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Costco supplier EcoWater provides solutions for enhancing water quality Does your water look cloudy or discolored, or smell funny? Do you have spotting on your dishes? Are you concerned about harmful chemicals in your water, such as PFAS? These are all signs you might have hard water and an EcoWater

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Backflow Certification

What is Backflow Certification? The Cross Connection Control/Backflow Prevention program is a state-mandated program designed to protect the public’s drinking water from contamination by identifying and eliminating cross connections. Every public water system must initiate and maintain a viable cross connection control program. This is accomplished by surveying the distribution

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What are Microplastics?

When people think of plastic waste they likely think of items such as bottles, bags, and straws, but there are smaller objects that inconspicuously threaten habitats and wildlife. Microplastic waste is a monumental problem world-wide, but has received little attention until recently. Microplastic waste endangers both organisms living on land

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Testing Your Drinking Water

Consumer Reports’ Guide to Better, Safer Drinking Water Many Americans still drink water with unhealthy levels of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, bacteria, and other contaminants. Here’s how to test yours and clean it up. Fifty years ago, Consumer Reports published a groundbreaking investigation into the nation’s drinking water. Its title: “Is

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Health Effects of Lead in Drinking Water

EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agree that there is no known safe level of lead in a child’s blood. Taking action to reduce these exposures can improve outcomes. Lead is harmful to health, especially for children. How Lead Gets into Drinking Water Lead can enter

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Human Health & Environmental Risks of PFAS

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Are a Group of Manufactured Chemicals PFAS are a group of manufactured chemicals that have been used in industry and consumer products since the 1940s because of their useful properties. There are thousands of different PFAS, some of which have been more widely used and

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EPA’s New PFAS Reporting Rule Now in Effect

  On November 13, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s final rule broadening reporting requirements for the “manufacture” of per- and polyfluoroalky substances (PFAS) (the PFAS Reporting Rule)l took effect. The PFAS Reporting Rule requires manufacturers (including importers) of PFAS and PFAS-containing articles in any year since 2011 to

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Water Treatment Installs

We install customized solutions for your specific water needs. Everything from drinking water systems to whole home water treatment systems and iron stain control systems. Take a look at some of our past installs.              

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44 Million People exposed to PFAS

New EPA data show millions more have ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water PFAS water testing finds at least 44 million people exposed, with more results pending NOVEMBER 9, 2023 WASHINGTON – New data released by the Environmental Protection Agency show 44 million people have toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS

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Importing 4 million pounds of PFAS waste

Today, 70 organizations and community groups are calling on the EPA to deny The Chemours Company their request to import up to 4.4 million pounds of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) waste from its facility in Dordrecht, Netherlands to the company’s plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The groups’ request is contained in a

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