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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, [...]

Where does your bottled water really come from??

  • Posted by Gentel
  • Last updated: Friday, February 4, 2011
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I read a very interesting article a couple of weeks ago about the sources of bottled water brands. I think about the commercials and advertisements that I’ve seen over the years and they always advertise their water as being “all-natural” and “straight from the finest springs”, and for some reason, you believe that. I mean, [...]

What exactly is MTBE???

  • Posted by Gentel
  • Last updated: Monday, January 10, 2011
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We here at Stonybrook have been saying for years that our filtration system removes the harmful chemical, MTBE. I was curious to find out exactly what this chemical is, how it gets into our water in the first place and what it does to our bodies.
MTBE is short for methyl-t-butyl-ether, which is among a group [...]

Drink this, not that!

  • Posted by Gentel
  • Last updated: Sunday, January 2, 2011
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We live in a society where obesity is quickly becoming an epidemic. The problem is especially concerning in children and teenagers, the prevalence of obesity in kids and teens has DOUBLED in the last 20 years!
A study was published in 2010 in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, which concluded with a simple and [...]

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

  • Posted by tim
  • 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 [...]