Water Quality & Home Filtration Resource Center

Preparedness Checklist: Are You Ready for the Next Emergency? Emergencies rarely arrive with perfect timing. Storms, floods, earthquakes, wildfires, power outages, and water service disruptions can happen with little warning. A simple preparedness checklist can help your household stay calmer, safer, and more organized when normal routines are interrupted. Preparedness is not about panic. It is about having the basic supplies, information, and habits your family may need during the first few days of an emergency. Start With the Basics Every household should prepare for the possibility that power, water, transportation, or communication may be temporarily unavailable. Store emergency drinking...

Drinking Water: A Most Precious Resource The Earth is 75% water, of which only 2.5% is non-saline. Of this, only 1% is accessible for human use and consumption. The rest are in cold places that receive snow all year, like Antarctica and Greenland, in glaciers, which can be found in the same area, and in icebergs, which mostly traverse the North Atlantic Ocean.  This leaves a mere 0.025% of the Earth's total water accessible to humans, and this figure still includes polluted rivers, lakes, and streams. If all the water in the world were set to a scale of a...

Various metals are present in our surroundings. Some are caused by natural environmental flora, some by human waste, and most of the time, some by pollution. Heavy metals are a relatively similar group of metals with everyday uses. While they can be notably toxic to health, some are essential and vital in many aspects of life. Though it has no exact meaning in chemistry, heavy metal is used to describe it using quantitative criteria that measure heavy metals' atomic weight, atomic number, and density level. Some heavy metals, such as manganese, cadmium, copper, zinc, and iron, have essential benefits for...

How Sediments are Formed and the Different Kinds of Sediments Found in Water It may be caused by natural floras of water found in seas, oceans, lakes, waterfalls, and many more, or it can be caused by human activities that disrupt the natural state of water and create turbidity, thus forming sediments in the water.   Sediment is a matter or substance that settles at the bottom of any liquid. Human activities, such as mining, agriculture, artificial chemicals, and waste materials, can mix various particles with water. These particles sometimes settle at the bottom without interrupting the water's natural state. Sediments,...

Pesticides are one of the volatile organic compounds found in the environment. Volatile organic compounds are rapidly evaporating chemicals that man creates. Other volatile organic compounds include gasoline, kerosene, thinners used in paints, insecticides, and even arsenic. Pesticides are commonly used to kill or control pests.  A pesticide is chemically designed to kill pests, though not to a specific species, but is toxic enough to kill a human being. Pesticides are formulated to be Active or Inert. Active pesticide ingredients are chemical ingredients that directly kill pests, and inert pesticide ingredients aren’t thoroughly tested, unlike active pesticides. Inert pesticides are...

Water has long been an integral part of the world. Since its creation, it has endured natural catastrophes unharmed and serenely.      It composes at least 70% of both the Earth and the human body, from the most effective water forms like great oceans surrounding the continents, lakes in-between countries, rivers bordering states, and springs bathing forest fauna to small forms that include human extracellular and intracellular fluids.  At the same time, development and progress have also been noted to change phase. With technology constantly upgrading, the Earth has been home to natural and synthetic forms. As an aftermath...