Drinking Water Systems. Great tasting water is now as close as your kitchen tap, and so is the peace of mind that you’re providing your family with the best quality water possible. We can provide drinking water systems that provide pure drinking water at your sink, the ice maker, or from a stand alone water cooler.
While bad odors, unusual colors or metallic tastes usually indicate a drinking water problem, some go undetected. Lead is tasteless, odorless, and colorless and can find its way into your water via soldered pipe connections. Lead-based solder was used in homes built as recently as the late 1980s.
Even though cities generally use chlorine to disinfect water to prevent illness and disease, chlorination is not a foolproof disinfection method. Unexpected outbreaks of certain microorganisms can still occur. Cryptosporidium, a waterborne parasite, caused several hundred thousand people to become ill in Milwaukee in April, 1993. And although it's disinfected, city water may encounter contaminants once it leaves the treatment plant and travels through miles of distribution lines before it reaches your home.
We can live for weeks without food but only days without water. Water plays a huge role in our everyday lives. We bathe in it, brush our teeth with it, wash our clothes with it and clean our dishes with it. We swim in water and sprinkle our lawns with it. We wash our cars, trucks, vans, bikes and boats with water. We drink it, cook with it, make orange juice with it and mix baby formula with it. Industries use water in manufacturing processes. As a matter of fact, there's a little water in just about everything.
But more importantly, there's water in you. Between 55 and 65 percent of the human body is made up of water! That means if you took all of the water out of a 175-pound man, he would weigh a mere 70 pounds! And the younger you are, the more water your body contains.
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