City vs. Well Water
"I've Got City Water"
Water is treated in the city, but approximately 2% is for in-home use. No doubt this water meets or exceeds EPA standards. The other 98% is for fire fighting, industrial use, etc. Now let’s say that the city treats this household water to an extremely high degree. It would still need to travel through miles of pipe that was installed who-knows how long ago?
It’s easy to see how more water treatment is necessary when water enters your home. The city could do it, but your bills would go through the roof.
"But Is the City Water safe"
WTAE TV, Pittsburgh Channel 4 news report : Cancer Causing Chemicals Found In Drinking Water is releasing the results of an investigation into the worst water treatment facility in SW Pennsylvania. Report exposes local water treatment plants cited again, and again for not meeting EPA standards."We Get Our Water From a Well"
Our drinking water is being destroyed. Did you know…
- Every year at least 255 million metric tons of hazardous chemical wastes are dumped into our nation’s environment?
- There are 400,000 landfills, ponds, pits and lagoons in the U.S. containing some of the most dangerous substances known?
- There are 35,000 pesticides that are made from 600 chemical compounds – all potentially winding up in our water supply?
It is important to note that everyone’s water supply can be different. Contact your local Hague dealer for a complete analysis of your water supply. The advanced design of the Watermax® allows your Hague dealer to customize the WaterMax® to your specific needs.
Well Water
The Watermax, with its patented multi-compartment system is capable of 83 different configurations. This allows the Watermax to simultaneously address multiple well water problems.
The superior construction of the Watermax versus conventional water softeners includes its patented directional flow screens. These screens are laser welded to an injection-molded tank made of glass filled polypropylene.
The Watermax can pack pounds of a variety of media in each compartment, media that is necessary to correct some of the most severe problem water.
A single Watermax multi-compartment tank may contain up to a total of 5 different types of media to provide the Right Solution for your water. A claim unmatched by any conventional water softener!
Designed to be friendly to the environment, the Systems Controller precisely calculates the solution to your water supply needs, allowing the Watermax to use less water, less regenerate, and less energy.
Combine the Watermax with the Hague H3500 Reverse Osmosis System and treat yourself and your family to the highest quality working and life support water!
An American company makes the Watermax in America. Hague Quality Water International proudly celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2010.
City or Municipal Water
Water supply systems get water from a variety of locations, including groundwater (aquifers) and surface water (lakes and rivers). The water is then, in most cases, purified. The process goes something like this in the case of city/municipal water being fed by a groundwater supply:
- Water first enters the water treatment facility through an inlet pipe with a large metal grill to keep out large debris.
- A preliminary screening takes place at a pumping station, which removes fish, garbage, sewage, and grass.
- Once the debris is removed, the raw water enters the water treatment plant. At this point the water is dirty, smelly and unsafe to drink. Activated carbon is added to the water to remove the bad taste and odor.
- The water now enters a series of mixing tanks to coagulate and form clumps of sedimentation to be filtered mechanically removing all particulate matter. However, the clear water is still teaming with bacteria and viruses.
- Technicians chlorinate the water by adding 1.9 ml per liter of water and, in many municipal water treatment systems; fluoride is also added to the water supply. Treated water then either flows by gravity or is pumped to reservoirs, which can be elevated in such cases as water towers or on the ground. Once water is used, wastewater is typically discharged in a sewer system and treated in a wastewater treatment plant before being discharged into a river.
- A drinking water test can be conducted by your local Hague dealer to determine the amount of chlorine in your water.