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Blogs: Water Filtration

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Failing Water Infrastructure Impacts Health

Aug 28, 2019
That’s right. It failed. Water Quality Awareness Month is the perfect time to look at how our nation’s failing water infrastructure is impacting health. Turns out that U.S. cities rely on pipes that are, on average, a century old. Age combined with strain from....
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What's in Your Water?

Aug 7, 2019
The drinking water systems of approximately 19 million people have been contaminated by a class of chemicals known as PFAS, according to a recent report by the Environmental Working Group and Northeastern University. The study found 610 contaminated sites in....
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Five Ways Your Home May Not be Safe for Your Best Friends

May 31, 2019
1. Closer to the ground means more exposure to chemicals. Our pets are at a higher risk to chemical exposure in our homes than we are. Because many pets spend the majority of their lives in the home, are (usually) smaller than people, and live (usually) mostly....

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