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The EPA sets national health-based standards and determines the enforceable maximum levels for contaminants in drinking water. All water suppliers are required to notify consumers upon learning of a serious water quality problem, and states and the EPA are required to prepare annual summary reports of water system compliance that must be made available to… Continue reading Protect Pipes > Homeowners Responsibility

Toss in a lack of public awareness and a dearth of “consistent and equitable incentives compared with other renewable resources,” and you have a recipe for a technology that goes unnoticed despite its potential benefits. Most of the power generated by such small facilities would go toward stabilizing microgrids and offsetting energy needs for water… Continue reading Protect Pipes > Homeowners Responsibility

And while President Joe Biden has prioritized removing remaining lead service lines, water utilities aren’t required to finish finding them for almost two and a half years. Trenton — like many other water systems — doesn’t know where all of its lead service lines are. The 62 homes Trenton tested during that period have lead… Continue reading Protect Pipes > Homeowners Responsibility

Plastic materials such as PVC and high-density polyethylene are typically less expensive to purchase up front than more traditional materials such as copper, ductile iron and steel. So when measured in miles of distribution pipe, plastic is forecast to make up nearly 80 percent of the nation’s water pipe inventory by 2030, according to Bluefield.… Continue reading Protect Pipes > Homeowners Responsibility

These dab rig bongs filter the water carrying the vapor up through a chamber close to the mouthpiece, releasing the vapor for the user to inhale while maximizing flavor and airflow since filtration is not as important as when combusting herb. Drinking water systems currently lose at least 6 billion gallons of water, or 9,091… Continue reading Protect Pipes > Homeowners Responsibility

Whelton and his colleagues have actively pursued questions about potential contaminants in the water carried in plastic and other types of drinking . Two years later the team published a study that compared contaminants released by copper pipes and by 11 brands of a total of four types of plastic pipes. Microbial growth thresholds were… Continue reading Protect Pipes > Homeowners Responsibility