Water is the most basic necessity for life. The human body is made up of about 60% water, and the average person in the United States uses over 70 gallons of water per day! When you go to buy a fountain soda from your local gas station, drink water from your home faucet, or get ice from a deli do you stop to think about what’s in your water? Give any thought to things like chlorides, cysts, and bacteria that you could potentially be gulping down with that soda? I didn’t think so. Suppose you are a healthy person drinking the recommended 8-12 cups of water per day- that’s a lot of H2O going into your system. Don’t you want that water to be clean, safe, and as tasty as possible? The best way to clean and regulate the water you are putting into your body is through water filtration. Not to mention water filtration is a very effective way to produce not only water, but also coffee and soda that is consistently good no matter where you are.
Water composition changes based on what part of the country it’s in. For example, here in St. Louis we are lucky to have good-tasting tap water. Not all areas are quite so fortunate. Some parts of the United States have high silica content while others may have problems with iron or copper. These problems vary, and can be explained in a few ways. Aquifers and surface water are both sources used for municipal water. Water that goes through aquifers can easily pick up suspended solids-aka silt, clay, bacteria, cysts, and algae (yum). On the other hand, when you are dealing with surface water it is possible that chemicals from human contamination or plant matter may be present. Regardless of where the water comes from and what may be in it, it is disinfected with either chlorine or chloramine before it comes to your home to ensure that it is safe. However it is possible that even after the water is disinfected it can pick up metal particles on it’s journey to your home via corroding pipes. This water can wreak havoc on equipment such as ice machines, coffee brewers, espresso machines etc. The water can form scale which can give a strange taste or color to your ice or water. Scale forming water increases maintenance requirements and energy usage as well.
If you are having any of these problems with your water you could look into having a water test performed to determine what the culprit is and have it fixed asap. Nu-Calgon offers many effective water filtration products that have proven to produce great tasting, clean water. For example, Nu-Calgon’s Nu-plus CFS which is a cost-conscience and all-new water filtration system for food service applications. The Nu-Plus CFS system provides replacement cartridges and manifolds for your existing CUNO CFS installations as well as single, twin, and triple head manifolds that allow for new installation. Nu-Plus CFS will inhibit scale and remove pesky particulate. This filtration system will also take away any unpleasant or objectionable taste and odor to give you pure and sanitary drinking water. Nu-Calgon also has a wide selection of other products effective in water filtration, click here to see even more.
