50 Ways To Conserve Water At Home
With many areas of the country in drought conditions, all of us could use a reminder list of ways to cut back on our water consumption around the house.
You can go three weeks without food, but only three days without W.A.T.E.R.:
Waste: “Tighten plumbing leaks and prevent other needless losses of water.
How a Home Water Tratment System Removes and Creates Delicious Drinking Water
Is your water killing your plants? It is too harsh for your skin, clothes washer and ruining your hair? Salt is a common problem found in water systems today. Salt is able to destroy plants and kill soil for years to come, and water softeners are the blame for the deposited added salt into the water system. This becomes a tremendous problem for salt is extremely difficult and very expensive to remove from water. Imagine if your clothes washer hoses had to be completely replaced, pipes in the wall, etc…all due to excessive salt deposits. It is a continual problem, and the state of California is in attempts of creating legislation to ban water softeners from being sold in California. Water is already scarce in California and the entire Western coast is being forced to find ways to conserve and protect the remaining water supplies still available today.
Before going into how to solve the salt issue, it is best to know how salt softeners work. Salt softeners replace ‘good’ minerals, such as calcium with unhealthy minerals aka sodium. The purpose for doing so is eliminating “scale.” However, this causes too many problems down the line. Therefore, a solution is needed to this dire situation.
Is city water really that safe
We often take the purity of our tap water for granted — and we shouldn’t. A carefully researched, documented and peer-reviewed study of the drinking water systems of 19 U.S. cities, found that pollution and deteriorating, out-of-date plumbing are sometimes delivering drinking water that might pose health risks to some residents.
Many cities around the country rely on pre-World War I-era water delivery systems and treatment technology. Aging pipes can break, leach contaminants into the water they carry and breed bacteria — all potential prescriptions for illness. And old-fashioned water treatment — built to filter out particles in the water and kill some parasites and bacteria — generally fails to remove 21st-century contaminants like pesticides, industrial chemicals and arsenic.