Traditional Salt-Based Water Softening and Its Impact on the Environment
Why Use Water Softeners A water-softening is designed to reduce dissolved minerals (primarily calcium, magnesium, some manganese, and metals such as ferrous iron ions) in hard water. These "hardnes...
There can be a number of causes for low pressure, but the most common problem is that there is no low pressure, only low flow. The symptoms may be the same, but the causes are different. Especial...
Low Levels of Drugs Found in Drinking Water
March 11, 2008 — Tiny amounts of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, hormones, mood stabilizers, and other drugs -- are in our drinking water supplies, according to a media report.In an inv...
EPA Chided Over 'Intersex' Fish Concerns
EPA Criticized for Not Moving Faster to See if 'Intersex' Fish Signal Presence of PollutantsWASHINGTON - Federal lawmakers Wednesday criticized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not mo...
Can Humidity Fix Post-Hurricane Problem?
Air Alchemy: Can Humidity Solve Post-Hurricane Water Problem?Tallahassee, Fla.-- In a country like the United States, one of the human body's most urgent needs is taken for granted. It comes easi...
Yale to Build Novel Forward Osmosis Desalination Pilot Plant
Novel Desalination Process Promises Lower Energy Cost, Higher Recovery, and Less Brine DischargeNovel Desalination Process Promises Lower Energy Cost, Higher Recovery, and Less Brine DischargeNew...
New WHO report tackles fluoride in drinking water
| Nov. 21, 2006Millions of people are exposed to excessive amounts of fluoride through drinking water contaminated from natural geological sources. As a result, many suffer conditions ranging ...
EPA Halts Extra Radiation Monitoring; Focus Shifts To Imported Seafood
| May 04, 2011The Environmental Protection Agency has halted accelerated testing of precipitation, drinking water, and milk for radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the agency announc...
| Apr 29, 2011WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new strategy to promote the use of green infrastructure by cities and towns to reduce stormwater runoff ...
Drinking Water Test Result in California
| May 3, 2006 The California State Department of Health, Drinking Water Division, Sacramento, California, collects all of the water test data from every public drinking water source in the Stat...
A Study of Filters Best Way to Clean Tap Water
ReutersTORONTO - Pitchers with activated-carbon filters are the most effective way to reduce potentially harmful chemicals in tap water, Canadian researchers say.A team at Universite Laval in Qu...
| March 20, 2004First, Coca-Cola's new brand of "pure" bottled water, Dasani, was revealed to be tap water taken from the mains. Then it emerged that what the firm described as its "highly soph...
Coca-Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water
| March 4, 2004 LONDON - It made for great headlines, but the fact that the UK version of Coca-Cola's Dasani brand bottled water comes out of the London public supply should hardly have come as...
The Many Benefits of Bottleless Filtered Water Coolers & Dispensers
With the current state of the economy, businesses of all sizes are looking for ways to cut costs and save money. While a company's bottled water expense may not receive much attention, it is actua...
1. One Third of Bottled Water Contain Contaminants Environmentalists and EBMUD push for more disclosure Sacramento -- Saying consumers should know what they're drinking, environmentalists and the ...