Hello peeps

I've seen some posts about reintroducing minerals to distilled water, but those typically suggest some sort of store bought additive, which I am trying to avoid.

What would be the efficacy of going and finding some river stones, aggressively scouring and sanitizing them, and then letting them sit in my distilled water? Would that actually introduce anything, or take an egregiously long time for anything to happen? What other concerns should I be aware of? Is there another way to approach remineralization without buying store bought solutions?

Hi , I use the primo refillable water stations for my 5 gallon jugs to get my water, it is good water. But I was wondering if anyone had a home alternative filter that isn’t plastic.
I have considered the glass carboy water jugs but that would be so heavy and not practical. I’ve looked into berkie but saw mixed reviews and it won’t ship to California. Please help!!!

Hello everyone my name is Cash and I have been super interested in dams and hydrology since i was a little kid now that i am a teenager i find myself at a roadblock because on one hand I love dams and like visiting them but i feel like i need to express my love for them creatively via video. if anyone has any suggestions on topics for a video relating to dams it would be greatly appreciated and even more so if they are in North Carolina.

The water comes out naturally carbonated and is super high in iron (hence the orange stains on the stone in image.png). Locals use those massive white jugs to take gallons of it home!

Just bought a house recently on my own private well. I’m definitely planning on a water test soon that tests for iron/pfas/etc.

Currently, house has a water softner and water filter. I’ve noticed some orange stains around the tub drains hinting toward iron in water.

Water filter is a GE gxwh and I’ve noticed the clear container is very orange/brown color. I changed the filter the day I moved in.

What concerns me is the septic guy came out and gave me a warning that a previous owner passed from cancer, so did someone across the street, and someone next to them. They said to watch the water due to the farms nearby and what they spray running down into the aquifer.

Should I be concerned about that? Any specific test I should aim for?

Hello! I recently came across an opportunity for a 2-year apprenticeship as a water systems operations specialist. Another thing to mention is that I have a bachelor's in geology, and I'm currently working towards a master's. I will finish my master's in a year, so I've been trying to find relevant part-time job experience. My master's is in water quality, and I have experience with IC-MS. Should I sign up for this apprenticeship that will keep me in my current location for another 1 and a half years to get the water systems certificate? Or should I keep hounding about the IC-MS experience (which has been impossible to find part-time; even part-time lab tech positions near me that fit my schedule are hard to find) and try to find IC-MS jobs once I graduate in a year? Thanks!

A judge will hear arguments this week in an $80 million dispute over the Texas city’s water rates for chemical plants and refineries.

For at least a decade, Corpus Christi sold water to a handful of large industrial plants at a steeply discounted rate, according to documents and interviews with city officials. Residents and businesses paid more than $100 million to subsidize water for some of the world’s richest energy companies, the city’s rate models show. 

Three years ago, Corpus Christi doubled the companies’ water rates in an effort to correct the imbalance. But the companies, including Valero, Citgo and LyondellBassell, protested to state regulators, sparking a legal battle that will come to a head today as a public hearing over the matter begins in front of an independent state agency in Austin.

If the companies prevail, Corpus could be forced to refund them tens of millions of dollars even as it desperately seeks funding for new water projects and raises rates on the rest of the region’s consumers. 

“I’m holding my breath,” said Sylvia Campos, a city council member who campaigned on raising industrial water rates. “Let’s hope that we don’t have to pay them back.”

The discounted industrial water rates were intended, in part, to help Corpus Christi attract investment from companies that build thirsty facilities like refineries or chemical plants. Otherwise, he said, they might have chosen to locate in larger petrochemical complexes of regions with more abundant water, like Houston or Louisiana.

So the stores around me stopped selling 5 gallon water jugs for a dispenser for a while (they want you to pay for an expensive delivery service). I was using the jugs with a dispenser to where you set the jug upside down on top to feed into the dispenser. Now I have a RO system on my countertop and I was trying to find a 5 gallon jug that maybe the back of the bottle screws off or something so I can just easily refill it with the RO systems water. I would like to keep using the dispenser as it keeps the water hot or cold. Is there such a thing as the jug I am describing?

After a long year as a water distribution and wastewater collection OIT in Southern Ontario I have officially ended training with an 82% in water distribution class i licence and an 82% in wastewater collection class i certificate to match. Never thought I'd find a career that suited my lifetime of trades work and my honours degree in ecology but dang it if this wasn't the one!!

Colorado River has been severely dry as is Lake Tahoe

Not really sure if it included the text from my first post, but we are trying to build underground water storage without buying a tank. Ideas are a reinforced pool, or a reinforced giant hole obviously lined well. Both will be covered so nothing gets in & is part of a rainwater system. Any ideas are appreciated! Thanns