What Makes One Water Better? Memphis Aquifer Versus Youngstown Meander!

I was recently asked whether the water in my adopted hometown of Memphis, TN, or that of my birthplace, Youngstown, Ohio was better. As it turns out, both municipalities deliver safe, clean drinking water. However, there are differences that lead to a different end product, different threats to the source water, and different taste. This comparison question is a good one because these two water products are vastly different. Let’s…

Vegas – A Water Model For The World

Every day we read about water in America. Unfortunately, most of what we read are articles about water catastrophes. Stories describing the kind of contamination we learned about it Flint Michigan, and the EPA dumping chromate into a Colorado River tributary have become commonplace. Sadly, no matter how many times we read about water tragedies after our initial shock we open up our own faucet, and if our water is…

Crazy Water Filtration You Never Knew About

During a conversation at Starbucks today, a polite lady announced that she couldn’t help by overhearing my conversation about water filtration, and asked me, “can you really use that to clean water” ? A light bulb went off and I thought this would be a cool idea for a blog post. So here are some water filtration tidbits that you may not have known.