Posts tagged 'Ultraviolet'

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.

Many people have never heard of microcystin, but what you don't know can harm, or even kill you.  This issue first arose when the Governor of Ohio, John Kasich has declared a state of emergency in Toledo, Ohio  in 2014, after the water treatment plant testing results showed the water contains microcystin.  Also, on May 8, 2017, residents of Summit Lake near Olympia, Washington were advised not ...

Everyday, consumers purchase hundreds of Reverse Osmosis systems for the purpose of protecting themselves and their family from chemicals and contaminants such as arsenic, lead, chlorine, pesticides, and high TDS while mistakenly believing that their new reverse osmosis system will also eliminate bacteria - IT WON'T!  Reverse osmosis is not designed to remove bacteria.  In fact, we now know that...

[embed]https://vimeo.com/183015648/0c3f48c5b0[/embed] It used to be that we would get calls from customers who wanted to have good water for a "growing operation" but what they were growing was always a little sketchy.  Of course, they weren't saying... but we pretty much knew they were growing marijuana.  However, these days as marijuana laws relax, we have many calls each week asking things...

Water treatment professionals have long known that ultraviolet light does not "technically" kill microorganisms.  They understand that UV damages the DNA of a bacterial cell so that it cannot replicate.  Essentially, it is rendered dead because it cannot replicate.  However, they are still in the water, even if they are "dead men walking"!  Now, we also find that in some cases, bacteria may ...

This product has been re-branded as Pulsar Quantum Disinfection.  Here's a link to the revised post:  https://blog.uswatersystems.com/2017/04/pulsar-quantum-disinfection-the-power-to-change-the-world/  What I am about to tell you might defy what you already think you know, but rest assured, this is not a fairy tale.  It is true and it is here and now! I am talking about the Silecte™ media w...

Hey, I've got news for you - the government will let you down!  I know that shocks people who believe that "cradle-to-grave" stuff, but they will let you down - write it down and count on it!  The latest example is the incredible case of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) who are supposed to be the guardians of our environment, dumping three million gallons (That's 3,000,0...

Question for the Water Doctor: "I am purchasing a house with well water.  As a city dweller and the owner of some large aquariums I would like to do whole house RO. Could someone please reach out to me about a good whole house system/setup? I found this link via Google:  https://www.uswatersystems.com/systems/reverse-osmosis/whole-house-reverse-osmosis-systems" Answer from the Water Do...

Brian wrote this: "3 years ago one of our wells on the farm ran dry in the summer months and we had a well drilled near the house to get us going again. I found a local well driller that was able to come over the next day and started drilling. He used a modern drill system and soon was at 285 feet though shale and bed rock. The casing is 6” and 20 feet deep. As a final attempt to get more wat...

John L. asked the following: "We have a RV and we will be living in the full-time and traveling all over the US. Not knowing what kind of water we will be getting into, what would you suggest?" First, I have to say that as you travel from campsite-to-campsite, the water will vary dramatically, usually from bad to extremely bad.  YIKES! Here are a few things you will need to be concerned ...

There are a number of people who are interested in filtered water that is bacterially pure, has chlorine and other chemicals removed or reduced, but for a variety of reasons they refuse to consider reverse osmosis.  There are several reasons why they might not want RO water: They may be violently opposed to any water waste - I think that is short-sighted in this case, but... OK; They may no...

OK, to those of you who know me, you will say that I am safe from a brain-eating amoeba because it would die of starvation.  But seriously, folks... This sounds like a sci-fi movie plot, but it's real.  In August, a 4 year-old Mississippi boy died from playing on a "Slip n' Slide" in New Orleans.  The cause of death was a rare, brain-eating amoeba. At first, officials thought the amoeba, cal...