Iron Removal

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&...

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.

I have been treating bad, nasty, stinking, staining, rotten-egg smelling, horrible well water for close to fifty years.  Some of my earliest memories of my late father (Stephen E. Timmons) were going to work with him at the water treatment company he worked for in Greenville, Ohio: “Miracle Water.”  As a side note, my father was the District Mana...

How To Best Grow Legal Cannabis In The USA By far and away the best way to grow legal cannabis in the USA is to do it in a state where it has been legalized. Prison time is not conducive to to growing a booming business. Well… duuuuhhhh! Seriously, there are many “best practices” when it comes to growing cannabis successfully and profitably. However, we are here to discuss what...

If you have iron in your water, don't make the fatal mistake of trying to remove it with a water softener or just another generic iron filter.   It is imperative that you have a third-party laboratory water test and make sure that you apply the proper equipment.  I most cases, a water softener is not the answer to removing rust or iron in the water.

US Water Systems sells more water treatment systems for craft beer breweries in the USA than anyone. So, let me preface this with: We love Craft Brewers and enjoy working with them on all sorts of water treatment projects. After all, beer is 95% water and water is the #1 ingredient in your product. However, recently I learned that about 60 breweries submitted an Amici Curiae Brief ("Friend o...

A few days ago, I was rummaging through some old slides and I stumbled across one from 1979. It was of the very first installation of an RO - DI system in an Indiana hospital. Back then, nearly every hospital used a steam distiller for high purity water, which was both expensive and labor-intensive. They contacted me to solve that problem. I have to admit that I knew very little about this t...

That's a fair question because if you go to most websites you cannot really discover who you are dealing with.  I mean, when you buy from Amazon, you know that they are this behemoth and Jeff Bezos is the CEO and you can read books and articles about Amazon and Jeff to understand who you are dealing with... in case you are from another planet.  But when you buy a water softener or reverse osmosi...

It wasn't that long ago, December 27, 2018, to be exact, that I wrote a blog called The Truth About Air Injection Filters. In that blog, I wrote this: "Maybe, I should have called this “WHY US WATER SYSTEMS DOES NOT SELL AIR INJECTION IRON FILTERS.” That blog precipitated a lot of dissents, some of it actually very nasty, but I still stand behind what I wrote them... except that tech...

UNDERSTANDING MY WATER TEST RESULTS Q. My wife and I are struggling to understand our recent water test and determine what water treatment we need if any. I'm wondering if you can help us? We are considering the limeblaster. We are in northern Minnesota and have well water. We have a white chalky film in our shower. We have rust stains in our toilet. Since we have had soft water in the past...

A couple of years ago, my youngest son, Stephen... well, now that he's grown up, he goes by "Steve" (which was also my father's name) joined our family-owned business. Recently, he was promoted to Sales Manager and this week he has joined The Ask The Water Doctor Blog as a writer. He has spent all of his life around the water treatment business and through osmosis has absorbed a tremendous amou...

Go on the Internet and you can find just about anything about everything.  Alien abductions, cures for cancer,  herbs that make you live forever, how to not pay taxes (good luck with that one), and salt-free water softeners.  Sorry folks, but that is all fiction.  Well, maybe there have been some alien abductions… I’ve seen their spaceship, they are not taking me back�...