McCowin Water Filtration

As water treatment experts, we are asked many questions about all things “water.”
Here are a few of the most commonly asked ones:

1. Are soft water and drinking water systems one and the same?
No. Soft water systems remove calcium and magnesium from the water and drinking water systems remove everything else resulting in [...]

Did you know, that because of its slow rate of decay, a large majority of all plastics ever produced still exist today – somewhere?

Now when you realize that just bottled water alone produces up to 1.5 billion tons of plastic bottle waste every year, we have a serious issue that needs to be addressed.

The plastic used [...]

We can credit the use of chlorine disinfection in our water for dramatically reducing our potential for acquiring serious diseases, such as Typhoid Fever, Dysentery and Legionnaire’s Disease.

However, it is not uncommon today to find levels of chlorine in our tap water that exceed those recommended as safe for most swimming pools. We need chlorine [...]

Bottled water sales have tripled over the last 10  years, partly because of the widening concern about the quality of tap water as well as convincing marketing assurance that bottled water is pure and safe to drink.  But the truth is, somewhere between 25 – 40% of all bottled water is actually, bottled tap water.

Although [...]

Liter for liter, bottled water costs hundreds of times as much as the stuff that gushes from the tap, but otherwise it isn’t so different—except that it’s subject to a good deal less monitoring, says Peter Gleick, author of Bottled and Sold. In fact, between 25 and 45 percent of the bottled water sold in [...]

A Reverse Osmosis water filter is – in our opinion – better than most bottled water. The best brands of bottled water use reverse osmosis filters, but many bottlers do not. Be sure and check the label..often you’ll see that the water source is city water! (see NRDC report below)

Plus R.O. systems offer water [...]

Most household budgets don’t leave a lot of room for unnecessary waste.  An often overlooked budget waster is hard water.
Hard water often is not an obvious problem to people who have had no opportunity to compare it with soft water. It is usually difficult to see or taste any difference between hard and soft water. [...]

With the recent events in Japan, first the massive earthquake and then the Tsunami, we are reminded that we need to be better prepared for for the unthinkable to happen.  In the case of such an emergency, there will be shortages of our most basic needs, the first and most important for survival; is water. Hopefully, [...]

Sales of bottled water in this country have exploded in recent years, largely as a result of a public perception of purity driven by advertisements and packaging labels featuring pristine glaciers and crystal-clear mountain springs. But bottled water sold in the United States is not necessarily cleaner or safer than most tap water, according to [...]

Cancer-causing chemical found in 89 percent of cities sampled – From Environmental Working Group (Report)

Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) have detected hexavalent chromium, the carcinogenic “Erin Brockovich chemical,” in tap water from 31 of 35 American cities. The highest levels were in Norman, Okla.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Riverside, Calif. In all, water [...]