Nov 06, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Contaminants
Certifications standards related to drinking treatment water treatment products and filters and other professional and educational services. The citizen guide to water treatment product certification.
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Nov 06, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Advice
If you drinking water quality violates the terms of you manufactures warranty for that new water related appliance, the Warranty on that NEW Water Appliance may mean nothing and may be invalid on day one.
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Oct 31, 2024
by: Amy Lee| Tags: Blog
There are so many water treatment options for camping and RV users on the market - which to choose? Me, my husband, and our small dog took several on a recent one month road-trip and tested them along the way. It's important to understand the limitations between pre-filtration options and sanitization steps for water quality - even when on the road.
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Oct 30, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Agriculture Livestock
Dogs help to conserve our drinking water by smelling for chlorine.
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Oct 15, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Advice
Earth Day 1970 a great start, but it is clear the train has run off the rail. Rather than having solid science and planning based on facts, we now live in a time where fear, misinformation, activism, and environmental ideology play a more important role in our culture than actual science and fact. My attempt to change the course and prevent the 12 Monkeys from winning.
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Oct 09, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: 2025 Pacific Palisades Fire
The number one thing all life needs during, and post disaster is water. This comes as a requirement before food and before shelter for survival. Be Prepared to Drink Safe Healthy Clean Water during an Emergency.
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Oct 04, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Advice
Low yield water wells can an be over-pumped and when this occurs the actions can cause premature failure of pumps and motors, damage the wellbore integrity, decrease the wellbore yield, impact produced water quality, and ultimately decrease rate of production.
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Jul 03, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Advice
Rainwater harvesting has been a standard of practice and use for much of the arid and semiarid regions of the Earth. In the 20th Century, this practice is getting a second look.
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May 07, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Contaminants
It is critical that we recognize that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are part of an unnatural, man-made cycle that influences the Water Cycle.
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May 01, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Blog
The case of the mysterious clinging bubbles. In this article we explore this phenomenon, multiple hypothesis, and possible solutions.
Apr 23, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: 2025 Pacific Palisades Fire
DO NOT PANIC! - some information is correct, some premature, some incorrect during any potential public hazard situation. We like to believe that everyone dealing with a problem in the public's interest wants to do the right thing and advise properly. Sometimes all of the information is not known. This article walks you through the language and resources you need during a Public Water Advisory.
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Apr 22, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Advice
It is sometimes assumed that it is someone else's responsibility to ensure that the quality of anything coming into our homes is at a regulated standard. This is unfortunately not the case. Only you can ensure the level of safety desired when it applies to the drinking water coming into your home as well as other environmental factors surrounding your location. Join Know Your H2O on a Path to Clean Water.
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Apr 22, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Advice
Knowing both the responsibility and safe plan of action to take based on three (3) simple questions can make all of the difference in directing you toward which drinking water quality testing is needed on your Path to a Healthy Home and Clean Drinking Water.
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Apr 22, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Advice
Understanding your Well, City, or Tap water test results can sometimes feel like trudging through a swamp of information. This article helps you to understand the basics and provides the Know Your H2O's Expert Drinking Water Diagnostic Tool as a resource to help you get on the path to create healthy drinking water for your home.
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Apr 22, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Advice
Testing and screening your home drinking water with both DIY and laboratory testing with testing recommendations for different situations. The Know Your H2O team desires to bring the best professional advice right to your water faucet.
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Apr 20, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Advice
Private drinking water wells are not regulated or routinely monitored by any authority. It is up to the owner to test and maintain these drinking water systems. Different areas in which the well is placed and how it is installed affect the quality of the drinking water system present. Know Your H2O provides expert guidance regarding the minimum testing requirements for owners and maintainers of these systems.
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Apr 02, 2024
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Contaminants
The topic of this discussion is "Lead Service Lines" and the “Revised Lead Service Line Rule" with Tori Morgan Director of Funding, Regulatory Relations, and Compliance from Entech Engineering.
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Dec 20, 2023
by: Brian Oram| Tags: alpha and beta radiation
Is it possible for water to be radioactive? The answer, intriguingly, is yes, but this occurrence is quite rare and typically not a concern for most people.
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Dec 19, 2023
by: Jim OConnell| Tags: Advice
When skin irritation arises after contact with water, the first suspicion often falls on the water's quality. What if the problem isn't in the water, however, but in a rare reaction of the skin to water itself?
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Aug 22, 2023
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Birds
Interested in learning more about plastic in the environment and us ? The Know Your H20 Team came across a free ebook: The Plastics Paradox.
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Aug 01, 2023
by: Amy Lee| Tags: Art
Not until starting to work with KYH2O as a consultant did I start to realize how much my environmental and water backgrounds have had an impact on my artworks ... some of my pieces highlighted in this article were conceptualized and created prior to joining the KYH2O team and some afterwards.
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Jul 11, 2023
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Environmental Contamination
When most people hear about Methane as an environmental contaminant of concern, they think of air pollution and its connection to climate change. Methane is also commonly found in private groundwater wells in Pennsylvania's coal, oil, and natural gas producing counties.
Jun 06, 2023
by: Amy Lee| Tags: Environment
A new online tool is now available from KnowYourH2O that can be used globally to provide a 'grade' for surface water quality as part of a watershed monitoring, surface water monitoring and assessment program, citizen science, lake monitoring, or source water quality assessment tool. Unlike previous tools, this tool permits the user to enter known determinants of quality in various measurement methods to both grade and provide a standardized report to users.
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May 26, 2023
by: Brian Oram| Tags: Birds
A woman visiting the nature center where I work posed the question. She’d been enjoying watching the black vultures that frequented her neighborhood and was concerned to find dozens of plastic bits littering the ground beneath their roosts.
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