Is a Serious Drinking Water Violation About To Hit Your Municipality? In August 2015, the city of Baltimore sent out a press release detailing an EPA violation for higher than maximum allowable levels of haloacetic acids (HAA5) above the maximum allowable limit in the...
The emergence of chlorinating drinking water over a century ago, is widely determined as one of the “most significant public health advances of the millennium.” Through chlorination of water, “life expectancy has been increased by 30 years since 1900,” infectious...
Treating Algae Blooms with Copper Sulfate Algae is one of the most common, and annoying, problems faced by water treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants. It’s a problem that requires swift action to ensure that it does not affect production or release toxins...
You turn on the faucet to get a glass of water, and notice an unusual smell. You’re not sure what it is, but it can’t be the water, right? But when you take a sip, you realize it is the water, and it doesn’t just stink—it tastes bad too. What do you...
Safe, clean, pure, clear? All words that should describe the culinary water that comes out of every faucet in the U.S. But that’s not always the case because of disinfection byproducts, even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulates the safety of...
