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Water Testing for Home Sales
Air & Water Quality explains why Maine home sellers should test water and radon before listing their properties. The company notes that Maine has high radon levels in both air and water, with the invisible gas being the second leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.
Filtering Complex Chemicals
WES Water published a detailed article arguing that chlorine disinfection alone isn't enough to handle modern water contamination challenges. The Scottsdale, AZ company walks through how traditional municipal treatment plants were never designed to filter complex chemicals like antibiotics, antidepressants, hormones, and industrial byproducts that now routinely show up in drinking water.
Profile on Certain Services
A new profile from WCP Online covers Certain Services, a Port Charlotte company that Bill Certain launched in 2009 right in the middle of the financial recession. The business now operates with the tagline "We can do anything with water—except walk on it" and has grown from a one-person operation to a 10-employee team.
Choosing Sulfur Filters
Water Medic of Cape Coral dropped a detailed blog post that walks homeowners through everything they need to know about choosing sulfur filters for well water. The article starts by explaining that the "rotten egg" smell comes from hydrogen sulfide gas trapped in groundwater, but goes beyond just the odor to cover the real damage happening behind the scenes.
DIY Water Filtration Experiments
Pennsylvania-based Dierolf Plumbing and Water Treatment published a cool blog post that combines DIY science experiments with home water treatment lessons. The article walks readers through five simple filtration experiments using household items like plastic bottles, coffee filters, gravel, sand, and activated carbon from the aquarium store.
Airplane Hangar to Water Empire
A new profile from WCP Online highlights how Clear Water Filtration turned a simple well water problem into a multi-market success story. What started as founder Jim Parker fixing iron issues in his airplane hangar in 1980 has become a textbook case in business expansion under his kids Jen and Steve.
Local Credibility
A recent blog from Denver-based Water Pros demonstrates how local expertise and educational content can create competitive advantages. The company targets Parker, Colorado specifically by citing local water data (12.28 grains per gallon from the Parker Water & Sanitation District, which falls in the "very hard" category) and tailors their messaging to address the community's specific challenges from deep groundwater aquifers.
Passion Meets Profession
AquiSense engineer Andrea Martinez shares a personal story that shows how water treatment technology can solve problems beyond typical residential applications. Martinez talks about her journey from growing up in Venezuela where water scarcity was a daily reality, to studying environmental engineering at LSU, to earning a master's degree focused on UV-C LED water disinfection technology.