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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Microcystins: A Toxic Threat to Drinking Water
Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) comprises the oldest known fossils and date back more than 3.5 billion years, but these freshwater organisms are still prominent today. Cyanobacteria, […]
NSF/ANSI 53-2017: Drinking Water Treatment Units—Health Effects
***Update: This standard has been revised. NSF/ANSI 53-2018: Drinking Water Treatment Units – Health Effects is available on the ANSI Webstore. The effective delivery of […]
AWWA B301-2018: Liquid Chlorine Standard
Chlorine is often inseparable from the purification of water supplies. In tackling concerns present with chlorine for use in potable water, wastewater, and reclaimed water […]
2017 NSF/ANSI Water Treatment and Component Standards
Water is, of course, the liquid molecule that we need to sustain life. Any kind of contaminant in water can be detrimental not only to […]