Articles

June 28, 2012
The Greenfield Village mixed-use community, located at the southern end of the Salinas Valley in Greenfield, Calif., experienced significant problems...
June 28, 2012
Going green is all the rage these days. Whether it is constructing a wind farm, installing solar energy panels on a roof or simply switching to CFL...
June 28, 2012
Mark and Terri Kinder, owners of Affordable Water in Jacksonville, Fla., run their business according to a simple rule: “Treat your customers the way...
June 18, 2012
The Water Quality Assn.’s (WQA) Professional Certification program helps identify professionals who have demonstrated a certain expertise level....
June 18, 2012
Anyone who has ever used Google knows the search engine enables companies to advertise products and services next to search results, as well as on...
June 18, 2012
In April 2012, the Water Quality Assn. (WQA) laboratory received third-party accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025 from International Accreditation Services...
June 18, 2012
Over the past several years, the Water Quality Assn. (WQA) and the Water Quality Research Foundation (WQRF) have completed three research studies...
June 18, 2012
Does your dealership offer financing? I hope not. That may be a shocking statement coming from the sales manager of a finance company, but allow me...
June 06, 2012
Sixty-year-old William “Bill” Siegmund has been on a quest for knowledge about water quality since college. He studied abroad in South Africa and...
May 30, 2012
Founded in 1938, Culligan of Wheaton was the first Culligan USA franchise. Over the past seven decades, the company has seen its share of change, but...
May 30, 2012
In 2007, the NSF Intl. Drinking Water Treatment Unit Joint Committee revised the NSF/ANSI Standard 53 protocol for pH 8.5 lead reduction based on a...
May 30, 2012
Water softener resin is extremely porous, which is beneficial because it allows for more surface area to capture calcium and other metals in source...
May 30, 2012
Wars have been fought over me. When condensed in the atmosphere, I can refract sunlight to form a rainbow. I am often called the universal solvent....
May 30, 2012
If the articles in this month’s Dealer Insight special section are any indication, today’s customers are changing. This means dealers need to change...
May 02, 2012
Although the group of close-knit, devoted employees is essential to Aqua-Max of Maine’s success, the real “man behind the curtain” is the company’s...
April 25, 2012
As water coolers evolve to include more complex point-of-use filtration systems, certification becomes increasingly important. Dave Bentley,...
April 25, 2012
“Arsenic Found in Groundwater.” How many times have you seen that headline? There is no doubt that arsenic has become a common household term, used...
April 24, 2012
When we consider the common cause of business challenges in most circumstances, it often comes down to communication—or the lack thereof. The failure...
April 24, 2012
San Antonio de Los Cobres, a community of 6,000 residents in the Andes Mountains in Argentina, faced a challenging arsenic concentration of up to 290...
April 24, 2012
Today, beverage production facilities make a wide range of products, including carbonated soft drinks, energy drinks, juices, teas and purified...

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