You may not have given much thought to how a well-constructed and well-engineered water filter can change the quality of your life. However, human beings literally rely on water to survive, so it stands to reason that the best drinking water for regular consumption should be as clean and optimal for human health as possible. When looking at the best …

If you live in an area that supplies hard water to your home or business, then you might be thinking, “What’s the big deal, anyway? If I choose not to use the water for some certain activities, what’s the problem?”. The truth is that there are more issues with hard water than just the ones that seem obvious. So, in …

Imagine that there are two glasses of water sitting in front of you. They are equally as clear and apparently devoid of contaminants. At first glance, these two glasses of water are completely identical in every way except for one: the taste. One of the glasses contains filtered water, whereas the other glass contains water from a public source and has …

Adding water filtration to a home is a serious project; if not spec’d and installed correctly, a filtration system can end up being a costly mistake instead of a solution to water problems. When going about the task of selecting equipment and installers for your own water filtration system, it’s good to keep in mind a few key things in …

By now, you’ve probably heard a lot about the wastefulness of drinking bottled water. There is good reason to believe that mass consumption of bottled water yields a huge amount of waste, and that doesn’t bode well for our landfills and recycling centers that are already operating at maximum capacities. In fact, in the United States alone, the production of …

Many of us take for granted the water that we consume on a daily basis. Whether we like to admit it or not, we live in a world that contains many harmful chemicals and substances that can turn ordinary drinking water into a serious health risk. While not all of us in the United States are prone to the same …

To call water ‘hard’ might seem like a contradiction in terms, but the phrase ‘hard water’ refers to a specific kind of water that develops naturally. The reason you may have heard of hard water is because in many geographical locations, water comes from springs, rivers and other sources that include many layers of sediment. Some of this sediment may …