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Feedback: Amazing miracle water

25 September 2013

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Amazing miracle water

SEVERAL readers have written to us about astonishing claims in an article in the Irish Independent on 25 August. Headlined “Wave goodbye to global warming, GM and pesticides”, it extols the alleged virtues of a horticultural water-treatment technique the inventors call Vi-Aqua.

According to the newspaper: “The technology – radio wave energised water – massively increases the output of vegetables and fruit…” It also makes plants “largely disease resistant”, renders genetic modification “obsolete” and addresses the global warming problem by “converting excess CO…

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