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Water Treatment At Its Best
As a water treatment company, we spend a lot of time reading and learning about water issues all over the world. It's heartbreaking to consider the millions of people in other countries who are forced to deal with grossly contaminated water every single day and have...
Arsenic Back in the Limelight
By the sounds of it, arsenic in drinking water is looking to get 15 more minutes of fame in the limelight. But as most consumers will agree, arsenic in drinking water is not something to celebrate or admire. With continual research being done, new studies are finding...
Poor communities finding sewage a threat to drinking water
It's quite startling, and questionable in this great nation - how can our communities, rich or poor, be plagued by sewage in their drinking water? The United States has some of the best water systems in the world, yet a recent article from the Fresno Bee brings a new...
Water Filters Key in Eliminating Parasites in Drinking Water
When is the last time you were concerned about drinking water that contained a parasite such as cryptosporidium? Probably not in a long time, if ever. Well, residents in Portland, Oregon are finding themselves in this situation for the second time in just a couple of...
School Water from a Student Perspective
A recent CNN article on the access to drinking water throughout a typical school day may just explain why many students are not drinking the recommended amounts of water on a daily basis. According to Dr. Melinda Jampolis, CNNHealth’s Diet and Fitness Expert, “since...
Is Liquid Arsenic Coming From Your Faucet?
Recently it came to the attention of residents in a small community in Texas that their water supply was tainted with arsenic. And not just mildly tainted, it had levels of arsenic that exceed the levels set by the Environmental Protection Agency. Residents in Cyndie...
Now THAT’S Hard, Escondido!
Here in Escondido, we are well acquainted with hard water. We know that our faucets and shower doors get water spots and that crusty white film, it takes a whole handful of shampoo to really get bubbles in our hair, and we have to drain and flush our hot water heater...
WHY SOFT WATER?
Most water in North San Diego County and Southwest Riverside County is very hard. The US Geological Survey, Department of Interior defines water with over 10.5 grains per gallon of hardness as VERY HARD WATER and most of our areas meets or exceeds 10.5 grains. Hard...