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What You’re Really Spending on Water Bottles…

A few eye-opening statistics on bottled water consumption in the United States this morning. Perhaps the most incredible number: at an average cost of $1.22 per gallon, consumers are spending 300 times the cost of tap water to drink bottled water. In fact, that number could be even higher, writes Colas in a note to clients. "The [bottled water] industry grossed a total of $11.8 billion on those 9.7 billion gallons in 2012, making bottled water about $1.22/gallon nationwide and 300x the [...]

For Well Owners…

For Well Owners: When water is provided by a private well, periodic testing of its water is recommended but not mandated. Owners of private wells should use only laboratories certified by the California Department of Heath Services to conduct an analysis. Private wells fall outside federal and state regulation because they are on private land and not covered by the SDWA. They also are not subject to the same periodic testing and monitoring requirements as public water systems. There are [...]

Southern California Students Celebrate National Protect Your Groundwater Day

Fifth grade students take a pledge to protect local groundwater supplies Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) officials and students from Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, part of the Paramount Unified School District, gathered to celebrate "National Protect Your Groundwater Day" Sept. 10, 2013. During the assembly, more than 160 fifth grade students took the Act, Consider, and Take action (A.C.T.) Pledge, a commitment to help protect and conserve local groundwater supplies. The assembly featured WRD Board Director Albert Robles, Roosevelt [...]

Chromium…

California continues to set the tone for the nation when it comes to regulating water quality – last week, it became the first state in the U.S. to introduce a standard for hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6. The California Department of Public Health (CPDH) currently only sets a limit on total chromium, which includes chromium-3, a required nutrient, and chromium-6, its potentially carcinogenic counterpart. CPDH’s maximum contaminant level (MCL) for total chromium is 50 ppb – already much lower than the [...]

Water Softeners and the environmentally conscience consumer..

Salt. Today, some view it as the industry’s dirty, four-letter word. Used for decades in water treatment, the Water Quality Association (WQA), in its Glossary of Terms, defines salt in the following ways: (chemistry) A chemical compound formed by the neutralization of an acid with a base; (water treatment) sodium chloride (NaCl) or potassium chloride (KCl), both of which are used in solution form to regenerate cation exchange water softeners and some dealkalizers. While salt in water treatment equipment, especially [...]

Hard Water Treatment San Diego

Electronic Hard Water Treatment

The One Water Systems WT-5 Amp Force Calcium Control unit solves the problems associated with "hard water" electronically, instead of the chemical processes used by water softeners and without the need for adding salt (sodium or potassium chloride). By using electronic impulses the WT-5 de-crystallizes the hard water minerals, calcium bicarbonate and magnesium bicarbonate. Not only does this PREVENT mineral build-up in your home's plumbing but it will actually REDUCE any existing build up in your pipes. Stop putting unnecessary [...]

Filtered vs. Purified? What you need to know…

Filtered Drinking Water vs Purified Water Water filters that use filtration methods such as adsorption, carbon, activated carbon, kinetic degradation fluxion (KDF), and particulate filtration produce filtered drinking water. Water systems that use purification methods such as reverse osmosis (R.O.), distillation, ozone, and ultraviolet produce purified water. One important reason is that numerous studies have shown that mineral-rich drinking water is the healthiest. Both reverse osmosis water and distilled water are de-mineralized. The World Health Organization (WHO) published a study on drinking water [...]