Bad Water: the Appliance Assassin

If your dishes aren’t clean, imagine what you must be drinking. If your dishwasher is leaving chalky residue on dishes, that build up is contaminating your water and even the food you eat off those dishes.  Scale is responsible for that chalky residue on your “clean” dishes which comes from the bad water from the…

Commercial Water Softening in the Reno Tahoe Area

Pure Water has been providing commercial and industrial water systems for the Reno Tahoe area for 27 years.  One of the most cost effective options for the customer is water softening. To soften water means to remove the calcium and magnesium that create calcium carbonate scale.  The scale will show on appliances, boilers, and fixtures…

PFOS and PFAS water filter

Emerging Contaminant: We came to learn about the latest and greatest innovative breakthroughs in the water purification industry, but all we kept hearing about was the emerging contaminants known as PFAS, or Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.   Here’s what we learned.   PFAs chemicals started emerging in the 1940s, where they were manufactured and used…