Posts tagged 'Water Treatment'

I am not aware of the term “forever chemicals” being used until recently, when it has been used to describe Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFAS) including Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) or Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid found in water supplies. PFOA and PFOS are a group of thousands of synthetic fluorinated organic chemicals. PFOA and PFOS are part of a la...

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 are buying any water treatment equipment, make sure you are buying it from a member of the Water Quality Association (WQA) as they are bound by a Code of Ethics.  Don't settle for anything less...

If you happen to believe that, you probably better stop reading this right about now.  Many Americans don't even think twice about drinking a glass of water. However, a report recently released by the Environmental Working Group found more than 270 harmful contaminants in local drinking water across the nation. These substances are linked to cancer, damage to the brain and nervous system, h...

A good detailed water analysis is vitally important, especially if you are on well water.  A thorough water analysis is like a blood test or x-ray for your water and is the ONLY way that you can really know what is in your water so that you can properly treat it.  The problem is:  many water tests are expensive and if they aren’t, they are not very accurate. Before I tell you the best way to ...

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...

To many families the joy of home ownership is sometimes spoiled when they find out that their "Home Sweet Home" has water that is less than desirable. For the record, that happens to be a pretty high percentage of the homes in the United States. However, no matter what the water problem(s) might be, "Point-of-Entry" water treatment is simply the best solution, whatever the problem(s) might be. ...

278. that is the number of zip code areas with lead poisoning levels twice that of Flint Michigan. This number will continue to increase. As of 2019 The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimated the total cost of water infrastructure repairs needed is 3.6 trillion dollars by the year 2020. According to the American Water Works Association there are approximately 240,000 water main brea...

QUESTION: Hello, We have well water that was tested 4 days ago; No iron, ph 7.1, hardness GPG 29. We tested a second sample that was treated through a whole house system from Aquasana. The treated water tested 21 GPG hardness. We are miserable with this product. My hair is damaged, skin is dry, fixtures are coated. There is sandy grit in the water and we have 3 sediment filters hooked up. Two fr...

This is an update of a blog posted in 2017. For over 25 years, I have been involved in pioneering the technology of using hydrogen peroxide for the eradication of iron and sulfur and for the record, I still believe it is the best technology for doing that.  There are many people who still use chlorination for this purpose.  Chlorination is simply the process of adding chlorine to water. T...

The Water Quality Association ("WQA") is seeking tariff exemptions for Chinese water treatment products that American Water Treatment Dealers are selling.  I guess that is all well and good, but as the tariffs apply to US Water Systems, all I can tell you is that our name is US Water Systems, not China Water Systems, and we have been phasing out Chinese products for years.  So, while most other...

Actually, before you ask that question, you really should ask "Is there really such a thing as a salt free water softener?" You see, some companies are selling what they call "salt free water softeners" as well as "salt water softeners."  That begs the question:  If salt free water softeners worked, why on God's Green Earth would they sell salt water softeners?  No one would buy them. Salt wat...