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February 20 is National Love Your Pet Day. It seems somewhat unnecessary to have such an observance, given that those of us with pets love them with all our hearts every single day of the year. Still, it’s hard to find anything wrong with a day when our pets are even more special to us. And make no mistake, there are a lot of us: Sixty-seven percent of U.S. households, or about 85 million families, own a pet, according to the 2019-2020 National Pet Owners Survey conducted by the American Pet Products Association (APPA). (Interestingly, there are more cats in the United...

You’ve just purchased a new RV or motor coach. You undoubtedly put an enormous amount of time and effort into the decision of which one to buy. Now that you’ve got your RV, here’s some unsolicited advice: you need to put almost equal time and effort into your choice of water filtration. Clean water is a requisite ingredient for virtually any successful RV excursion, long or short; acquiring the best device or system to meet your unique water requirements – not only for drinking but for cooking, bathing, washing dishes, even flushing your toilets – is a process that you...

A question that we often get not only about our RV water filters but RV’s in general is, “Why isn’t the water flow rate faster?” It’s truly a million-dollar question, and one which has multiple answers. The fact is, flow rate is affected by so many factors, it can sometimes require the sleuthing skills of a seasoned detective to get to the root cause. Some of the reasons are related directly to the filter itself; others are a byproduct of other factors that have nothing to do with the filter, like plumbing and hoses. Sometimes, it can be a combination...

Among the many reasons to invest in water filtration products – pitchers, countertop filters, water bottles, and RV filters, to name a few - is to help reduce the number of plastic bottles that end up in our landfills The numbers are staggering. According to EarthDay.org, Americans purchase about 50 billion water bottles per year, averaging about 13 bottles per month for every person in the country. Worldwide, the numbers become even more eye-popping. A recent article in the magazine Fast Company notes that around the globe, people are using almost 500 billion plastic water bottles per year; that number...

Turn on your kitchen faucet, fill up a glass, and have a nice cool drink of water. Sounds like the kind of thing you can do without thinking. Unfortunately, these days, you do have to think about it – a lot. As noted in our last blog, a vast majority of the unsafe tap water in our country is found in cities and towns where the contaminants actually meet legal standards. In an article from the Fox News website, Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., EWG’s vice president for science investigations, was quoted in a press release as saying, “The vast majority of...