Owning your own well makes you the proprietor of your own water utility. You are responsible for the quality of your own water supply, and also for protecting it’s source. Without vigilant wellhead protection, aquifers can become contaminated, and entire communities and geographic areas will suffer.
Category: Opinions
Greg’s opinions – these are mine alone, and do not reflect the opinion of anyone else unless explicitly stated otherwise
NGWA leading CDC private water well owners outreach study
The National Ground Water Association is leading an effort to study the effectiveness of public awareness outreach to private water well owners for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Soft water causes water heaters to corrode?
There are accounts of softeners prolonging a water heater’s life span as well as some anecdotal accounts of water softeners causing water heaters to fail sooner, so this really needs to be clarified/qualified. Let’s dig a little deeper into it…
Let us never forget
“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail” – George W. Bush
Cyanotoxins and Microcystin
The Water Quality Association has released an official statement on cyanotoxins such as microcystin, which was recently detected in the public water supply serving Toledo, Ohio.
Group comments regarding draft of NSF 375
The Water Quality Association (WQA) and American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE), as well as the
undersigned companies, strongly object to NSF 375, and the process through which it was developed, for three
main reasons: