Have you noticed white residue in your shower, bathtubs, and on your dishes? Are you experiencing low water pressure? If you’ve answered yes to either of these questions, you may have a problem with hard water. The most common cause for this is an accumulation of calcium in your household plumbing. The next question has […]

Chlorine and chloramine are used to treat tap water. While this practice is necessary to ensure our safety, it leaves water with an unpleasant taste and odor. There are also several health risks associated with high levels of chlorine in the water we use for drinking and cooking. Given that chlorine is not the best […]

These days there are many powerful entities intent upon convincing the world population that it’s not safe to drink the water unless it comes from a bottle. Is this true? Is tap-water safe? Should tap water be filtered? In this article, we will explore these questions and provide good advice for sourcing clean, healthy, affordable […]

Reverse osmosis systems for purifying water have been around since 1977. At first, these were large volume industrial systems used by some municipal water purification plants. For a while now, domestic reverse osmosis units have become popular in our homes. They provide clean, healthy, great tasting water. A reverse osmosis system has anything from 1 […]

Around the world people are becoming more and more concerned about the dwindling availability of safe drinking water. In 2014 this problem was brought to the forefront of awareness by the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. What Happened in Flint, Michigan? Problems began when the city, in an effort to save money, changed the water […]

On the subject of water, whether it’s the kind that comes out of your tap or the fresh bottle you just bought at the supermarket, you may have come across the term ‘RO’ at some point. A very nebulous term, and one that, exploiting the average layman’s ignorance of it, is still used in PR […]