drinking water from well water Articles
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Monitoring groundwater resources for Municipalities - Case Study
Background The City of Tucson is located in the Sonoran Desert in southwest United States (U.S.), approximately 100 km north of the Mexico-U.S. border. Tucson Water operates more than 215 groundwater wells, covering more than 300 square miles, providing more than 37 billion gallons (140 million m3) of potable water to its 730,000 inhabitants each year. The region receives only 12 inches of rain ...
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Drinking Water Treatment Process
Most drinking water comes from a surface water source, such as a lake or river, or a groundwater source, such as a well or spring. This water requires treatment before it can be safely consumed; the level to which the water is treated depends on the source of the water and also on federal regulations. In the United States, for example, the Safe Drinking Water Act was created by the Environmental ...
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How to Deal with Arsenic in Drinking Water
Thanks to recent developments in technology, daily drinking water undergoes a rigorous treatment process for water to be consumable. This is because most ground and natural river waters have a chemical in them called arsenic. Arsenic is a metallic chemical element that is found commonly among rocks and sulfur in the Earth’s crust. Arsenic is known for getting into your drinking water from ...
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How Arsenic Biological Filtration Systems Can Improve Your Life
Water is the foundation of human existence. It’s used for cooking, bathing, cleaning, and most importantly, drinking. Unfortunately, water is often dirty and contaminated, especially when it’s pulled from groundwater sources and wells. Since many cities have been shown to have low-grade drinking water, concern has increased about water quality. Many people are wondering if their water ...
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Study: New Jersey Water Use Exceeding Supplies
In the seaside town of Cape May, New Jersey, overdraft of groundwater supplies led to saltwater intrusion of aquifers. In 1997, a brackish water desalination plant was built to deal with the problem. When people think of water scarcity, arid regions such as Israel, Egypt, and Southern California may come to mind, but the availability of clean, potable water may also be endangered in unexpected ...
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Electrocoagulation: Effective Treatment of Silica Removal from Water
What is Silica? Silica, the second most abundant element on earth after oxygen, can be found in almost every water supply across the globe. Often known for being a hard and glassy mineral substance, this element can be found in numerous forms including sand, quartz, and granite. The mineral can be found in natural groundwater supplies in the forms of colloidal silica or reactive silica. While ...
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Brackish Water as a Resource
There’s a great deal of talk and debate about the value of treating brackish water, or water that is more saline than fresh water, but not quite as saline as seawater. Brackish water can result from the mixing of seawater with fresh water, as in surface waters such as estuaries or other watery ecosystems, or it can occur underground in aquifers. Salinity Levels Although these definitions ...
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Brackish Water as a Resource
There’s a great deal of talk and debate about the value of treating brackish water, or water that is more saline than fresh water, but not quite as saline as seawater. Brackish water can result from the mixing of seawater with fresh water, as in surface waters such as estuaries or other watery ecosystems, or it can occur underground in aquifers. Salinity Levels Although these definitions ...
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