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Unless you live in a part of the country where the weather is always hot or always pretty cold, you most likely have some type of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System.  In a modern home, that HVAC system may consist of the following components:  Furnace  Air Conditioner  Humidifier  Media Filter  Electronic Air Cleaner or Ultraviolet Air Disin...

Tannin has been a perplexing foe to water treatment specialists for decades now. There has been essentially one tried and true method that has stood the test of time, but to be honest, it’s a bit of a pain in the neck.What is tannin? Why is it so challenging to remove?Simply put, tannin is dissolved organic material. It appears in surface and groundwater from dissolved plant tissue and veget...

Water stores or water shops (as they are sometimes called) have been popping up across the USA for many years now. Many opportunists see what a gallon of water costs and realize that they can make a 2000% profit… or more. Ah, if it were really that simple.  Now, don’t get me wrong – some of these water stores are v...

With all of this year's madness, 2020 will likely go down in history as one of the craziest years ever. To make matters worse, now city officials in Lake Jackson, Texas, have issued a disaster declaration on September 26, 2020, in response to drinking water contaminated with a brain-eating amoeba. The city is under a "do not use water order," and has requested an emergency declaration from the state.

Water is the main component of beer, and it has one of the greatest influences on the beer’s flavor. Historically, brewers used the water locally available to brew their beer, leading to the distinct regional flavor profiles that exist globally. For instance, West Germany’s Dortmund has water that is very hard. It is rich in calcium, sulfates, and chlorides. The small coal-mining town&...

Recently, a customer asked the following question: You say the Disrupter tannin filter is successful 85-90% of the time.  What are the causes of the 10-15% non-successes?  Are you not able to test water beforehand to know whether or not the filter will remove the tannins successfully? I wish it were that simple, but it isn't!  We have identified several contaminants that affect th...

Water for Your Pets We love our pets in the USA, and we aren’t afraid to pamper them. The American Pet Products Association or APPA, have divulged that in 2019 $95.7 Billion (that is in real dollars) was spent on pet products in the USA.   The breakdown of that money spent is as follows:  Breakdown:      Pet Food & Tre...

I think a better question is “why would you not want a water softener controlled with a Smartphone App?”  Some people will say “Well that is just too fancy for me.”   Humor me for a second:  If you have ever had a water softener and the power went out and you had to re-program it, how did that go?    “Do I push the do...

If you have ever visited a campground, you already know that many of the water supplies you find make Flint, Michigan look like a walk-in-the-part.  Iron, nasty tastes, rotten-egg odor, stains, high chlorine and just plain horrid water is commonplace across campgrounds all over North America.  Add in the fact that even water that tastes OK, can be chemically or bacterially cont...

There are three things that are vital to human life.  Those are Food, Air, and Water.  How long can we survive without the basics? Every person and situation is different, though the "rule of threes" gets at the desperate nature of what our bodies need: three minutes without oxygen, three days without water, t...

At the onset of the current pandemic, the WHO and CDC said masks were overkill for ordinary people and should be conserved for health workers. Later, the CDC recommended masks only for people with COVID-19 symptoms.

What Is Reverse Osmosis ?Reverse osmosis removes the largest spectrum of contaminants at the most economical cost of any water treatment process.  Essentially, a whole house reverse osmosis system will remove 98 to 99% of most contaminants including total dissolved solids (TDS), sodium, chloride, sulfate, nitrate, arsenic and a plethora of other chemical and organic contaminants. One of the k...