Water quality is about more than just chemicals and contaminants. Your water’s pH levels, for example, can have a big effect on the safety of the water you use in your home. Today we’re going to talk about the effects of low and high pH levels in water and what you can do to neutralize…
Do Water Treatment Systems Remove Essential Minerals from Tap Water?
Having enough minerals in your diet is essential if you want to achieve optimal health. Minerals aid in many important bodily functions, and they help strengthen your bones, organs, blood cells and more. So when some people hear that water softeners and water filtration systems can remove minerals from water, they become concerned that filtered…
How Do Shower Water Contaminants Affect Our Health and Our Homes?
Did you know that some water contaminants are more dangerous to our health when we breathe them in than they are when we drink them? This makes water quality an important issue not just for our drinking water, but also for the water that we use for showering. Today we’re going to talk about why…
Free Water Quality Testing for North and South Carolina Homes
The water in North and South Carolina can get contaminated in all kinds of ways. The type and severity of your home’s water contamination levels can depend on a number of different factors, which is why you should have your water tested in order to understand what’s in it. Today we’re going to talk about…
How Clean, Filtered Water Can Help Encourage Weight Loss
There are many different diets out there, and people will offer all sorts of different (and often conflicting) advice about how to lose weight. But one thing that is common in almost any type of weight loss plan is the suggestion to drink more water. This isn’t always easy to do, but it becomes much…
My Tap Water Smells like Rotten Eggs! Why is This Happening and What Can I Do To Stop It?
Although there are many health-related reasons to filter your water, one of the top reasons that homeowners begin to consider residential water treatment systems is because of offensive tastes and smells coming from their tap water. And if your water begins to smell like rotten eggs, you will most certainly want to do something to…
What Effects Does Water Quality Have on Your Home’s Pipes?
The quality of your home’s water can certainly affect your body’s health, but it can also affect the condition of something else in your home: your pipes. Although some water contaminants can flow through your pipes without harming them, others can cause severe corrosion and clogging. Today we’re going to talk about the effects water…
What is the “White Stuff” in My Drinking Water?
When you fill up a glass of water, do you notice white flaky particles floating around? This is certainly not appealing, and you’re probably wondering where those particles come from and what you can do to get rid of them. So today we’re going to talk about the “white stuff” that sometimes appears in tap…
How is Water Quality Monitored?
When homeowners begin to learn about the issues that plague our nation’s tap water, one of the first questions that they have is, “How is water quality monitored?” Today we’re going to talk about the limitations of how water quality is monitored in North and South Carolina and the best alternative for testing the water…