Drilling Company Hypes up UV Filtration

Drilling Company Hypes up UV Filtration

Chatfield Drilling & Water, Pennsylvania-based well drilling and water treatment services company, released a recent article hyping up UV systems and Luminor UV water purification systems in particular. With all the worries about waterborne illnesses and chemicals in water, the team says Luminor UV systems are a great solution. They explain how they use UV-C light to kill bacteria, viruses, and protozoa without chemicals. Plus, they’re super easy to maintain—just change the UV lamp once a year. These systems are also energy-efficient and work instantly, giving a steady supply of clean water.

And, more importantly, the Chatfield team added a 2 minute video to the article talking all about how UV filters work with some cool little animations. It’s worth the short watch!

Pros & Cons of Hard Water

Water quality engineers from Iowa State University recently talked about the pros and cons of hard water. Here’s the scoop:

Pros:

• Hard water’s minerals like calcium and magnesium help protect pipes from corrosion.

• Drinking hard water can help with digestion and might prevent constipation.

• It’s good for bone health because of the calcium.

• It’s linked to lower rates of heart disease-related deaths.

Cons:

• Hard water can cause mineral buildup in pipes and water heaters, leading to clogs and shorter appliance lifespans.

• It can make your skin dry and your hair frizzy and coarse.

• Mineral deposits can clog pores and hair follicles, causing dandruff and slower hair growth.

• Water softeners that use sodium can be an issue for people on low-sodium diets.

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Is PFAS Traveling from Schools to Wells?

Scientist Jane Disney from MDI Bio Lab, a “non-profit, international hub for the science of aging and regeneration,” is checking out PFAS contamination in Maine. Even though they put in filtration systems at Mount Desert High School, these toxic chemicals are still showing up in nearby wells. Disney and her team are looking into how PFAS, often found in school cleaning supplies, might be getting into the groundwater. They're testing water from homes near Mount Desert Island High, Tremont Consolidated, and Trenton Elementary schools to find the source. The school district is also thinking about spending $5 million to hook up to municipal water systems to cut down on pollution.

WATCH: Disney (no not that Disney) discusses this research with a local reporter (3 min.)

Water Tech News

When you’re talking about clean water, there’s lots of work to be done. But with that, lots of progress! Here are some of the recent highlights:

• Two 17 year-olds invented a device about the size of a pen that removes microplastics from water using sound waves. And pocketed a cool $50,000 along the way!

• Two civil engineering grad students from Mizzou received scholarships from the Missouri Water Center to continue their clean water research. One is looking into cleaning up mining pollution using (you guessed it) a by-product of beer production. And the other is researching how to remove PFAS from water using tech that’s already in use in water treatment plants.

• Researchers from down under (aka The Australian National University) have found a new potential method for desalination that relies not on electricity, but uses heat from sunlight or other sources. It utilizes thermodiffusion which is where salt transfers from hot to cold and leaves the less salty water on top.

What else is happening:

• BASF reached a $316M settlement with some U.S. public water systems that claimed that the firefighting foam made by the company contaminated their water supplies

• More water systems say people could soon see major rate hikes in order to help fund new PFAS requirements. Broward County in FL went as far as saying that they could see “double or triple water rates for users.”

• Atlantic Coast Water Clinic gives an overview of radionuclides, which occur both naturally and generated by humans

• Florida Pure Water Solutions writes an in-depth guide on water filtration—the basics, preparing for filtration, the different techniques, maintenance, and more