H2O Guy spreads the gospel of water

WASILLA — Wayne Love is an evangelist who speaks with the zeal of the converted on the topic of water.

The first encounter he had with Kangen water was about a year and a half ago when he was working as a truck driver. A friend came to him with a whole lot of water and threw down a gauntlet. The water was free, Love was told, but there was a catch.

“You’ve got to drink half of your body weight in ounces in water,” Love recalls the challenge.

Which is to say Love had to take his body weight, halve it and drink that number of ounces in a day. It penciled out to 140 ounces.

“First day about killed me. Second day was a little bit easier,” Love said. On the third day, “at the end of the day, that’s when the light bulb went off. I thought, ‘Gosh I haven’t sat down all day.’”

With that, he was converted. He jumped into the Enagic water purification world with both feet.

The filtering system is hand-built in Japan where, Love said, they’re built as medical devices. Patients can get prescriptions for water there.

“It’s the most amazing substance I’ve ever come across,” he said. He’s in his 60s now and, “I think I feel better than I did when I was 20 or 30 years old.”

He’s become a salesman for the systems, which are quite pricey, running as much as $4,000 with a $120 filter that has to be changed every six months or so.

Salesmen for the company aren’t allowed to sell water, Love said, only give it away. Within three months of starting up he’d signed up 27 people he was delivering water to. At the end of a month he stops delivering and people can decide whether or not to buy the system.

It’s not hard to sell these products, he said.

“When you find something good you have to tell people about it,” Love said.

He said he speaks from experience when he says the investment is worth it. He thinks the water has made him more energetic and prompted him to shed pounds and lower his blood pressure.

He’s happier now, he said, and fully believes he will die feeling well. And he’s not unaware of how overblown his claims sound. But, he said, they’re easy to disprove. Just try the water. See if it works.

“If half of the things I’m saying are true, wouldn’t you want to try it?” he asks.

In promotional materials for his H2O Guy business he prints testimonials from Valley residents who swear by the water. One tells the story of a little girl whose digestive problems cleared up almost magically once she started drinking the water.

“How good does that make you feel, that you introduced that to that little girl?” he asks. “It’s the most gratifying thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.”

Contact Andrew Wellner at andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com or 352-2270.