NSF/ANSI 42-2019: Drinking Water Treatment for Aesthetics
Picture a glass of water. Odds are it shares a striking similarity with the one above. We like our water a certain way, especially the […]
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Companion Standard to NSF/ANSI 61 & 60 for Drinking Water
If you don’t comprehend the significance of water, then you’re likely not a human being living on planet Earth. Or any other living thing, for […]
NSF 61-2019 Changes: Drinking Water System Components
Water isn’t literally everywhere, but it is overwhelmingly abundant, taking up 332,500,000 cubic miles of the earth’s surface. H2O also comprises 60% of our bodies’ […]
NSF/ANSI 53-2018: Drinking Water Treatment Units – Health Effects
Reliable access to clean drinking water is a matter of public health. Among a multitude of processes that assure the delivery of potable water, units […]
ASSE Standard 1024-2017: Dual Check Backflow Preventers
The body needs water to function. Think about all the water that flows through one’s system on a daily basis. It’s a lot. Water makes […]
ANSI/AWWA B300-18: Hypochlorites
The standard for hypochlorites, ANSI/AWWA B300-18: Hypochlorites, has been revised. Changes to this American National Standard were made to the sections on Sample Handling (Sec. […]
NFPA 291-2019: Fire Hydrant Flow Testing and Marking
The standard for fire flow testing and marking of fire hydrants, NFPA 291-2019: Recommended Practice for Fire Flow Testing and Marking of Hydrants, has been […]
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188-2018 For Legionnaires’ Disease Risk Management
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188-2018: Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems, an American National Standard that aims to minimize the potential for Legionnaires’ disease to spread […]
Keeping Asbestos Out of Drinking Water
Water contamination is something often associated with deadly illnesses in developing countries, but various forms of tainted water are running through rivers, settling in watersheds, […]
Cryptosporidium: Why Clean Water is So Important
Adequate water treatment is the cornerstone of modern public health, but few take a moment to ask why. Well, it’s pretty obvious—water is the elixir […]