Articles
May 29, 2013
Glenn Karn opened the doors of NorthWest Water Treatment in Kent, Wash., 17 years ago, but the idea was many years in the making. Karn began working...
May 15, 2013
When brothers Andy and Tim Peacock took over Peacock Water in Ohio, the company had already been around for three generations. In 1906, Andy and Tim’...
March 29, 2013
CD Environmental owner and Manager Charlie Dill traveled a long road before reaching his final destination. He began working in the construction...
March 13, 2013
Fogt Water Conditioning in Anna, Ohio, has been locally owned and operated since Richard Fogt opened the business in 1959. In 1980, Jim and Betty...
February 19, 2013
Quality Water Conditioning Inc. is a 56-year-old company in Woodstock, Ill., that services mostly domestic customers in McHenry County, Ill. — only...
January 02, 2013
The story of Pristine Water Treatment in Stafford, Va., begins with a postcard.
In the early 1970s, Electrolux salesman Dan Hager received a postcard...
December 17, 2012
Crescent Hills Water, in Colleyville, Texas, is a small, family-owned company with just five employees. Four of those employees are Terry Williams,...
October 31, 2012
Pacific Purification Inc. was created in 2004 as a branch of Dougherty Pump & Drilling Inc., a central California well drilling and pump business...
September 28, 2012
Stepping to the helm of a business is always an exciting challenge – but doing it on the eve of the biggest recession the U.S. has experienced in...
August 30, 2012
With a thorough knowledge and background in engineering, Mike Schmitt, owner and general manager of Aqua Serve in Bloomfield, Colo., said he is not...
August 01, 2012
It started with an ice cube. A RainSoft dealer sales representative explained to New Jersey beach restaurateur and bar owner Curt Wunder that as...
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 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 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 03, 2012
At Lemens WaterCare LLC in Luxemburg, Wis., there is a relatively small group of people working to keep water quality intact for local communities in...
March 03, 2012
Andrew John Wilson’s start in the water treatment industry began with a night of reminiscing about the good old days with a childhood friend. In the...
February 03, 2012
For more than 60 years, the family-owned Automatic Water Conditioning Co. has served central New Jersey with the mindset of providing customers...
January 03, 2012
One day, Felix Zykoff received a request from a friend to fix his water softener. He did. A few more friends later asked him to do the same....
October 05, 2011
Like everything else in life, businesses evolve. A thought turns into an idea, and an idea can turn into something more. For Greg Lucas, years in...
August 31, 2011
What's the secret to success as a water dealer? If you ask Pete Van Cleave, founder, owner and CEO of Water for Life in Atlanta, it's good old-...
