Contaminated Drinking Water Aging infrastructure, factories, farms, municipal treatment systems, emerging contaminants, and algal blooms all impact the quality of our drinking water and can make us very sick. Here are some significant recent events that illustrate just how toxic our drinking water can become. Top Eight Recent Events that Made People Sick 1. Elk River Chemical Spill Back in 2014, in Charleston, West Virginia, a storage-tank failure allowed the

Data Centers Use a Massive Amount of Water When you think of your computer or a cell phone, you probably don’t think about water. But as new research emerges, we are learning that the data centers that store and process data for companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and countless others use a massive amount of water to keep their equipment cool, which can have devastating consequences for water quality. How

Early Research Has Indicated that Microplastics are a Serious Health Threat Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) can enter the body through drinking water, food, air, and dust. Once inside, studies show they can accumulate in organs and may contribute to various forms of biological harm. Here’s what we need to worry about: Microplastics are Everywhere In 2017, an ORB media study analyzed tapwater samples from across the country and found

What are Organic Chemicals? Organic chemicals are the chemical compounds found in humans, living organisms, plants, other animals, and the environment all around us. These compounds are essential to life and if we just left everything alone, we wouldn’t need to think too much about them. Alas, agriculture, medicine, food production, and industrial manufacturing have all found a way to use organic chemicals in their products, and now we’ve got

Korea is NOT Paying for Tariffs Below is the international invoice that we received for one of our filter orders from Korea. It is to pay the duties on an approximately $3500 order, which amounted to $1,003,600 KW, or $687 USD. Yes, WE are paying for the additional tariffs set by the Trump administration, NOT Korea. The tariffs are not a tax on Korea or any other country; they are

If your hometown is anything like Portland, Oregon, you’re probably seeing a good amount of rain right now. While rain is refreshing and good for giving nature the drink it’s been waiting for all summer, it also has one major negative consequence: it pollutes our drinking water!   Here’s how. Pollution Accumulates During Summer During the summer, we drive around, and all those pollutants from our cars end up on the

US Water Treatment Computers are Remotely Controlled and Vulnerable Littleton, Massachusetts, is a tiny town. One wouldn’t think its water systems would be targeted for a cyber attack. But that’s precisely what happened in November 2023 when the FBI informed the Littleton Light and Electric Company that hackers linked to the Chinese Liberation Army had infiltrated its computer systems. The FBI was able to stop the attack before the Chinese

A Lack of Water Inspections Could Compromise Water Quality When most of us think of the government shutdown, we think of closed national parks and federal workers not getting a paycheck. But did you know that the safety of our food and water is also compromised? Nearly 90% of the EPA staff is furloughed during the current shutdown, which means that water safety inspections and other critical functions are delayed

No amount of lead in water is safe, especially for our children. That’s why we must remove lead from our tapwater and use multi-stage water filtration systems in our homes, like alkaline water ionizers, to get the lead out. Detrimental Health Effects of Lead in Drinking Water Right now, millions of families across the country are being poisoned by lead in they’re drinking water. Exposure can cause devastating health effects

Potatoes + Chemicals + Bio-engineering = Unhealthy! If you’ve been reading our blog for the past 20 years, you know that we have consistently touted the benefits of using a multistage water filtration system like our water ionizers to remove harmful chemicals from your drinking water. However, what about our food? it doesn’t do anyone any good to remove the chemicals from your drinking water and then immediately put toxic