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Summary of NSF Water Filter Standards
If we had a nickel for every single time someone asked us what NSF 42, 44, 53, 55, 58, 62 and 177 meant… we’d have a huge pile of nickels and STILL not have enough money for that diamond-plated,...
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Why Add Ultraviolet to Your Water Cooler?
Ultraviolet light disrupts the DNA structure of bacteria and other living organisms (aka: organic contaminants) sometimes found in drinking water. Cooler temperatures in water storage tanks contained...
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Water Testing at 9/11 Site in NYC?
No, this posting will have nothing to do with the testing of runoff water coming from the site. We did come across some articles a while after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, but most of those...
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Cholera in the Third World — Sanitation Problems & Water Filtration Solutions
Around this time last month we talked about the outbreak of cholera in Haiti and a whole lot of our readers started to wonder if such an epidemic could ever reach the States… and we answered ‘yes’, but...
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Safe Water for Christmas — Ultraviolet Water Sterilizer
We have written about boil water orders all over the country since starting this site several years ago… and just to prove a point, check out these recent stories about communities instructed boil...
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What to Look for in a Home UV Water Treatment System
Fears triggered by sporadic news stories about bacterial contamination of public water supplies and horror stories about well water troubles have resulted in many people taking a serious look at...
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Boil Water Advisories… a Joke?
A common myth that we feel obligated to put to rest deals with boil water advisories. For some reason a select number of individuals actually believe a city or municipality would wantonly issue a boil...
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NSF/ANSI Standard 55 Class A or Class B for Home UV Water Treatment Systems?
Every once in a while we find ourselves faced with a water quality question whose answer we thing we ought to know, but for some reason never had cause to seek out in the past. A reader named...
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Do Water Coolers Contain Clean Water?
One would THINK that water coolers absolutely and always contain safe, clean drinking water… but they may not depending upon the frequency of bottle changes and routine maintenance. Safe bet that if...
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Commercial Water Filters — One Application
Recently we got asked who should consider installing a commercial water filter. The person who asked the question, Sylvan, owns for a restaurant whose tap water routinely tastes and smells like bleach...
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