by Deborah A. Deal, APR | Jun 17, 2020 | Cancer, Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Pollution, IX Power Clean Water, IX Water, Uncategorized, Water
Part 2 on Arsenic: Aside from it outright killing you, why is monitoring and reducing arsenic contamination important? Arsenic has detrimental effects on all organ systems in the human body since it directly targets enzyme reactions. Arsenic acts as a carcinogen,...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | Jun 17, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Pollution, Industrial Wastewater, Uncategorized, Wastewater
What is Arsenic? Mystery novels like “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Agatha Christie as well as the famed Borgias of 15th century Italy have used arsenic as a silent killer for generations, but what is arsenic? Arsenic is a naturally occurring mineral on all continents of...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | Jun 16, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Pollution, IX Power Clean Water, IX Water, Uncategorized, Water
As though there isn’t enough for us to worry about in our food and water, the World Health Organization is now also reminding us about the drugs in our drinking water with the proposal of continued studies of the situation. Pharmaceuticals are defined as “compounds...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | Jun 16, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Wastewater, IX Power Clean Water, IX Water, Uncategorized, Wastewater, Water
Guess what could be in the water tower that supplies your water! Festering carcasses of dead animals, dirt from the ground, roads and air, arsenic, E. Coli, coliform bacteria and more … Yuck! If your municipality is not adequately maintaining their water towers,...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | Sep 10, 2019 | Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Wastewater, Industry, IX Water, Wastewater
According to the USGS, 14.8 billion gallons of water are used by industry every day in the United States ALONE and 82 % of that comes from surface waters[1]-streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands. Denver Water, which serves about a quarter of Colorado’s...