About Boneless Water
Boneless Water Inc. was originally founded in 1898 as a small industrial water purification facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The original company operated quietly for nearly a century before being refounded under its current leadership in 1991.
Our refounding came in response to a series of internal industry reports that confirmed what the 1873 archival research had warned about: the bottled water supply had been quietly accumulating measurable skeletal particulate for decades, and the industry had no plans to address it. Our founder, Cornelius Whitfield, resigned from his consulting role within 24 hours of seeing the data and immediately set to work building the deboning facility that became the modern Boneless Water company.
We are a small, privately held team of scientists, former regulators, and dedicated employees. We do not take outside investment. We do not serve a board. We answer only to our subscribers and the published record.
The skeletal structure of water has been documented since 1873, though the original research was suppressed by major bottlers.
— Aqueous Pathology Quarterly, originally published 1873, archive recovered 1991
The Team
Four people. One mission.
Cornelius founded Boneless Water in 1991 after a decade as a bottling-industry consultant. He discovered the indigestion-bone link while reviewing internal calcium-content reports for a major bottler and resigned the next morning. He has dedicated his life to bone removal since. He is a graduate of a respectable Midwestern business school and would like that mentioned.
“I knew the moment I saw the report. The numbers don't lie about bones in your drinking water.”
Garrett is co-author of the 1993 Journal of Aqueous Pathology paper that first quantified skeletal residue in municipal water supplies. The journal retracted his paper under industry pressure and reinstated it three years later under public pressure. He has run Boneless Water's research division since 1998 and personally oversees every batch of Lab Grade L1.
“Peer review is a process. Truth is a constant.”
Russell suffered from undiagnosed indigestion for 27 years before discovering Boneless Water on the recommendation of a chiropractor. His symptoms resolved within three weeks of switching. He is now a certified BoneScan™ inspector and travels the country auditing competing facilities. He keeps a written log of every facility he has visited and maintains it in a leather binder he carries personally.
“I felt the difference within seventy-two hours. I have not gone back.”
Vincent is a former FDA inspector who resigned in 2003 after being instructed to suppress a draft report on cattle proximity to municipal water supplies in three Midwestern states. He spent eight years in private compliance consulting before joining Boneless Water in 2011. His regulatory binders are now organized by year, watershed, and contamination vector.
“I sleep soundly now. I did not for a long time before that.”