Consumers strive to drink pure water. Filter manufacturers frequently hint at making pure water. Bottled water companies entice customers with talk of pure water. Who among us is not familiar with the beer company who brags about pure mountain spring water? For sure, speak the “pure water” people will pay attention. The problem however, is that pure water is not something available to the average person to drink, and for…
Contamination
Memphis Must Focus on Water!
This post, while regionally focused should cause everyone to think about about how their own communities address their water. In both this blog, and in my upcoming book “Safe Water For Everyone” I address the critical need for America to develop a National Water Plan. We are faced with contamination, shortages, drought, and aging infrastructure as a nation and as individual communities. There has never been a more critical time…
What To Do After A Water Main Break
As a rule, after a municipality corrects whatever it was that caused the water alert, they send out notices to users to perform an adequate flush to drain, and then resume using the water as normal. Unfortunately, we are never told exactly how many gallons to flush, and we aren’t given any guidelines or specific tests we can do to make sure the contaminant is no longer in our system. …