As stated in the preface, the original subject matter of the site was to be based on industrial and utility situations, and written for engineers. Since the start of the site I have researched the WWW water treatment offerings. I have made some sobering and interesting, if not surprising revelations.

• Residential and even commercial water treatment has become an oldtime carnival, and the freak shows and snake oil salesmen are out in force. Obviously, serious environmental issues have provided the opportunity for some rather opportunistic or unscrupulous individuals to alleviate the often unfounded fears of the uninformed regarding potable water.
• Some of the illicit offerings are not surprising, as they fit neatly into the category of so called "treatments" which are obscure and misunderstood even by technicians and engineers who may be in the water treatment business. Immediately obvious examples of these illicit, actually laughable systems, are the new and amazing magnetic treatment, and those systems which claim to produce pure water, H2O only, that is, no so called contaminants remaining.