US Water Systems Blog - Ask The Water Doctor

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...

In short, hydrogen peroxid is the best way to remove iron and/or sulfur from water.  Hydrogen peroxide is one of the most powerful oxidizers, and is stronger than chlorine, chlorine dioxide, and potassium permanganate.

Also known as silicon dioxide, or SiO2, silica is a crystalline compound that is an extremely common constituent in most rocks, minerals, and sand. Silica is formed by silicon and oxygen with another metal or mineral. Its levels range from 1 part per million to more than 100 parts per million.

In our years of experience, we have learned many things the hard way.  To borrow a saying: “We know a thing or two, because we have seen a thing or two.” We have built and installed thousands of whole house reverse osmosis systems, and over the years, we made a lot of mistakes… which we learned the hard way. We still see consumers making the same mistakes we did ten or twenty years ago, so we thought we would share our experience to save you from making mistakes that you may not know about.  In the long run, doing it the right way will save  

Bacteria and viruses exist in many places, which we are aware of some that we don't know about as readily.  We know that there can be bacteria in our drinking water.  Even if you have municipal water, sometimes you are informed that you should not drink it.