People with light or blonde hair occasionally experience discoloration because of what’s in their water. Mineral deposits, with iron as one example, can be in hard water, well water or pools. Minerals can stay on your hair. Is iron in your water causing your hair to change colors? Iron deposits can form and remain in...
In an emergency, the normal water supply might be cut, or disrupted, or contaminated. A hurricane, flood or pipe break can mean you don’t have water or clean water. It’s valuable to have alternative ways to treat water in an emergency. The public could be instructed to use boiled, bottled or disinfected water in certain...
Whether your home water supply is from a municipal system or a well, it’s important to know how, how often, and for what you might need to test your water supply. For people on a public water supply, the municipality in control treats the water, provides reports and should be sending safe water to everyone...
A water test can find contaminants in your home tap water. If you taste, smell or see something, the water quality of your public water might be easy to see. A water test, some of which are fast at-home tests, can find common problems in tap water or well water. With specific information, you can...
You may think buying bottled water is a good idea to ensure you aren’t consuming any impurities that could be in your tap or well water. While it may appear like the best remedy, the bottled water you’re buying could be doing you, your budget, and the environment more harm than good. Why could it...
What’s a Salt Based Water Softener? A salt-based water conditioner makes use of a process called ion exchange to remove the minerals that cause hard water. These minerals mostly consist of calcium and magnesium. Here’s how salt based softeners work. A regular salt based conditioner includes two storage tanks. One container has a metered shutoff...
Deionized water is produced by taking water and exposing it to electric-charged resins. The electric charges remove all ions from the water. It removes all salt. The water has no ionic charge to it. So, should you deionize your water? What are the uses, but also the risks, of deionized water in everyday life? One...
Most of us need to drink more water to get up to the eight glasses a day we’re supposed to get. But then, what are we supposed to do about the contaminates that can be in tap water and make it unsafe? What are the most common things which can be in drinking water? Any...
Lead is toxic in water. While many of us might not realize the specific health effects of lead in water we consume, we all know it’s a serious problem if lead is present in a water supply. First, any amount of lead, even a very small trace, is a toxin. Next, consuming lead can cause...
A person uses 80-100 gallons of water in and around the house each day in the U.S. Less than 1% of it is water we drink. There are many ways, across all the ways we need water, to conserve water around your home. Here are a few that are pretty easy. You can help the...
