Interview with
Prof. Dr. Yuri Rachmanin
Professor Dr. Yuri Rachmanin, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute for Human Ecology and Environmental Medicine, Moscow, and WHO expert member is interviewed by Johannes Koppensteiner.
Investigating Grander Technology for six years 
The Institute for Human Ecology and Environmental Medicine has been investigating Grander Technology for six years. What can you tell us about it?
When we began to investigate the technology of Johann Grander in 1997, we already had around 20 years of experience in the investigation of different, non-traditional water technologies where the structure of water is changed. These include treatments at low or high temperatures, cavitation impulses, influences with cold plasma, laser radiation, low and high voltage discharges, electrochemical, magnetic, electromagnetic treatments and many, many more. We do not know how Johann Grander treats the water. But we do know one thing with certainty: in six years of in-depth investigations on micro-organisms, animals and humans, we have not been able to find one single negative effect.
We began our investigations on micro-organisms, because they often react very sensitively to the water structure. Overall, we tested 11 groups of pathogenic bacteria, and quasi-pathogenic bacteria, such as salmonella. The effect of Grander Technology is to accelerate the death of these bacteria, which we see as the result of a change in the environment in the water. In addition, we were able to find an increased self-cleansing effect and micro-biological stability.
Many waterworks use rain water for the production of drinking water. It often contains minute amounts of organic compounds that are dissolved in the water. When disinfected with chlorine, so-called chlorinated hydrocarbons are created – dangerous compounds because they have an effect that can damage the genetic make-up, or have a carcinogenic effect. We were interested in what happens when we treat water, that we know to have a mutagenic effect, with Grander Technology. In a number of trials with different types of water, we were clearly able to find that the influence of Grander information technology significantly reduces this effect.
What trials were carried out?
We recently completed a series of investigations on people under strict scientific principles. We combined traditional methods of cell analysis with the latest, non-traditional diagnostic techniques. The different groups were given different types of water to drink, and nobody knew which one they had just drunk.
The first thing we noticed was that there was an improvement in the gastro-intestinal tract after only a few weeks. Even more pronounced were the positive results of the examinations of the cells taken from smears of the mucous membranes of the nose and mouth.
You are going to attend a WHO meeting in Geneva soon, as a delegate of the Russian Health Ministry?
Yes. The concluding session of the workgroup for the preparation of the Guidelines for the Quality Control of Drinking Water is being held there. We – that is an international group of experts – meet every 10 years to revise these guidelines. Generally, the experience of the last 10 years should always flow into the new guidelines.
Will you introduce new knowledge and ideas?
Yes, we have some points that we would like to put forward for discussion. Above all, it will be possible in this meeting to familiarise delegates from other countries with our findings. Essentially this is the formation of the very damaging organic chlorinated hydrocarbons that occurs when drinking water is disinfected using chlorine. We will demand a lot more research into a specific section of these compounds so that thresholds and standards can also be set for these substances.
In more than 20 years of research, we have come to believe that physical parameters must also be included in the quality control of drinking water since they play a very important role in health. The bacteriological stability of drinking water is very important, and this is not so difficult for water from the tap because the time from the preparation to consumption usually only fluctuates from between a few hours up to a few days. It is somewhat more difficult for bottled water. A period of several months or even of a year or more often passes before consumption, and we believe it is necessary to revise the regulations here. | 