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Residential UV – Pro’s and Con’s

Unlike other disinfection methods, such as chlorine for example, UV disinfection doesn’t require the use of harmful chemicals. Ultraviolet light (UV) has been been used for well over a half a century to purify water. It has no aesthetic effect on water, so unlike chemicals it doesn’t add a taste or odor to the water…..Further, [...]

The problem with Reverse Osmosis

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  • Last updated: Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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Depending on the type of reverse osmosis system that is used and the size of the pores in the membrane, anywhere from three to five gallons of water is wasted for every one gallon that is cleaned. Water is too precious a commodity to waste like this.
Once the filtered water is produced it is a [...]

Global Water Crisis

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  • Last updated: Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Water is becoming increasingly important to today’s energy and environmental equation…… Water is a valuable resource and deserves our attention.
The average U.S. home uses about 100 to 150 gallons of water per day per person….. Europeans use an average of half that amount….. U.S. water consumption has tripled over the last 30 years while the [...]

Bottleless Water Coolers For MA

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  • Last updated: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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Bottle-less water coolers, once the exception, are more and more becoming the norm in offices and private homes around the world….Having diesel trucks and off-season college football players cart around 42 pound bottles of water is finally being seen as absurd….
Consider the path taken by most bottled water as it makes its way to your [...]

ION FILTERED WATER COOLERS ARE A MASSACHUSETTS FAVORITE

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  • Last updated: Monday, March 29, 2010
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ION Water Coolers – There’s nothing like them…Let’s go over the list of features the ION filtered water appliance from Stonybrook offers:
Purer Water: Stonybrook water is purer than bottled…. Our machines employ “dry” technology….means they have no reservoir inside of them, so each glass is “fresh squeezed” just for the drinker…..the result of this [...]

The Global Water Crisis: A matter of priorities.

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  • Last updated: Monday, February 15, 2010
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Water facts
Here’s some interesting statistics about drinking water, see how many you know:
• Less than 1% of the worlds freshwater is readily accessible for human use.
• Almost 900,000,000 people lack access to fresh water, approximately one out of eight.
• Water and bad sanitation claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
• Nearly 3.6 million people die [...]