Arsenic is commonly associated with deadly toxins since it was a poison of choice throughout history. Arsenic is a metal that naturally occurs in certain rocks formations and soil layers. It is commonly found mixed with gold, copper and silver ores and is released naturally...
NSF International Certification Listings are easily confused, and this Bulletin is to help drinking water treatment users understand NSF certifications and listings. NSF is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1944 to promote good sanitation. Its main "business" is to bring together experts in public health, manufacturing,...
Several Everpure competitors now produce counterfeit replacement filter cartridges or adapters for cartridges designed to fit Everpure filter heads, thus enabling their products to be used in place of legitimate Everpure replacement cartridges. Such "hybrid" systems—one company's head mated to another company's bowl or cartridge—are questionable...
Chlorine use is widely used by municipal water systems to disinfect water from bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms that cause diseases. In fact, approximately 75 percent of municipal water systems use chlorine. Diseases such as typhoid fever and cholera, which are easily spread through infected...
Recent developments in drinking water research have identified the formation of disinfection byproducts when a strong disinfectant like chlorine reacts with organic matter that may be present in water. Disinfection byproducts like Trihalomethanes (THMs) have been linked with Cancer. Formation of disinfection byproducts is more...
