John W. Willard, Sr., Ph.D.?

"Doc", as he became to be known to 2 generations of students at the South Dakota School of mines and Technology, was a professor Emeritus of Chemistry. He passed away in 1991 at the age of 84 and spent the last 25 years of his life studying the water that would come to bear his name.

Dr. Willard actually made his discovery "accidentally". In his researchings, he had received a severe burn and put his hand into this only water available. To his surprise, the severe pain stopped immediately. Furthermore, he found no after-blistering resulted. Soon the good doctor who had been "gassed" in the war and who had also suffered from extreme dosages of radiation from radioactive material while carrying on investigations for the Armed Services, was using his water to help his poor health which had been severely affected. In fact, he had reached a point he could barely carry on his scientific work. Surprisingly, he found the water left him feeling much better and all his previous symptom disappeared.

Soon the word spread. Friends, relatives, and acquaintances and even strangers began using "Dr. Willard's Water" - not only for their own ailments, but those of their farm animals. Dr. Willard sought to document these results. He tried to come up with a unifying theory that would explain all these beneficial developments of the water and discovered that it had unusual binding properties. "The catalyst altered water (CAW) acts as a normalizer on living things not in a healthy state," he said.