X system during a walkthrough of their new home with Pendragon Builders President Leslie Aberlin (right front) and Tomas Englert, who installed the system.

Wedig is now having Pendragon build her another home — in a secluded area of Blanchester, Ohio, where she will live with her husband, Mike, daughter, Jesse Collins, and grandson Jansen Collins. Installing a new WateRx system there was at the top of Wedig’s list of requirements.

WateRx provides “Really good, really clean water,” Wedig says. “It takes out all the impurities and hardness.”

Does she know this from the third-party test results? Yes, she says. But she also has another test — her very precise, high-end coffee maker that sets off an alert if the water is not at the correct PH level.

“I enjoy perfect coffee,” Wedig says. “But I also have health concerns. Truly clean water is a basic need.”

What is Water X?

The WateRx-Kangen Water distributor  became interested in water purification more than a decade ago, when his wife kept getting rashes, and the veterinarian told them their cat had cancer.

He suspected the problem was in their water — not just in drinking it, but in bathing in it. Contaminants in water can be absorbed through the skin. And while municipal water-treatment facilities treat water, they also add chemicals to keep pipes from rusting.

“If you’re not filtering the contaminants out of the water, your liver and kidneys have to do the job,” he says. “There’s only so long they can handle that.”

WateRx uses tanks, not canisters, filled with layers of media, not plastic filters, that include a ceramic filtering process and organic coconut shell carbon. The size of the tank and the layers used depend upon the size of the home, water usage and specific contaminants. The WateRx company also makes groundwater filtration systems, for those concerned about contaminants in stormwater runoff. In addition to homeowners like Wedig, WateRx systems are highly sought by coffee shops. ©

For more information, email contact@naturalinteriors.com or text or call (513) 200-9471.

For a tour of Aberlin Springs, call wellness-focused Realtor N. Carol Kibbee, (513) 496-5037. Mention coupon code Wellness11 if speaking with the builder’s staff.