Dioxane is used to make plastic, rubber and insecticides.

It dissolves things and is considered to have the potential to cause cancer.

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So when the controversy came out that a form of dioxane is in the drinking water in parts of Seminole County, we wondered if a water filtration system for your home could take it out.

Bill Roche with Toppen Health sells water filtration systems for a living. His answer? It depends.

“If you have a reverse osmosis system, it can remove a significant amount,” Roche said. “If you have a carbon block system, it can remove some of it but not all of it.”

Roche says the success rate is somewhere between 20% and 50% with a carbon block system.

Why is dioxane so hard to get out of drinking water? Roche says it’s not a particle, like a speck of sand. It has dissolved into the water, much like sugar dissolves into our coffee.

Boyett’s family water treatment company has a solution for this problem:

16699 Clarify RO Brochure Update (azh2o.com)

This unit will eliminate up to 97% of the dioxane chemical in your water.

Update on lifting dumping mechanism.

This was the initial model:

Then came the

Presentation

How it will work demonstration

We are involved with a great Auto Body Company (Coach Works Autobody and Paint, Mesa AZ) designing a process that will integrally be important to help us continue our journey in the rental water treatment industry (we wish to be a leader).   Mr. Matt Radman is the designer, fabricator, and genius behind this project (and he is just that). Matt Radman I will always tell you have more talent in your pinky finger fingernail than hundreds of fabricators. After 30 years of working with this fine organization – they keep us coming back for more and more. We love them very much.

Our next step is to establish a meeting between Matt Radman (owner of Coach Works Auto Body and Paint) and Concrete Dave (this will occur Wednesday, February 21 at 4:05 PM at the Boyett’s family water treatment factory.

This is the text message I sent to round them up for this next important meeting date:

Hello my great concrete man and my great fabricator and inventors, Matt has requested a meeting of the great minds during the middle of the week (can we meet after 4 PM ‘just asking’)?  The bolts are turning, and you both will help develop a catapult for our industry to provide affordable water to many utilizing recycled components (and help my family’s business continue our legacy as leaders).   This is driven by (the possible contamination of water – if the granular activated media is not exchanged regularly – it will microbiologically contaminate the

water ‘This is being overlooked in our industry’; when these words get out – there may be liability involved.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

You both have a long history of setting important trends for us.  I look forward.

I will keep you updated. 

Will AZH2O run out?  What kind of water will we be treating/ drinking in the future?

From this article:

Israeli desalination, wastewater treatment becomes global model for water scarcity | The Times of Israel

Israeli desalination, wastewater treatment becomes global model for water scarcity

Chief engineer of Eilat’s water and sewage utility says all of the city’s wastewater is treated, and ‘transferred, to the last drop, to farmers,’ who use it to water crops

AFP — In the scorching summer heat, an Israeli farmer tends to a dripline taking a mix of ground and recycled water to palm trees — an approach honed for decades in the arid country and now drawing wide interest abroad.

At the plantation in a desert near Eilat, the mineral-rich water passes through a plastic tube, nourishing the dates high above.

“All of Eilat’s sewage is treated,” said Arik Ashkenazi, chief engineer of Ein Netafim, Eilat’s water and sewage utility, during a tour of the facility that sees wastewater cleared of solids and biological hazards. “The treated wastewater is transferred, to the last drop, to farmers” who mix it with groundwater and use it on the trees, he said.

Eliat is hemmed in between the desert and Red Sea, isolated from the rest of Israel with no natural freshwater. Its drinking water is a combination of desalinated groundwater and seawater. After domestic use turns it into sewage, it is treated and then allocated to farmers, enabling the parched region to support agriculture.

While Eilat used to be the exception in Israel’s water management, it is now more of a prototype for the country and perhaps the world.

Globally, more than two billion people lack access to safe drinking water, the United Nations says, with floods and droughts triggered by climate change further exacerbating the situation. Alarming data presented by the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs shows “80% of wastewater in the world flows back into the ecosystem without being treated or reused.”

Israel began recycling wastewater when it saw that its water sources — groundwater and water from the northern Sea of Galilee — were insufficient to meet the needs of a growing population.

“We began to realize that sewage was a water source, reaching almost 100% reuse in Israel,” said Yossi Yaacoby, vice president of engineering for Mekorot, Israel’s national water company, noting that 90% of the treated wastewater went to agriculture.

“That wasn’t enough either, so we began desalinating seawater,” he said, beginning with Eilat in 1997 and then the Mediterranean, with desalinated water now providing 60-80% of Israel’s drinking water.

Israel has had sole access to the Sea of Galilee, a freshwater lake, since seizing the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War.

In the 1960s, Israel’s construction of its so-called national carrier — the pipeline transferring water from the Sea of Galilee to drier and more populated parts of the country — caused tensions and even exchanges of fire with Syria.

“Water was a source of conflict,” Yaacoby said. Nowadays, “Israel understands that water is a foundation for peace,” he added, with Israel selling it to some of its neighbors.

Salty water diverted from the Sea of Galilee pours into the Jordan River, south of the Alumot Dam, February 21, 2023.

We supply the Jordanians 100 million (cubic meters) from the Sea of Galilee, and a similar quantity to the Palestinians — mainly in the West Bank with a small amount to Gaza, and it will increase,” Yaacoby said.

With rising climate instability, growing populations, and dwindling resources, it’s not only Middle Eastern countries that Israel is helping to tackle their water problems.

“The world is undergoing a huge crisis,” Yaacoby said, noting that “states you’d never imagine” like France, Germany, and Italy were rethinking the issue.

“Israel understood from its inception that water is a scarce resource,” he said, and by now “has a large reservoir of knowledge accumulated over the years pertaining to regulatory matters, managing water sources,” he said.

In addition, Israel is “constantly developing technologies” in the field of water, Yaacoby said.

Clive Lipchin, an expert on water management at the Arava Institute in southern Israel, said the rising unpredictability due to climate change should make “everybody around the world” consider desalination and treating wastewater.

But beyond the technologies being expensive and high on energy consumption, a comprehensive solution would demand people changing their attitude on the use of water.

“It’s a basic right, but it cannot be a free good. People have to pay,” Lipchin said. “Most people around the world do not pay. So that’s a huge barrier” and a challenge to governments whose citizens have been paying nothing for decades, he said.

Yaacoby, too, said that the main challenge for the future of water use was not in the realm of engineering, but rather the mindset of people who were in no rush to conserve water they received for free.

Such a change required “courageous political decisions,” he said.

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Israeli desalination, wastewater treatment becomes global model for water scarcity | The Times of Israel

The future water sustainability strategy for our AZH2O is to treat 90% of our wastewater and put this recycled water back into our drinking water.

We are big fans of recycling.  The wastewater recycling model: clean toilet water and drink it.  Doesn’t sound too delicious, but this is what will sustain us and provide us with the next water source. 

The equation will look like this:

Pee + poop – filter =  ?

We have a solution to this mathematical quandary.

16699 Clarify RO Brochure Update (azh2o.com)

This negative equation turns into:

Poop + Pee – Boyett’s family clarify RO unit = delicious, safe AZH2O  

Concerning the scarcity of our AZH2O here is what AZH2O.COM IS DOING TO HELP (WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THESE THREE WATER SAVING – RENTAL WATER TREATMENT PRODUCTS:

1. Hot water recirculating device.  We have calculated a 25,000 gallons a year in savings for an average family

• No salt, No water waste, No electricity whole house water treatment.  Our onus is to the leader in this technology and process for the future of our industry.

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• Water savings reverse osmosis membranes.  These units improve water saving (85% improvement 1:1 water ratio).

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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/08/phoenix-record-excessive-heat-wave-streak/674924/

In Phoenix, a high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit now somehow counts as a respite. On Monday, America’s hottest major city ended its ominous streak of 31 straight days in which temperatures crested past 110. The toll of this heat—a monthly average of 102.7 degrees in July—has been brutal. One woman was admitted to a hospital’s burn unit after she fell on the pavement outside her home, and towering saguaros dropped their arms and collapsed. Over the past month, hospitals filling up with burn and heat-stroke victims have reached capacities not seen since the height of the pandemic.

“Why would anyone live in Phoenix?” You might ask that question to the many hundreds of thousands of new residents who have made the Arizona metropolis America’s fastest-growing city. Last year, Maricopa County, where Phoenix sits, gained more residents than any other county in the United States—just as it did in 2021, 2019, 2018, and 2017.

At its core, the question makes a mystery of something that isn’t a mystery at all. For many people, living in Phoenix makes perfect sense. Pleasant temperatures most of the year, relatively inexpensive housing, and a steady increase in economic opportunities have drawn people for 80 years, turning the city from a small desert outpost of 65,000 into a sprawling metro area of more than 5 million. Along the way, a series of innovations has made the heat seem like a temporary inconvenience rather than an existential threat for many residents. Perhaps not even a heat wave like this one will change anything.

Our short water story of Boyett’s family:

When my parents (Brian and Roberta Boyett) started our company there were only 200,000 residents in the Phoenix metro area of AZ and the East Valley of AZ.  In 2006 the population was 2.6 Million.  Our population is now 5 Million and we will double in 15 years. 

We will now recycle 90% of our wastewater and put this into our drinking water supply.

My family has been instrumental in establishing the current AZH2O distribution system.

My great grandfather Wilford Hayden (the third settler in Scottsdale ‘Hayden Road bears his name’) was an early farmer that mortgaged their farm to donate money to build Roosevelt damn.  My grandfather served on the board of the Salt River Project.  

My shirttail relative Senator Carl Hayden ‘he claimed my mother and her siblings as his nieces and nephews – since he claimed my family, I’m claiming him as my shirt tail relative’:

Here is what Senator Carl Hayden did for AZH2O:

He got Arizona the water rights to use the Colorado River Water.  This is the water that travels through the Central Arizona Project canals.  This source of water represents 1/3 of our AZH2O.  The CAP water originates in Colorado and is sent down the hill to Arizona through the Grand Canyon.

One of our clients called the other day and said: “My doctor asked me if I’d been sucking on

A battery is made up of an anode, cathode, separator, electrolyte, and two current collectors (positive and negative). The anode and cathode store the lithium. The electrolyte carries positively charged lithium ions from the anode to the cathode and vice versa through the separator.

Source:

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/articles/how-lithium-ion-batteries-work#:~:text=A%20battery%20is%20made%20up,vice%20versa%20through%20the%20separator.

Is there Lithium in AZH2O?

We know there is lithium around Arizona.

Uranium in the Grand Canyon

Uranium deposits sit deep within sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone layers across the Southwest. In the Grand Canyon region, uranium ore is found in geologic features called breccia pipes.

Uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park began in the 1950s at Orphan Mine, just two miles from Grand Canyon Village. At least eight uranium mines have operated near the park, including the active Canyon Mine (now renamed Pinyon Plain Mine) that threatens springs inside the Grand Canyon.

Source:

https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/grand-canyon-uranium

Do you remember that science experiment: running a large magnet through the ground to pull it out of the ground and see it covered with iron filings?

The same thing happens with our water.  Each water molecule if a magnet.  As it runs through the AZ dirt it picks up constituencies of many toxins and elements. 

We have more hexavalent chromium and chromium 6 than Erin Brockovich got sick.

If you Google fishing in Arizona; the stories say not to eat the AZ fish because they have too much mercury.

AZ Game & Fish chart: don’t eat that fish! – Slotblog

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Apr 3, 2021 — That’s quite unfortunate that the larger lakes nearest you, the Salt River Project reservoirs and Lake Pleasant, all have mercury advisories.

We also have lead in our AZH2O.

Phoenix Water Quality Analysis

Cloud Water Filters

https://www.cloudwaterfilters.com › education › phoe…

In the city’s most recent water quality report, 10% of residential homes tested positive for 4 mg/L of lead or higher. This is quite high considering that the …

Yes.

All of these toxins bioaccumulate in our bodies.  These toxins can cause

Do we have arsenic in our AZH2O?

Arsenic is a common contaminant in U.S. public drinking water because it can occur naturally in groundwater. Arsenic levels in Phoenix water have exceeded what the EWG recommends for safety by 1,266 times. Chromium is another common contaminant found in U.S. water supplies.

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Yes there is definitely arsenic in our AZH2O drinking water. 

Is there fluoride in our AZH2O drinking water?

Yes.

Why?

That is a good question.  It is a very political topic here.

Does AZH2O have PFAS (forever chemicals) in our drinking water?

Yes.

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Mar 17, 2021 — The increasing evidence of PFOA and PFOS compounds in and around military bases will continue to draw attention from environmental regulators ..

Boyett’s family water treatment has prepared solutions for each of these water vicissitudes.

For the PFAS chemicals ‘forever chemicals’

To treat your water (this unit removed the lead in your water):

6412 Lead Removal (azh2o.com)

This unit will remove any mercury in  your water:

9679 Whole House Mercury (azh2o.com)

This unit will remove any hexavalent chromium and chromium 6 toxins in your water:

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

This unit will remove any arsenic or fluoride in your drinking water

We utilize an RO leak control system THAT does not require any batteries or electricity (and it works great).

Sebastian is shown dating all the plastic (we never allow a plastic thing to stay in your home after 5 years).

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What we have found is in order to be really good our object is to be the best in the world at everything.

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Scientists sound alarm after discovering carcinogen in tap water: ‘Incumbent upon drinking water utilities to do what they can to intervene’ (thecooldown.com)

SCIENTISTS SOUND ALARM AFTER DISCOVERING CARCINOGEN IN TAP WATER: ‘INCUMBENT UPON DRINKING WATER UTILITIES TO DO WHAT THEY CAN TO INTERVENE’

“We simply don’t understand the cumulative and interactive effects …”

Scientists are sounding the alarm after they discovered a cancer-causing chemical that had largely been overlooked by decision-makers, highlighting how tainted water is not always easy to spot.

What happened?

A six-month investigation by the Orlando Sentinel revealed that tens of thousands of people had been drinking tap water contaminated with an industrial chemical known as 1,4-dioxane, which had made its way into the Floridan Aquifer.

The health risks associated with the toxin are still under review, but it has been linked to liver and kidney cancers. 

“What is really worrying in our society is the major increase that we see in the world of what we call early onset of cancer,” said Vasilis Vasiliou, a Yale University researcher who is involved in a study on the chemical running through 2027. “ … This is most likely a result from exposure.”

Residents of Seminole County, Lake Mary, and Sanford had all unknowingly been drinking contaminated water, and their treatment plants did not learn of the chemical’s presence until 2013, when the Environmental Protection Agency required U.S. utility companies to test for that toxin and others.

“I’ve had some sleepless nights over this,” Lee Constantine, a Seminole County commissioner, told the Sentinel in June when he learned of the widespread contamination — something senior county executives were also unaware of.

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Why is this concerning? 

The Sentinel described federal and state guidelines regarding acceptable limits of 1,4-dioxane as “unenforceable,” as they allow the equivalent of “an eight-ounce cup of the chemical in 150 million gallons of water.” 

“We simply don’t understand the cumulative and interactive effects of multiple toxins at multiple life stages, multiple routes of exposure, and how they all add up over the course of our lifetime,” Thomas Mohr, an expert on the chemical, told the outlet. 

“If there’s an opportunity to intervene and prevent consumption of that chemical, I think it’s incumbent upon drinking water utilities to do what they can to intervene and remove it,” he added.

A now-defunct factory was one known source of contamination, but exposure can happen in other ways, as 1,4-dioxane has reportedly been found in a variety of everyday products, including plastics, cosmetics, shampoos, toothpastes, and food crop pesticides.

What is being done about this chemical? 

The EPA allocated a $7.5 million federal grant to Yale as the university seeks to more clearly understand how 1,4-dioxane is impacting public health, per the Sentinel. 

The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit that champions safe drinking-water policies, also told the outlet that utility companies should install the appropriate treatment technologies at their plants — something people can advocate for in their hometowns.   

A more coordinated response will hopefully be rolled out sooner rather than later, but in the meantime, supporting eco-friendly health and beauty brands and caring for your yard with non-chemical solutions are ways to limit potential exposure.

What will remove 1,4-dioxane from your water?

Reverse osmosis filters this chemical from your tap water.

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https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/cancer-causing-chemical-14-dioxane-contaminates-americans-drinking-water

Cancer-Causing Chemical 1,4-Dioxane Contaminates Americans’ Drinking Water

Water supplies for more than 7 million Americans in 27 states are contaminated with an industrial chemical at levels higher than what federal scientists say poses a minimal lifetime risk of cancer, according to a new EWG analysis.

In addition to being a drinking water pollutant, 1,4-dioxane is an unwanted impurity in many personal care products, including shampoo, body wash, bubble bath, foaming hand soap, cosmetics, deodorant and skin lotion. It is also often found in laundry detergent, dishwashing soap and household cleaners.

Because of its wide use and potential harm, 1,4-dioxane is one of the first 10 chemicals the Environmental Protection Agency picked for review under the nation’s new chemical safety law. But the review could take years, and even then there’s no guarantee the EPA will do anything: The agency has failed to set standards for any new drinking water contaminant in more than 20 years.

A report and interactive map released today by EWG and the Environmental Defense Fund highlight hot spots for 1,4-dioxane contamination in drinking water. Ranking the most contaminated water systems by population, hot spots included the Cape Fear River basin in North Carolina, affecting Fayetteville and surrounding communities; southeastern Los Angeles County, Calif.; and New York’s Long Island.

Samples from water systems serving those areas had average levels of 1,4-dioxane ranging from four times to about 17 times the EPA’s minimal cancer risk level of 0.35 parts per billion, which is about one drop of water in three Olympic-size swimming pools. That’s the level expected to cause no more than one case of cancer for every million people who drink the water daily for a lifetime.

The EPA has classified 1,4-dioxane as “likely to be carcinogenic to humans.” It is also listed in California’s official registry of chemicals known to cause cancer.

Where does 1,4-dioxane pollution come from?

Most 1,4-dioxane contamination of drinking water comes from leaking underground storage tanks at hazardous waste sites, or discharges from manufacturing plants. Once it makes its way into sources of drinking water, it tends to stay there, because it does not break down easily. Because manufacturers don’t have to report discharges of 1,4-dioxane, tracing contamination to its source is difficult. When a source is identified, the lack of enforceable standards means regulators have no legal grounds to stop contamination.

Detlef Knappe, who heads a North Carolina State University research team studying 1,4-dioxane contamination in the state’s watersheds, says stopping the pollution is a better solution than treating it once it gets into drinking water supplies.

“Source control would be protective of the surface water quality and would result in a lower societal cost than installing treatment processes for 1,4-dioxane control at numerous downstream drinking water utilities,” Knappe said.

Most in-home water filters, including activated carbon filters, don’t remove 1,4-dioxane effectively. Reverse osmosis filters are better, removing a significant portion of the chemical from tap water, but still fall short.

That means that people in communities that get drinking water from groundwater contaminated with 1,4-dioxane should urge their local utilities to install specialized technology, the only effective way to remove the chemical. But beyond that, citizens should push for state and federal oversight to stop the chemical from getting into the water supply in the first place.

As for 1,4-dioxane in consumer products, here are some tips on avoiding exposures:

• Use EWG’s Skin Deep® and Guide to Healthy Cleaning databases to find products that don’t contain cancer-causing 1,4-dioxane.
• Read labels and avoid products that contain contaminated ingredients such as PEG, polyethylene, polyethylene glycol, polyoxyethyelene, polyoxynolethylene, and chemicals ending in –eth and –oxynol. These ingredients are manufactured in a way that can result in simultaneous formation of 1,4-dioxane as an impurity.
• While some companies remove 1,4-dioxane from their finished products, not all companies do, and this is not disclosed on labels. Shoppers should demand that companies manufacturing personal care products remove 1,4-dioxane. 

Here is another way to limit your exposure to these dangerous tap water chemicals:

Drink your water from one of these

16699 Clarify RO Brochure Update (azh2o.com)

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett’s family water treatment

Here is an article about the history of our family water treatment business:

https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/money/soft-water-runs-in-family-s-veins/article_dc7db6c5-0d01-5306-b4ad-fb9967a4216d.html

Here is what we do for fun:

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With our musical movement called Fast Track music utilization program, we seek to find people who want to learn a musical instrument or sing.  We provide the musical instrument free of charge and sponsor a couple of lessons.  If a person really wants to (once they know the basics – they will find a way ‘YouTube is a good clue to learning new instruments’).  We help people connect the dots to their musical dreams.  Just like we help you connect the dots to your perfect water.  As the owner of my family’s company, I meet with at least 20 of you each week.  I go and listen to your water treatment needs, concerns, and dreams, and my great staff and I invent a process that is designed especially for you.  I pick up important clues for future water trends (and what products will help solve these problems) to give you peace of mind. 

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½ of US faucets contain potentially harmful chemicals.

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Study says drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals (yahoo.com)

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Study says drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals

Equipment used to test for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known collectively as PFAS, in drinking water is seen at Trident Laboratories in Holland, Mich., June 18, 2018. Drinking water from nearly half of U.S. faucets likely contains “forever chemicals” linked to kidney cancer and other health problems, according to a government study released Wednesday, July 5, 2023. (Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP, File)

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Drinking water from nearly half of U.S. faucets likely contains “forever chemicals” that may cause cancer and other health problems, according to a government study released Wednesday.

The synthetic compounds known collectively as PFAS are contaminating drinking water to varying extents in large cities and small towns — and in private wells and public systems, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Researchers described the study as the first nationwide effort to test for PFAS in tap water from private sources in addition to regulated ones. It builds on previous scientific findings that the chemicals are widespread, showing up in consumer products as diverse as nonstick pans, food packaging and water-resistant clothing and making their way into water supplies.

Studies of lab animals have found potential links between PFAS chemicals and some cancers, including kidney and testicular, plus issues such as high blood pressure and low birth weight.

Based on the data, researchers estimated that at least one form of PFAS could be found in about 45% of tap water samples nationwide.

Hayden at the Boyett’s family first read about the forever chemical (pfas – perfluoro-octanoic acid) in 2018 discussing the detection of the chemical in Illinois.  HB had dinner with Jim Rednor to discuss what form of water treatment is necessary to remove the pfas chemical from your water.  The proper volume and quality of granular activated media will effectively remove all forever chemicals from your water.   If the granular activated is not changed in on a timely basis; it will contaminate your water.

Microbiological contamination of drinking water in a commercial household water filter system

F D Daschner ¹, H Rüden, R Simon, J Clotten

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• PMID: 8740859

• DOI: 10.1007/BF01591360

Abstract

The microbiological quality of filtered water in a commercial water filter system (Brita) was tested in households and in two laboratories. In 24 of 34 filters used in households, bacterial counts increased in the filtered water up to 6,000 cfu/ml. In 4 of 6 filters tested in the laboratory, bacterial counts in the fresh filtrate were higher than in tap water after approximately one week of use both at room temperature and at 4 degrees C, suggesting growth or biofilm formation in the filter material. In some cases colony counts in the filtered water were 10,000 times those in tap water. The filter material of 5 of 13 new commercial filters was contaminated with bacteria or moulds. National or international regulatory agencies should ensure that water filters marketed for domestic use do not allow deterioration in the microbiological quality of drinking water.

Jim Rednor has built three successful commercial water treatment companies and builds commercial water treatment for the United States Naval vessels.  He has given his seal of approval for this product (will remove all the pfas – forever chemical ‘perfluoro – octanoic acid from your entire home water system:

This is our pfas filter + soft water rental water treatment equipment.

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Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’ government study finds | CNN

Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’ government study finds

That is cause for concern.  Here are the main health concerns that develop because of this dangerous chemical – pfas, forever chemical ; perfluoro – octanoic acid.

Developmental effects or delays in children, include low birth weight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, or behavioral changes. Increased risk of some cancers, including prostate, kidney, and testicular cancers. Reduced ability of the body’s immune system to fight infections, including reduced vaccine response.

Research is ongoing to understand the mechanisms of PFAS toxicity. The epidemiological evidence suggests associations between increases in exposure to (specific) PFAS and certain health effects

Increases in cholesterol levels (PFOA, PFOS, PFNA, PFDA)

Lower antibody response to some vaccines (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFDA)

Changes in liver enzymes (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS)

Pregnancy-induced hypertension and preeclampsia (PFOA, PFOS)

Small decreases in birth weight (PFOA, PFOS)

Kidney and testicular cancer (PFOA)

Almost half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with chemicals known as “forever chemicals,” according to a new study from the US Geological Survey.

The number of people drinking contaminated water may be even higher than what the study found, however, because the researchers weren’t able to test for all of these per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or PFAS, chemicals that are considered dangerous to human health. There are more than 12,000 types of PFAS, according to the National Institutes of Health, but this study looked at only 32 of the compounds.

PFAS are a family of ubiquitous synthetic chemicals that linger in the environment and the human body. PFAS exposure is linked to problems like cancer, obesity, thyroid disease, high cholesterol, decreased fertility, liver damage and hormone suppression, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.

In June 2022, based on the latest science, the EPA issued health advisories that said the chemicals are much more hazardous to human health than scientists originally thought and are probably more dangerous even at levels thousands of times lower than previously believed.

“There’s been almost no place scientists have looked where they have not found PFAS,” said DeWitt, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology in the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at East Carolina University who was not involved in the new study.

PFAS are found in hundreds of household items. The chemicals are used to make carpets and clothes stain-resistant. They keep food from sticking to pans and food packaging, and they’re good at keeping grease and water from soaking through. PFAS are in mobile phones, commercial airplanes, and low-emission vehicles, in the foods you can buy at the farmers market or the grocery store, and in rainwater and dental floss. They’re even in the dust that collects in your home.

If PFAS is in 45% of US water systems, the country will have a lot of work to do, said Dr. Graham Peaslee, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and concurrent professor of chemistry and biochemistry who does PFAS research at the University of Notre Dame.

“I think that we should try our best to work on how to clean this up. I fear that this is, global warming aside, this is probably the most expensive environmental problem we’re ever going to face,” said Peaslee, who was not involved in the new study. ”There’s nothing that will magically fix it. It’s fairly expensive to clean this up. And it’s a recurring cost, and there’s no permanent solution to it for any particular utility. It looks frightening.”

But the cleanup will have to be done, he said, because these chemicals carry real health consequences, and people can’t exactly avoid drinking water.

“It’s really insidious, this poison,” Peaslee said. “We are going to have to get inventive on how to filter it out for all of our days.”

Boyett’s agrees the pfas family of chemicals is very dangerous to have in our water.   Let’s take action individually to rid this deadly chemical from our family’s water.  Boyett’s family water treatment specializes in developing a water treatment method that is within your budget and works great.

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https://www.epa.gov/pfas/our-current-understanding-human-health-and-environmental-risks-pfas#:~:text=Developmental%20effects%20or%20delays%20in,infections%2C%20including%20reduced%20vaccine%20response.

In an article published

These are the states with the best and worst tap water (cnbc.com)

LIFE

These U.S. states have the best and the worst tap water: Kentucky ranked No. 1 while Alabama came in dead last

Water scarcity is one of the most significant and impactful components of the climate crisis. A 2022 Gallup poll revealed that 57 percent of Americans worry more about safe drinking water than global warming, air pollution or the extinction of animal species.

J.D. Power ranked the states with the best and worst tap water based on customers’ feedback on which places have the best quality and reliability.

The study tracked water utility customers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. To be eligible, states had serve a minimum of 400,000 residential customers and a minimum of 100 survey respondents. The states were scored on a scale of 100 to 1,000 points.

10 U.S. states with the best tap water

1. Kentucky
2. Washington
3. New York
4. Oregon
5. Kansas
6. Massachusetts
7. Connecticut
8. Minnesota
9. Virginia
10. Hawaii

Kentucky has the best tap water in t

Kentucky has the best tap water in the United States. In Louisville, Kentucky, the tap water is so good the city was able to trademark the name Pure Tap, according to the government’s website.

There are 435 public water systems in Kentucky. According to the state’s website, approximately 95% of Kentuckians have access to public drinking water.

Source:

These are the states with the best and worst tap water (cnbc.com)

10 U.S. states with the worst tap water

1. Alabama
2. Maryland
3. Oklahoma
4. New Mexico
5. Texas
6. Pennsylvania
7. Ohio
8. Mississippi
9. Arizona
10. Indiana

Alabama ranked as the state with the worst tap water in the country.

According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, an estimated 2.1 million Alabamians depend on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water.

Here is my short AZ water scarcity story:

2/3 of our Phoenix Metro/ east valley water is held back by the Saguaro Lake Damn.  When the water is released it is as green as a leaf ‘this is the algae in the water’ (within every two weeks I go look at this water).  We were there recently making some music for a special group of kids shown in this video:

When the Saguaro Lake Damn water arrives at your local water treatment plant they add a bunch of chemicals that are poisonous and toxic ‘can kill you dead’.  The treatment plants are currently adding much chlorine to our water and fluoride (it is very political –both chemicals are deadly).

Ingesting chlorine with your tap water can have a number of adverse health effects. Some of these effects occur because chlorine tends to form trihalomethanes. Trihalomethanes (THMs), including chloroform, form when chlorine reacts with tiny organic particles found in water. These chemical compounds have been implicated in several adverse health outcomes. Below are some of the potentially harmful effects of chlorine water:

• Asthma symptoms: One study suggests that exposure to chlorine in swimming pools is associated with increased exercise-induced asthma symptoms in swimmers, even if the swimmers have had no previous asthma symptoms, and even if the chlorine levels in the pool are below the recommended safe levels. When you bathe or shower in chlorinated water, you also absorb chlorine through your skin and breathe in chlorinated steam. If you experience respiratory problems, breathing in chlorine can aggravate the symptoms.
• Food allergies: One recent study analyzed the effects of dichlorophenols, which are used both in pesticides and in water chlorination. The study found that participants with the highest levels of dichlorophenols in their bodies were more likely to have the most food allergies. This study focused on dichlorophenols in pesticides, though — not in chlorinated water, though the effects may be similar.
• Congenital abnormalities: A Taiwanese study of nearly 400,000 individuals found that women who were exposed to trihalomethanes in chlorinated water while pregnant were more likely to give birth to children with one of three different birth abnormalities: cleft palates, ventricular septal defects — or holes in the heart — and lack of brain development.
• Bladder and rectal cancer: A 1995 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives implicated the THM byproducts of water chlorination in bladder and rectal cancer — potentially accounting for 8,000 cases of rectal cancer and 5,000 cases of bladder cancer in the United States every year. Some subsequent studies have found a slight link between chlorine and carcinogenic effects, but other studies have found no link. More research on the subject is necessary.
• Unpleasant taste and smell: Even if chlorine levels in your drinking water are safe, the chlorine can still impart a bad taste or smell. When your water tastes or smells bad, you’ll probably be less enthusiastic about drinking it, and drinking too little water can lead to dehydration. When your water is unpleasant to drink, you and your family are also more likely to consume less healthful beverages, such as sodas, or to purchase bottled water, which has its own drawbacks.

Excess amounts of fluoride ions in drinking water can cause dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, arthritis, bone damage, osteoporosis, muscular damage, fatigue, joint-related problems, and chronicle issues.

Source:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34597567/#:~:text=Excess%20amounts%20of%20fluoride%20ions,related%20problems%2C%20and%20chronicle%20issues.

Even before the water molecule arrives at the Saguaro Lake damn;  it has fallen far away from the damn as a magnet.  As the water molecule runs down the rivers, creeks, lakes streams, ditches, canals, washes, and ravines – we have more hexavalent chromium, chromium 6 , mercury, and lead than made

Erin Brockovich 

Sick.

If you google: fishing in Arizona; it says this:  don’t eat the fish ‘because they have much mercury in them’.   Mercury bioaccumulates in our bodies. 

Sources:

Azdeq.gov

http://azdeq.gov › fca

Nov 8, 2023 — The most common contaminant in fish tissue in the Unites States and Arizona is mercury, a toxic, persistent and bio-accumulative pollutant.

My family has developed some salt free whole house water filters (they do not waste water; there is no electricity) that wall address the toxicity of AZ water.  This is the most popular arrangement:

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

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The combination of these units will also address the fluoride and arsenic in the water.

One day a man from a foreign land came in and rented a water softener for his Denny’s restaurant.  This is a picture of a recent installation at his (#10 Denny’s restaurant).  Congratulations Emad on your great entrepreneur success. 

In the article:

Are water filtration systems an effective way to get rid of PFAS? Here’s what a new study says

Kayla Jimenez

USA TODAY

Nearly half of the tap water in the United States is contaminated by PFAS chemicals, or per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, a recent report alarmed. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed an effort to restrict the group of chemicals, also dubbed “forever chemicals,” in food and drinking water to improve public health which could help, but the agency hasn’t yet finalized a rule.

In the meantime, Americans can keep themselves safe from the chemicals when grabbing a glass of water from the kitchen sink, in part, by using water filtration systems, one environmental group suggests.

Consumer-available water filtration systems that everyday people can use to rid PFAS from tap water are the center of a new study from the nonprofit activist group Environmental Working Group. Scientists from the group researched the effectiveness of several filtration systems available to consumers across the U.S., and determined that they can serve as a “Band-Aid” to the problem until a longer-term solution comes to form, said Sydney Evans, a senior science analyst at the Environmental Working Group who has led many types of PFAS testing nationwide.

“The end goal is people wouldn’t have to buy a water filter… but that’s just not the reality,” Evans said.

DRINKING WATER IN THE U.S.Nearly half of nation’s tap water contains PFAS, a new study finds. Americans living in urban areas are most at risk.

What does the research show?

The group estimated there are “hundreds of brands and models of home water filters” that usually come in six forms: “pitcher or large dispenser, faucet-mounted, faucet-integrated, on-counter, under-sink or whole-house.”

Scientists tested 10 different water filtration systems for specific types of PFAS, notably the most common types: perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). The group tested for 25 different types of PFAS using one water sample for each filter, a summary of the research reads.

Most of the water filters the Environmental Working Group researched contain a medium typically made out of granular activated carbon to remove almost all of the PFAS, said Evans.

“To calculate the percentage PFAS reduction achieved by each filter, we contrasted the sum of the total PFAS found in the tap water sample with the PFAS detected in the filtered water,” the summary reads.

Evans said she was surprised by how well some of the filters worked adequately removed PFA levels almost as well as through reverse osmosis. And while there’s no guarantee they rid of all chemicals, “some kind of reduction is better than nothing,” she said.

The systems come with varying price tags. The group is advocating for legislation that restricts and regulates PFA levels from a federal and local level in part so consumers don’t have to pay out of pocket to drink safe water.

How effective are water filters?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website cautions Americans that “no filter eliminates all contaminants” even though water filters can help rid of forever chemicals. The agency says water consumers should not “assume that if the filter removes one contaminant, it also removes others.”

“Filtration of contaminants depends highly on the amount of contaminant, size of the contaminant particle, and the charge of the contaminant particle,” its website reads.

“Depending on the household’s water needs, pretreatment before filtration may include the addition of coagulants and powdered activated carbon, adjustments in pH or chlorine concentration levels, and other pretreatment processes in order to protect the filter’s membrane surface,” it continues.

What are the health risks of drinking water contaminated by PFAS?

Americans who drink water from the faucet contaminated by the chemicals are exposed to various health risks attributed to PFAS, including illnesses like cancer, low birth weight, and thyroid disease.

Location matters when it comes to risk level. A national study from the U.S. Geological Survey released last week shows that people living in urban areas are most at risk of having PFAS in their tap water while those living in some rural regions have a lower chance of consuming those chemicals.

According to a March 2022 survey of 2,246 American adults conducted by Aquasana showed that more than three-fourths of Americans are already filtering their water. The percentage of users grew between three percentage points between 2020 and 2022.

Those surveyed said they were most concerned about lead, chlorine, and chloramines and fearful of bacteria, cysts, and viruses. More than half agreed “they are more concerned about their health because of the pandemic, and 40% said they are “now more concerned about the quality of the unfiltered water in their homes because of COVID-19.”

‘There is still a lot of work to be done’

Experts are adamant that regulation is the key to keeping people safe from long-term exposure to PFAS.

The Biden administration through the EPA proposed a regulation in March that if finalized, “would regulate PFOA and PFOS as individual contaminants, and will regulate four other PFAS – PFNA, PFHxS, PFBS, and GenX Chemicals – as a mixture,” a news release about the proposal reads.

CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR DRINKING WATERAcross the US, towns warn of toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water.

“Communities across this country have suffered far too long from the ever-present threat of PFAS pollution,” wrote Michael Regan, an administrator for the EPA, at the time the proposal was announced.

Justin Colacino, an associate professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan, said if the new regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency become reality, it would be “a major public health victory toward reducing exposure to these toxic and persistent chemicals.”

He added: “There is still a lot of work to be done, though. With thousands of different PFAS chemicals on the market, we’ll continue to need innovative new strategies to regulate how these chemicals are used in our products to protect the health of people and the environment.”

Critics have argued it could cost the nation billions to make that a reality.

What are other ways to stay safe from PFAS?

Aside from the presence of chemicals in tap water, PFAS are commonly used in consumer products like nonstick cookware and linings of fast-food boxes. The Environmental Working Group recommends a few tips Americans can use to stay safe from PFAS in those items, including:

◾ “Skip optional stain-repellent treatment on new carpets and furniture.”

◾ “Cut back on fast food and greasy carryout food” because it often comes from wrappers treated with PFAs.

◾ “Be wary of all fabrics labeled stain- or water-repellent.”

◾ “Avoid PTFE-based nonstick pans and kitchen utensils.”

◾ “Pop popcorn the old-fashioned way – on the stovetop.”

What is the Boyett’s family doing to treat your water from pfas (forever chemicals)?

Answer:

Source:

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PFAS in US drinking water: Filtration systems ‘band-aid’ to problem (usatoday.com)

In an article  

Drink the Water and Die: Nearly Half of U.S. Tap Water is Laced With ‘Forever Chemicals’

Urban areas seem to have more forever chemicals in their water systems than rural areas.

A recent study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey found that about half the tap water in the country has PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that have been known to cause serious health issues among the population.

The study found that “forever chemicals” can be found in about 45 percent of the country’s drinking water. The Wall Street Journal reported that the testing—focused on 716 locations—was “one of the most extensive assessments” ever conducted and extended for five years. The study focused on collecting water directly from a homeowner tap where exposure occurs, one researcher said.

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The research found that the greatest exposure to these chemicals was found in some of the most populated regions of the country, including Southern California, and the Eastern Seaboard. Urban areas seem to have more forever chemicals in its water systems than rural areas.

PFAS are a group of over 4,000 synthetic chemicals that have been produced by industries since the 1940s. They are primarily used in fire retarding foams, non-stick cookware, water repellents, waterproof clothes, carpets, textiles, and take-out containers.

These toxic chemicals do not break down naturally and accumulate over time in humans, animals, and the overall environment. But their most common source is groundwater. These “forever chemicals” are linked to kidney and testicular cancers, thyroid disease, and high cholesterol. Health officials believe that 99 percent of Americans have at least some PFAS in their blood.

“This USGS study can help members of the public to understand their risk of exposure and inform policy and management decisions regarding testing and treatment options for drinking water,” Kelly Smalling, a USGS research chemist and lead author of the new study, told NPR.

Research has found that the greatest exposure to these chemicals were found in some of the most populated regions of the country, including Southern California, and the Eastern Seaboard.

TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has reported extensively on these chemicals and their impact on the population’s health.

Analysis published in Environmental Health Perspectives said scientists believe that these chemicals can lead to health problems like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

NPR noted that these researchers recommend that concerned individuals contact their state environmental protection agency or health department, and your local water utility to find out what actions they can take to limit any risks. Traditional drinking water treatment technologies are not able to remove them.

Boyett’s family water treatment has developed two products that will eliminate pfas chemicals (forever chemicals) from your entire home.

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I give all the credit for this post to

Drink the Water and Die: Nearly Half of U.S. Tap Water is Laced With ‘Forever Chemicals’ (substack.com)

We specialize in renting whole-house water treatment equipment.  We exchange this equipment to be proactive every 5 years (the RO units every year).  We perform this extra service at no charge.  We save our clients thousands of dollars and the maintenance is more convenient and the equipment works better. 

Here is an article about our company:

https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/money/soft-water-runs-in-family-s-veins/article_dc7db6c5-0d01-5306-b4ad-fb9967a4216d.html

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett

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Reverse osmosis (RO) treatment systems are the most common type of treatment used for uranium removal and are very effective.

How does uranium end up on our AZH2O?

1/3 of our water comes through the Grand Canyon from Colorado (1/3 of our water comes from the Colorado River).

The public lands surrounding Grand Canyon National Park contain high concentrations of uranium ore. 

Does the Phoenix water supply contain uranium?

Uranium ppb 30 ND – 2.4.  Yes.

Recently our new client called inquiring how our clarify reverse osmosis service removes uranium and E. coli, pathogens, and coliform.

The other day our new client called and said her doctor asked this:

Have you been sucking on a battery?

Her blood tests showed much uranium in her blood.

Sources:

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservicessite/documents/wsdprimarywqr.pdf

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/mining/Grand_Canyon_Uranium_Mining/index.html#:~:text=The%20public%20lands%20surrounding%20Grand,Grand%20Canyon’s%20biologically%20rich%20springs.

Beginning in 1998 the water that flows through the Grand Canyon became important to me (it is 1/3 of the water we use).  We see a population growth trend in the valley with 6,000,000 people (and it will grow to 12,000,000 people in the Phoenix metro and the East Valley area of AZ).   12,000,000 people in Phoenix AZ including the East Valley by 2039.

I wanted to get a close look at the Colorado River water, so I took a trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon on a Mule.

I even got a certificate explaining that I am now an authentic mule skinner.  I am so proud.

The water that flows through the Grand Canyon is as green as a leaf (this is algae in the water).  When this water reaches our water treatment plants, they add chlorine to kill the algae.  There is so much algae from the Colorado River and the salt river that the chlorine levels are sometimes as high as a swimming pool in our Phoenix metro; East Valley AZ water. 

My relatives and Shirttail relatives had a significant influence in establishing the current water rights and water infrastructure; we feel it is our important job to clean up your water.

These are two solutions to take out the chlorine from the water.

PFAS Whole House Carbon Filtration – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com) When the Colorado River water and the Salt River water reach your water treatment plants in the Phoenix Metro; East Valley area of AZ – the water treatment plants add fluoride to your water.  Some people do not want any fluoride in their drinking water. 

Here is a solution to remove the fluoride ‘entire home water treatment’.

Fluoride Filter + Granular Activated Filter – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

If I am fortunate to meet with you at your home (as many as 20 clients allow me to stop by between 6-9 PM during the week and Saturdays between 9 AM – 6 PM ‘my visits are usually only 10 – 20 minutes’)

I tell this short water story:

The waterfalls are far away and are held back by the Saguaro Lake dam.   Each water molecule is like a magnet.  As the water runs through the earth it collects mercury, lead, arsenic, hexavalent chromium, and chromium 6.  These are all toxins and harmful to our bodies (they bioaccumulate in your body – they can make you sick).

Here are some options that address heavy metals and chlorine (these products will remove the heavy metals and arsenic in your water ‘for your entire home’).  There is no water waste, no salt, and no electricity.

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

9679 Whole House Mercury (azh2o.com)

6412 Lead Removal (azh2o.com)

We exchange these units every 5 years at no charge.

Based upon a posting on the National Library of Medicine, if the media inside the tanks is not changed it will contaminate the water.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

When the Saguaro Lake water and the Grand Canyon Colorado River water arrive at your local water treatment plant; they add fluoride (fluoride is considered a poison and can cause many health problems).

Recently, epidemiological studies have suggested that fluoride is a human developmental neurotoxicant that reduces measures of intelligence in children, placing it into the same category as toxic metals (lead, methylmercury, arsenic) and polychlorinated biphenyls. If true, this assessment would be highly relevant considering the widespread fluoridation of drinking water in the Phoenix metro area and East Valley AZ.

Source for fluoride information:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7261729/

Does your water have arsenic?

Arsenic in small quantities can cause diabetes and cancer.  Is there arsenic in our Phoenix metro AZ water and our East Valley AZ water?

Yes.

Phoenix water quality analysis. According to their water safety guidelines, Phoenix’s water violates eight out of the 20 contamination guidelines. The most concerning found were Lead, Nitrate, and Arsenic. Calculated by their stricter guidelines, lead exceeded safe levels by 4x, Nitrate by 16x, and Arsenic by 1,266x.

https://azbigmedia.com/business/how-safe-is-the-phoenix-water-quality-things-to-know/#:~:text=Phoenix%20water%20quality%20analysis,and%20Arsenic%20by%201%2C266x.

Problems We Found In Mesa’s Drinking Water

Hydroviv

https://www.hydroviv.com › blogs › mesa

The East Valley city’s most recent tap water quality report reported an average arsenic concentration of up to 7.8 parts per billion.

It is important to know how much arsenic is in your drinking water and how you can reduce your exposure. Drinking water with low levels of arsenic over a long time is associated with diabetes and increased risk of cancers of the bladder, lungs, liver, and other organs.

https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/water/contaminants/arsenic.html#:~:text=It%20is%20important%20to%20know,you%20can%20reduce%20your%20exposure.&text=Drinking%20water%20with%20low%20levels,%2C%20liver%2C%20and%20other%20organs.

We have a solution for chlorine, heavy metals and arsenic:

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

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Fluoride Filter + Granular Activated Filter – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

Is hexavalent chromium (chromium 6) present in our Phoenix Metro and East Valley AZ drinking water?

Yes

EWG Tap Water Database | Arizona

Environmental Working Group

https://www.ewg.org › tapwater › state › stab=AZ

Contaminants found in Arizona above health guidelines; Chromium (hexavalent), 94,

Statement from Phoenix Water Services …

Phoenix (.gov)

https://www.phoenix.gov › Documents › Chro…

According to the American Water Works Association, chromium is the 21st most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, and the major source of hexavalent chromium

We may have more hexavalent chromium than made Erin Brockovich sick.

‘Erin Brockovich’ toxin found in metro Phoenix drinking water

The Arizona Republic

https://www.azcentral.com › arizona-water › 2016/09/20

Sep 20, 2016 — Considering that, chromium-6 levels in Phoenix drinking water are on average about 20 times the California goal.

We have a solution to remove the hexavalent chromium and the chromium 6 from your water

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

My grandfather Wilford Hayden served on the Salt River Project board (and significantly contributed to the current East Valley and Phoenix water infrastructure: we are always very careful to point out that we are very obsequies to our water treatment founding fathers and mothers.   We are here to help clean up your water.

My Shirttail relative (who claimed my mother and her 7 siblings as his nieces and nephews) Senator Carl Hayden worked with John F Kennedy to help us claim the water rights to the Central Arizona Project.

Here is how Boyett’s family water treatment can remove the arsenic and hexavalent chromium (chromium 6) from your water:

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

In addition to

Our bone char carbon ingredient that we add; and kdf 55 media will do a great job removing the arsenic from your water and your hexavalent chromium (chromium 6).

Bone Char is especially effective in removing radioactive particles, arsenic, heavy metals, and THM’s from the water as well as fluoride.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8621261/

KDF 55 and KDF 85 Process Media can remove up to 99% of water-soluble lead, mercury, nickel, chromium, and other dissolved metals.

https://www.kdfft.com/success_metal.htm

SCARCITY

Chapter 3

Necessity is the mother of invention.

As I left the house where I live, on Sunday to visit Boyett’s family factory, I grabbed a pair of complete sunglasses (I thought).  These glasses are historic to my founding father, but they were missing the arms.

I took them determined to fix them.

As I drove my grandfather’s 1953 Ford I thought; what would he do in a situation like this?

To make these glasses useable I utilized our historic cation resin pens and some string from a water filter.

By utilizing principles of scarcity at every moment this will increase our creative genius and add to the intrigue in life. 

Of scarcity

Signs and symbols help me along my journey.

Suggestions from VIP help too.

At the 53 annual Payson old time fiddle contest my famous Arizona Public Service lineman friend gave me an important life clue.

He informed me that he had not read or listened to the news in several years. 

I contemplated this thought and put it into action.

I was addicted to Google News ‘at every moment’.

I paused from reading so much news and I think my life is calmer and more peaceful.  I found I was worrying about the things that I could not help.

Scarcity principle:

I removed a hindrance and a distraction and replaced it with reading the book of Psalms.  I have

A great place to visit to be near the mighty Superstition Mountain is Goldfield Ghost Town near the town of Apache Junction in Arizona.

I saw this sign there (at the church).

I am especially interested in Honor your mother and father.

These are three members of our dream team (I’ll always tell you this: we have the best technicians in the world ‘because of our process; which begins with our portable exchange tank division – everything starts here).  Their images proliferate because they move fast and know a lot about a lot (they also know a lot about a little). Each one can maneuver and is fleet of foot.

In life and small family business, things don’t always go the way we think.  Our team is interchangeable and adaptable, adjustable and flexible to all circumstances, in all venues, and skills (especially loving people and taking good care of you).  This has given us our 57-year strength.  We continue to foster this essence established by our founding mother and father.

Scarcity principle:

Pay attention to what captures our attention.

This poster caught my eye

It made me look.

This calendar is in the office of this man

Dr. Richard Ray (Mesa, AZ).

I call him our company healer (he helps us keep our backs straight- for 30 years).  In our firm; we maneuver much weight exchanging your rental water treatment equipment.

Many a time I have gone to his office limping ‘neck hurt’ and walked out feeling like a new man.

Scarcity principle:

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Dr. Ray made this healing table (why?  Because it was necessary).  By utilizing his creative genius and great craft and construction skills he likes it more and uses this often.  I have been on this healing table many times and now it has more value to me (because I heard the story).

In 1986 my father took a trip to Texas to drive my grandfather’s 1963 Ford home to me.  I have enjoyed driving this to my ASU college  ‘put my bike in the back’; parked off campus.  I enjoy driving this truck on Sunday to the Boyett’s family factory to keep our facilities clean and the bougainvillea trimmed.

This is the area that holds our salt to perform our portable exchange tank regeneration.  

This is the area where we evacuate the media in our fiberglass tanks to recycle.   Soon this area will go through major renovation.  We feel the work that we are performing to develop recycling methods with our tanks will have a great impact on our industry and help our clients save money.

We always want you to know that

WE SERVICE

MORTON WATER SOFTENERS

What is the difference between organic and inorganic arsenic?

Long-term exposure to inorganic arsenic, mainly through drinking water and food, can lead to chronic arsenic poisoning. Skin lesions and skin cancer are the most characteristic effects.

Arsenic – World Health Organization (WHO)

We have a solution to remove arsenic heavy metals and chlorine from your water:

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

In addition to

I hope the horse stories never stop.

This is the picture that was placed on my founder’s father’s memorial when we said goodbye.

My founder father loved horses and grew up with horses.  He passed this love of horses to me.  I grew up with horses, and love these beasts today.

Our great insurance agent and friend M L (CEO of Lebarron and Carroll) took us on a horse-riding adventure in the Arizona desert.

M L is a man who came along in my life at the right time and has always been there for us. 

Crash course of water filtration.

Filtration Processes Excerpted from Water Processing: Residential, Commercial, Light Industrial, 3^rd Ed. The filtration process is perhaps the most readily understood technique in water treatment, and its results can be observed.  The basic principles of filtration/separation have been working for eons in our environment.  As part of the hydrologic cycle, some filtration takes place as water seeps and percolates down through layers of earth.  By the time the water has reached the underground aquifer, it is free of any particulate and some of its adsorbed gasses… Filtration, as such, involves the process or process of separating suspended matter from a liquid. One of the most common methods of filtration consists of passing water through a bed (column) of granular medium or through various porous media, such as coated paper, membranes, and other special fabrics, to remove undissolved suspended particulates. When these particles result in cloudiness and discoloration, this condition is referred to as “turbidity.” Such particulates may be finely divided silt, sand, solid organic matter, precipitated iron, bacteria, or algae, which may be present in both surface or well water sources. Well-designed tank-type media filters are capable of removing these suspended solids from water down to about 10.0 micron size. Particles smaller than 10 microns can be destabilized and then agglomerated together into larger and filterable flocs with the aid of coagulants such as aluminum sulfate (alum). Effective coagulation, mixing, and flocculation prior to media filtration can remove particles down to one micron in size. In more refined filtration/separation techniques that are used to remove particles not visible to the naked eye

than 20 microns), special membrane-type media in cartridge-style filters are employed. Two processes are used to remove these extremely fine nonionized species in assort of the “screening out” technique.  The first microfiltration involves the removal of species in the 0.06-to-2.00-micron range. This process is the ultrafiltration membrane method, which is capable of removing particulate matter in the 0.025 to 0.200 micron range and also rejects dissolved macromolecules above the 1,000 molecular weight (MW) cutoff.  (This chapter does not cover micro-or ultrafiltration.  See Water Filtration for Point-of-Use Application, by the Water Quality Association, Lisle, Illinois, 1989.) In its larger technical sense, filtration processes do involve a wide variety of equipment, mechanics, chemicals, devices, and an array of media products to “separate “particulates or molecules from fluids. At large industrial, municipal, and specialized commercial water treatment facilities, one or more of the following water rectification modes may be used. •Simple strainers and sieves •Granularmedia-type gravity, pressure, or vacuum filters •Centrifugation •Cartridge-type filters •Precoat filters •Chemical—coagulation/precipitation •Filter  presses •Membrane technology… Filtration Processes Excerpted from Water Processing: Residential, Commercial, Light Industrial, 3rdEd. WQA Educational Kit 13 Filtration Processes continued from page12 2011 THE MECHANICS OF FILTRATION Home and business filters, for the most part, follow the basic principles of large commercial filtration systems and fall into two broad categories: surface filters and depth filters. Essentially, filters or by electrostatic attraction of undissolved particles in water to certain types of filter media. Surface (screen) filtration can be described as a “straining” technique, somewhat akin to the sifting of flour in baking, where a series of holes or perforations (all the same size) in a flat metal or plastic sheeting can remove particulate from a liquid. This series of surface holes holds back solid particles based on size, allowing those of smaller diameter to pass through. 3 In this “screening out” process, however,

a layer usually will build upon the surface filter and become a secondary filter surface. This surface layer then does the actual filtering—and in so doing, establishes a type of “depth filter” element upon the surface filter itself. The problem with surface filtering in home and business situations is that such filters clog easily, much like the debris of ten observed at the grating of a stormwater catch basin. Surface filters can be either strainers with uniform holes or perforations in a rigid material, or certain membranes with very uniform, tiny openings. Examples of surface filters include Y-strainers, faucet aerator screens, sump strainers, and basket hair catchers in swimming pool filter systems. Depth filters (or deep-bed filters), on the other hand, are the most common design for domestic purposes. The tank-type filters contain loose media,   the water or  .In addition, some media, such as granulated  , are highly porous particles, offering microfiltration of some micro organic molecules. With the use of more than one layer of medium in filters, the void spaces can be varied even further. Depth filtration is described as “water [liquid] flowing through a mass filter medium or series of media, following a torturous pathway, with many entrapments” – usually of successively decreasing void spaces through the depth of the filtering bed.  In deep-bed depth filters, particulate matter is first deposited in the upper inch or two of the bed.  Once the layer of particulate is deposited, additional particles can flow through the irregular maze of channels or paths to be entrapped in locations deeper in the media bed.  Examples of deep-bed depth filters include anthracite, sand, and garnet mixed media systems. Depth filtration also includes those string-wound and special fabrics 2) used as part of cartridge-style filter units. Some undissolved particulates in water carry a very slight charge; thus in certain cases, these particles are separated by electrostatic attraction to the filter medium itself. TURBIDITY Turbidity, or cloudiness, in water, is caused by very small particles that remain suspended and tend to “float” because of the very

low density.  The standard analysis measurement for turbidity is reported in Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU), which have superseded the Jackson Turbidity Units (JTU)of measurement formerly used in water analysis. Turbidity in potable water cannot exceed 0.5NTU, according to current US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Primary Drinking Water Standards. A reading of 5.0NTU triggers a mandatory “boil water” alert in public water systems. Temporary cloudiness in water, such as may be noticed in a freshly drawn glass,  Is often caused by excess air.  This cloudiness disappears rapidly upon standing.  Another cause of cloudiness in a glass of drawn hot water can be extremely fine precipitants created during the heating; this condition generally clears itself quickly.  Still, another form of cloudiness in water may be the rare case of methane gas (CH4), common in marsh water sources. Some turbidity (both organic and inorganic in nature) in surface water will settle out when the water is allowed to stand. On the other hand, a portion of this material may be present as finely divided, colloidal matter that cannot be removed by settling. In general, most turbidity in residential water treatment can be removed by passing the water through a bed (tank) of granular-type media in a sediment filter. The finer the particle size of a given filter media, the greater the filter’s ability to remove the particulate. Some turbidity and color in water are composed of such small particles that they slip right through the conventional filter medium. In commercial applications, the removal of these extra-fine species usually requires the help of a chemical feed application. Often, a chemical such as alum (aluminum sulfate) is added in low dosages to the stream of water to neutralize the electrical charge or to destabilize the particles, thereby causing them to adhere to one another and, in turn, form larger particles. These particles are then removed first by settling, and then filtration. In the home and on the farm where turbidity and sediment are encountered, a

more easily maintained and automatic system is needed. The operation of chemical feed devices is generally more than the average homeowner or businessperson wants to be bothered with.  Very often, a small automatic filter can do the task. Most domestic filters are either porous media-type whole-house units or disposable cartridge filters at one or two faucets for drinking water, depending on the amount and type of particulate to be removed. Where softening, demineralization, or reverse osmosis is involved, filtering would be the first (or pretreatment) steps to a clear stream of water would be feeding these subsequent treatment modes.

Filtration Processes

Introduction

Filtration is a process that removes particles from suspension in water. Removal takes place by a number of mechanisms that include straining, flocculation, sedimentation, and surface capture. Filters can be categorized by the main method of capture, i.e. exclusion of particles at the surface of the filter media i.e. straining, or deposition within the media i.e. in-depth filtration.

Strainers generally consist of a simple thin physical barrier made from metal or plastic. In water treatment, they tend to be used at the inlet of the treatment system to exclude large objects (e.g. leaves, fish, and coarse detritus). These may be manually or mechanically scraped bar screens. The spacing between the bars ranges from 1 to 10 cm. Intake screens can have much smaller spacing created by closely spaced plates or even fine metal fabric. The latter are usually intended to remove fine silt and especially algae and are referred to as microstrainers.

Filters, as commonly understood in water treatment generally consist of a medium within which it is intended most of the particles in the water will be captured. Such filters might be manufactured as disposable cartridge filters, which can be suitable for domestic (i.e. point-of-use treatment) and small-scale industrial applications. Larger forms of cartridge filters exist which can be cleaned. One version is precoated filtration in which a porous support surface is given a sacrificial coating of diatomaceous earth, or other suitable material, each time the filter has been cleaned. Additionally, a small amount of the diatomaceous earth is applied continuously during filtration. However, in most cases, filters used in municipal water treatment contain sand or another appropriate granular material (e.g. anthracite, crushed glass or other ceramic material, or another relatively inert mineral) as the filter medium. Filtration using such filters is often referred to as in-depth granular media filtration.

Granular media filters are used in either of two distinct ways which are commonly called slow-sand filtration and rapid gravity or pressure filtration. When the filters are used as the final means of particle removal from the water, then the filters may need to be preceded by another stage of solid-liquid separation (clarification) such as sedimentation (Sedimentation Processes), dissolved-air flotation  (Flotation Processes) or possibly a preliminary stage of filtration.

Other processes take place in vessels similar to those used for granular media filtration, and in some respects, the processes do have similarities with filtration but filtration is not their sole or primary purpose. Therefore, such processes are not considered further in this article. Examples include vessels filled with granular activated carbon for the removal of dissolved organic substances and vessels filled with ion exchange resin for the removal of inorganic and organic ions. There are applications of filters that whilst filtration (removal of particles) does take place a secondary process is intended to also occur, e.g. iron and manganese removal, and arsenic removal.

Strainers

There is a vast variety of strainers with respect to how the straining is carried out, with and by what (Purchas, 1971). The straining part might be made of metal or other inert material e.g. plastic, cotton or a ceramic. If metal, it could be simply a perforated sheet, a grid of rods, a stack of discs or woven wire. If plastic, it could be a grid, woven or simply a fused felt. In cartridge filters the usually disposable cartridge might simply consist of a porous and non-compressible material or be cord wound on a cylindrical support. Cartridge filters find application generally in small-scale applications such as for domestic point-of-use water treatment.

Only a few types of strainers are likely to find application in municipal water treatment. Some require manual cleaning others are cleaned mechanically and even automatically when the pressure drop across them reaches a specific value. A water treatment works might have a simple bar strainer at its inlet to keep out logs, large fish, and swimming animals. Next there might be a fine strainer with its aperture small enough to exclude all but the smallest of fish, leaves, clumps of algae etc . Generally, this strainer would have to be automatically cleaned. Where algae might be a distinct problem then the bar strainer might have closely spaced bars and be automatically cleaned followed by a microstrainer.

One particular type of mechanical strainer has found limited application in smaller municipal water treatment works. The straining medium is a bundle of fibres. In filtration mode the bundle is twisted tight. In the wash mode the bundle is untwisted and the trapped detritus removed by reversing the flow of water.

Precoat Filters

In precoat filtration a thin layer of an inert medium is laid down on a support structure to provide a porous straining surface. The precoat layer might be created with loose fibres or powders (Purchas, 1971). A small quantity of the precoat or other similar material might be added continuously during filtration such that some in-depth filtration also then takes place. When resistance to flow becomes too great then the accumulated detritus and inert medium are discharged and the cycle is repeated. In most instances, the precoat material is used just once and is not recovered and recycled.

Precoat filtration is unlikely to be used in conjunction with coagulation and therefore its application in municipal water treatment is very limited.

Slow Sand Filters

In slow sand filtration, the rate of filtration is intentionally slow with the use of sand that is smaller than sand used in rapid sand filters so that particles are not driven far into the bed of sand held within the filter shell. The principal mechanism taking place in slow sand filters is an accumulation of a layer of debris on the surface of the filter (straining) and capture within about the top 20 cm of the sand. This debris is allowed to develop biological activity which contributes to the treatment of the water passing through it. This biologically active layer is often called the ‘schmutzdecke’. Because the filtration rate is relatively slow the resistance to flow through slow sand filters develops slowly and may take up to 3 months before it becomes unacceptable. Because the filtration rate is slow a large area for filtration is needed. Consequently, the large filters are cleaned by removing the schmutzdecke with about 5 cm of sand usually by mechanical means. Eventually, the depth of sand remaining becomes too shallow and the remaining sand is removed, cleaned, and replaced with additional clean sand back to the original starting depth.

Slow sand filtration was the main method of filtration of potable water before rapid sand filtration was developed. Although it has a large footprint, many slow sand filters are still used. Developments to make them more cost-effective have included:

• Sand removal, washing and replacement have been mechanized as much as possible.
• The need for sand removal has been made as predictable as possible so that the equipment and labour is efficiently utilized.
• Filtration rates have been increased as much as possible to improve the economics and contribute to the predictability of the need for sand removal.
• Pre-treatment, including raw water storage and management, is applied to reduce the impact of solids in suspension and contribute to predictability.
• Granular activated carbon has been used in some filters to replace the lower part of the sand to help with the removal of pesticides, taste and odor, and other trace organic substances that the biological mechanism does not deal with effectively.

There are two important requirements for slow sand filters to function properly. Firstly, the water entering the filters must not contain any disinfectant or other chemical that might interrupt the biological activity of the schmutzdecke. Secondly, if pre-treatment is carried out with coagulation then most of the resulting floc particles must be removed as part of the pre-treatment, otherwise the floc will accelerate the rate at which resistance to flow through the filter develops.

Rapid Gravity and Pressure Filters

In-depth granular media filtration can be carried out under gravity (rapid gravity filtration) or pressure (pressure filtration). The basic mechanisms of particle removal are fundamentally the same in both gravity and pressure modes. The principal differences between the two modes are likely to be hydraulic, notably the distribution of flow between filters and control of flow through individual filters. The filter media is usually sand, but other relatively inert materials can be used, but the choice depends on costs and what other objectives there might be. In some cases, part of the sand might be replaced with anthracite. The lower density of the anthracite allows a larger grain size to be used such that after backwash the larger anthracite sits on top of the smaller sand. In this

way filtration takes place through first a larger and then a smaller media to help make better use of filter bed depth. 

The principal mechanism of in-depth filtration is surface capture. The area of media available for surface capture depends on both media depth and size. Depth and size also govern the space available for storage of captured detritus. The grain shape of the filter media also affects capture and storage, in that angular particles are preferable to rounded particles.  The choice of size has to take account of how quickly the medium might become blocked by captured detritus and the ease with which it can be backwashed. Regardless of the choice of media material, size tends to be limited to the range 0.5 to 2.0 mm. The greatest application of in-depth filtration in municipal water treatment is after coagulation, perhaps also with prior clarification. The choice of coagulation chemistry, its application, and any clarification, govern the nature and quantity of the particles to be removed by the filtration, which in turn affect the choice of filter media, depth, and filtration rate.

In potable water treatment, in-depth filtration is often the last, and sometimes the only, physical barrier to particles. Therefore the performance reliability of the filters is important in ensuring the quality of the water on completion of treatment complies with the standards. The standards defined by the relevant regulations have become substantially more rigorous as they have developed over the past 50 years. The reliability of the exclusion of Cryptosporidium oocysts has been of particular concern.

The bed of granular filter media is cleaned by applying backwash. This generally involves: draining down the water until its upper surface is at about the same level as the top of the media, loosening the bed with air (air scour), applying water upwash at a rate great enough to just fluidize the functional part of the bed of filter media, allow a short interval for the media to settle, and starting to refill the filter with water from above the bed whilst opening the outlet so that filtration starts slowly. A more rigorous backwash can be achieved if the water upwash is started at a reduced rate whilst the air scour is occurring (combined air-water wash). Older filter installations sometimes have other features like mechanical rakes or surface flush that operate during upwash. The viscosity of water depends on water temperature. Therefore, the rate of upwash must take account of water temperature to ensure the filter media is fluidized.

It is usual to have at least four filters so that the filtration can continue whilst one filter is backwashed. Large treatment works have many more than four in a group and possibly two or more independent groups of filters.

Problems with operating in-depth filters include:

• Loss of media during backwash,
• Ineffective backwashing resulting in mud-binding of the media and its associated symptoms.
• Short filter runs due to either rapid rate of headloss or early breakthrough of particles.

These are usually indicators of the likes of incorrect upwash rate, problems with the underdrain system, excessive dosing of polyelectrolyte, presence of filter-blocking algae, inappropriate choice of either or both filter media size and depth, or simply either or both inadequate prior coagulation and clarification. Trouble-shooting should also check to what extent the distribution of flow between filters in a bank or group is equitable or not.

Novel Forms of Granular Media Filters

There are several relatively novel forms of granular media filters. Each is a ‘horse for a course’ having its specific set of advantages and disadvantages and therefore relative appropriateness for certain applications.

Upflow filters

In normal in-depth granular media filtration, the flow of water is down through the filter bed, except during backwashing. Upflow of water during filtration is possible; it offers an advantage but also poses problems. With backwashing of the filter media, normally the media is encouraged to stratify with the largest and densest material towards the bottom of the filter bed and the smallest and lightest towards the top. This means that in downward filtration, the filtration is progressively through increasingly larger media unless the media is tightly graded before installation. This contradicts the ideal bed geometry of filtration through progressively smaller media. It follows that one way of avoiding this situation is to filter upwards. Upward filtration allows the capacity of the media to collect and store solids to be exploited better. However, as the filter bed accumulates deposits and the resistance to flow through it increases the bed progressively becomes more likely to be hydraulically disrupted. Two approaches have been used to restrict this hydraulic disruption. The Immedium filter uses a simple metal grid about 15 cm below the top of the bed to help keep the bed compacted. The Biflow filter applies downflow filtration to the top of the bed to keep the lower part with upflow filtration compacted.

A reservation for the use of upflow filters as the final stage of solids removal in potable water treatment is that backwash flow is in the same direction as filtration. Another reservation is that filter breakthroughs can happen suddenly. Consequently, upflow filters are more likely to be found in applications where protection of treated water quality does not have to be as rigorous as required for potable water treatment, although they might be appropriate to use as a clarification stage prior to normal in-depth filtration.

a.       Immedium filters The Immedium filter was developed in the Netherlands in the 1960s.  The key feature is the use of a simple metal grid across the filter bed about 15 cm below the top of the sand. The grid delays the onset of the breakthrough of particles in the water. The grid helps to maintain

compaction of the sand and delays the start of localised penetration of flow as the water finds paths of least resistance through the sand. A point is reached when the flow through such a low resistance path is too great for particles to be removed and is great enough to fluidize the sand in the upper part of the flow path. This can be observed at the upper surface of the bed by the appearance of ‘blow holes’.

b.      Biflow filters

The Biflow filter was developed as an alternative to the Immedium filter.  As the name implies, the flow for filtration is in two directions. The larger proportion of flow is upwards from the base of the filter bed, whilst the smaller proportion is downwards from the top of the filter bed. The two flows meet a short way down the bed where there is an outlet grid across the bed. When the filter needs washing both flows are stopped and air scour is applied for a few minutes before water upwash is carried out to wash out the detritus. Combined air and water upwash can be carried out only if the filter has been designed for this.

c.       Buoyant media filters

Whilst in Immedium and Biflow filters the filter sand is kept compacted, in buoyant media filters the media is chosen to be buoyant and is retained in the filter by a straining mesh above the media. The media is selected to have a low density and accordingly is usually plastic. During the filtration mode the media is in a compacted state under the retaining mesh. When the media needs to be washed to clean out the captured detritus, the upflow rate is reduced to release the compaction and air is bubbled up through the bed. Buoyant media filters have been used in water treatment as a clarification stage before normal filtration

d.      Moving bed filters

All the granular media filters described above have flow-through for filtration stopped whilst they are backwashed. In a moving bed filter, the filter media is constantly moving so that filtration is not interrupted for the sand to be backwashed. The sand in the filtration zone slowly moves downward due to its own weight against the upflow of the water being filtered. In the conical base of the filter, the sand is hydraulically carried into a vertical tube up through the centre of the filter bed. As the sand is carried up through the tube the filtered deposits are released. At the top of the tube above the filter bed, the sand settles out from the wash water and feeds back to the top of the filter bed whilst the dirty wash water is kept separate from the filtered water emerging from the top of the filter.  In order that the proportion of water lost in the wash stream is kept small, moving bed units should be operated close to design capacity.

Cell filters

There is a maximum size to which a normal filter can be built if the whole of the filter bed is to be backwashed at the same time. If the filter bed can be backwashed in sections then the filter shell can be larger. A bed can be backwashed in sections by having the filter bed divided by walls from the filter floor to just above the bed so that a hood can be placed over the section to be backwashed. The hood is mounted on a gantry that runs on rails along the top of the main side walls of the filter. This approach results in reduced civil engineering costs but greater mechanical engineering costs, compared to a larger number of filters of equivalent total filtration area. The operational reliability of a cell filter depends much on the functioning of the gantry and hood system and how effectively the hood seals with the walls of a cell.

Automatic backwash filters

As deposits accumulate in a filter bed the resistance to flow through the bed increases.  Flow can be kept constant by having an outlet valve that is progressively opened and provides less resistance to flow through it to compensate for the increased resistance to flow through the bed. In this way, the level (head) of water above the media remains relatively constant. Alternatively, the flow to the filter is kept constant and the flow through the filter remains relatively constant with the level of water above the bed increasing. If the filter is contained in a deep shell then the increasing level of water can be used to prime a siphon. When the level reaches a predetermined level the siphon is activated and is used to draw water up through the filter to cause backwash. A risk is that the upwash rate of water may be inadequate for effective backwashing. However, the design lends itself to package plants and situations where the quality and quantity of particles to be removed remain relatively constant.  The design is unlikely to be suitable for potable water treatment.

Horizontal and radial filters

a.       Horizontal filters

Instead of the flow of water being up or down through a filter bed, it can be horizontally across the bed. If the filter bed is contained in a rectangular tank then the filtration rate remains constant along the length (inlet to outlet) of the filter. The filter can be backwashed hydraulically as required.  It would be necessary for the main filter material to be as uniform in size as possible so that there is not a distinct bias through the depth due to stratification of the media by size by the backwashing, or the backwash is arranged to keep the media mixed. A horizontal filter could be split into two or more sections each with a different size media, with a vertical mesh between each to keep the different size media separated. The backwash of each section would need to take account of this.

Horizontal filters have been used filled with gravel (pebbles) of selected sizes in third-world situations for use as clarifiers. Because the size of the gravel precludes normal backwashing, the filters are routinely cleaned by draining and hosing and occasionally by removing the gravel for washing.

b.      Radial filters

A radial filter is a horizontal filter but with increasing width of filter bed in the direction of flow. The ultimate shape of the filter bed is annular in cross-section with flow from the centre to the periphery. The rate of filtration decreases as the water progresses through the filter media so allowing progressively more efficient removal of particles.

Membrane Filters

Historically cloth has been used to filter water. In microstraining the water is filtered through fabric made from finely woven wire. In both these cases the cloth or fabric is a kind of membrane, albeit a coarse one. Modern technology allows the manufacture of membranes from synthetic materials, to be less than about 1mm thick and be semi-permeable.  Being semi-permeable means that the membrane is selective in what submicron-size particles can and cannot pass through it that is in the feed stream. During operation, permeable components in the water pass through the membrane with the water whilst impermeable submicron-size components are retained on the feed side. Consequently, the product stream is relatively free of impermeable components and the waste stream is rich in impermeable components. Flow of water through such a semi-permeable membrane is achieved by pressure, usually produced by pumping.

There are four categories of membranes loosely defined by the types of materials rejected, operating pressure, and nominal pore size. The categorization of pore size is approximate since, for example, a high-end UF membrane can have similar permeability to a low-end NF membrane:

• Microfiltration (MF)  – approx 0.1 µm pores: impermeable to particles, algae, animalcules and bacteria
• Ultrafiltration (UF) – approx 0.01 µm pores: impermeable to small colloids and viruses
• Nanofiltration (NF) – approx 0.001 µm pores: impermeable to dissolved organic matter (DOM) and divalent ions
• Reverse osmosis (RO) – effectively non-porous: impermeable to monovalent ions

The predominant mechanism in MF and UF is straining, or simple size exclusion. In NF and RO separation of dissolved species involves mass transfer, a process of diffusion that depends on concentration, pressure and rate of flow through the membrane (flux).  Consequently, membrane filtration usually refers to MF and UF but not NF and RO, whilst NF is usually considered to be a form of RO.

The thickness of membranes means that they have to be formatted in a way that provides structural strength, so they will not collapse because of the pressure difference across them, provide a large area for filtration but are compact and can be cleaned effectively. They are generally structured as thin tubes (hollow fibres) or as a coiled sheet. A coil is a sandwich of the semi-permeable membrane, a separating mesh, a thin sheet of impermeable material and a second layer of thin mesh. The layers of mesh provide the channels for flow to the inlet and from the outlet side of the membrane.

It is usual to include a preliminary stage of treatment before membrane filtration to protect the membrane from being fouled too rapidly by excluded material, although there are also ways to operate membrane filters to slow the rate of fouling of the membrane before having to apply a cleaning process. The routine, and frequent, cleaning process is flushing to remove the accumulated detritus on the feed side. However, over time there is a slow loss in membrane performance that can only be recovered by chemical cleaning.

Membrane filtration (MF, UF and low end NF) have become relatively common in potable water treatment, such as for removal of colour from otherwise relatively good quality water so avoiding complexities associated with coagulation, and for reliable exclusion of Cryptosporidium.

References

Tobiason J.E., Cleasby J.L.,Logsdon G.S. and O’Melia C.R. (2010) Granular Media Filtration, Chapt.10 in Water Quality & Treatment, 6th Edtn., AWWA & McGrawHill.

MWH (2005) Water Treatment Principles and Design (2nd Edtn.), Wiley

Purchas D.B. (1971) Industrial Filtration of Liquids (2nd Edtn), Leonard Hill, UK

Stuetz R. (2009) Principles of Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes, IWA

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why does my water softener need replaced every 5 years?

The cation resin beads will disintegrate because of all the chlorine in our home water.

If this material is not proactively changed every 5 years – a catastrophe will ensue.   We perform this – every 5 year change out at no charge.

New Topic

Why should my RO tank be sanitized for one hour every year (the best way is for this tank to be sanitized at a factory and swapped every year)?

We don’t know of a company that will stay at your home for one hour to sanitize your RO tank. 

One hour to sanitize your RO tank (with non scented bleach) is necessary in order to properly sanitize your RO tank (based upon water tests from Legend Lab, Phx AZ). After 12 months in the RO tank the hetertrophic bacteria in the water becomes hight.

Heterotrophic plate count (HPC) is a procedure for estimating the number of live heterotrophic bacteria in water¹². It is also known as the standard plate count¹. The HPC test can be used to measure the overall bacteriological quality of drinking water in public, semi-public and private water systems².

Learn more:

We sanitize your tank at our factory and switch your reverse osmosis tank out each year.

120123 and then we celebrate

At our 011824 safety meeting Boyett’s family water treatment recognized Sebastian for his 10 years of hard work here.

I was fortunate to say these words at the meeting.

10 years ago we were fortunate to have a young man begin his work here as a regeneration technician.   As new opportunities developed Sebastian continued to learn new skills and hone his craft.  I feel that Sebastian is one of the finest in our industry.  As I continue to watch Sebastian work, I am always awed at how much Sebastian accomplishes each day.   Sebastian, I am so impressed with your desire to learn and improve every day.   This is what makes a 57-year-old business happen.  This is what makes America strong. 

Sebastian, you make my heart happy when I see you in the morning with a smile and a smile at the end of the day.   This gives me great hope and I am taking notes because this is how I want to work.

When I asked Sebastian what award he wanted to celebrate his 10th anniversary – he looked up at my hat and said – Hayden ‘I’d like a hat like yours’.  I was a little surprised and I said – you want the stickers too, and he said no.    Sebastian, I put the sticker inside your hat. 

Does anybody have any great stories about this great man?

Here is our YouTube link to see what people are saying about this great Boyett’s family water technician. .

A person happened to me.

In 2009 an important neighbor and vendor stomped into our office demanding alkaline water. 

By changing her drinking water to alkaline water; she stopped limping (her hips were bothering her) and began running marathons and triathlons. 

Troy invented our alkalinity reverse osmosis unit. 

We learned that we can add an empty filter canister filled with calcite to raise the pH of our reverse osmosis water.  Now we add some magnesium oxide to this empty filter canister and we can now provide you with: +Mg+pH+ro+h2o:

50% of us are low on magnesium.  If you drink 60 ounces of our water each day; this may help to provide 10% of your daily needed magnesium nutrition.

We can provide you with the best technicians in the world because of our training model. 

It all begins with this tank:

These tanks are filled with cation resin beads.  This delivered product is called : Boyett’s family portable exchange soft water service.

The regeneration occurs at our factory.

(Insert picture of Route Truck)

The trucks that transport these portable exchange soft water tanks are unique and custom.   This person who happened upon me also invented an important contraption to make our portable exchange tank delivery safer. 

These tanks vary in height about 1.25”.  The metal flap that she developed allows extra protection when fitting the tank in place (it takes up the gap).

The trucks that perform your initial installation are all custom-made and designed. 

The company she founded and operates today (they build all our trucks) is called Coach Works Autobody located in Mesa, Arizona. 

The other great contribution MR has made to our lives is helping us begin a musical movement.

In 2009 MR took the courage to begin learning the fiddle.  She is the leader of our Fast Track Music in Mesa, AZ.   MR is the cofounder of Fast Track Music (we hope it becomes a worldwide movement).  The long name is Fast Track Musical Instrument and Voice Utilization

program (if you don’t use it – you lose it. To use it – you have to have it).

Each day we are looking for people who have a dream to play a musical instrument (or sing).  We provide the instrument free of charge and we sponsor a couple of lessons in the hope they will continue like we do (every day this music process is an important thing in our lives).

A person happened to me, and I am so grateful.

This is a picture that Ben G brought back to the office to show us.  He takes such great pride in his work he returns to brag about the good job he has performed.

We have great people.

We have great truck manufacturers that help us have the best fleet in the water business (this is our intention).

Picture of Coach Works Autobody and Paint (Mesa, AZ).

Because of this great family-owned company; we can set up and maintain your water equipment efficiently and affordably.

I am so grateful to my founder’s parents for leaving us a thing that we can work really hard every day and try to make it better. Nothing will happen here without the loyalty and trust of our important clients.

 I feel because of the high ethics and persistence that my parents invested in this company:

I am fortunate to work in a company that has the best technicians in the industry and the best fleet of trucks to provide you with great service at an affordable price. 

Thanks for investing your time with us today.

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett

Here is an article about our history:

https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/money/soft-water-runs-in-family-s-veins/article_dc7db6c5-0d01-5306-b4ad-fb9967a4216d.html

The post Is there uranium in your AZH2O drinking water? appeared first on Boyett's Family Water Treatment.

Christina Hall reveals she has ‘mercury and lead poisoning

What if it is because of the water she drinks?

Mercury and lead bioaccumulate in our bodies.

Does the Phoenix metro and East Valley metro contain lead in our drinking water?

Yes.

Sources and have resources:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/christina-hall-mercury-lead-poisoning-health-flips-231618157.html?guccounter=1

https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservicessite/Documents/PhoenixWater_LeadFAQ.pdf

Lead In Mesa Drinking Water

Lead enters tap water through older lead service pipes and lead-containing plumbing. When corrosion control measures put in place by the municipality fail (like what recently happened in Flint, Michigan), lead leaches into the drinking water, and can reach dangerous levels. Currently,10% of samples analyzed for lead in Mesa, AZ’s water are 3.7 parts per billion. Though Mesa’s water quality is in compliance with federal regulations, EPA and CDC both acknowledge that there is no safe level of lead, and federal regulations do not take into account levels measured at an individual tap. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that any taps used to serve children have lead levels no higher than 1 part per billion.

How does lead and mercury get in our Phoenix Metro and East Valley AZ h2o? 

More than 90 percent of our water supply is surface water that originates as snow in the mountains north and east of Phoenix.  As the snow melts, it flows into reservoirs on the Colorado, Salt, and Verde Rivers where it is stored for future release to our water treatment plants.  These extensive reservoir systems allow for the capture of water during wet periods for use during the dry years.  

2/3 of this water falls far away from our homes.  Water falls as a pure molecule and seeks to neutralize itself by attracting ions in its water journey.  Lead and iron are heavy metals in our AZ Water; that are picked up on the water molecules’ journey down the Colorado and Salt and Verde River.  When you turn on your tap to drink AZ h2o – lead and mercury will be in your drinking water.  Lead and mercury bioaccumulate in your body. 

( last line): if you fish AZ h2o – do not eat the fish (they contain mercury).

Eating AZ fish = you will ingest mercury (mercury bioaccumulates in your body)

Sources:

https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/resourcesconservation/drought-information/climatechange/water-supply-q-a

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/mercury-contamination-aquatic-environments

–Does Your Water Contain an Unsafe Level of Mercury?  Trending Towns <https://trendingtowns.com/does-your-water-contain-an-unsafe-level-of-mercury/>

Each day, City of Chandler Water Quality Specialists perform up to 100 tests on the drinking water you receive at your home or business. These tests ensure that your water meets every health and safety standard set by the state and federal government.

However, do they test for the mercury content in your water?   I don’t see it here.

Water Quality | City of Chandler (chandleraz.gov)

If I am wrong, please inform me and I will immediately change my content.  I want to ask for you to help me make sure I am accurate with all my reporting.

Testing the Water to Ensure Only the Highest Quality ​

More than five million tests and measurements are conducted each year to ensure high-quality tap water in Phoenix. It is tested for more than 100 substances and is monitored throughout the year to ensure that it meets the rigorous standards set forth by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, and the Maricopa County Environmental Services Department.

I don’t see mercury listed on the city of Phoenix water tests.  Is the City of Phoenix testing for mercury levels in our drinking water? 

Water Services ​Understanding Phoenix’s Water Quality

Is there Lead in Chandler Water? Based on the EPA’s ECHO Database, 90% of the samples taken from the Chandler water system, City of Chandler, between a sample start date and sample end date show the presence of lead in your City of Chandler drinking water.

Is Chandler Tap Water Safe to Drink? – 2022 (tapsafe.org)

Is there Lead in Phoenix Water? Based on the EPA’s ECHO Database, 90% of the samples taken from the Phoenix water system, City of Phoenix, between the sample start date and sample end date lead is present in your Phoenix AZ drinking water.

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The safe level of lead in drinking water is 0%. There should be no lead in it at all. Lead is strictly banned because it can be toxic even in low doses, especially for infants and young children. Guidelines from the CDC suggest that a blood concentration level over five micrograms per liter (5 parts per billion) could be a sign of lead poisoning.

What Are Safe Lead Levels In Drinking Water? | Benchmark (benchmarkenvironmental.com)

 Levels of lead above 0 in drinking water are considered unsafe, so if test results show that your tap water contains 1 ppm of lead, the EPA sees this as potentially harmful to health.

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=8dd8231d54957333JmltdHM9MTY4MjIwODAwMCZpZ3VpZD0xOTk5Yzc2Zi0wNDg5LTY5MzUtMjcxMy1kNjJkMDVmNjY4OWEmaW5zaWQ9NTM5NA&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=1999c76f-0489-6935-2713-d62d05f6689a&psq=should+there+be+any+amount+of+lead+in+our+drinking+water&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93YXRlcmZpbHRlcmd1cnUuY29tL2hvdy10by10ZXN0LWZvci1sZWFkLWluLXdhdGVyLw&ntb=1

How can I remove all the lead and mercury from my entire drinking water system (and the water we bathe)?

Here are two affordable solutions (don’t waste water, do not use salt – no electricity required):

6412 Lead Removal (azh2o.com)

9679 Whole House Mercury (azh2o.com)

May I please render a thought; if everyone in Arizona has one of these devices on the main line of their home – you will have peace of mind – your drinking water will be free of lead and free of mercury – you may live a couple more days ‘happy and healthy and peaceful’.  If all homes in America had one of these affordable treatment devices; no more concern about these toxic water contaminants:

Let’s make every home in America free of lead and mercury (drinking water and all water in your homes). 

May I also please render another thought:

Let’s not rely on our United States Government; let us not rely on our local water purveyors; let us not rely on our local governments to provide us safe water.

Let us empower ourselves to find trustworthy, hardworking – long track-record family water treatment companies to help us.  We know several.

A word of caution: all of these units (the size is important) must be indubitably exchanged every five years (microbiological contamination of your water may occur).  This point is very important.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

sources:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

In the words of Publius

This idea of a new US water constitution (no more lead and no more mercury in your drinking water; no more lead and mercury in your utility water) will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men must feel is an important notion. Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests (great tasting water; safe water for all our US citizens to drink and bathe), unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good? But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected. The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions, and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth.

Among the most formidable of the obstacles our new US water Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes that may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments; and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.

In the words of Hayden Boyett, I will always tell you I am very obsequies to our US leaders.  I am very grateful my family has had an influence in establishing our current water structure (Wilford Hayden ‘Hayden Road was named – third settler in Scottsdale’ – the first farmers mortgaged their land for the Teddy Roosevelt AZ dam; Senator Carl Hayden ‘longest serving in US; gave us our Colorado river rights ‘CAP Canal’ – he was a shirttail relative ‘claimed my mother and her siblings as his nieces and nephews’). Here are the facts:

Our drinking water tastes bad in AZ.  All of our great founding mothers and fathers have been committed to clean up our water.  Our present staff and leaders are committed to this same notion (they are the best in the world ‘we are all trained through our family 56-year training organization’).  I love America (I hope I always will – it’s up to me; it is up to us).  Not for a moment, not for a day – not for a century, but by the work of tenacious people who care – we will preserve our love of America.

Sources and resources:

https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text

BTW if you ever want a quick refresher course on our great Constitution (it is free)

Hillsdale College Online Courses

(the economics courses are interesting too)

More toilet water to your AZ tap.

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Phoenix to Build Multibillion Dollar Purification Plant to Make Wastewater Drinkable by 2030 | ORION INVESTMENT REAL ESTATE (orionprop.com)

Phoenix to Build Multibillion Dollar Purification Plant to Make Wastewater Drinkable by 2030

The article was originally posted on AZ Central on April 12, 2023

Phoenix wants to recycle wastewater into drinking water by the end of 2030 and share it with the Valley.

The plan is to build an advanced water purification facility and treat, then reuse millions of gallons of wastewater that would have otherwise been discharged into the Salt River.

The investment would provide Arizona cities with a significant new drinking water supply, which is vital as they work to lessen their dependence on the shrinking Colorado River and diversify their water sources.

The multibillion-dollar technology called direct potable reuse, or “tap to toilet,” by critics, cleans water that goes down a home’s drains and sends it back for reuse. It will be added to the 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant southwest of downtown and purify 60 million gallons per day — enough water for about 200,000 households per year.

Shortage Solution: Why you shouldn’t fear toilet-to-tap water

The new supply from the purification facility could replace half of what Phoenix gets from the Colorado River water each year, although Phoenix doesn’t intend to keep the water all for itself.

I am a little afraid of toilet water in my tap water.

This man is in the process of developing whole house products to give us peace of mind (AZ toilet water to our faucets).

Silver-coated alumina.

We are currently utilizing this technology on our clarify reverse osmosis unit.

https://azh2o.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clarify-ro-brochure-092122.pdf

30 Boyett’s family water treatment clients are currently utilizing this technology.

This Claire technologies inventor and company leader is proposing that we utilize this silver coated alumina at your point of entry to make sure no E.Coli, coliform or pathogens get to your utility or drinking water.

As I understand from the founder of Claire Technologies; if we attach this to the point of entry of your home – Boyett’s family will provide you peace of mind (no E.Coli, no pathogens; no coliform) will sneak through to your water supply.

What should we call this?

For our Arizona:

“It’s a new bucket for us,” Mayor Kate Gallego told The Arizona Republic in an exclusive interview. “For a lot of my life, I’ve been thinking about where you get that next bucket from, so it’s exciting.”

Finding new water sources is critical for central Arizona, which has long relied on the Colorado River for its drinking water — and heavily. It’s 40% of Phoenix’s and Mesa’s water portfolios.

But the river is shrinking, and climate change combined with overuse has led to historic water shortages that affect not only Arizona but California and Nevada, too. Some Valley cities have raised water rates and have begun cutting back on water usage in response.

Politics exacerbates the issue, too. The federal agreement that manages the river’s allocation expires in 2026, and a new agreement could mean less water for the Phoenix area than before.

Without a new supply, Arizona cities would be short of significant amounts of water and would likely have to dip into nonrenewable water supplies, like groundwater, which isn’t sustainable. Residents could be affected, as cities would likely enter into more severe phases of their water shortage plans.

Reliable and sustainable water is crucial to the Valley’s economic outlook.

Failure to shore up more potable water also affects regional growth. A gigantic master-planned community slated for the far west suburb of Buckeye is in jeopardy after a report showed inadequate water to support it.

Phoenix’s water outlook is not as dire as Buckeye’s, but the more it reduces its reliance on the Colorado River, the more breathing room it and other cities stand to potentially gain.

A Water Standoff:6 Colorado River states submit a plan to cut water use, but California says ‘no deal’

While Scottsdale invested in an advanced water purification system in 2019, Phoenix is the first city to move to directly reuse effluent for drinking purposes on a mass scale. Scottsdale does not direct its purified wastewater into the drinking water system, according to its website.

Other cities, such as Peoria, engage in indirect reuse, which sends treated wastewater back into the ground for natural filtration before being pumped out for drinking purposes.

Arizonans have long been drinking purified wastewater, but Phoenix’s announcement means residents will drink wastewater solely purified by a plant, not a plant and the ground.

The advanced water purification technology in Phoenix, according to Water Resource Director Troy Hayes, would clean wastewater, or effluent, repeatedly to ensure it’s up to drinking standards set by the state.

It would undergo ozone treatment, which disinfects the water by killing “pathogenic organisms to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Then the water would undergo granular activated carbon treatment, for odor, smell and chemicals. Lastly, it would go through ultrafiltration or reverse osmosis for bacteria.

The water would be monitored by sensors and tested at the end to ensure quality and discharged to the river if it failed, Hayes said.

Conserving: Metro Phoenix cities start cutting back on water use as Arizona’s largest water source struggles

City Officials Tout Reliability of Purifying Recycled Water

Phoenix’s water resources management adviser Cynthia Campbell said unlike Colorado River water, which can be disrupted by drought and political agreements outside Phoenix’s control, direct potable reuse is a stable supply. That’s because residents’ indoor water usage has remained level the past five years, according to the city’s Water Resources Master Plan.

“We almost know with exact science exactly how much wastewater we’re going to get because it’s been so stable over the years,” Campbell said.

That doesn’t mean Phoenix isn’t encouraging conservation, Campbell says. She wants households to reduce their water use, but the focus is mostly on outdoor uses, like reducing grass or water-intensive plants.

‘Failure is not an option’:Colorado River states would share water cuts under new plan

Hayes said the city’s next step is figuring out which cities want to buy in.

Mesa is one.

“Our (Colorado River) allotments are in jeopardy. The price of water is going up every year,” Mesa Mayor John Giles said. “Finding new buckets of water is a challenge that we all share. So we very much are in support of participating.”

Giles said Phoenix and Mesa could potentially pipe wastewater and purified water to each other, but a more likely scenario might be a water exchange, where Mesa buys into the plant but takes some of Phoenix’s Colorado River water instead of the purified water, which would then stay with Phoenix.

opens a pasture gate while feeding his cattle at his ranch in Pinedale, Wyoming, on March 27, 2022. Snow and water from the Colorado’s headwater grow his hay. “When it falls here, it’s our water,” he said.

The 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant is co-owned by Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Glendale and Scottsdale. Hayes said as many as 10 Valley cities could benefit from the new facility.

Phoenix officials did not provide details on exact costs of the facility, saying only that it would be in the billions and that the size and number of municipalities that pay in will determine that.

Funding is expected to come from the federal government and the state Water Infrastructure Finance Authority, which received a $1 billion infusion last summer in an unsuccessful attempt by then-Gov. Doug Ducey to fund a desalination plant in Mexico.

Gallego pitched the advanced water purification system as a necessary step in shoring up the Valley’s water supply and ensuring Arizona takes advantage of the federal funding that has been made available for water projects such as these.

President Joe Biden’s 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law set aside $8.3 billion for water projects in the West — $550 million of which is intended for mass-scale water recycling projects.

“If we didn’t have this project, so much of that money would go to California, which is further along in their water treatment facility investment,” Gallego said. “So far, they have gotten the lion’s share of the federal dollars, but this project helps us get our fair share.”

The remaining costs will be paid for by water ratepayers in the cities that make use of the plant.

Currently, the majority of wastewater from the 91st Avenue plant goes toward cooling the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Plant, which won’t change. Wastewater will also go to the Tres Rios Wetlands, and later the Salt River, though less of it.

Well, it sounds like our local political leadership is doing a good job providing us water.  We can only live several days without water, but is it the water that you want to drink and wash your face?

We’d like to provide you peace of mind.

Sources and resources:

I give all the credit for our content to these sources.  We do not take any credit.  All the credit goes to them.

Phoenix to Build Multibillion Dollar Purification Plant to Make Wastewater Drinkable by 2030 | ORION INVESTMENT REAL ESTATE (orionprop.com)

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https://wjla.com/sponsored/spotlight/exclusive-lab-tests-show-toxic-forever-chemicals-in-americas-tap-water

Exclusive lab tests show toxic ‘forever’ chemicals in America’s tap water

Toxic “forever” chemicals are seeping into the water Americans drink every day. The more we learn about the potential health impacts of these chemicals, the more serious the problem becomes. As the EPA takes bold steps to try to limit PFAS contamination, Spotlight on America conducted a series of exclusive lab tests and discovered just how widespread the contamination of America’s water system is.

The PFAS Problem

You can’t see or taste them, but there are more than 12,000 chemicals that could be lurking in your drinking water, causing everything from birth defects to cancer. Broadly known as PFAS, short for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, these are dangerous man-made toxins that never break down, build up in our blood and organs, and could damage the health of millions.

PFAS originated in the 1940s, when the DuPont company introduced nonstick cookware coated with Teflon using the chemicals. 3M would later become a lead manufacturer of products containing PFAS, touted for being non-stick, stain repellent and waterproof. They would also contribute to a public health crisis we are still seeing develop today. Because PFAS chemicals are so durable, they don’t break down. They’re often referred to as “forever chemicals” because they’re nearly impossible to eliminate from the environment. They also accumulate in our body from a variety of sources.

PFAS chemicals are ubiquitous in our lives. They’ve been found recently in baby clothes and dog food packaging, and are known to exist in makeup, non-stick cookware and dental floss.

People can be exposed to PFAS in a number of ways, from eating contaminated food, breathing air containing PFAS, and drinking water polluted with the toxins.

Currently, much attention is focused on drinking water, as communities across the country are learning these hazardous chemicals can seep into their water supplies from a number of sources, including industry discharge, landfills, and airports and military bases, due to the long-term use of a firefighting foam that contains PFAS and has leeched into the groundwater.

There’s emerging science when it comes to the health risks associated with PFAS exposure. According to the EPA, peer-reviewed studies have shown that exposure to certain levels of PFAS may lead to:

• Reproductive effects such as decreased fertility or increased high blood pressure in pregnant women.
• Developmental effects or delays in children, including low birth weight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, or behavioral changes.
• Increased risk of some cancers, including prostate, kidney, and testicular cancers.
• Reduced ability of the body’s immune system to fight infections, including reduced vaccine response.
• Interference with the body’s natural hormones.
• Increased cholesterol levels and/or risk of obesity.

Children are believed to be more sensitive to the harmful effects of PFAS, because they are continuing to develop. According to the EPA, some people may have higher exposures to PFAS, including people who live near PFAS-producing facilities. Pregnant and lactating women tend to drink more water than the average person, and as a result, they may have higher PFAS exposure if PFAS is present in their water.

Federal health officials are currently focused on just a small handful of the 12,000 PFAS chemicals out there. They’ve zoomed in on a pair of harmful chemicals, and just this summer, proposed dramatically reducing the level that would be considered safe. The level of PFOA, one PFAS chemical, once considered safe, was 70 parts per trillion. Now, the EPA is proposing slashing that to .004 parts per trillion, a reduction of more than 99.99%.

With that reduction in mind, we set out to obtain a new set of data when it comes to drinking water.

Exclusive Tap Water Tests

As the EPA continues to review PFAS chemicals and draft more stringent restrictions on their levels in water, there is increasing interest in the scientific community over just how contaminated US drinking water sources may be.

So we decided to test what’s coming out of taps, from suburban homes and city businesses to the halls of government.

We collected samples at 11 locations in Maryland, Virginia, and in Washington, DC, including at the US Capitol and inside the lobby of the EPA.

We sent the tests to Suburban Labs, one of a handful of specialized labs across the country that is certified to test for 18 PFAS chemicals.

More than a third of our samples contained PFOA, (Perfluorooctanoic Acid) generally viewed by experts as one of the most serious PFAS chemicals. In two of our tests in suburban Virginia homes, the levels of PFOA were more than 12-hundred times higher than the EPA’s proposed advisory level of .004 parts per trillion.

These advisory levels, measured in parts per trillion concentrations, are values at which the EPA believes adverse health effects are not anticipated to occur over a specific period of time. The EPA says its health advisory levels are designed to “protect people from adverse health effects resulting from exposure throughout their lives to contaminants in drinking water.”

The current level – which is based on what scientists tell us are outdated models when lower detection was not possible and less was known about PFOA and PFOS (Perfluorooctane Sulfonate) – is 70 parts per trillion. New, dramatically lower levels, based on the EPA’s suggestion of .004 parts per trillion, are expected to be settled upon in the coming months.

To get a better understanding of our findings, we brought our results to Dr. Linda Birnbaum, a leading toxicologist and expert on PFAS. She is the former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and spent 19 years at the EPA, where she directed the largest division focusing on environmental health research.

While there are more than 12,000 PFAS chemicals, labs are only capable of testing for a tiny fraction of them. And there’s constantly new data emerging about the dangers of PFAS. After reviewing our test results, we asked Birnbaum what she found most troubling.

“That they’re everywhere,” she said. “That you’re seeing these chemicals, essentially, everywhere. “And I think it’s not just one chemical, it’s several chemicals that are pretty much in almost every sample that you took. The levels are low, which is the good news, but they’re still there.”

One of the chemicals we detected that she was perhaps most concerned about is called PFHxS. We found it in the tap water of two Maryland homes. “That one really concerns me because there are growing amounts of animal and human data showing that PFHxS may be every bit as bad as, say, PFOS and PFOA and it lasts in our bodies for a longer period of time,” said Birnbaum.

Another PFAS chemical that we found in nearly every sample, including at the Capitol and EPA, is called PFHxA. It’s a large sub-set of PFAS – and while there are no bans on it in the United States, it is on the cusp of having restrictions on all of its uses in the European Union. The European Chemicals Agency’s Committee on Risk Assessment recently endorsed such restrictions because of PFHxA’s persistence in the environment and harmful effects on the human reproductive system. A recent study found PFHxA and other PFAS, in breast milk.

According to a 2020 study by the Environmental Working Group, PFAS is likely detectable in all major water supplies in the U.S. In a sampling of water from 44 places in 31 states, EWG found the toxic chemicals in tap water in every state it tested and the District of Columbia. Consistent with what we found in our tests, each EWG sample with detectable levels contained six or seven PFAS compounds.

A Local Tragedy

Beth Markesino ran at least three miles every day as she trained for marathons. That meant drinking copious amounts of tap water from her home in Wilmington, North Carolina.

She never imagined that the water she was guzzling could have been contaminated with PFAS.

Then, tragedy struck her family. Six years ago, Beth’s son Samuel died shortly after birth. He had failed to develop a kidney or bladder, problems that some studies have linked to PFAS exposure. Beth believes the chemicals in drinking water are linked to Samuel’s death.

She says doctors did genetic testing on Samuel and found no medical reason for his fatal birth defects.

She never imagined that the water she was guzzling could have been contaminated with PFAS.

Then, tragedy struck her family. Six years ago, Beth’s son Samuel died shortly after birth. He had failed to develop a kidney or bladder, problems that some studies have linked to PFAS exposure. Beth believes the chemicals in drinking water are linked to Samuel’s death.

She says doctors did genetic testing on Samuel and found no medical reason for his fatal birth defects.

She never imagined that the water she was guzzling could have been contaminated with PFAS.

Then, tragedy struck her family. Six years ago, Beth’s son Samuel died shortly after birth. He had failed to develop a kidney or bladder, problems that some studies have linked to PFAS exposure. Beth believes the chemicals in drinking water are linked to Samuel’s death.

She says doctors did genetic testing on Samuel and found no medical reason for his fatal birth defects.

Meanwhile, scientists and journalists uncovered that massive quantities of PFAS chemicals had been dumped into the Cape Fear River, which supplies drinking water to more than 300,000 people in the Wilmington, North Carolina area.

“I’m not a scientist. I’m a stay at home mom,” said Markesino. “But I was a pissed off stay at home mom to find out that the water I was drinking, that I thought was clean, was toxic and full of these chemicals.”

Beth credits scientists for work that would raise public awareness and trigger action – like community intervention, improved water treatment facilities and lawsuits to hold polluters responsible.

“PFAS passes from the placenta to the fetus, that’s what happened to my son,” she said. “And I’ve always had that question in the back of my mind, but it’s because of these scientists that we have this research that we can give to our community members to let them know the health effects of these chemicals.”

According to a class action lawsuit,The Chemours company, a spin-off of DuPont, the original maker of PFAS chemicals, “willfully, wantonly, recklessly and negligently” discharged toxic chemicals, including PFAS compounds GenX, PFOS and PFOA into the river for decades.

A Nationwide Problem

By some estimates, 200 million Americans nationwide are likely drinking water polluted with these chemicals, and PFAS has been detected in the blood of 98% of our population.

Are the pfas (forever chemicals) in your Phoenix Metro ; East Valley AZ h2o?

Yes.

Here is what you can do.

or

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

Here is a topic dear to my heart because it brings in 66,000 jobs to AZ every year.  Golf utilizes only 2% of AZ h2o resources.

Why doesn’t Phoenix do something about golf courses and others who use a lot of water?

Golf courses and many other businesses, not only are vital to our economy, but they use some of the most highly advanced watering systems available. After all, they need to look out for their bottom line. Additionally, many Valley golf courses use non-potable water, such as non-drinkable well water and reclaimed water, which is highly treated wastewater, to water their turf areas. Golf courses are an asset that contributes heavily to the draw for tourism in the Valley, which, in turn, creates jobs and helps keep the economy healthy. In total, golf course water use constitutes less than three percent of total water delivered by the city of Phoenix .

Professional turf managers use real-time data to assess how much moisture is lost from turf areas each day and how much is put back. That same grass management data is available to all citizens. The Arizona Republic newspaper reports on water needs daily on the weather page, and there is a website to help you plan watering schedules for your lawn and plants. You can create a personal lawn watering guide by visiting the AZMET website. ​There also are a variety of materials available through the water conservation office which you can request electronically or by calling us at (602) 261-8367.

In the future, a drought surcharge could be imposed to charge people according to the amount of water they use each month.

Leather britches and whiskey before breakfast at the salt river Indian community with DG – YouTube

The golfing industry is one of great intrigue to me.  Here are my attachments:

• When I visited Japan as a Christian missionary; the granddaughter of Karsten Solheim (founder of Ping) was on this trip.  Through the years we have kept in contact.
• My cousin has worked at Ping for many years now (he is a famous golfer from the prestigious golf team at Oklahoma University – and still plays well).  My cousin loves Ping and is raising the ranks.
• My great friend and associate D.G loves golf and conducts much business on the AZ greens.
• I love AZ and I love people and I want to see my AZ people happy and I want to see our AZ economy thrive.

Golf + AZ + efficient use of our water =  Happy Hayden

Sources and resources:

https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/resourcesconservation/drought-information/climatechange/water-supply-q-a

sometimes it is the simple messages that I see that help direct my path.

Choose Life – 4 simple habits to feel your best.

Connection.  Do you have the social support you need?  Take time to call a friend, write a letter, or join someone for a walk or meal.  Don’t be afraid to ask for support.  Spiritual connection is also beneficial.  Research shows that contemplating God’s love and spending time in prayer reduces anxiety.

Hydration.  Are you drinking enough water (we recommend that you drink 1 gallon each day)?  Even mild dehydration can impair brain function and increase feelings of anxiety and fatigue.  Try to drink half your body weight in ounces each day (for me 217 pounds = .85 gallons).

Optimism.  Do you practice gratitude?  People who count their blessings tend to be healthier and more content.  Even if you struggle with depression, your brain will benefit from the simple practice of gratitude.  Each day, write down 3-5 things you’re grateful for.  This quick habit has lasting positive effects. 

1. I am grateful for our loyal and trusting customers
2. I am grateful to my wonderful staff
3. I am grateful to be in a loving relationship with a wonderful mate (V)
4. I am grateful to continue my parent’s water treatment legacy
5. I am grateful to support the principles of the American Constitution ‘and seek it’s continuance as our founding fathers intended – freedom’

 Oxygen.  Are you breathing deeply?  Deep breathing helps you relax,  diminishing the harmful effects of the stress hormone cortisol.  Take a few minutes each day to breathe slowly and deeply.  Breathe in through your nose for 2-4 seconds, and expand your stomach while your chest remains still.  Exhale slowly from your mouth.

Sources:

Beautifulmindswellness.org

What is hard water and water softening?

According to the U.S Geologic Survey, 85 percent of the United States has to cope with hard water, which is water with excessive levels of calcium and magnesium.  While hard water is not considered to be unhealthy for people to drink, it can be very unhealthy for household plumbing, cleaning processes, and water-using appliances.  The minerals present in hard water can accumulate in the form of hard scale which build up and eventually clog pipes and damage water-using appliances.  These minerals also affect the ability of soap to clean kitchen and bath surfaces, dishwasher, and laundry.

The problems associated with hard water have been known for quite some time. 

Earlier generations coined the phrase “hard water” because they found it hard to clean.  They collected soft rainwater in a barrel to be used in laundering and other cleaning operations – which is hardly an option in the modern world of indoor plumbing and automatic washing machines.  Some water utilities offer municipal softening, but water treated in this manner typically falls short of being soft water.  It is generally left up to the home or business owner to find their own solutions to the hard water problem.

Source:

Water review.  A publication of the Water Quality Research Council.  Consumer Report volume 10, No 1 1995

Our soft water process can now be added to these products:

https://azh2o.com/pdf/chromium%20filter%20brochure.pdf

https://azh2o.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/mercury-filter-010623-1.pdf

https://azh2o.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/lead-filter-brochure-062022.pdf

These units must be exchanged every five years to prevent contamination of your water (granular activated media will reach a saturation point and begin adding contaminants to the water if not replaced).

Sources and resources:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

We can only live several days without water (water is our source of life – our life source for our exitance).  Delicious, quenching water is our life source for the future. 

In this article

https://www.abc15.com/weather/impact-earth/increasing-arizonas-water-supply?_amp=true

 93% of that water is treated and then reused in some way.

Our valley is now 6 million people; according to Arizona Public Service our valley will grow to 12 million people in 15 years.  We live in the desert and our water is scarce.  More of our drinking water will be recycled sewage water (toilet water to your tap). 

In sewage water we have E.Coli, Coliform and Pathogens.

The future water you drink will come from treated sewage water.

E. co·li

/ē ˈkōlī/

noun

• 1.a bacterium commonly found in the intestines of humans and other animals, some strains of which can cause severe food poisoning.

Is e.coli found in sewage water?

• Escherichia coli or E. coli is a type of fecal coliform bacteria that is commonly found in the intestines of animals and humans. E. coli in water is a strong indicator of sewage or animal waste contamination. Sewage and animal waste can contain many types of disease-causing organisms.

E.coli is found in sewage water.

Can drinking water that contains e.coli kill you?

• Take E. coli bacteria seriously when found in drinking water. Some E.coli can make you sick or even cause death.

How do you kill e.coli in your water?

Since E. coli is a biological contaminant, the best way to kill it is to install a UV light water purification system.

Sources:

https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E211US1494G0&p=e.coli+define

https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E211US1494G0&p=is+e.coli+found+in+sewage+water%3F

https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/egle/Documents/Programs/DWEHD/Water-Well-Construction/Coliform-Water-Sampling.pdf?rev=62de08ba52034c5781b42bc37b293ce9#:~:text=Take%20E.%20coli%20bacteria%20seriously%20when%20found%20in,can%20make%20you%20sick%20or%20even%20cause%20death.

Water softener alternative

Water filtration system

Whole House Water Filtration Systems

We provide clean, filtered water for your entire home.

About Boyett’s family Water treatment

At Boyett’s family water treatment we take pride in several principles that define our company. These principles set us apart in the business world and allow us continued success.

Boyett’s family water treatment service has been manufacturing and installing water treatment products for residential, commercial, and industrial applications since 1966. We are second generation, family-owned, and treat all employees as part of our Boyett’s family.

Our factory has been in the same Mesa Arizona since 1966. We have expanded our manufacturing capacity and workforce to meet the growing demand for our products.

Salt Free Water Softener Benefits

High-Quality Water for Your Entire Life and home

Our whole house water treatment service is maintenance-free and environmentally friendly. Reduce scale buildup in your home without extra costs or additives. Extend the lifespan of your water-based appliances and pipes – without adding salt or potassium to your water.  Every five years we exchange your water treatment equipment free of charge.

Protect your instements

No Scale build up

Reduce scale on water heaters, appliances, glass and fixtures.

Zero Maintenance

We provide maintenance-free filtration that lasts for 5 years.  We exchange your water treatment equipment every 5 years at no charge.

Our Mother Earth will tell you thank you.

Protect your investment – no scale buildup

Reduce scale in your water heater, appliances, glass and fixtures.

Hassle-free zero maintenance

We provide maintenance-free filtration that lasts for years.  On average, we exchange your unit every 5 years at no cost.  It is important to have the media inside your water unit changed at least every five years.  We perform this at no charge.

In a posting on the National Library of medicine:

Microbiological contamination of drinking water in a commercial household water filter system

F D Daschner ¹, H Rüden, R Simon, J Clotten

Affiliations expand

• PMID: 8740859

• DOI: 10.1007/BF01591360

Abstract

The microbiological quality of filtered water in a commercial water filter system (Brita) was tested in households and in two laboratories. In 24 of 34 filters used in households, bacterial counts increased in the filtered water up to 6,000 cfu/ml. In 4 of 6 filters tested in the laboratory, bacterial counts in the fresh filtrate were higher than in tap water after approximately one week of use both at room temperature and at 4 degrees C, suggesting growth or biofilm formation in the filter material. In some cases colony counts in the filtered water were 10,000 times those in tap water. The filter material of 5 of 13 new commercial filters was contaminated with bacteria or molds. National or international regulatory agencies should ensure that water filters marketed for domestic use do not allow deterioration in the microbiological quality of drinking water.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

If your whole-house water system does not get exchanged and completely replaced, it may contaminate your water.

Mother nature says Thanks for being eco-friendly

Our systems save energy by helping your appliances run more efficiently.  It does not waste excess water or discharge salt into the ground (just ask for the salt-free model).  

HAPPY HEART, HAPPY YOU

Heart-Friendly

Salt-free softening means salt is not added to your water, unlike traditional water softeners which require constant maintenance and salt exchange.

Salt-Free Water Softener Benefits

Water Softener Alternative

What is a Water Softener Alternative?

Traditional water softeners use salt to soften and condition the water, but do not filter your water. Our water softener alternative is a salt-free solution to reduce scale buildup and filter your water. Turn on any faucet and have clean, delicious high quality water.

Our salt-free water softener alternative retains healthy minerals while removing chlorine and chloramines.

Boyett’s family Water Systems are maintenance-free. You won’t have to buy salt bags, change filters.

Our whole house water filter

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

in combination with

Fluoride Filter + Granular Activated Filter – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

This is our ultimate protection package that destroys over 99.99% of all bacteria, viruses, and cysts.

Optimize your water by combining our filtering system, scale reducer, and our anti-bacterial filter. No salt, no maintenance!

Retain healthy minerals in your water with our Elite Filter. Reduce hard water problems and scale buildup with our whole-house chromium filter and our whole-house fluoride filter.

 Taste and Feel the Difference

Salt-Free Water Softener Benefits

High-Quality Water for Your Entire Home

Our whole-house water softener alternative is maintenance-free and environmentally friendly. Reduce scale buildup in your home without extra costs or additives. Extend the lifespan of your water-based appliances and pipes – without adding salt or potassium to your water.

Salt-free softening means salt is not added to your water, unlike traditional water softeners which require constant maintenance and salt exhange.

These are a couple of other alternatives for salt-free whole-house filtration:

9679 Whole House Mercury (azh2o.com)

6412 Lead Removal (azh2o.com)

Why are small family business managers inspired to read Built to last (about enduring great companies ‘like Wells Fargo; Disney; Nike’)?  These companies set a high standard of values and performance that we are compelled to try and live up to.  The big companies like Hewlett Packard did not start as giants; they started like Brian and Roberta Boyett.  They built small, cash-strapped enterprises into the world’s most enduring and successful corporations.  To know they did it gives me confidence and a model to follow.

We crave time-tested fundamentals; no ‘fad of the year’ management thinking.  We are constantly going back to the basics that Brian and Roberta Boyett lead to us by example.

As our small family business is transitioning away from water-wasting ‘salt guzzling’ electric units; we read Built to last (written by Jim Collins) to bring about productive change without destroying the bedrock of my parent’s great company.  We are asking ourselves today this question: What do we stand for and why do we exist?

Answer: to provide you safe delicious water that is affordable and convenient (and good for Arizona).  Our onus is to preserve our Arizona water by searching out and implementing the most advanced water-saving water treatment technology that is the best for our clients (most affordable and most convenient).    This is our timeless core value and enduring purpose (our promise to you is this will never change).

Our operating practices and business strategies will be constantly changing to respond to our changing Arizona population problems and water toxicity and drinking water contamination challenges to give you peace of mind.  

Why should I get a water softener for my residence in Phoenix Metro and the East Valley of Arizona?

Our Bossy likes to drink toilet water – do you?

Bossy is our stray that walked in our office one day like he owned the place.  He is welcome anytime (most days he visits and hangs out with us).

We provide Bossy with the best water in the world; however, he sometimes chooses the toilet water and Boyett’s family water treatment.

82 % of your drinking water is treated wastewater.

There is cement in our Phoenix and East Valley water.

Two of the most important constituencies in cement are Calcium and Magnesium.  These are two important ingredients in Phx AZ and East Valley AZ water.

More than 90 percent of our water supply is surface water that originates as snow in the mountains north and east of Phoenix. As the snow melts, it flows into reservoirs on the Colorado, Salt, and Verde rivers.

In Phoenix Metro AZ and East Valley Arizona the water comes from far away: falls from the sky as a pure water molecule – seeks to attract molecules ‘it is in the nature of a pure thing’: some of these are cement.  When these water molecules arrive at your home – they contain the constituencies of cement.  It will clog your pipes and make your skin itchy.

What is hard water and water softening?

According to the U.S. geologic survey, 85 percent of the United States has to cope with hard water, which is water with excessive levels of calcium and magnesium.  Hard water is unhealthy for your plumbing (clogs your plumbing with cement), cleaning processes (cement deposits everywhere and it is hard to clean up – makes your home look hard and spotty), and water–using appliances (freezes the motor in your clothes washer; clogs the water in your dishwasher; makes your water heater fill with sediment).   Hard water/cement in your water causes your fixtures to clog up.   The minerals present in hard water can accumulate in the form of hard scale which can build up and eventually clog your pipes and damage your water-using appliances.  These minerals also affect the ability of soap to clean kitchen and bath surfaces, dishware, and laundry. 

The problems associated with hard water have been known for quite some time.  Earlier generations coined the phrase “hard water” because they found it hard to clean.  They collected soft rainwater in a barrel to be used in laundering and other cleaning operations – which is hardly an option in the modern world of indoor plumbing and automatic washing machines. 

What is hard water /cement in your water?

The U.S. Department of the Interior classifies hardness based on the grains per gallon (gpg) concentration of hardness minerals. To put this in perspective, a typical aspirin equals about five grains of material.  If the aspirin were dissolved in a gallon of water it would add 5 gpg of “aspirin” to the water.  Where hardness is concerned, water containing 1-3.5 gpg of the hardness minerals calcium and/or magnesium is classified as slightly hard; water in the 3.5-7 gpg range is considered to be moderately hard; at 7.0-10.5 gpg water is considered to be hard; and very hard water is classified as water with concentrations greater than 10.5 gpg.  Soft water has a hardness of less than 1 gpg.  How hard is your water in the Phoenix metro area of Arizona; how hard is your water in the East Valley area of Arizona?  Ladies and gentleman; your AZH2O in the Phoenix metro area of Arizona is very hard and your water in the East Valley area of Arizona is hard.   Your hard water will have very discernable effects on these areas of your home:

Your bathing will be awful (dry hair, dry skin; your skin will itch all day long and your scalp will itch all day long)

Your pipes will clog up and corrode and weaken gradually.

Noticeably shortened life of household pipes, plumbing fixtures (like faucets and toilet flushing units), and water-using appliances.

Hard water can waste and cost you hundreds of dollars in hard costs to maintain your home (your skin – putting lotions and potions) and your wasted dollars in cleaning up the cement in your home.  Do you clean your own home (with soft water; this will save you time and energy – you can be reading and walking and playing your musical instrument)?   If you have a water softener your life will benefit in these areas:

Your laundry will look better; feel better – it feels softer (your whites will be whiter; your colors will be brighter)

Your water heater efficiency will improve and work better (your water will be hotter longer).

Your house will look better (less time cleaning and less cost cleaning)

Your water- using appliance will last longer; perform better and they will work more efficiently

Hard water is a waste of your time and precious resources. 

The solution to your hard water problem is very simple

This is a water softener unit (also whole house carbon filter) that we build exclusively for you; we perform the installation at your residence and we exchange this every five years (water softeners and whole house carbon filters must be exchanged in Arizona every 5 years at no charge (the chlorine level is so high in our AZH2O – this high level of chlorine will disintegrate the media inside your water treatment equipment).

PFAS Whole House Carbon Filtration – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

Your only responsibility is to add salt occasionally (approximately 1 bag every 3-8 weeks).  If you have any problems with this unit – we will fix them free of charge. 

The Battelle Study began in 2009 when the Water Quality Research Foundation (WQRF), the research arm of the Water Quality Assn. (WQA), contracted the services of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, to examine how much energy savings household water softeners can provide.

The study and its results have provided the industry with an independent, scientifically based endorsement, confirming that water softeners increase energy efficiency and extend the life of household appliances and fixtures.

“We have known from studies done in the 1980s that softened water will save energy in heating water,” said Joe Harrison, P.E., CWS-VI, technical director for the WQA. “Now the Department of Energy says that heating water accounts for 14% to 25% of the energy consumed in your home. The Water Quality Research Foundation (WQRF) wanted to update the data on energy savings with softened water in modern water heaters and the new instantaneous tankless water heaters.”

This article will discuss the basic findings of the study and various strategies for maximizing its marketing potential.

Scope

The independent institute developed and carried out tests evaluating the cost and energy use associated with heating hard water versus softened water.

Over a period of nine months, accelerated scale tests were carried out to simulate twelve years of use.

The project also examined the subsequent effect of hard water on the performance capabilities of fixtures and appliances such as faucets, low-flow showerheads, dishwashers and clothes washers.

With the data gathered from the water heater efficiency tests and fixture performance tests, the institute developed a differential carbon footprint assessment for homes that use softened water versus homes that use unsoftened water.

Water Heaters

Testing: Tests comparing the efficiency of hard versus softened water in water heaters included 10 units each of gas, electric and tankless water heaters. Five of each kind were tested with a water softener, and five of each kind were tested without a water softener.

Thermal efficiency was calculated by measuring the inlet and outlet temperature at 15-second intervals, measuring the amount of hot water and measuring the amount of energy required to produce the hot water. The thermal efficiency was measured at the beginning of the study and at one-week intervals in order to track any change in efficiency as scale built up.

Results: For all water heaters on soft water, “efficiency remained essentially constant over the duration of the testing,” according to the study.

None of the water heaters on unsoftened water lasted until the end of the test—the outlet piping (1/2-in. copper pipe, a needle valve and solenoid valve—were blocked with scale buildup).

The average rate of scale buildup in the gas storage water heaters on unsoftened water was 528 grams per year, compared to 7 grams per year on softened water. The average rate of scale buildup in the electric storage water heaters was 907 grams per year on unsoftened water, compared to 14 grams per year on softened water.

Fixtures & Appliances

Low-Flow Showerheads: Five low-flow showerheads were tested on unsoftened water and five were tested on softened water. The showerheads on softened water performed well throughout testing, while the showerheads on unsoftened water clogged after an average of 3,203 gal of flow.

Low-Flow Faucets: Ten low-flow faucets were also installed, five tested on softened water and five tested on unsoftened water. Again, the fixtures on soft water performed well, while the faucets on unsoftened water clogged after the equivalent of 19 days of flow, estimating an average household water usage of 50 gal of hot water per day.

Dishwashers and Clothes Washers: To test the effect of unsoftened water on the performance of these household appliances, six KitchenAid dishwashers and General Electric clothes washers were purchased. After 30 days of testing and 240 wash cycles, the appliances using unsoftened water had “noticeable scale buildup,” according to the report, while the units using soft water looked like “they could be cleaned up to look like new with just a quick wipe down.”

Carbon Footprint

Battelle determined the carbon footprint of the water heaters by examining energy consumption within the home and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions. They found that where there are energy efficiency differences between the equipment, there were also carbon footprint differences.

For a storage-type gas water heater, there was a 14.8% carbon footprint reduction over a 15-year service life with softened water, taking into account the natural gas used for heating the water as well as electricity used for water softening. For instantaneous water heaters, there was a carbon-footprint reduction of 4.4% over a 15-year service life.

Now What?

The importance of the information from the Battelle Study is that it provides hard data from an objective, independent organization that speaks to both legislators and consumers. Legislators have told the water softening industry to focus on numbers, not “soft benefits,” and the Battelle study does just that. Utilizing this information well also is an effective way to address energy efficiency, a top consumer concern.

The presentation on marketing the study at WQA Aquatech USA 2010 emphasized the importance of the industry speaking with a single voice when presenting the information from the study. This provides a consistent message and lends authority to the presentation, rather than co-opting the best statistics and using them for brand promotion or petty attacks on the competition.

WQA members will have access to marketing materials with the study results that are most relevant to consumers. Consumer outreach will be done through the WQA website, media blasts and various educational materials provided to WQA retail members, dealers and manufacturers and suppliers. WQRF ads are available for members and business imprint and print-on-demand sell sheets will be available.

“We feel with the Battelle Study results that water softeners can rightfully be positioned as one of the very highest energy-saving and best ‘green’ technology appliances that a homeowner can own,” Harrison concluded.

Legislative packets with the complete study will be ready to give to regulators, lobbyists and government officials, describing the benefits of hardness removal through ion exchange.

What are the most important takeaways from the data? The WQA suggests an acronym to get across the most important points of the message: “FEEL the Benefits of Soft Water:”

• Function: No clogged faucets;
• Efficiency: Appliances are more energy-efficient;
• Extended Life: Appliances and plumbing last longer; and
• Look: Fixtures and appliances won’t tarnish or stain.

On the Horizon

More research projects are on the agenda for the WQRF.

We are now conducting a laundry and dishwashing study regarding the effects of softened water relative to cleaning, soap and detergent usage and water temperatures,” Harrison said, “to be completed in 2011.”

dishwashing. Detergent savings up to 70 percent was observed for dishwashing when softened water was used compared to hard water. Depending on the soiling, hardness reduction was found to be up to 12 times more effective at removal with soft water (saves our AZH2O water).

Depending on the stain, hardness reduction was up to 100 times more effective at stain removal than increasing temperature or increasing detergent dose.3. Softening water will help you look better and feel better and help you make more money.  Soft water will help you get along with your spouse and kids better.

When water of any hardness is softened prior to its use in washing, the detergent use can be reduced by 50% and the washing can be carried out in 60ºF cold water instead of 100ºF hot water and achieve the same or better stain removal yielding whiter clothes.

Detergent Savings for the Dishwasher Detergent savings up to 70% was observed for dishwashing when softened water was used compared to hard water. See the graph below showing the percent savings at each hardness level. Depending on the soil, hardness reduction was found to be up to 12 times more effective at soil removal than increasing detergent dose. Hardness reduction was ~6 times more effective at reducing spotting and twice as effective at reducing filming as increasing detergent usage.

Carbon Footprint The carbon footprint increases 18% for gas storage tank water heaters when operated on 26 grains per gallon of hard water for 15 years as compared to the same operation on softened water. For instantaneous-type natural gas water heaters, this same carbon footprint increases 4% when operated on 26 grains per gallon of hard water versus 0 grains per gallon of softened water over 15 years.

Showerheads on hard water lost 75% of the flow rate in less than 18 months of simulated normal operation. Faucets on hard water could not maintain the specified 1.25 gallons per minute flow rate because of scale collection of the strainers.1 Gas Storage Tank Water Heaters Each 5 grains per gallon of water hardness causes a 4% loss in efficiency and 4% increase in cost of energy in gas storage tank water heaters when using 50 gallons of hot water per day.1 Tankless Water Heaters The economic savings of softened water with instantaneous tankless water heaters can lead to recovery of the cost of a water softener and operating supplies in a period as short as a year. Softened water saves 40% of costs compared to operating on 20 grains per gallon of water hardness and saves 57% compared to operating on 30 grains per gallon hard water.

Electric Water Heaters Up to 30 pounds of calcium carbonate rocklike scale deposits can accumulate in electric water heaters. Each 5 grains per gallon of water hardness caused 0.4 pounds of scale accumulation each year in electric storage tank water heaters.

BENEFITS OF REMOVAL OF WATER HARDNESS (CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM IONS) FROM A WATER SUPPLY The impact of softened or hard water (unsoftened) on the performance of household devices has been studied by two independent laboratories. The first study tested showerheads and 3 different types of water heaters fed with softened and unsoftened water under controlled laboratory conditions to quantify the performance efficiency. The study also calculated the effect on carbon footprint of unsoftened and softened water. The laundry study investigated stain removal with varying levels of hardness, detergent dose, and temperature. The detergent study investigated the relationship between hardness and detergent dose, and included tests for removing difficult soils in addition to the spot and film evaluation.

Future studies may examine cation ratio effects on septic tank performance, which may address regulator concerns about water softener discharges to septic tank wastewater systems, as well as treated drinking water in place of sugary drinks, which may tie into the issue of lowering obesity levels in children.

What about a no salt option to treat my water?

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

The above method (utilizing a whole house chromium filter is a very popular method to provide you delicious drinking water throughout the house).

The chromium filter will not provide you soft water.

The only way to provide you soft water is by utilizing cation resin and salt.

What is the main ingredient of the water softener?

It is a material called cation resin.

An ion-exchange resin or ion-exchange polymer is an insoluble matrix (or support structure) normally in the form of small (1–2 mm diameter) beads, usually white or yellowish, fabricated from an organic polymer substrate. The material has a highly developed structure of pores on the surface which are sites with easily trapped and released ions. The trapping of ions takes place only with the simultaneous releasing of other ions; thus the process is called ion-exchange. There are multiple different types of ion-exchange resin that are fabricated to selectively prefer one or several different types of ions. However, most are made of sulfonated cross-linked polystyrene

Ion-exchange resins are widely used in different separation, purification, and decontamination processes. The most common examples are water softening and water purification. In many cases, ion-exchange resins were introduced in such processes as a more flexible alternative to the use of natural or artificial zeolites. Also, ion exchange resins are highly effective in the biodiesel filtration process.

Most typical ion-exchange resins are based on crosslinked polystyrene. The required active groups can be introduced after polymerization, or substituted monomers can be used. For example, crosslinking is often achieved by adding 0.5-25% of divinylbenzene to styrene during the polymerization process. Non-crosslinked polymers are used only rarely because they are less stable. Crosslinking decreases the ion-exchange capacity of the resin and prolongs the time needed to accomplish the ion-exchange processes. Particle size also influences the resin parameters; smaller particles have a larger outer surface but cause a larger head loss in the column processes.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-exchange_resin

This is a microscopic image of cation resin (the main cleaning ingredient of the water softener)

My water softener (in my home or business) is causing low water pressure – what can I do?

Have your cation resin checked and possibly replaced or replenished 5 years (depending on influent water and usage, and the condition of the cation resin). Here is a video/ slideshow that features a cation resin inspection project (Watch the video) In the Phoenix metro area of Arizona; we have determined the tipping point for cation resin to necessitate a change is approximately 5 years.

How can a water softener cause low pressure in my house?

The cation resin beads can fracture and clog the lower collector (which is the attachment connected to the distributor tube and prevents the cation resin beads from flowing into your home or business).

Answer #2:

Another occurrence that can take place to cause low pressure is when the lower collector breaks (the lower collector is attached to the bottom of the distributor tube). This will clog the fixtures and water-using appliances. This can be very tumultuous and very expensive. We have heard a story about a cation resin evacuation that caused $5,000.00 in damage.

Here is some more information regarding the cation resin evacuation into the home:

Here is an example of a lower collector which has broken:

September of 2011 our customer ( account #135970) experienced the cation resin flowing into their house when the lower collector broke. This broken lower collector is displayed in the picture above. Troy and Marco responded to this problem. They traveled to this home and cleaned out the cation resin.

Because this problem exists – our company invented a resin screen (this device is shown below)

We have prepared this bypass valve with a metal screen inside. The bypass valve is placed between the water softener (cation resin tank) and the customers home plumbing. This special bypass valve will prevent the cation resin from escaping into the home if the lower collector breaks.

Why rent a water softener rather than buying?

We have established our rental automatic water softener rates to save you over $1,000.00 (over a five year period). Since we utilize principles of recycling and good financial techniques we are able to proffer our clients a very economical rate to rent a water softener. We exchange this cation resin tank and valve every 5 years at no charge.

Cation resin is the best ingredient for removing the cement in your AZH2O.  This material must be exchanged every 5 years to prevent a catastrophe or chaos from ensuing in your home. 

Over the last 56 years that my family has been operating in the valley; we have developed some time-tested methods to provide you effective soft water, affordably and conveniently.  Boyett’s family water treatment methods will save you thousands of dollars every five years (my family will keep you thousands of dollars ahead at all times).  We exchange your whole house water softener and whole house filter every five years at no charge). 

What else is in my AZH2O?

Algae is in your azh2o.  Well, by the time the water gets to your home – much chlorine is also in your water. 

As I am fortunate to meet with about 20 new clients each week (in your beautiful homes) I many times will utilize my chlorine tester to determine the amount of chlorine in you water is as much as a swimming pool.

30% of your Phoenix metro AZ – East valley AZ h2o comes from the mighty Colorado river.  The Colorado river comes from 715 miles through the Grand Canyon.

The Colorado river carved the walls of the Grand Canyon.  If you look into the Grand Canyon you will see the Colorado River (the water is green).  The green color you see in the Colorado river water is algae.  I have been fortunate to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon twice – I rode a Mule down the third time.  I witnessed with my own eye balls; the Colorado river water is very green at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

When the water reaches your local water treatment plant – your water is very green.

The reason you have so much chlorine in your drinking water (because the water is green at the bottom of the Grand canyon).

There are so many great bedroom communities to visit while you live in Arizona.  Lake Havasu is an example of a fabulous town along the path of the Colorado river.  If you visit this wonderful town and look over the London Bridge – you will see the Colorado river.  30% of the water that you see will be delivered to your drinking water tap.  The water you see at Lake Havasu is green.  The green you see is Algae. 

I recently visited the London Bridge in Lake Havasu and I saw the water is green there.  I took a video as I took my fiddle for a walk (destination fiddle walk).

  There is much chlorine in your Phoenix Metro AZ and East Valley Arizona drinking water – because there is algae in the Colorado water river water.  30 % of the Colorado river water flows to your water treatment plant.  Your water treatment plant operators must add chlorine to kill the algae. 

Is chlorine bad for your health?

Yes. 

Chlorine Is Bad for the Brain

Chlorine is in many household cleaners, it’s used as a fumigant, and, since it impedes the growth of bacteria like e. coli and giardia, and is often added to water systems as a disinfectant. Subsequently, much exposure happens by drinking treated tap water. While disinfection of drinking water is a necessary measure to reduce diseases, concerns have been raised about the safety of chlorine, which has been linked to serious adverse health effects, including dementia in elderly patients.^[1]

Chlorine Is Bad for the Lungs

Inhalation of chlorine gas can cause difficulty breathing, chest pains, cough, eye irritation, increased heartbeat, rapid breathing, and death. Where are most people exposed? The swimming pool. Consider that, when used to maintain a swimming pool, chlorine is a poison that’s diluted just enough so that it can still kill pool scum without being strong enough to kill a human. Common sense dictates that can’t be a totally harmless situation and the research backs it up.

A review of available research (and there is a lot of it) by Marywood University confirms that long-term exposure to chlorinated pools can cause symptoms of asthma in swimmers.^[2] This can affect athletes who were previously healthy, especially adolescents.^[3]

Chlorine is even toxic enough to be a chemical weapon and categorized as a “choking agent”.^[4] Exposure would be a very traumatic experience.^[5] In fact, the Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, South Carolina reported a chlorine spill accident that happened in South Carolina in January of 2005. Ten months after the event, exposure victims were still so shaken that many reported recurring PTSD symptoms.^[6]

Chlorine Is Caustic

In addition to the internal effects of exposure to chlorine, eye and skin irritation in swimmers has been hypothesized to originate from chlorine exposure.^[7] That’s not all, did you know that swimming pool chlorine is associated with tooth enamel erosion? It’s not often mentioned but the New York University College of Dentistry lists it as a prime concern.^[8]

Can chlorine kill you? 

Yes.

Chlorine poisoning can occur when you touch, swallow, or inhale chlorine. Chlorine reacts with water outside of the body and on mucosal surfaces inside your body — including the water in your digestive tract — causing hydrochloric acid and hypochlorous acid to form. Both of these substances can be extremely poisonous to humans.

Does chlorine bioaccumulate in our bodies (especially through other sources)?

Yes.

Preferential bioaccumulation occurs in living organisms. Bioaccumulation through the food chain tends to concentrate congeners of higher chlorine content.

Signs and Symptoms of Chlorine Exposure

Most people will smell a noxious odor or feel irritation that indicates exposure to chlorine, but low-level exposure for a long time may affect their ability to sense the chemical. When chlorine gas comes into contact with moist tissues such as the eyes, throat, and lungs, an acid is produced that can damage these tissues

Short-term exposure to hypochlorite solution by ingestion

Drinking small amounts of hypochlorite solution (less than a cup) can produce irritation of the esophagus. Drinking concentrated hypochlorite solution can produce severe damage to the upper digestive tract and even death. These effects are most likely caused by the caustic nature of the hypochlorite solution and not from exposure to molecular chlorine.

Chlorine is present your Phoenix metro and East Valley drinking azh2o.  Drinking chlorine is unhealthy.  If you take a show in hot chlorine this will cause a toxic fume called trihalomethanes.

trihalomethanes (THMs) are chemical compounds in which three of the four hydrogen atoms of methane (CH₄) are replaced by halogen atoms. Many trihalomethanes find uses in industry as solvents or refrigerants. THMs are also environmental pollutants, and many are considered carcinogenic. 

A carcinogen /kɑːrsɪnədʒən/ is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis (the formation of cancer). This may be due to the ability to damage the genome or to the disruption of cellular metabolic processes. Several radioactive substances are considered carcinogens, but their carcinogenic activity is attributed to the radiation, for example gamma rays and alpha particles, which they emit. Common examples of non-radioactive carcinogens are inhaled asbestos, certain dioxins, and tobacco smoke. Although the public generally associates carcinogenicity with synthetic chemicals, it is equally likely to arise from both natural and synthetic substances.

Notes:

Because 30% of your azh2o comes from the Colorado river (this water contains much algae); the cities add much chlorine to your water.  Much chlorine flows to your azh2o drinking water.  Drinking chlorine can kill you.  If you take a shower in chlorine this can cause a toxic fume (trihalomethanes).  Breathing the toxic fume trihalomethanes can kill you. 

How do I remove the chlorine from my drinking water and shower water?

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We exchange this unit every five years at no charge to keep the water safe and fresh.  If these units are not changed; the media inside can contaminate your water.

The main cleaning ingredient in most units is a media that looks like this:

In a posting in the national library of medicine:

Microbiological contamination of drinking water in a commercial household water filter system

F D Daschner ¹, H Rüden, R Simon, J Clotten

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• PMID: 8740859

• DOI: 10.1007/BF01591360

Abstract

The microbiological quality of filtered water in a commercial water filter system (Brita) was tested in households and in two laboratories. In 24 of 34 filters used in households, bacterial counts increased in the filtered water up to 6,000 cfu/ml. In 4 of 6 filters tested in the laboratory, bacterial counts in the fresh filtrate were higher than in tap water after approximately one week of use both at room temperature and at 4 degrees C, suggesting growth or biofilm formation in the filter material. In some cases colony counts in the filtered water were 10,000 times those in tap water. The filter material of 5 of 13 new commercial filters was contaminated with bacteria or moulds. National or international regulatory agencies should ensure that water filters marketed for domestic use do not allow deterioration in the microbiological quality of drinking water.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

The information about this main filter media  (the main ingredient in most whole house units) states if this media is not replaced on a regular systematic basis; your unit may be doing more harm to your health than helping.

At Boyett’s family water treatment we are sure to exchange your whole house unit in a proactive manner to keep your water safe and delicious.

Sources:

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/phoenix-to-recycle-wastewater-into-drinking-water

https://www.britannica.com/technology/concrete-building-material

https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/resourcesconservation/drought-information/climatechange/water-supply-q-a

water review consumer report.  A publication of the water quality research council.  Volume 10, No. 1, 1995.

Battelle_Final_Report.pdf (azh2o.com)

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=6deb21d80eea602aJmltdHM9MTY4NTIzMjAwMCZpZ3VpZD0xOTk5Yzc2Zi0wNDg5LTY5MzUtMjcxMy1kNjJkMDVmNjY4OWEmaW5zaWQ9NTI0NQ&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=1999c76f-0489-6935-2713-d62d05f6689a&psq=batelle+industry+soft+water+study&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud3FwbWFnLmNvbS9zb2Z0ZW5pbmctY29uZGl0aW9uaW5nL3dhdGVyLXNvZnRlbmluZy1lcXVpcG1lbnQvYXJ0aWNsZS8xMDk1NDU3Ni9iYXR0ZWxsZS1iZW5lZml0cw&ntb=1

Battelle Benefits | Water Quality Products (wqpmag.com)

MMSD_SoftenerOptimization_Toolkit (wqrf.org)

Water Softener FAQ – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

Toxic Chemical: The Health Dangers of Chlorine (globalhealing.com)

can ingesting much chlorine kill me? – Search (bing.com)

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Toxicity: What Is the Biologic Fate of PCBs in Humans? | Environmental Medicine | ATSDR (cdc.gov)

Chlorine: Exposure, Decontamination, Treatment | Chemical Emergencies | CDC

Chlorine | Public Health Statement | ATSDR (cdc.gov)

Trihalomethane – Wikipedia

Carcinogen – Wikipedia

Why should I get reverse osmosis for my home in the Phx AZ and the East Valley AZ?

Does your City of Phoenix metro area drinking water contain arsenic?

7 parts per billion

According to a 2018 report, the average concentration of arsenic in Phoenix drinking water is 7 parts per billion¹. Arsenic is a toxic metal that is known to cause cancer and other health issues¹. The maximum allowed level of arsenic in public water systems is 10 parts per billion². If you have arsenic in your drinking water at levels higher than the EPA’s Maximum Contaminant Level, an alternative source of water should be used for drinking and cooking².

arsenic.pdf (azdhs.gov)

How can arsenic affect me and my family? Arsenic in small amounts, taken over many years, can cause certain cancers. Skin cancer is the most common. Exposure to arsenic can increase your risk of developing cancer or other health outcomes.

Health Effects of Arsenic Exposure Possible health effects from low levels: nausea, vomiting, decreased red and white blood cells levels, damage to blood vessels, “pins and needles” sensation Possible health effects from high levels: skin cancer, liver cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, and possibly death.

Arsenic IS A NATURALLY OCCURRING METAL IN SOILS. DRINKING WATER WITH TOO MUCH ARSENIC CAN CAUSE HEALTH PROBLEMS.

Arsenic can get into groundwater when the water has been filtered through arsenic-rich rock.

Wikipedia – what does arsenic look like

This rock looks to me like the human brain.  As I am performing this research; arsenic is not a thing to mess around.  We must filter this from all your water.

If you are drinking water that contains arsenic: negative impacts your cognitive development, intelligence and memory; increases your risk of cancer, and heart disease; impacts growth, brain development, and immune function.

Arsenic and Your Health | Arsenic and You (dartmouth.edu)

We have two solutions:

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

Our chromium filter will also remove the hexavalent chromium present in most of our water.

Based on the latest round of sampling, chromium-6 levels in Phoenix drinking water delivered to customers range from a low of.13 parts per billion to a high of 1.6 parts per billion and average.39 parts per billion. 

Chromium6_FAQs_Sept_2016.pdf (phoenix.gov)

Approach:

We used specialized equipment, methods, and expertise to determine how hexavalent chromium from drinking water is distributed throughout the body.

Impact:

The results provided by RTI helped the National Toxicology Program establish that hexavalent chromium is a harmful carcinogen in drinking water. These findings were integrated into human cancer risk models that have influenced policies around hexavalent chromium in drinking water and have helped establish state and federal drinking water limits in the United States.

Exposure to hazardous chemicals can impact human health and quality of life. Environmental policies designed to minimize chemical exposure and protect public health are based on a range of information, including toxicity and how often and how much of a chemical can be found in the environment. Laboratory measurements of environmental and biological samples help to protect public health by increasing our understanding of chemical exposures.

Investigating A Widespread Contaminant in Drinking Water

In 2001, following a series of highly-publicized exposure clusters (including the one depicted in the movie, Erin Brockovich), the National Toxicology Program received a nomination to study the potentially toxic effects of hexavalent chromium in drinking water. These studies included in vivo models to understand both how much hexavalent chromium was taken up from drinking water and where it was distributed in the body.

A 2016 study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) indicated that hexavalent chromium is more common in drinking water than was previously thought, estimating that as many as 218 million Americans could be served by water systems with detectable hexavalent chromium, either from manmade or natural sources.

RTI has been a trusted partner of the National Toxicology Program through its Chemistry Services Contract since 1984. Our laboratory experts provide support to the program for a range of services including formulation development, chemical procurement, and bioanalytical services.

Our analytical laboratories helped the National Toxicology Program understand the distribution of hexavalent chromium from drinking water by measuring chromium in several tissues, including the kidney, liver, bones, blood, intestines, and others. We used our suite of specialized laboratory instruments and facilities and over 100 combined years of experience in bioanalysis to design and validate a comprehensive set of analyses for each type of sample. These robust, scientifically defensible measurements helped the National Toxicology Program establish where in the body different forms of chromium in drinking water were taken up by our test subjects.

Our data were included in the analysis of cancer occurrence, which found that hexavalent chromium is carcinogenic when consumed in drinking water. Test subjects dosed with hexavalent chromium exhibited oral cancer and cancer of the small intestine, which are not common cancers, and combined with our biodistribution results, suggested that the chromium was the cause of the cancer.

In the years after the publication of that report, EPA concluded that a review of the previous drinking water limit for chromium was necessary, a process that is still underway. However, considering the reported results, in 2014, California became the first state in the country to set a drinking water limit for hexavalent chromium of 10 parts per billion (ppb), with a contaminant goal of 0.02 ppb.

As the discussion around the regulation of chromium exposure continues, we will continue to play a role in providing scientific facts to support policy decisions.

Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water | RTI

According to a report by ABC15 Arizona, Phoenix has the highest amount of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) in drinking water of any city nationwide. The report states that the well water has elevated levels of Cr(VI), which is found on the rocks in the region. However, the tests conducted by Phoenix water officials show that the levels are no more than 1.6 parts per billion when the water reaches homes¹.

A blog post by Esmaeel Ashrafpour states that the average content of Cr(VI) in drinking water in Mesa is 7.6 μg/L ranging from 0.03 to 24 μg/L, probably depending on the entry point or different time of sampling during the year. The average Cr(VI) contents in Chandler and Scottsdale are 5.3 and 4.8 μg/L, respectively².

The Public Health Goal (PHG) for hexavalent chromium in drinking water is established at 0.02 parts per billion (ppb) by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency³.

Image of hexavalent chromium

EWG found that Oklahoma, Arizona, and California have the highest statewide averages of chromium-6. Phoenix has the highest of any city by far, followed by St. Louis and Houston with comparatively high levels.

‘Brockovich’ carcinogen found in tap water of more than 250 million Americans

‘Brockovich’ carcinogen found in tap water of more than 250 million Americans | Environmental Working Group (ewg.org)

Phoenix metro AZ water may have more hexavalent chromium than made Erin Brockovich sick.

Our great team at Boyett’s family water has come up with a solution to remove all the arsenic from every water faucet in your home and we also will remove the hexavalent chromium at the same time.

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

We exchange this unit every five years at no charge.  With the Boyett’s family method – we keep you at least $5,000 ahead at all times.

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element that can be found in groundwater. Long-term exposure to high levels of inorganic arsenic in drinking water is associated with certain medical conditions, including skin disorders, an increased risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, and several types of cancer ¹. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has conducted extensive research to address arsenic in groundwater and drinking water supplies around the country. They have found that arsenic poses a problem because it is toxic at low levels and is a known carcinogen ². The USGS studies local and national sources of arsenic to help health officials better manage our water resources ².

It is important to note that the health effects of arsenic depend on the amount and duration of exposure, as well as individual factors such as age, sex, and overall health ¹. The Illinois Department of Public Health states that drinking water containing elevated levels of arsenic can cause thickening and discoloration of the skin, digestive problems such as stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, and numbness in the hands and feet ³.

In summary, long-term exposure to high levels of inorganic arsenic in drinking water can have serious health consequences. It is important to monitor the levels of arsenic in your drinking water and take appropriate measures to reduce exposure if necessary.

Learn more:

1. cdc.gov2. usgs.gov3. dph.illinois.gov4. usgs.gov5. dggs.alaska.gov+2 more

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element, but long-term exposure can cause cancer in people. There has been a substantial amount of research done to address arsenic in groundwater and drinking water supplies around the country. The USGS studies local and national sources of arsenic to help health officials better manage our water resources.

Arsenic and Drinking Water | U.S. Geological Survey (usgs.gov)

Arsenic is a natural component of the earth’s crust and is widely distributed throughout the environment in the air, water, and land. It is highly toxic in its inorganic form.

People are exposed to elevated levels of inorganic arsenic through drinking contaminated water, using contaminated water in food preparation and irrigation of food crops, industrial processes, eating contaminated food, and smoking tobacco.

Long-term exposure to inorganic arsenic, mainly through drinking water and food, can lead to chronic arsenic poisoning. Skin lesions and skin cancer are the most characteristic effects.

Arsenic (who.int)

What Is KDF Filter Media?

This is a filter medium that’s used in many different types of home, industrial, and waste treatment water purification processes. KDF filters come in many sizes.

They can be used for small applications such as showerhead filters or they can be used for much larger tasks such as being a major component of a whole-house water purification system.

These types of filters are especially useful when it comes to reducing free chlorine levels and removing a large variety of heavy metals and inorganic compounds.

Although they are the main components of some types of stand-alone water filtration systems, they are best used in conjunction with other filter types. KDF filters are most commonly paired with some form of activated carbon filtration.

Variations Of Granular KDF Media

As part of this KDF Filter Media Guide, it will also help you to know the different types of KDF granular filter media that exist. They are:

1. KDF-55

The main goal of this type of KDF filter media is the conversion of free chlorine into harmless chloride salt and to remove heavy metals from tap water. Not to be discounted is the fact that they will also inhibit algae and fungi growth and to a lesser extent the growth of bacteria and viruses.

This is the most common type of KDF granular filter media that is used as part of stand-alone and combination water filtration devices.

2. KDF-85

This type of KDF filtration media is used in water purification systems that target iron and hydrogen sulfide removal.

They will also remove many of the same heavy metals and free chlorine that KDF-55 filters do.

These can even be found in disk form which requires no backwashing and cuts down on the filter waste associated with the process.

3. KDF-F

KDF-F type filtration media targets chlorine and bacteria buildup in tap water. The big difference between KDF-F type filters and KDF-55 filters is that the granules are embedded in a fine mesh. This makes them ideal for placement inside activated carbon block filters.

4. KDF-C

This is just a much coarser mesh version of the above-mentioned KDF-F filter media. It’s designed to specifically target chlorine and heavy metals. It’s coarseness also allows it to be used in situations where less pressure drop is required.

How Does KDF Filter Media Work?

KDF filters are made using high-purity granular forms of zinc and copper. These filters provide water purification based on a principle that’s known as REDOX (oxidation-reduction).

This is a naturally occurring electrochemical process that takes place when certain tap water substances such as free chlorine and heavy metals come into contact with KDF filter media.

When the tap water contacts the copper and zinc granules in the KDF filter media, ion exchange takes place. This happens between the tap water contaminants that KDF filters are effective on and this filter media’s embedded positively charged copper ions and negatively charged zinc ions.

This has a different impact depending on the specific type of water impurity that’s involved. For example, free chlorine is simply changed into harmless chloride salts and is allowed to pass through the system instead of being removed during the process.

Heavy metals bond with the filter media itself and thus are removed from the tap water altogether.

It’s a simple but very effective method of water purification that is widely popular.

What Contaminants Does A KDF Filter Remove?

Those who use KDF filters in the water purification process usually have two main objectives.

The first is to lessen harmful free chlorine and reduce its impact on tap water taste, looks, and smell. Some believe that KDF filters actually filter out free chlorine but as mentioned, they just convert it into a much less harmful form.

They also do a very good job of eliminating a variety of inorganic compounds and heavy metals that are commonly found in tap water. This includes the elimination or reduction of lead, iron, cadmium, mercury, copper, chromium, hydrogen sulfide, nickel, arsenic, and aluminum.

KDF filters will also somewhat reduce radon, sediment, and VOCs and to a lesser extent, they can reduce some dissolved solids in tap water.

They also inhibit algae, bacteria, viruses, and fungi growth. This is because of the KDF filter media’s ability to quickly produce hydroxyl and hydrogen peroxide which are impactful on these types of microorganisms.

Where Are KDF Filter Media Used?

One of the reasons that these filters are so popular is that they offer nice water filtration benefits in several different types of situations.

You would be hard-pressed to find a type of RV water filter that did not contain some type of KDF filter media inside of it. The same goes for marine water filter applications.

They are also a major component of almost every type of under-sink or whole-house tap water filtration system. These work well in countertop style and refrigerator water filtration devices too.

KDF filters are also the filter media of choice for shower filters. That’s because they can withstand high water pressure very well and do not break down or shed their captured contaminants easily when hot water is passed through them.

Many hospital settings, industries, and restaurants also enjoy the many water-enhancing benefits that KDF filtration has to offer.

Advantages Of KDF

Here are the main reasons why people like to use KDF filters as part of a stand-alone or complementary filter inside a water purification device.

1. They eliminate a large amount of free chlorine

These filters are excellent if you are supplied by municipal water where chlorine is used in its treatment. Most will eliminate 97% or more of free chlorine in tap water.

Free chlorine is the chlorine found in a water source that can still act as a sanitizer and can be harmful to the human body in large amounts.

2. KDF filters reduce heavy metals and inorganic compounds

They are a very good means of reducing heavy metals and inorganic compounds that are commonly found in household water. This includes being able to reduce cadmium, lead, iron, arsenic, mercury, chromium, hydrogen sulfide, and aluminum in tap water.

3. These filters can help extend the life of activated carbon filters

These types of filters are often used in the same filtration devices as activated carbon filters. Not only do they make a nice water filtration combination when used together, but they will also help to extend their partner-activated carbon filter’s useful life.

KDF filters do this because they help keep bacteria and viruses from building up in activated carbon filters. These microorganisms are the main cause of shortened activated carbon filter life.

4. They work well with hot water and when under high pressure

KDF filters are one of the few filtration mediums that stay efficient when hot water passes through them. This is because, unlike other types of filters, these filters do not break down or easily lose the contaminants they have captured when hot water passes through them.

5. It’s a recyclable filter medium

Their filter media is 100% Recyclable. This makes it an ideal water purification choice for those who want to lessen their carbon footprint on the planet.

Can be used in targeted types of water filtration

Because it comes in different granular forms, this type of filter media can be used in water filtration systems that are targeted to meet specific needs.

6. This filter type has a long useful life

KDF filters will last you a very long time before you have to replace them. Some will even last several years before they need to be changed out.

7. KDF filters are reasonably priced

When compared to many other types of water filters, KDF water filters are relatively inexpensive. This is especially true when you consider how long they last as was mentioned above.

Health effects

Inorganic arsenic is a confirmed carcinogen and is the most significant chemical contaminant in drinking water globally. Arsenic can also occur in an organic form. Inorganic arsenic compounds (such as those found in water) are highly toxic while organic arsenic compounds (such as those found in seafood) are less harmful to health.

Acute effects

The immediate symptoms of acute arsenic poisoning include vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. These are followed by numbness and tingling of the extremities, muscle cramping and death, in extreme cases.

Long-term effects

The first symptoms of long-term exposure to high levels of inorganic arsenic (for example, through drinking water and food) are usually observed in the skin, and include pigmentation changes, skin lesions and hard patches on the palms and soles of the feet (hyperkeratosis). These occur after a minimum exposure of approximately five years and may be a precursor to skin cancer.

In addition to skin cancer, long-term exposure to arsenic may also cause cancers of the bladder and lungs. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified arsenic and arsenic compounds as carcinogenic to humans and has also stated that arsenic in drinking water is carcinogenic to humans.

Other adverse health effects that may be associated with long-term ingestion of inorganic arsenic include developmental effects, diabetes, pulmonary disease and cardiovascular disease. Arsenic-induced myocardial infarction in particular can be a significant cause of excess mortality.

Arsenic is also associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and infant mortality, with impacts on child health (1), and exposure in utero and in early childhood has been linked to increases in mortality in young adults due to multiple cancers, lung disease, heart attacks and kidney failure (2). Numerous studies have demonstrated the negative impacts of arsenic exposure on cognitive development, intelligence and memory (3).

The magnitude of the problem

Arsenic contamination of groundwater is widespread and there are a number of regions where arsenic contamination of drinking water is significant. An estimated 140 million people in at least 70 countries have been drinking water containing arsenic at levels above the WHO provisional guideline value of 10 μg/L (4, 5). This is consistent with recent statistical modeling which suggests between 94 and 220 million people are at risk of exposure to elevated arsenic concentrations in groundwater (6).

The symptoms and signs caused by long-term elevated exposure to inorganic arsenic differ between individuals, population groups and geographical areas. Thus, there is no universal definition of the disease caused by arsenic. This complicates the assessment of the burden on health of arsenic.

Similarly, there is no method to distinguish cases of cancer caused by arsenic from cancers induced by other factors. As a result, there is no reliable estimate of the magnitude of the problem worldwide.

In 2010, the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) re-evaluated the effects of arsenic on human health, taking new data into account. JECFA concluded that for certain regions of the world where concentrations of inorganic arsenic in drinking water exceed 50–100 μg/L, there is some evidence of adverse effects. In other areas, where arsenic concentrations in water are elevated (10–50 μg/L), JECFA concluded that while there is a possibility of adverse effects. These would be at a low incidence that would be difficult to detect in epidemiological studies.

Arsenic (who.int)

Something’s rotten in the Valley of the Sun – literally

Hydrogen sulfide can cause your water to stink and

Corrode your plumbing.

In an article:

In many areas of our Phoenix metro and East Valley area – the water stinks because of hydrogen sulfide.

They drove around the valley and it smells like poop.

Does your water stink of hydrogen sulfide (poop) or chlorine?

We have a solution.

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

Many people are adding this to get rid of the fluoride.

Fluoride Filter + Granular Activated Filter – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

Many of the stories I enjoy the most in my life involve stories about trucks.

As a young man, I sat on my grandfather’s lap while driving this truck:

I am fortunate to drive this truck today.

My father drove this truck from Texas to AZ so I can drive it to ASU.  I threw my bike in the back and rode my bike to class (saved time and headaches and parking tickets).  By riding my bike to class it also helped get that blood pumping up to my computer head.

This truck is still a work truck.

This truck is used around our factory to clean up branches.  It is still very much a work truck these days.

This is the first Isuzu we added to our fleet.  By adding Isuzu to our fleet utilization program – helped create sustainability.   We utilized this Isuzu as a delivery truck; then when it began aging, we turned it into a service and installation vehicle.  This picture was taken in 1997.  We used this Isuzu truck in our company until 2006.  

Now our entire fleet is Isuzu trucks

These days when we add a new truck to our fleet we think of it as opening a new restaurant (or refurbishing a popular restaurant). 

We look at the cleanliness of our trucks as going to a restaurant and observe the condition of the plates and the silverware.  Our onus is to have a spectacular fleet of trucks so we drive into your neighborhood you will be proud that we have arrived (your neighbors will take notice).

We refer to this as the sentient nature of our business dealings with you (we want you to always be pleased and 100% satisfied with our work at your home).

Does your water have a rotten egg smell or chlorine smell?

We have a solution to this problem.

The KDF 85 media filter removes hydrogen sulfide.

What causes hydrogen sulfide to be present in water?

Hydrogen sulfide gas (H₂S) can give water a “rotten egg” taste or odor. This gas can occur in wells anywhere and be: Naturally occurring – a result of decay and chemical reactions with soil and rocks. Produced by certain “sulfur bacteria” in the groundwater, well, or plumbing system.

Hydrogen sulfide can also cause corrosion of metals in a plumbing system, and it can cause yellow or black greasy stains on fixtures or inside pipes when it forms metallic sulfides.

https://extension.psu.edu/hydrogen-sulfide-rotten-egg-odor-in-water-wells#:~:text=Hydrogen%20sulfide%20can%20also%20cause,when%20it%20forms%20metallic%20sulfides.

This media is the solution to a rotten egg smell in your plumbing.

KDF®-85 is a water treatment media composed of high-purity copper and zinc granules that can be used to remove dissolved (ferrous) iron and hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg odor) through an oxidation/reduction (redox) reaction.

https://www.kdfft.com/products.htm

What is a redox reaction?

Redox (/ˈrɛdɒks/ RED-oks, /ˈriːdɒks/ REE-doks, reduction–oxidation^[2] or oxidation–reduction^[3]) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of substrate change.^[4] Oxidation is the loss of electrons or an increase in the oxidation state, while reduction is the gain of electrons or a decrease in the oxidation state.

There are two classes of redox reactions:

• Electron-transfer – Only one (usually) electron flows from the atom being oxidized to the atom that is reduced. This type of redox reaction is often discussed in terms of redox couples and electrode potentials.
• Atom transfer – An atom transfers from one substrate to another. For example, in the rusting of iron, the oxidation state of iron atoms increases as the iron converts to an oxide, and simultaneously the oxidation state of oxygen decreases as it accepts electrons released by the iron. Although oxidation reactions are commonly associated with the formation of oxides, other chemical species can serve the same function.^[5] In hydrogenation, C=C (and other) bonds are reduced by the transfer of hydrogen atoms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox

In the Phoenix metro area and East Valley area of AZ, there is a lot of chlorine in our water.

The ideal chlorine level for a pool is between 1-3 parts per million (ppm.) Maintaining your swimming pool effectively means maintaining proper chlorine levels. This is essential for keeping them clean and safe for swimming.

As we visit your homes in the evenings and Saturdays we are learning that the ppm of chlorine often exceeds the amount in a swimming pool.

Why is the chlorine content so high in your water?

The cities must add so much chlorine to kill the algae.

2/3 of the Phoenix metro and East Valley area water is held back by the Saguaro Lake dam.

When the water is released from here – it is green with algae.

The tubers and kayakers float down this river and this water ends up at your water treatment plant.

One-third of your Phx metro (East Valley) water comes through the Grand Canyon (this is the bridge that crosses over to the Phantom Ranch).

I have hiked the canyon two times and rode a mule across this bridge.

When the Colorado river reaches your water treatment plant – much chlorine is added to this water and other chemicals like fluoride. 

This is a little bit abstract.

I have been fortunate to be involved in writing two books:

Desire – not only for the select few (a story about a 1963 ford truck and my father and his father).

  Beginning at Cesco (a story about the beginning of my father’s rental water treatment career).

I have begun editing a third book called Scarcity (using this principle to develop intrigue, creativity, and aggrandizement)

Here is chapter two of Scarcity.

Scarcity

Chapter 2

A little paucity is warranted in all venues. 

pau·ci·ty

/ˈpôsədē/

noun

1. the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity.

Even after working in our office 40 hours a week, I am fortunate to meet with as many as 20 clients at their homes.  It is from these clients’ meetings that we derive our new product and process ideas for my family’s rental water treatment company.

At a recent client meeting, we were inspecting the placement for the unit and our client used the word paucity to describe the lack of electrical outlets.

I didn’t recognize this word and I asked.  She was nice enough to explain the meaning of this word and how it applied to the current situation.

For some time now I have looked at learning new words as treasures in my life.   When I have learned a new word from important people, I remember the place in time and this individual with the memory and use of a word.

I learned the word aggrandize from my girlfriend J. O while attending ASU.  Aggrandize means to increase the power, status, or wealth of; enhance the reputation of (someone).  I find many occasions to utilize this word in business and life. 

non se·qui·tur (/ˌnän ˈsekwədər/) is another word I learned from a past girlfriend.

Meaning: conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement (KGD).  This word described our relationship.

Now when I read a word I cannot define – I look it up and many times  I write this word and definition in my book. 

Here are some other great words I have added to my vocabulary.

Apocryphal

Ambivalent

Obsequies

I try not to use a word unless I can define it.  Sometimes V will call me out on a word that I used.  I welcome this.  If you don’t use it – you will lose it.  You must have courage and be unselfish to use these new words.

I have been using this method for some time.  When I used one of my new words in the presence of my founder father – he would say this:  Hayden, why do you use those words that nobody understands?  I changed my approach because of his ridicule.  I now will say a big word and define it after my sentence.  It is a way I can share my word treasure and encourage others to take up this notion.

Here are the principles and people who helped me develop this approach.  Mr. G in high school taught us discombobulated.  I am fortunate to talk with Mr. G these days while providing him with our service. 

A recent word Mr. G shared is Lagniappe (a free giveaway; like when you purchase makeup – they give you a gift).  Another example of a Lagniappe is when you refer a new person to Boyett’s family water – and they enroll in our service (Boyett’s family will give you a Lagniappe ‘$50 referral credit’).

The other person who has really helped me get this learning new word program off the ground is my best friend N.Z. 

Some of my favorite people and most important relationships are with immigrants.

I have found I tend to take things for granted.  America is the greatest place on the planet (because of we the people concept).  When I spend my time with immigrants – I love America more.  These days I wear an American flag on my shirt; every waking moment ‘if I got a shirt on – I have the American flag displayed’.  I wear the American flag on the front of my cowboy hat and the back of my cowboy hat.  If I leave my living space – I’ll be sporting three American flags.

N.Z is not from here.  N.Z is from another land.  When I met N.Z at ASU because of Mark R. we immediately hit it off.  Even though we could not communicate in words; we communicated in thoughts. 

When N.Z arrived from his country he didn’t know any words (he knew a few American words).  As we studied side by side, he looked up every word.  By watching his actions, I learned that I didn’t know a lot of words.  Because of N. Z’s good example, I began to do the same. 

These days I remind N.Z to be sure and look up those words. 

I have heard – when I increase my vocabulary; I increase my intelligence.

My family has the intention to be the very best portable exchange soft water company in the world by providing you with the best soft water delivery service throughout the Phoenix metro and East Valley Area of AZ.

Here is a link to this product:

Portable Exchange Tank Service – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

Our entire company structure is developed around this concept.

Everything in our lives begins with the portable tank soft water delivery service (the people, the trucks, and our hard work ethic and organizational skills).

The portable exchange soft water delivery service is the hardest job in our industry (it is the hardest division of our company to operate).

Most of our veterans began their long careers to perform these tasks. 

All our trucks begin their life here and are rotated down to our service and installation division.

When we began in the portable exchange tank soft water industry the first truck my father had was

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When my founder father married my founder mother they purchased a Rayne Water Conditioning dealership in Phoenix Metro and the East Valley.

They utilized this style of vehicle.

There was much lifting involved and this was an arduous activity.

Bob Wise – Rayne of San Bernardino built a truck where the portable exchange tanks hang on the truck.  We completely redesigned our factory infrastructure to accommodate this truck.  We knew that this would help us to live another day be safer and provide a better work environment for our technicians.

Rayne Water Mesa, AZ, Rayne Water Tempe, AZ, Rayne Water Phoenix metro area, AZ, Rayne Water East Valley, AZ

Here are some companies that we can work on their units.

Budget water

Discount water

Arsenic can be harmful to the eyes, skin, liver, kidneys, lungs, and lymphatic system. Exposure to arsenic can also cause cancer. Workers may be harmed from exposure to arsenic. The level of exposure depends upon the dose, duration, and work being done.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/arsenic/default.html#:~:text=Arsenic%20can%20be%20harmful%20to,duration%2C%20and%20work%20being%20done.

Arsenic – Some of Mesa’s drinking water sources contain low levels of arsenic, a naturally occurring metal.

https://issuu.com/mesawaterresources/docs/2021_water_quality_report_pdf_doc#:~:text=Arsenic%20%2D%20Some%20of%20Mesa’s%20drinking,arsenic%2C%20a%20naturally%20occurring%20metal.

We have heard there is a brain-eating parasite spreading through our US.  Here is what we are doing to prevent this in your H2O in AZ.

We are developing units that will kill all parasites, E. Coli, coliform and pathogens.

Tapeworm eggs are spread through food, water, or surfaces contaminated with feces. 

What is cysticercosis?

Cysticercosis is an infection caused by the larvae of the parasite Taenia solium.  This infection occurs after a person swallows tapeworm eggs. The larvae get into tissues such as muscle and brain, and form cysts there (these are called cysticerci). When cysts are found in the brain, the condition is called neurocysticercosis.

How do humans get cysticercosis?

People get cysticercosis when they swallow T. solium eggs that are passed in the feces of a human with a tapeworm. Tapeworm eggs are spread through food, water, or surfaces contaminated with feces.  Humans swallow the eggs when they eat contaminated food or put contaminated fingers in their mouth.  Importantly, someone with a tapeworm can infect him-or herself with tapeworm eggs (this is called autoinfection), and can infect others in the family. Eating pork cannot give you cysticercosis.

What is the relationship between human tapeworm and porcine (pig) cysticercosis?

Humans get the tapeworm infection after eating raw or undercooked pork contaminated with cysts of T. solium. When swallowed the cysts pass through the stomach and attach to the lining of the small intestine. In the small intestine, the cysts develop into adult tapeworms over about two months.

Where is cysticercosis found?

Cysticercosis is found worldwide. Infection is found most often in rural areas of developing countries where pigs are allowed to roam freely and eat human feces and where hygiene practices are poor.  Cysticercosis is rare in people who live in countries where pigs do not have contact with human feces.  People can sometimes get cysticercosis even if they have never traveled outside of the United States.

What are the signs and symptoms of cysticercosis?

Signs and symptoms will depend on the location and number of cysts in your body.

• Cysts in the muscles:
  • Cysts in the muscles generally do not cause symptoms. However, you may be able to feel lumps under your skin. The lumps sometimes become tender.
• Cysts in the eyes:
  • Although rare, cysts may float in the eye and cause blurry or disturbed vision. Infection in the eyes may cause swelling or detachment of the retina.
• Neurocysticercosis (cysts in the brain, spinal cord):
  • Symptoms of neurocysticercosis depend upon where and how many cysts are found in the brain. Seizures and headaches are the most common symptoms. However, confusion, lack of attention to people and surroundings, difficulty with balance, and excess fluid around the brain (called hydrocephalus) may also occur. The disease can result in death.

How long will I be infected before symptoms begin?

Symptoms can occur months to years after infection, usually when the cysts start dying. When cysts die, the brain or other tissue around the cyst may swell. The pressure of the swelling is what usually causes the symptoms of the infection.  Sometimes symptoms are caused by the pressure of cyst in a small space.

What should I do if I think I have cysticercosis?

See your health care provider.

How is cysticercosis diagnosed?

Your healthcare provider will ask you about your symptoms, where you have traveled, and the kinds of foods you eat.  Diagnosis may require blood tests and/or imaging studies. Diagnosis of neurocysticercosis is usually made by MRI or CT brain scans. Blood tests are available to help diagnose an infection, but may not always be accurate. If surgery is necessary to remove a cyst, the diagnosis can be made by the pathologist who looks at the cyst.

Is there treatment for cysticercosis?

Yes. Infections are generally treated with anti-parasitic drugs in combination with anti-inflammatory drugs. Surgery is sometimes necessary to treat cysts in certain locations, when patients are not responsive to drug treatment, or to reduce brain swelling. Not all cases of cysticercosis need treatment.  Even if you don’t need treatment to kill the parasite, you may need treatment for the symptoms caused by the infection, such as medication to reduce the number of seizures you have.

Can cysticercosis be spread from person to person?

No. Someone with cysticercosis cannot spread the disease to other people.  However, people with taeniasis (tapeworm infection in the intestine) may spread tapeworm eggs to other people if they do not practice good hygiene (e.g. hand washing after they use the toilet), which may result in cysticercosis if people swallow the eggs.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/gen_info/faqs.html

I recently googled: what is the brain-eating parasite going around:

Worms in the Brain

Cysticercosis is an infection caused by the larvae of the parasite Taenia solium. This infection occurs after a person swallows tapeworm eggs. The larvae get into tissues such as muscle and brain, and form cysts there (these are called cysticerci).

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/gen_info/faqs.html#:~:text=Cysticercosis%20is%20an%20infection%20caused,(these%20are%20called%20cysticerci).

What if this gets in the water?

We have a solution:

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We have a filter that will kill all pathogens, E.Coli, coliform and parasites.

This describes the media.

A Technological Breakthrough

The Quantum Crystals use a new technology based on the quantum mechanic principles of electron movements in micro-crystals that create active surfaces (positively charged with electron holes) capable of lysing the cells of microorganisms, like for example, the non-pathogen E. coli bacteria (strain 11775), causing their entire structure to collapse.
 

The Quantum Crystals ™ are a catalyst:
improving the water quality with its activated surfaces, no power, no chemicals, no maintenance.

The Quantum Crystals ™ are a ceramic:
alumina based, environmentally friendly, insoluble and odorless.

The Quantum Crystals ™ work based on a new phenomenon – the “knife effect”: lysis of the non-pathogen microorganisms cells.

The Quantum Crystals ™ are a solid media:
easy to apply, easy to handle, always to be placed in packed beds.

The Quantum Crystals ™ remove the microorganisms instantly:
there is no contact time required.

Water simply has to pass over the Quantum Crystals ™ media and the
microorganisms are instantly destroyed through the catalytic electron exchange.

Give Any Device Extra-Purification Capabilities

Point-of-Entry

The QC ceramics are used in systems for well water and city water sources for homes, offices, and process applications:
up to 12 GPM.

Point-of-use

A small quantity of QC ceramics can purify all POU systems such as faucets, under the sink systems, ice and beverage machines, coolers, misters, showers, dental chairs, etc.

Gravity-Based

With no power requirements and working in gravitational flows, QC media can give a supplementary purification capacities to all pitcher devices, bracket units, suspended tanks, etc.

High Flows

The QC ceramics can be applied for high flow water extra-purification in industries like beverages, poultry and agriculture:
up to 50 GPM or more

Post Reverse Osmosis

The QC media are used as a safeguard against odors for RO systems. You can really drink RO water now!

Custom Applications

The QC media can be tailored into many other custom applications across a large variety of markets and flow rates.

Quantum Crystals ™ Frequently Asked Questions

How these ceramics work?

The QC ceramics are a catalyst with activated surfaces. The microorganisms that get into a direct contact with the sharp micro-crystals at the surface of the QC media are instantly cut and lose their cellular integrity without any possibility of remediation.

Are the QC ceramics a filter?

No. It is a water purification media. Besides, it needs a primary filtration (at least 5 micron) to work properly, otherwise the activated sites can be clogged.

Does the QC ceramics leach?

No. The QC ceramics do not leach anything in the water, no ions, no chemicals.

Does the QC ceramics kill microorganisms by chemical means?

No. The reduction of microorganisms happens due to the micro-crystals cutting action.

Are the QC ceramics certified?

Yes:
– a NSF Certified Component to NSF/ANSI 42 for material requirements only USA(Certificate of listing #: C0292640-01)
– a IAPMO Certified Component to NSF/ANSI 61 for material requirements only USA(Certificate of listing #: W-10747)
– a MOH Certified Component to GB/T 5750-2006 Standard for material requirements only – China (Certificate of listing #: 2015KF2513)

How are the QC ceramics applied?

The ceramics can only be applied in packed bed in devices, systems or units with an inlet and an outlet that can ensure the contact of microorganisms with the activated ceramics.
No by-passes are allowed.

Have the QC ceramics been tested by 3^rd party labs?

Yes. The QC ceramics have been rigorously tested and posted excellent results by:

• Environmental Protection Agency, US EPA
• Eurofins US; Eurofins France
• Proteus, France
• Guangdong Detection Center of Microbiology, China
• Avazyme, US
• Ackuritlabs, US
• and others

All of these reports are available upon request.

How long the QC ceramics last?

Theoretically, forever.
In practice, all depends of the inlet water quality.
Claire works closely with our OEM partners to design cartridges and devices that meet end-of-life criteria. For Claire’s own systems, such as the PLATINUM unit (see Products), the warrantied life is 200,000 gallons or over 1 year of normal household use.

Where to install the QC systems?

At the last stage, always.
All QC systems should be installed after your regular water purification equipment, like for example, after your softeners, or your heavy metals removal filters, or post RO, or as the last layer in pitcher filters, etc.

I was so excited about learning about this media from our great water treatment vendor Jason at Charger Water, Phoenix AZ.

We have regular contact with the founder of this technology.  Every time a thing pops up in the news (

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/gen_info/faqs.html#:~:text=Cysticercosis%20is%20an%20infection%20caused,(these%20are%20called%20cysticerci).

)

If this gets in the water

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/gen_info/faqs.html#:~:text=Cysticercosis%20is%20an%20infection%20caused,(these%20are%20called%20cysticerci).

This unit will remove it

7487 Clarify Reverse Osmosis (azh2o.com)

Johnny and Sebastian worked in the office yesterday to substantiate our infrastructure (we have a spectacular water treatment plant, and it requires pro-active service and maintenance).  We have the right people to help.  Ali is doing a great job regenerating our portable exchange soft water tanks.

Ali informed Johnny and Sebastian that one of his dumping PE tank valves needs to be replaced.  They not only installed a new one in spectacular fashion here:

Ali said this: they not only replaced the existing one – they made an extra

As the manager of my family’s water treatment enterprise – I am impressed (by the proactive nature of things here).

Is arsenic in our mesa water?

Arsenic – Some of Mesa’s drinking water sources contain low levels of arsenic, a naturally occurring metal.

https://issuu.com/mesawaterresources/docs/2021_water_quality_report_pdf_doc#:~:text=Arsenic%20%2D%20Some%20of%20Mesa’s%20drinking,arsenic%2C%20a%20naturally%20occurring%20metal.

Is arsenic bad for our health?

Arsenic can be harmful to the eyes, skin, liver, kidneys, lungs, and lymphatic system. Exposure to arsenic can also cause cancer.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/arsenic/default.html#:~:text=Arsenic%20can%20be%20harmful%20to,arsenic%20can%20also%20cause%20cancer.

We also work on the water treatment equipment of these companies

WATER FILTRATION COMPANIES GILBERT AZ

Kinetico Maricopa Water Processing System

Culligan Water of Phoenix

AZ Water, Drain & Sewer

Mountain Fresh Water Systems

Gilbert Water Softeners

Pristine Water Softeners

Spring Meadows Water Treatment LLC

Kinetico Maricopa Water Processing Systems

Camcor Plumbing & Water Treatment

Clear Water Concepts

Water Rehab

Boyett’s family water treatment

Earthwise Water Filters Phoenix

Puretec Industrial Water

Clean H2O Pro’s

Southwest Water Services

Clean & Pure Water Co.

Paradise Water Systems

State 48 Water, LLC

Ameriflow Water Systems Inc.

Second Opinion Plumbing

Aqua Science Now Proudly Pentair

water filtration companies Gilbert AZ

water filtration companies Chandler az

water filtration companies Phoenix az

water filtration companies Surprise az

water filtration companies Litchfield Park AZ

ALKALINITY DRINKING WATER EAST VALLEY AZ

ALKALINITY DRINKING WATER PHOENIX AZ

Here are some of our company pictures and Boyett family pictures.

Salt containment infrastructure.

Playing the guitar, sing-alongs, and helping others to play a musical instrument was a big deal is a big deal to my family (and always has been).

At Rayne Water Conditioning my founder parents continued to make our organization award-winning.

We also work on the water treatment equipment of these companies

Water Rehab

Clear Water Concepts

Mountain Fresh Water

Spring Meadows Water Treatment

Water Filtration in Phx AZ

The most important part of a small family business is the trust and loyalty of our clients.

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett

Text is best 602.291.4157

hayden@azh2o.com

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This article states:

AZ is one of the fastest-growing states in the U.S.

The water crisis will cause big problems.

The shortfall in groundwater supplies.

Dwindling supplies from the Colorado River.

AZ may import desalinated water from Mexico (conceptualized by IDE, an Israeli company).  The will pipe the water 200 miles; uphill 2,000 feet to AZ (estimated cost 5 billion  – 10 X the cost of the current cost from the Colorado River).

. 

Is this wise with the Cartel’s in Mexico?

Israel has got it down – providing water to their people.

What can Arizona do to copy Israel?  Let’s recycle 90% of our wastewater.  In waste water, there is E. coli, coliform, and pathogens.

Here are some stats on AZH2O:

Agriculture uses 70% of our AZH2O (using flood irrigation).

Let’s use drip irrigation.

Arizona households use 70% of residential water for lawns and landscaping.

The mining industry – has no water restrictions.

Here is what AZH2O is doing to play our part:

We utilize an RO membrane that will save 85% on water.

Pentair RO membrane – GRO 36 E N (this membrane will save 85% water).

7487 Clarify Reverse Osmosis (azh2o.com)

We are pushing forward the concept of whole-house filtration that does not utilize any water waste; no salt and no electricity.

This method is the current trend in our industry:

Whole house water filtration (no salt; no water waste and no electricity).

We specialize in indubitably changing this equipment every five years (at no charge).

Our rental water treatment industry may be overlooking this:

Microbiological contamination of drinking water in a commercial household water filter system

F D Daschner ¹, H Rüden, R Simon, J Clotten

Affiliations expand

• PMID: 8740859

• DOI: 10.1007/BF01591360

Abstract

The microbiological quality of filtered water in a commercial water filter system (Brita) was tested in households and in two laboratories. In 24 of 34 filters used in households, bacterial counts increased in the filtered water up to 6,000 cfu/ml. In 4 of 6 filters tested in the laboratory, bacterial counts in the fresh filtrate were higher than in tap water after approximately one week of use both at room temperature and at 4 degrees C, suggesting growth or biofilm formation in the filter material. In some cases, colony counts in the filtered water were 10,000 times those in tap water. The filter material of 5 of 13 new commercial filters was contaminated with bacteria or molds. National or international regulatory agencies should ensure that water filters marketed for domestic use do not allow deterioration in the microbiological quality of drinking water.

The main ingredient in whole-house water filters (no salt, no water waste, and no electricity) is granular activated carbon.  If this material is not changed out on a regular basis – it will microbiologically contaminate your water.  We exchange your whole house unit every five years at no charge.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

This is the most popular approach:

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

And

Many will combine these filters for your entire home water.

To help save water my family is also installing these devices in your home.

This is a hot water recirculating pump.  It keeps the hot water recirculating in your plumbing.  You will have hot water immediately in every location of your home.  No water waste.  The calculations for an average family will save you as much as 26,000 gallons of water each year.

Here is a little bit of info on my family:

As I was growing up, I felt the support of my founder mother with my music venture.

Her support was so important and inspired me to play my fiddle (violin) on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium (previous Grand Ole Opry).   The bluegrass band in which I play the fiddle is called The Red Mountain Bluegrass Band (this is one of the biggest honors of my life ‘to be around such great musicians’).

When we finished playing on stage, they said we could meet Dolly Parton.  Now when we visit Nashville – V sends Dolly a note and asks her to meet us for lunch (we will keep sending those notes).

My founder parents supported me all along the way and even got the entire family to play music together.

We practiced a lot.  Anything worth doing involves great practice preparation and rehearsal.  This methodology carries over in the water treatment work we perform at your home.  We practice practice practice practice – perform.  This is a similar method of music pedagogy to the Suzuki musical learning method.

Our musical performances included the Arizona State Fair (a talent show).

My founder mother not only supported me in my musical endeavors; she also supported me in my horse-riding competitions.   Because of her support in this important venue, Ginger became an award-winning Shetland pony.

My founder mother encouraged me to continue my horse riding with Honey.

My Honey was a spectacular Welch pony. 

I’m very grateful that my founder parents left us some things that we can make a little better each day.

Their spirit of industry and ambition has made our company an award-winning rental water treatment company. 

The title of this new article reads Boyett’s Rayne Water Conditioning named best in the nation.

Here are some of the different companies’ whole house water filters in Glendale which we are qualified to service

LifeSource Water Systems, Inc

Penguin Air, Plumbing and Electrical

Water treatment Glendale

Great AZ Water

Mellowh2o

Living Water R/O LLC

Vesta Water Solutions Powered By Renegade Water

Capital Water Treatment, Inc.

Lifewater Solutions LLC

Complete Water Systems LLC

Hidro Solutions LLC

The Home Depot

Browns Partsmaster, INC. – Glendale

Poseidon Plumbing and Drain

Sun City Water Solutions

Lowe’s Home Improvement

Paradise Water Solutions

Akuafine

Crystal Tech Water

International Filter Water Treatment Systems

Puragain Water

Whole House & Alkaline System

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

Perfect Water Technologies, Inc.

PureSpring Water Softeners & Filters

H2o Concepts International Inc

Walmart Supercenter

Wellness Water Filtration Systems

Water Depot

Desert Mountain Water LLC

Advanced Water Systems & Plumbing Services LLC

Rayne Water

Christian Brothers Air Conditioning Plumbing Electrical

Sine Ace Hardware

AZ Water Solutions

Hyperion Elite

Culligan Water of Phoenix

We wish to turn our business into an enduring great company.  The way we perform our processes shows you our sentient intention in every single activity (we want you to be 100 % happy and satisfied with our products and services).

Our company is one of three companies in the Phoenix metro area and the East Valley area that delivers salt to your home.  We reserve this service for people who rent our water treatment equipment (we do have delivery restrictions based on geographic locations).

These are two popular options to provide you with whole house-filtered drinking water that contains no salt, there is no water waste, and does not utilize electricity.

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

Fluoride Filter + Granular Activated Filter – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

Some of our clients are putting both of these together to provide delicious water that does not contain hexavalent chromium, mercury, lead , chlorine, or fluoride.

water treatment phoenix az

water filtration phoenix az

water filtration east valley az

We can also provide service on equipment of other company’s (here are some of those)

LifeSource Water Systems, Inc  

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

Water Treatment, Phoenix

Boyett’s family water treatment

Camcor Plumbing & Water Treatment

Clear Water Concepts

Mountain Fresh Water Systems

Spring Meadows Water Treatment

Ameriflow Water Systems Inc.

Pristine Water Softeners

Kinetico Maricopa Water Processing Systems

Water filtration systems

AZ Water, Drain & Sewer

Aqua Science Now Proudly Pentair

Aqua Safe USA

Gilbert Water Softeners

All About Water

Western Water AZ

Advantage Pure Flo, Inc.

Dana Water Systems

High Quality Water

Kangen Water Store AZ –

RO Filters, RO Parts, RO Deep Clean and Repairs

Integrity Water Solutions\

Clean & Pure Water Co.

WATER FILTRATION AND SOFTENING SYSTEMS

whole house water filtration east valley az

Complete Water Systems LLC

LifeSource Water Systems, Inc

#1 Whole House Water System

Clear Water Concepts

Mountain Fresh Water Systems

Ameriflow Water Systems Inc.

Aqua Safe USA

Pristine Water Softeners

Clean H2O Pro’s

Whole house system

Camcor Plumbing & Water Treatment

Kinetico Maricopa Water Processing Systems

AZ Water, Drain & Sewer

Spring Meadows Water Treatment

Dana Water Systems

Advantage Pure Flo, Inc.

Water filtration systems

High Quality Water

Aqua Science Now Proudly Pentair

Gilbert Water Softeners\Integrity Water Solutions

All About Water

Western Water AZ

Desert Mountain Water LLC

HOUSE FILTRATION

whole house water filtration phoenix az

Complete Water Systems LLC

Home Water Systems

LifeSource Water Systems, Inc

Complete Water Systems LLC

H2o Concepts International Inc

WHOLE HOUSE WATER FILTRATION

International Filter Water Treatment Systems

Crystal Tech Water

Desert Mountain Water LLC

Rayne Water

LifeSource Water Systems, Inc

Culligan Water of Phoenix

Perfect Water Technologies, Inc.

WHOLE HOUSE WATER FILTRATION

Soft Water Plus

Dupure  

Advanced Water Systems & Plumbing Services LLC

WATER FILTER SYSTEM IN HOUSE

Akuafine

High Quality Water

Water Treatment Technologies

Charger Water Treatment Products

High Peaks Water Services

AZ Water Solutions

WATER SOFTENING EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER

Water Resources International Inc

Puragain Water

PARKER AND SONS

GEORGE BRAZIL PLUMBING AND WATER TREATMENT

WHOLE HOUSE WATER TREATMENT

A summary of this article:

Should I worry about drinking tap water?

Source: I give all the credit for this information to this source:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/17/should-i-worry-about-drinking-tap-water

How healthy is the stuff that comes out of your kitchen tap? Is it lacking essential minerals, or tainted with microplastics? Here’s what the science says

Water is good for you; regulates our temperature, lubricates and cushions our joints, aids in our digestive system in getting rid of waste.

If you don’t drink enough water; these things can occur:

Bad mood

Disrupt your physical and cognitive performance

Headaches

Death

Benefits of drinking enough water:

Aids your appetite regulation

Increases your metabolic rate

Helps you take tests better

Short statement: water is great

Does it matter where you get it?

If you have the correct water treatment equipment you don’t have to worry about having great water.

Water softener installation

Budget Water

MASTER WATER

We feel one of the great ways we can provide you with drinking water is to provide you with an affordable unit: you can enjoy all the water throughout your home – drink the water out of every faucet.

Here are two other options:

9679 Whole House Mercury (azh2o.com)

6412 Lead Removal (azh2o.com)

Thank you for this opportunity to earn your trust.

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett

text is best 602.291.4157

hayden@azh2o.com

History of the company – since December 1966

https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/money/soft-water-runs-in-family-s-veins/article_dc7db6c5-0d01-5306-b4ad-fb9967a4216d.html

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By renting a water softener from the Boyett’s family – we exchange this unit every 5 years (free).  We keep you over $1,700 ahead all the time.

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The cities are having to put so much chlorine in our water (to kill the algae).  By utilizing a swimming pool chlorine test (called OTO solution) you can test your left of chlorine ‘from your point of entry – let it run for one minute’. This high chlorine content in your water causes the cation resin material in your water softener to disintegrate. 

Many of our clients are adding a carbon filter to their water softeners.

The most popular approach is to place a carbon filter before the water softener:

Pfas filter and soft water: whole house carbon filtration and water softener (all in one package):  https://azh2o.com/pfas-whole-house-carbon-filtration/

Why is there so much algae in our water supply?

I recently visited the Saguaro Guest Ranch Lodge and witnessed the Saguaro Lake damn (holds our water back – flows to our water treatment plants).

Image of Saguaro Lake Dam (taken from the Saguaro Guest Ranch Lodge) https://www.saguarolakeranch.com/

When the water is released from the Saguaro Dam: the water is green with algae.  

When this Saguaro Dam water reaches your water treatment plant – they must add much chlorine to kill the algae.  They also add many more chemicals to treat the water.  These chemicals stay in your water (including fluoride).

1/3 of your water comes from 715 miles away (Colorado River Water). 

This is an image of the bridge that crosses over the Colorado River on the way to Phantom Ranch.  

The water is green with algae.

The water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon travels 715 miles to your water treatment plant.  When the Colorado River water reaches your water treatment plant, the water is very green with algae.

Before your water treatment plant delivers the water to your home: your water treatment plant adds much chlorine to this water to kill the algae (and many other chemicals that stay in your water). 

We perform chlorine tests (with a pool kit) in your homes.  Sometimes the chlorine content of your water is as much as a swimming pool; sometimes your water contains more chlorine than a swimming pool.

Chlorine disintegrates plastics and metals.  The main ingredient of water softeners is plastic.

When your water softener has been exposed to your city water – the chlorine will disintegrate the cation resin and cause low water pressure in your home.

The piece of your water softener that holds back the resin (the lower collector) will break because of the high chlorine.

When this cation resin escapes into your home it will cause low water pressure and clog your pipes. 

Here is what we have done to improve this situation (and prevent this cation resin from escaping into your home):

Boyett’s family water treatment manufactures

a screen inside your rental water softener so this will never happen.

We have developed a rental water softener process that keeps you over $1,700 ahead all the time.

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The most popular approach is to place a carbon filter before the water softener:

Pfas filter and soft water: whole house carbon filtration and water softener (all in one package):  https://azh2o.com/pfas-whole-house-carbon-filtration/

One of these tanks contains granular activated carbon media. 

This material removes chlorine (and performs this task with excellence). 

If this media is not changed at the appropriate time – it will microbiological contaminate your water.

Microbiological contamination of drinking water in a commercial household water filter system

F D Daschner ¹, H Rüden, R Simon, J Clotten

Affiliations expand

• PMID: 8740859

• DOI: 10.1007/BF01591360

Abstract

The microbiological quality of filtered water in a commercial water filter system (Brita) was tested in households and in two laboratories. In 24 of 34 filters used in households, bacterial counts increased in the filtered water up to 6,000 cfu/ml. In 4 of 6 filters tested in the laboratory, bacterial counts in the fresh filtrate were higher than in tap water after approximately one week of use both at room temperature and at 4 degrees C, suggesting growth or biofilm formation in the filter material. In some cases, colony counts in the filtered water were 10,000 times those in tap water. The filter material of 5 of 13 new commercial filters was contaminated with bacteria or molds. National or international regulatory agencies should ensure that water filters marketed for domestic use do not allow deterioration in the microbiological quality of drinking water.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

Some of the other water softeners and reverse osmosis units we provide service

ECO WATER SOFTENERS and reverse osmosis units

ALL ABOUT WATER – water softeners and reverse osmosis service

Here is a little bit of horse history about the Boyett family.

In the U. S. Grant book, I saw a passage that caught my eye.

Ulysses S. Grant (won the Civil War for the North and was our president for two terms).

….I was fond of agriculture, and of all employment in which horses were used.

The Boyett family can relate to this passage.  I was fortunate to ride an award-winning horse, Ginger.   

Horses have been a large part of Boyett’s family history. This image is of Hayden Boyett in Tempe at the place where I grew up Buena Vista Ranchos (http://www.buenavistaranchos.org/default.php). In this community are great people, great horse facilities, and great horses.

The founder of Boyett’s family water treatment worked on his stock ranch in Texas – the horse he rode was Dynamite and helped him get his work done.

Our trucks have been an important part of our ranching, farming, and water treatment industry.

As a young man, I sat on my grandfather’s lap while driving this truck on the country roads in Breckenridge, Texas ( https://www.breckenridgetx.gov/):

I am fortunate to drive this truck today.

This work truck proved to be useful in cleaning up branches from our bougainvillea in front of our factory.

I was humbled recently how this truck helped me accomplish an important task of cleaning up around our factory.  This is very much a work truck today (it is still a part of our fleet of trucks).

 Here is the story about my founder father’s drive from Texas to Arizona to bring my grandfather’s truck to me.

Dear Dale and Annetta:

Katrina had taped some Merle Haggard records for me to listen to on the way home from Texas.  On one of them is a song entitled “In the Good Old Days When Times Were Bad”.  He grew up in the labor camp of California and our life was a picnic compared to what he describes.  But there are two lines in the song that depict my thoughts of the “good old days” so perfectly:

No amount of money could buy from me the memories I have of then

No amount of money could pay me to go back and to do it again.

Annetta and I are so extremely lucky to have you, Dale, and Nadine who are willing to exert so much effort to make a gathering special.  Thanks for all the hard work and planning.

Last night as I drove in I wished that I could write a letter right then while my mind was on “the good old days”.  It seemed as though I’d been in a different world.  It seemed as though it had taken those several days last week to “shift down” and get my mind zeroed in.  Then it was perfect.  I had all day to think about it in the atmosphere of Daddy’s pickup.

I wondered if Annetta would say “No amount of money could buy from me the memories I have of them”.  Dale and I had such things as: spraying mesquites with Daddy, working calves, riding horses, spending hours swimming in the tank, dogs, hunting skunks with Si and Jap and families, hunting rattlesnakes with Si and Jap and families, Dale working for the highway, Brian working for Tom Moore, combining, the last years of the threshing machine (I ran a bundle wagon Dale had to be around doing something, driving the tractor, Brian drove horses raking hay, hauling hay and cultivating for several years (I doubt if Dale was old enough at the time)  hunting rabbits, fishing, spending time at Si’s and at Jap’s and with Don and Bert, killing hogs (we would scald them in a barrel then pull the 4 wheel trailer in the garage and everybody stood around it and cut meat and made sausage),  helping mother make lye soap, playing in the big barn at Jap’s, going up every Saturday after the mail ran to get Edith or Marza to read the funny papers to us,  burning mesquites, hauling and chopping wood,  shocking feed and grain, stacking feed, getting drip cans and barrels ready for Daddy, Si and Jap to make their middle of the night “runs’, pumping up tires with the old hand pumps, turning the forge blower in the old shop,  fetching the turkeys every night from the Moore’s place,  killing rats at the big barn, etc.

I am humbled by the story of this 1963 Ford and this is why I drive it today (it reminds me of our history of hard work and dedication and tenacious processes to provide you with affordable convenience – spectacular water treatment).

In our work today we are fortunate to have a great fleet of vehicles (our onus is to have the best fleet of trucks in the rental water treatment industry).

These are the people who make it all possible (they build and manufacture our trucks):

Picture of coach works auto body, mesa az. They take great pride in their work (their art and craft). This is the secret ingredient in all important endeavors.

In the City of Phoenix, AZ we provide osmosis service on the equipment of these companies:

Complete water systems llc

 Lifesource water systems, inc

High Peaks Water Services

Advanced Water Systems & Plumbing Services LLC

Rayne Water

Desert Mountain Water LLC

Complete Water Systems LLC

Aqua Science

Culligan Water of Phoenix

Crystal Tech Water

Sweetwater Systems Of Arizona

International Filter Water Treatment Systems

Perfect Water Technologies, Inc.

LifeSource Water Systems, Inc. – Phoenix/Tucson

Hydrotek Water Solutions

Soft Water Plus

Water Resources International Inc

Clear Choice

Great AZ Water

Wellness Water Filtration Systems

AguaPure Technologies

In the city of Buckey, AZ we provide osmosis service on the equipment of these companies:

Premier H2O

PROTEC WATER AZ

Arisa Water

In goodyear, AZ we provide osmosis service on the equipment of these companies:

Complete Water Systems LLC

AZ’s Water Filtration Company

Puragain Water

Whole House and alkaline system

Pristine Water Softeners

Nelsen Corporation

Spartan Water Solutions LLC

Lifewater Solutions LLC

Ambrosia Water & Ice Co

Renegade Water Services

Arisa Water

Nelsen Corporation

Van Marcke Plumbing Supply

Hidro Solutions LLC

Sun City Water Solutions

Great AZ Water

PROTEC WATER AZ

Barrett Plumbing & Drain

Paradise Water Solutions

Vesta Water Solutions Powered By Renegade Water

Premier H2O

Lowe’s Home Improvement

In the city of Litchfield, AZ we provide osmosis service on the equipment of these companies:

Complete Water Systems LLC

AZ’s water filtration company

LifeSource Water Systems, Inc.  

No Salt and No maintenance

Pristine Water Softeners   

Renegade Water LLC  

Lifewater Solutions LLC  

Great AZ Water

Spartan Water Solutions LLC

Hidro Solutions LLC

Vesta Water Solutions Powered By Renegade Water

PROTEC WATER AZ

Arisa Water

Olympia Water Systems

Premier H2O

Complete Water Systems LLC

Crystal Tech Water

Mellowh2o

Aqua Science Now Proudly Pentair

Aqua Science

LifeSource Water Systems, Inc

Winston Water Cooler, Glendale

Amigo Rooter & Plumbing Phoenix Arizona

AZ Water Solutions

In the city of scottsdale, AZ we provide osmosis service on the equipment of these companies:

Second Opinion Plumbing

Complete Water Systems LLC

Water Softener Systems

AZ Water Solutions

Allegiance Water Services

WES Water

H2Pure

Paradise Water Systems

PureSpring Water Softeners & Filters

JAX Commercial Service

BestFit Water

Aqua Science Now Proudly Pentair

Arizona Choice Water Systems LLC

Why does it make more sense to rent an RO unit in Phoenix metro AZ and the East Valley of AZ?

It is less expensive.

We will keep you $904.02 ahead all the time.

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If reverse osmosis equipment is not properly maintained, it will flood your home.

The worst story we heard: a person had to rebuild their home because of black mold caused by a water treatment equipment leak.

No batteries are required.   No electricity is required.

We install leak controllers on all of the rental reverse osmosis units we install.

Our industry might be overlooking the principle of plasticity.  When plastic gets old it can crack and break and flood your home.

We never allow our plastic components to reach over 5 years. 

If you rent a reverse osmosis unit from Boyett’s family water treatment – we exchange this unit every year at no charge.

  We feel that this program will be influential.

This material removes chlorine (and performs this task with excellence). 

If this media is not changed at the appropriate time – it will contaminate the water.

Some people will enjoy cold and hot water for their reverse osmosis water.  We have coolers available to make your reverse osmosis water cold and hot.

At one point in our lives, we invented a contraption that can stand alone outside to provide delicious cold and hot water.  This unit is designed for outside purposes, by the pool or by a recreational establishment.

Why does it make more sense to rent an RO unit in Phoenix metro AZ and the East Valley of AZ?

It is less expensive, more convenient and gives you a more dependable result.

We will keep you $904.02 ahead all the time.

10 (azh2o.com)

If reverse osmosis equipment is not properly maintained, it will flood your home.

The worst story we heard: a person had to rebuild their home because of black mold caused by a water treatment equipment leak.

One of our areas of expertise is

Soft water systems (installing these and maintaining and servicing these soft water units).  Usually, the components of a water softener and whole house water filter system are similar amongst water treatment companies (we always purchase the highest quality components and parts and ingredients).   Here are the soft water systems of different companies we provide service in the Coolidge, AZ area. If you ever replace your unit with a Boyett’s family system – we build each unit specifically upon your request. Each water softener that we build is designed for you specifically.

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

Precision Air & Plumbing

Water softener installation phoenix

Arizona Water Co

San Tan Water Solutions

Just Plumbing

Clean & Pure Water Co.

Maximum Water Solutions

Boyett’s family water treatment

Pristine Water Softeners

Mountain Fresh Water Systems

State 48 Water, LLC

AZ Water, Drain & Sewer

Clear Water Concepts

Spring Meadows Water Treatment LLC

Kinetico Maricopa Water Processing Systems

Paradise Water Systems

Ameriflow Water Systems Inc.

Western Water AZ

Integrity Water Solutions

Clean H2O Pro’s

PureSpring Water Softeners & Filters

Here are the soft water systems of different companies we provide service in the Florence, AZ area .

Evolution Plumbing & Misting

Clean H2O Pro’s

San Tan Water Solutions

Clean & Pure Water Co.

Maximum Water Solutions

State 48 Water, LLC

Pristine Water Softeners

Kinetico Maricopa Water Processing Systems

Mountain Fresh Water Systems

AZ Water, Drain & Sewer

Paradise Water Systems

Spring Meadows Water Treatment

Boyett’s family water treatment

Fast Layne Plumbing LLC

Clean H2O Pro’s

Clear Water Concepts

Rayne Water

PureSpring Water Softeners & Filters

Soft Water Plus

Complete Water Systems LLC

Symphony Plumbing & Water Systems

Ameriflow Water Systems Inc.

Here are the soft water systems of different companies we provide service in the Queen Creek, AZ area.

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

Evolution Plumbing & Misting

Clean & Pure Water Co.

Maximum Water Solutions

Water Bucks LLC

San Tan Water Solutions

State 48 Water, LLC

Paradise Water Systems

Mountain Fresh Water Systems

Spring Meadows Water Treatment

AZ Water, Drain & Sewer

Gilbert Water Softeners

Here are the soft water systems of different companies we provide service in the Higley, AZ area.

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

Second Opinion Plumbing

Gilbert Water Softeners

Boyett’s family water treatment

Pristine Water Softeners

AZ Water, Drain & Sewer

Mountain Fresh Water Systems

Puretec Industrial Water

Spring Meadows Water Treatment   

Southwest Water Services

Clear Water Concepts

Integrity Water Solutions

Dana Water Systems

AZ Aqua Technologies Inc

Western Water AZ

Paradise Water Systems

State 48 Water, LLC

San Tan Water Solutions

Maximum Water Solutions

SW Water Softening

Rayne Water

Arizona Quality Water

Here are the soft water systems of different companies we provide service in the Chandler, AZ area.

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

Evolution Plumbing & Misting

Kinetico Maricopa Water Processing Systems

Clean H2O Pro’s

Symphony Plumbing & Water Systems

Spring Rain Water Solutions

All Elite Water

Healthy Water Concepts LLC

Pristine Water Softeners

Gilbert Water Softeners

AZ Water, Drain & Sewer

Mountain Fresh Water Systems

Here are the soft water systems of different companies we provide service to in the Gilbert, AZ area.

Evolution Plumbing & Misting

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

AZ Water, Drain & Sewer

Pristine Water Softeners

Gilbert Water Softeners

Mountain Fresh Water Systems

Puretec Industrial Water

Boyett’s family water treatment

Southwest Water Services

Clear Water Concepts

AZ Aqua Technologies,Inc

Spring Meadows Water Treatment     

Paradise Water Systems

Kinetico Maricopa Water Processing Systems

Arizona Quality Water

Here are the soft water systems of different companies we provide service in the Tempe, AZ area.

Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

Water Treatment, Phoenix

Second Opinion Plumbing

High Quality Water

Aqua Science Now Proudly Pentair

All About Water

Hyperion Elite

Symphony Plumbing & Water Systems

Falcon Water Tech llc

How do you feel about whole-house water treatment units that do not utilize salt?

We believe in whole-house water filters that do not use salt. 

We have several to choose from. 

Here is a rental whole house unit that does not waste water, does not utilize salt; does not utilize electricity, and removes chlorine, lead, mercury, and hexavalent chromium.

11870 Chromium Brochure (azh2o.com)

If you would like us to stop by and visit and perform a pre-plumbing inspection.  We also call these a free site visit.  This will allow us to provide you with an installation fee estimate.

Just call to schedule this.

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett

This is an article about our company.

https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/money/soft-water-runs-in-family-s-veins/article_dc7db6c5-0d01-5306-b4ad-fb9967a4216d.html

The post Why does it make more sense to rent a water softener in the Phoenix AZ area and the East Valley area of AZ rather than purchasing a unit? appeared first on Boyett's Family Water Treatment.

Just add a cooler (hot water is available too).

At one point in our lives, we invented a contraption that can stand alone outside to provide delicious water.  For outside purposes, by the pool, or by a recreational establishment.

Our approach is this

The in-and-out burger approach

As the valley grows to 12 million people in 15 years (the population is now 6 million people in the Phoenix metro AZ area and East Valley AZ area) many people will need delicious drinking water that is safe, affordable, and convenient.

We feel that this program will be influential.

1864 Alkalinity Brochure (azh2o.com)

Here is the premise:

It is very important for the RO tanks and filters to be changed.

Microbiological contamination of drinking water in a commercial household water filter system

F D Daschner ¹, H Rüden, R Simon, J Clotten

Affiliations expand

• PMID: 8740859

• DOI: 10.1007/BF01591360

Abstract

The microbiological quality of filtered water in a commercial water filter system (Brita) was tested in households and in two laboratories. In 24 of 34 filters used in households, bacterial counts increased in the filtered water up to 6,000 cfu/ml. In 4 of 6 filters tested in the laboratory, bacterial counts in the fresh filtrate were higher than in tap water after approximately one week of use both at room temperature and at 4 degrees C, suggesting growth or biofilm formation in the filter material. In some cases, colony counts in the filtered water were 10,000 times those in tap water. The filter material of 5 of 13 new commercial filters was contaminated with bacteria or molds. National or international regulatory agencies should ensure that water filters marketed for domestic use do not allow deterioration in the microbiological quality of drinking water.

Microbiological contamination of drinking water in a commercial household water filter system – PubMed (nih.gov)

If your granular activated carbon filters are not changed and your RO tank sanitized – it will contaminate your drinking water.

We utilize the principle of indubitably exchanging your RO unit and RO tank every year (if you rent a water cooler; we will exchange this every year).  There is no cost for this service.

We also have an extra filter (it’s like an ultraviolet light) that can be added.  This silver-coated alumina media will disintegrate any E.Coli, coliform, or pathogens in your water.

Will Boyett’s family RO unit remove the prescription drugs in our AZ H2O?  Indubitably.

The plan for AZ water treatment facilities is to recycle 90% of your wastewater.  These AZ water treatment facilities are following the same plan as San Diego – put the recycled water back into your drinking water.

Just a thing to think about.

Why does it make more sense to rent an RO unit?  Over a 5-year period; it will save you $904.02.

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Why does renting a Boyett’s family clarify +Mg higher Ph make more sense?

No E.Coli, coliform, or pathogens in your water

Your water will be delicious

It will be convenient for you

Your water will be safe

It will be affordable

You won’t have a house flood

We feel this might be neglected in our industry:

If your RO filter canisters are over 5 years old; they can crack and flood your home.

The worst story of this – a homeowner had to rebuild their home because of an RO leak (there was black mold).

Boyett’s family installs leak controllers on all of our rental RO units.

No batteries are required.   No electricity is required.

If you don’t properly take care of your rental water treatment equipment; bad things will occur. 

Marina, Honey, and Hawkeye get the credit for helping us develop our alkalinity reverse osmosis concept (we raise the pH between 8-9.5 ‘we can adjust this).

As a principle of life (operating principle) we utilize this creed

The Dutch Bros creed

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

I have been fortunate to be involved with writing two books (here are the beginning of two of the books)

Desire – not only for the select few – 2014

May I please tell you a story about my founder Pop; my grandfather’s 1963 Ford and about their involvement in Boyett’s family water treatment advancement and development?

Dear Dale and Annetta:

Katrina had taped some Merle Haggard records for me to listen to on the way home from Texas.  On one of them is a song entitled “In the Good Old Days When Times Were Bad”.  He grew up in the labor camp of California and our life was a picnic compared to what he describes.  But there are two lines in the song that depict my thoughts of the “good old days” so perfectly:

No amount of money could buy from me the memories I have of then

No amount of money could pay me to go back and to do it again.

Annetta and I are so extremely lucky to have you, Dale, and Nadine who are willing to exert so much effort to make a gathering special.  Thanks for all the hard work and planning.

Last night as I drove in I wished that I could write a letter right then while my mind was on “the good old days”.  It seemed as though I’d been in a different world.  It seemed as though it had taken those several days last week to “shift down” and get my mind zeroed in.  Then it was perfect.  I had all day to think about it in the atmosphere of Daddy’s pickup.

I wondered if Annetta would say “No amount of money could buy from me the memories I have of them”.  Dale and I had such things as: spraying mesquites with Daddy, working calves, riding horses, spending hours swimming in the tank, dogs, hunting skunks with Si and Jap and families, hunting rattlesnakes with Si and Jap and families, Dale working for the highway, Brian working for Tom Moore, combining, the last years of the threshing machine (I ran a bundle wagon Dale had to be around doing something, driving the tractor, Brian drove horses raking hay, hauling hay and cultivating for several years (I doubt if Dale was old enough at the time)  hunting rabbits, fishing, spending time at Si’s and at Jap’s and with Don and Bert, killing hogs (we would scald them in a barrel then pull the 4 wheel trailer in the garage and everybody stood around it and cut meat and made sausage),  helping mother make lye soap, playing in the big barn at Jap’s, going up every Saturday after the mail ran to get Edith or Marza to read the funny papers to us,  burning mesquites, hauling and chopping wood,  shocking feed and grain, stacking feed, getting drip cans and barrels ready for Daddy, Si and Jap to make their middle of the night “runs’, pumping up tires with the old hand pumps, turning the forge blower in the old shop,  fetching the turkeys every night from the Moore’s place,  killing rats at the big barn, etc.

Beginning at Cesco

My father, William Brian Boyett was one of the pioneers in the water treatment industry in the Phoenix Metro area of Arizona.  His companies have provided soft water and reverse osmosis water treatment equipment to residential and commercial clients in the Phoenix Metro area of Arizona and the East Valley.  The purpose of this living historical document is to honor my father and my mother (Roberta Jean Hayden Boyett).  Both people are fine characters and have had a dynamic influence in our water treatment industry and in many people’s lives.   The company they founded 56 years ago: Boyett’s Family Rayne Water Conditioning is still in operation today.  Boyett’s Family is located at 38 East 5^th Avenue Mesa, Arizona (azh2o.com).  My name is Brian Hayden Boyett.  I am one of the editors of this historical document and the general manager of Boyett’s Family Rayne Water Conditioning.   I would like to thank all the many people who will be a part of this very important chronicle.   We feel many lives will change (gain great hope for the future) with this success story.

cesco.pdf (rent-a-watersoftener.com)

And an article about my mentor (a mentor to me is there to back you up and help you ‘you don’t pay him for his services to you’).  I have had many.  Lyman Keeling was one of the most profound mentors in my life.

Here is how it begins.

Lyman Keeling; the man, myth and Arizona Old Time Fiddle legend (Pride of the Tennessee Smokey Mountains) – My buddy and mentor

Lyman Keeling was my mentor.  He gave me many palpable great fiddling memories and has had a prodigious influence on my music career and the Arizona Old Time Fiddlers Association; and the music careers of many.

Lyman Keeling; the man, myth, and Arizona Old Time Fiddle legend (Pride of the Tennessee Smokey Mountains) – My buddy and mentor Lyman Keeling was my mentor.  He gave me many palpable great fiddling memories and has had a prodigious influence on my music career and the Arizona Old Time Fiddlers Association; and the music careers of many. (4) I first met Lyman Keeling when he was exiting the stage of an Arizona Old Time Fiddlers Association performance at the Mesa Arizona Tri-City Mall (circa 1976). My mother (Roberta Jean Hayden Boyett) and I stood at the back of the stage to meet this great fiddler and buck dancer (Lyman Keeling).  We found Lyman both congenial and energetic.   Lyman Keeling greeted my mother and me with humility and grace.  I mentioned to Lyman that I had just begun taking violin lessons with the anticipation of playing the fiddle like him (I was about 9 years old at the time).  Lyman unselfishly handed his fiddle to me and said “Here – play me a tune.”  From this point on I was hooked on Lyman Keeling and the Arizona Old Time Fiddlers Association.  Each day I carry both of these institutions in my mind and they both continue to have a great impact at every moment.  Lyman Keeling was not only my mentor – he was my friend and buddy.  Lyman took an active role in the development of my musical career.   Not only did Lyman Keeling encourage me to be a better fiddler – he made me a part of his legacy. Lyman honored me by asking that I perform with him at the City of Mesa Arizona outdoor amphitheater located at Center and University Drive for his last performance.  Danny Smith (famous Arizona fiddler „fiddler at the Rockin R Ranch‟) said to me, “That is appropriate”; he even attended the show.  I think Lyman even paid me for this performance.  Lyman Keeling asked me to perform at the Salt River Project event for retired employees.  He bragged about his tenure ‘as an SRP lineman’  “with this fine organization.” If you were fortunate to be on Lyman Keeling‟ ‘s good side – you were set for life.  I am fortunate to be set for life.  About a year before Lyman passed he asked me to go see some friends for a jam session.  I could not say no to Lyman Keeling – so I acquiesced and attended the Red Mountain Bluegrass Band Jam.  Little did I know I was being recruited for one of the most influential and rewarding positions in my life.  In the recruiting process, I was bequeathed the Lyman Keeling buck dance (Dr. Theo Heap „president emeritus of Mesa Community College‟ arranged this and formalized this in a written document). (5)  Dr. Theo Heap is the founder of the Red Mountain Bluegrass Band.  This kind gesture from Dr. Theo Heap secured me for life as the Red Mountain Bluegrass Band fiddle player.  I played an old-time fiddle hoedown called Leather Britches at Lyman’s memorial service.  Leather Britches was one of Lyman’s favorite fiddle hoedowns.  The version of Leather Britches I perform was taught to me by Michael Rolland (son of Dr. Peter Rolland „my second fiddle instructor and really great friend and collaborator‟).

Lyman-Keeling-Tribute.pdf (azh2o.com)

I have started editing a new book.

The title = scarcity

The cover

To stimulate the economy – we the people must come together to lower our taxes.  If we are required to pay less taxes (we will have more money to spend).  This principle has proven effective in the states that do not require you to pay personal income taxes.

This principle also worked in the Ronald Reagan administration.

The premise

No matter how much or how little (we have a lot in the USA) by applying principles of scarcity to all venues – your life will be more intriguing, you will invent more, you will help more people and you will be happy.

I feel I am qualified to edit this book because I have studied economics and accounting in school (In high school with Bob Cox at Corona Del Sol High School in Tempe, AZ, and with Dr. Ralph Smith at Arizona State University, Tempe AZ) and I apply these principles to our business and my life.  By learning from Art Laffer (listen to his Hillsdale College lectures) I have some important information to share with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Laffer

At Boyett’s family water treatment, we know a lot about a little (we thin slice it and shred it and thread it).  Here is the work we perform and where we do it.   

We install whole-house filters that do not require salt or electricity.  This model is popular for restaurants.

Mikey likes it.

Rigatony’s (great food in Tempe AZ).

https://rigatonys.com/ Our company has quarterly safety meetings to remind us to work safely at your home and to drive safely to get there.  We also celebrate important anniversaries.  When you choose to rent a water treatment system from us – you always get the best people in the industry.

Because of our long history and our parents’ legacy, we are fortunate to collaborate with other industry leaders.  We are fortunate to tap into the best knowledge to give you exceptional water that is affordable and delicious.

Recently Don stopped by our town to inspect our fleet and we recorded Sweet Virginia.

Don is very smart in many venues including learning new musical instruments and advising us on how to share our music.  It is his fault that we have a YouTube music channel (we call this our 500 fiddle songs).

Our great computer guy told me:  Hayden, just because you can make videos ‘doesn’t mean you should’.   I still do.

We are one of only two companies that provide portable exchange tank service in the Phoenix metro AZ area and East Valley AZ area.

As we were designing our portable exchange soft water delivery truck.

We are very conscious of the sentient nature of our work at your home.  It is important to us that you feel good about the rental water treatment service you receive from our company.

Since 1966 Boyett’s family has provided the rental portable exchange soft water treatment service (we always will).  Our company structure is designed around this concept (the people, the processes, and the trucks).

Portable Exchange Tank Service – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

We are an award-winning company.

We have my parent’s water treatment service award displayed in our office.

We are very proud of my parents (and we seek to honor them with our rental water treatment work cleaning up your AZ H2O).

We will always put our best foot forward and be on our best behavior when working at your home.  I am fortunate to work with the finest people in the rental water treatment industry (I feel).

These are the cities in which we work and what we do when we get there.  We always want you to be able to find us when you search a thing.

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We will treat your animals with respect and care when at your home.  We love all creatures great and small.

Our stray cat Bossy helps us get through each day.

I feel that we are humble people, we are grateful people, and we will work hard and effectively for you.  Thank you for your trust in us.

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett

Text is best 602.291.4157

hayden@azh2o.com

Here is an article about our company’s history:

https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/money/soft-water-runs-in-family-s-veins/article_dc7db6c5-0d01-5306-b4ad-fb9967a4216d.html

My final words today.

Why should you rent a water softener for 0.99 cents a day (for one person) rather than purchase a water softener?

By renting a water softener from the Boyett’s family – we exchange this unit every 5 years (free).  We keep you $1,494 ahead.

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Here are some different water softeners we repair (we are qualified to service these):

Hague water softeners

B and R Industries water softeners

br industries water softeners

aqua science water softeners

Culligan water softeners

Kinetico water softeners

Rayne water softeners

Clean and pure water softeners

jb distillers water softeners

advantage pure flow

budget water softeners

Complete Water Systems LLC water softeners

Crystal Tech Water softeners

American home water softeners

LifeSource Water Systems water filters

Complete Water Systems water softener

Desert Mountain Water 

Soft Water Plus

High Peaks Water Services

Akuafine

Clear Choice Water

Advanced Water Systems

Sweetwater Systems Of Arizona

North Valley Water Solutions LLC

International Filter Water Treatment

Water Treatment Technologies

Mellowh2o

H2o Concepts International Inc

Charger Water Treatment Produ

Great AZ Water

Allegiance Water Services

Ameriflow water softeners

Envirotech water softeners

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I visited here recently.

Image of Saguaro Lake Dam (taken from the Saguaro Guest Ranch Lodge) https://www.saguarolakeranch.com/

When the water is released from the Saguaro Dam: the water is green with algae.   

We stopped by this area on July 4, 2023, to perform water tests and play our fiddles for a group of young people.

When this Saguaro Dam water reaches your water treatment plant – they must add much chlorine to kill the algae.  They also add many more chemicals to treat the water.  These chemicals stay in your water.

1/3 of your water comes from 715 miles away (Colorado River Water). 

I have been fortunate to hike the Grand Canyon twice (stayed at the Phantom Ranch each time overnight and hiked out the next day); and road a mule down one time (stayed the night at the Phantom Ranch and road out the next day).

This is an image of our second hiking trip to stay at the Phantom Ranch. 

All three times I saw that the water is very green with algae.

This is an image of the bridge that crosses over the Colorado River on the way to Phantom Ranch.  https://www.grandcanyonlodges.com/lodging/phantom-ranch/

The water is green with algae.

The water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon travels 715 miles to your water treatment plant.  When the Colorado River water reaches your water treatment plant; the water is very green.

Before your water treatment plant delivers the water to your home: your water treatment plant adds much chlorine to this water to kill the algae. 

We perform chlorine tests (with a pool kit) in your homes.  Sometimes the chlorine content of your water is as much as a swimming pool; sometimes your water contains more chlorine than a swimming pool.

Chlorine disintegrates plastics and metals.  The main ingredient of water softeners is plastic.

When your water softener has been exposed to your city water – the chlorine will disintegrate the cation resin and cause low water pressure in your home.

The piece of your water softener that holds back the resin (the lower collector) will break because of the high chlorine.

When this cation resin escapes into your home it will cause low water pressure and clog your pipes. 

Here is what we have done to improve this situation (and prevent this cation resin from escaping into your home):

Boyett’s family water treatment manufactures a screen inside your rental water softener so this will never happen.

We have developed a rental water softener process that keeps you over $1,700 ahead all the time.

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The most popular approach is to place a carbon filter before the water softener: Pfas filter and soft water: whole house carbon filtration and water softener (all in one package):

One of these tanks contains granular activated carbon media. 

This material removes chlorine (and performs this task with excellence). 

If this media is not changed at the appropriate time – it will contaminate the water.

Microbiological contamination of drinking water in a commercial household water filter system

F D Daschner ¹, H Rüden, R Simon, J Clotten

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• PMID: 8740859

• DOI: 10.1007/BF01591360

Abstract

The microbiological quality of filtered water in a commercial water filter system (Brita) was tested in households and in two laboratories. In 24 of 34 filters used in households, bacterial counts increased in the filtered water up to 6,000 cfu/ml. In 4 of 6 filters tested in the laboratory, bacterial counts in the fresh filtrate were higher than in tap water after approximately one week of use both at room temperature and at 4 degrees C, suggesting growth or biofilm formation in the filter material. In some cases, colony counts in the filtered water were 10,000 times those in tap water. The filter material of 5 of 13 new commercial filters was contaminated with bacteria or molds. National or international regulatory agencies should ensure that water filters marketed for domestic use do not allow deterioration in the microbiological quality of drinking water.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

Boyett’s family water treatment utilizes an industry-specific software program to exchange your whole house water equipment at the appropriate time – every time.  We call this process – indubitably exchanging your rental water treatment equipment.

This may be an important point that is being missed in our water treatment industry.  If you have granular activated carbon media in your home – it indubitably needs to be changed on a regular basis.  If your granular activated carbon media is not changed – it may contaminate your water.

H2O CONCEPTS CONTAIN GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON.  This material must be changed on a regular basis.  This may be overlooked in our water treatment industry.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

Boyett’s family water treatment takes the cement out of your water.

What is Cement Made of – 

Composition of Cement ;

Magnesia, 1-3 ;

Iron oxide, 0.5-6 ;

Calcium Sulfate, 0.1-0.5 ;

Sulfur Trioxide, 1-3.

Iron oxide: 0.5-6

Silica: 17-25

Lime: 60-65

Alumina: 3-8

8 Main Cement Ingredients & Their Functions – Civil Engineering

Boyett’s family water treatment makes each unit treat AZH2O; just for you.  We utilize a material known as cation resin.

We exchange this material every 5 years so your cation resin does not cause you low water pressure problems in your home (and keeps working great).

This will keep you thousands of dollars ahead all the time.

All my life I have heard that the soft water process in my home will help save hundreds of dollars each month.

Battelle_Final_Report.pdf (azh2o.com)

Soft water installed in your home is a good investment.

The other thing in life we do is play musical instruments.  I am fortunate to play the violin (fiddle); the mandolin (same strings as the fiddle); and the guitar (has the same strings as the fiddle – they are reversed and an extra one and another the same string). 

We are looking for people to play music with us (we meet in Mesa, AZ every Tuesday at 7 p.m.).  You don’t have to be good.  We utilize a musical pedagogical principle known as the power of unison.   No matter the state of your musical ability; be everyone playing the same melody – this sounds like an orchestra. 

Some of the members of our fast track music group (I have stopped by their homes to discuss rental water treatment in AZ ‘San Tan Valley’). 

An example of this is our 35-year veteran Chicago Police officer.  We are honored to help people connect the dots.  We provide musical instruments (free of charge) and sponsor a couple of lessons (free of charge).  We figure if someone really wants to play a musical instrument – they will do it.

Our 35-year veteran Chicago Police officer really wants to play the guitar.  He continues to inform me this:  he practices every day.

I HAVE been fortunate to grow up and play music with some spectacular music people like Gene Privett.  Gene retired as the golf coach and veteran at Coronado High School.

https://www.susd.org/coronado

Gene was the guitar player for my mentor Lyman Keeling.

Lyman-Keeling-Tribute.pdf (azh2o.com)

One of Gene Privett’s students was Mike Bub.   

I was fortunate to play my fiddle with Mike Bub.

Mike Bub went to college to play bluegrass music and began playing the bass fiddle with a famous band called

Del Mcleary band.

Because Howard Anderson (spectacular AZ banjo player) wants to learn the fiddle; I get to learn the banjo.  This is a big deal for me.  If Howard didn’t want to play the fiddle; I wouldn’t be playing the banjo.  Howard visits me on Tuesday nights one hour early and gives me a banjo lesson.  Here is an example of Hayden’s typical banjo lesson.

Because of all this music stuff, I was fortunate to be in this great bluegrass bank (the Red Mountain Bluegrass Band ‘because of my mentor Lyman Keeling’).  Several years ago we played at a Nashville benefit concert at the Ryman Auditorium (had our picture taken with Dolly Parton).

Someday I hope to visit Dollywood and ask Dolly if she will have lunch with us.

https://www.dollywood.com/

In 1993 I took my fiddle to Europe and played on the streets and in the subways for an entire week for my food and lodging.

I learned this important notion: a musician will never go hungry. 

I was fortunate to have parents that worked hard, were ambitious and industrious.  I don’t know how they started our Rayne Water Conditioning dealership in the Phoenix Metro Area and Mesa and Tempe and raised two children (these two children seek to honor their parents today).  They were spectacular parents, and they were spectacular water treatment entrepreneurs.

My parents taught me how to value hard work through their example and they also taught me how to love people and provide a good product and service.

At 15.5 years old it was time to get my learner’s permit for driving a motor vehicle.  I showed my parents that I needed to have it.  After school and on the weekends, I’d ride my bicycle around our neighborhood and enroll many of our neighbors in our rental water treatment service.  When my territory was saturated, I presented to my parents that I needed to expand my marketing area.  They acquiesced and allowed me to learn to drive.   I am grateful they taught me how to search for a treasure (how to find a treasure; and how to treasure a treasure).  I honor my mother and father for allowing me to manage their rental water treatment business (it is a thing we try to make better each day).  This is for me their greatest gift to me.

Do I need soft water in Phoenix Metro, East Valley Arizona?

The Phoenix Metro AZ and the East Valley AZ water contain a lot of cement (hard water).   The Phoenix Metro AZ and East Valley AZ water have hard water. 

Does Boyett’s family deliver portable exchange soft water tanks?

Indubitably. 

We have always performed this work and we always will perform this work.

Portable Exchange Tank Service – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

Our entire company bios and structure revolves around this important process: portable exchange water softeners. 

Our people our trucks and our entire company structure begin with our portable exchange tank water softener service.

My father was one of the pioneers in the portable exchange soft water service and the water treatment industry in the Phoenix Metro AZ and East Valley AZ. 

Here is a short story about my pop.  I am a proud son.

My father, William Brian Boyett was one of the pioneers in the water treatment industry in the Phoenix Metro area of Arizona.  His companies have provided soft water and reverse osmosis water treatment equipment to residential and commercial clients in the Phoenix Metro area of Arizona and the East Valley.  The purpose of this living historical document is to honor my father and my mother (Roberta Jean Hayden Boyett).  Both people are fine characters and have had a dynamic influence in our water treatment industry and in many people’s lives.   The company they founded 56 years ago: Boyett’s Family Rayne Water Conditioning is still in operation today.  Boyett’s Family is located at 38 East 5^th Avenue Mesa, Arizona (azh2o.com).  My name is Brian Hayden Boyett.  I am one of the editors of this historical document and the general manager of Boyett’s Family Rayne Water Conditioning.   I would like to thank all the many people who will be a part of this very important chronicle.   We feel many lives will change (gain great hope for the future) with this success story.

As I watched my parents build our company with their hard work and talent I am so grateful they left us a thing we make better each day.  We perform this work:

We install water softeners

We rent water softeners

We service water softeners

We install whole-house water filters (no salt and no electricity)

We rent whole-house water filters (no salt and no electricity)

We service whole-house water filters (no salt and no electricity)

We install reverse osmosis systems

We rent reverse osmosis systems

We service reverse osmosis systems

We provide water-saving reverse osmosis systems; raise the pH to 8-9 pH; we add a small amount of magnesium to our water.

We install hot water recirculation pumps

We rent hot water recirculation pumps

We service hot water recirculation pumps

We know a lot about it.  By focusing intently we can be the best in the world.

This is our intention.

Our Company attributes and dreams.

56-year respected company

Last 13.5 years; every year we have had an increase in our number of customers and our Google positive comments.

Industry leader – developing cutting-edge strategies.

Great culture of people (14 employees – we feel the best in the world)

Great training and recruitment program

Client base of over 9,000 rental clients

Prices are based upon sound economic principles – good for the customer.

We have this energy: we are creating something important that will change our industry.

Invented processes: that help improve our customer satisfaction.

 Fast sales presentation (10 minutes; works well – clearly informs our potential clients)

   Rental whole house tickler process (we keep track of your rental water equipment and take action to exchange this at no charge).

Using economic and accounting principles to make sense of a water treatment rental investment.

A training model that selects the hard-working and best and promotes from within.

Developing recycling models that are popular in public opinion that raise the standard of our industry and save waste. 

Picture of our company

We have great people.

We have great truck manufacturers that help us have the best fleet in the water business (this is our intention).

Picture of coach works.

I have done this all my life; to build this great company – to create and look for intrinsic value in all things.  We pay close attention to the sentient nature of how we conduct our business at your home (we want you to feel good about our work with you).  We want you to know that you have selected the best water treatment company that provides you with the best water at the best price.

Why will Arizona have so much water?

One of the secret ingredients in our office business life is Bossy.  A stray cat walked into our office ‘like he owned the place’ and he has been by our side for several years (I hope for many more).  Bossy is always with us and we are glad to have him.  

Bossy, I dedicate good business process and design to you.  Thank you for being with us.

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett

602.291.4157hayden@azh2o.com

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Why does the cation resin in my water softener only last 5 years in the metro Phoenix area of AZ and the East Valley area of AZ?  Why must I exchange my water softener (and whole house carbon filter) every 5 years in the metro Phoenix area of AZ and the East Valley AZ?  Mostly, 100% of our water is surface water (2/3 is held back by the Saguaro Dam, and 1/3 flows from Colorado ‘through the Grand Canyon’).  When this surface water reaches our water treatment plant it contains algae (the water is green from algae):  the cities must add so much chlorine to your water.  We are performing chlorine tests throughout metro Phoenix and the East Valley area: these tests often have as much chlorine content as a swimming pool ‘sometimes more’.  We are always diligent to point out that our city water founding fathers and mothers do their best; however, they have much water to treat.  Boyett’s family water treatment takes our responsibility seriously to clean up the chlorine and cement in your water.  We provide our services to you on a rental basis (our rental fees are reasonable and our processes are the most advanced in the world ‘our clients help us to give us clues to make our methods the best’.

What is the main ingredient of the water softener?

It is a material called cation resin.

An ion-exchange resin or ion-exchange polymer is an insoluble matrix (or support structure) normally in the form of small (1–2 mm diameter) beads, usually white or yellowish, fabricated from an organic polymer substrate. The material has a highly developed structure of pores on the surface which are easily trapped and released ions. The trapping of ions takes place only with the simultaneous releasing of other ions; thus the process is called ion exchange. There are multiple different types of ion-exchange resin that are fabricated to selectively prefer one or several different types of ions. However, most are made of sulfonated cross-linked polystyrene

Ion-exchange resins are widely used in different separation, purification, and decontamination processes. The most common examples are water softening and water purification. In many cases, ion-exchange resins were introduced in such processes as a more flexible alternative to the use of natural or artificial zeolites. Also, ion exchange resins are highly effective in the biodiesel filtration process.

Most typical ion exchange resins are based on crosslinked polystyrene. The required active groups can be introduced after polymerization, or substituted monomers can be used. For example, crosslinking is often achieved by adding 0.5-25% of divinylbenzene to styrene during the polymerization process. Non-crosslinked polymers are used only rarely because they are less stable. Crosslinking decreases the ion exchange capacity of the resin and prolongs the time needed to accomplish the ion exchange

processes. Particle size also influences the resin parameters; smaller particles have a larger outer surface but cause a larger head loss in the column processes.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-exchange_resin

This is a microscopic image of cation resin (the main cleaning ingredient of the water softener)

My water softener (in my home or business) is causing low water pressure – what can I do?

Have your cation resin checked and possibly replaced or replenished 5 years (depending on influent water and usage, and condition of the cation resin). Here is a video/ slideshow which features a cation resin inspection project (Watch the video) In the Phoenix metro area of Arizona; we have determined the tipping point for cation resin to necessitate a change is approximately 5 years.

How can a water softener cause low pressure in my house?

The cation resin beads can fracture and clog the lower collector (which is the attachment connected to the distributor tube and prevents the cation resin beads from flowing into your home or business).

Answer #2:

Another occurrence that can take place to cause low pressure is when the lower collector breaks (the lower collector is attached to the bottom of the distributor tube). This will clog the fixtures and water-using appliances. This can be very tumultuous and very expensive. We have heard a story about a cation resin evacuation that caused $5,000.00 in damage.

Here is some more information regarding the cation resin evacuation into the home:

Here is an example of a lower collector which has broken:

In September of 2011 our customer ( account #135970) experienced the cation resin flowing into their house when the lower collector broke. This broken lower collector is displayed in the picture above. Troy responded to this problem. They traveled to this home and cleaned out the cation resin.

Because this problem exists – our company invented a resin screen (this device is shown below)

We have prepared this bypass valve with a metal screen inside. The bypass valve is placed between the water softener (cation resin tank) and the customer’s home plumbing. This special bypass valve will prevent the cation resin from escaping into the home if the lower collector breaks.

Why rent a water softener rather than buying?

We have established our rental automatic water softener rates to keep you $1,749 ahead (over a five-year period). Since we utilize principles of recycling and effective accounting and economic techniques we are able to proffer our clients a very economical rate to rent a water softener. We exchange this cation resin tank and valve every 5 years at no charge.

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The cation resin is the best ingredient for removing the cement in your AZH2O.  This material must be exchanged every 5 years to prevent a catastrophe or chaos from ensuing in your home. 

Over the last 56 years that my family has been operating in the valley; we have developed some time-tested methods to provide you effective soft water, affordably and conveniently.  Boyett’s family water treatment methods will keep you at least $1,749 ahead over a five-year period.  We exchange your whole-house water softener and whole-house filter every five years at no charge).

 Our dynamic duel whole house carbon filter and water softener is a very popular water treatment process in the Phoenix metro area and East Valley area of AZ.

This equipment will remove the chlorine and cement from your water.

Product link:

Dynamic Duel – Whole House Carbon System – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

Price sheet:

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We also provide a service to protect your family from the pfas chemical (forever chemical):

PFAS Whole House Carbon Filtration – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

Does Boyett’s family water treatment service provide a portable exchange water softener service?

Indubitably; we always have and we always will.  We are one of two companies in town that provide this service.  We are the only company in town to provide this service to the East Valley and the Queen Creek area; and Florence and Coolidge.

Product link:

Portable Exchange Tank Service – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

The back history of the portable exchange tank service in our area:

cesco.pdf (rent-a-watersoftener.com)

Here are some of the units in which we provide service

Aqua science

American home water The president unit

American home water soft water service

Kenmore genius 2 water softener

Kenmore hybrid water softener

Kenmore demand water softener

Kenmore series 300 water softener

Kenmore ultrasoft 400 water softener

Kenmore 420 water softener

Kenmore 350 water softener

Kenmore 520 water softener

Kenmore water softener timer

Sears Kenmore water softener

Boss water softener

Rheem preferred plus water softener

Boyett’s family water treatment plans to be experts on Working on many brands of water treatment.

When you call us we ask you to send us several pictures so we will make sure we are qualified to help you with your water treatment equipment.

Autotrol – they don’t make the parts, but we have recycled parts

Arizona environmental progress

Water Resources International

hydro quad water softener

ultramic reverse osmosis unit

The Ultra-Micron

Hydro-Quad

Mark’s quality water

Kinetico water softeners

Maricopa water processing

Kinetico premier series

Kinetico signature series

Kinetico Silver series

Kinetico Silver HE

kinetico Platinum

kinetico quad tank system

kinetico Quad-Tank Models

Kinetico Maxi Plus

Kinetico 2050C

Kinetico model 60

Kinetico Premier Compact

Kinetico Signature Series 735

Kinetico Signature Series 935

Kinetico Signature Series 1035

We always wish to inform you of the areas of specialization we offer:

Low water pressure reverse osmosis in Cave Creek Arizona

Low water pressure reverse osmosis in Scottsdale, Arizona 

There are now 6 million people in the Phoenix metro AZ and East Valley AZ area.  The water is extremely hard (82% of our water is recycled wastewater).  Our water t

To stay busy we are  Working on other people’s equipment

Autotrol – they don’t make the parts, but we have recycled parts

Arizona environmental progress

Water Resources International

hydro quad water softener

ultramic reverse osmosis unit

The Ultra-Micron

Hydro-Quad

Mark’s quality water

LifeSource Water Systems (no salt and no maintenance)

Filtersorb sp3

Granular-activated carbon filters

Kdf water treatment media

Next scale stop

Boyett’s family water treatment also performs this service Culligan portable exchange tank service

Rayne Water Conditioning Portable exchange soft water service

Boyett’s family water treatment portable exchange soft water service

Warranty Considerations for maintaining tankless water heaters.

One of the most vital aspects of coupling a water softener with your tankless water heater is maintaining your manufacturer’s warranty. In many cases, a manufacturer can choose not to honor their warranty if there is evidence of hard water.

Have you ever seen a soft water demonstration (to show the savings of soap in the environment of soft water and how clean is soft water).

Sw demo

To bypass your Clack water softener follow these instructions:

bypass Clack water softener

To bypass your fleck 5600 water softener follow these instructions:

Bypass a Fleck 5600 water softener

And then we celebrate.

This is the other thing we do in life:

Looking for people who want to play music with us (we get together every Tuesday at 7 PM in Mesa, AZ).

We are particularly interested in sharing and helping young people to develop their musical abilities.

We provide the instrument free of charge and sponsor a couple of lessons. 

We are hoping that our concept:

Fast Track music will become a worldwide movement.  All of the music work we perform is free of charge.  We challenge you to get involved in playing a musical instrument and or singing.

Some of the finest water treatment technicians are being developed at Boyett’s family water treatment.

Each technician starts with the hardest job in the world (delivering portable exchange soft water tanks).  Here is a link that describes our rental portable exchange soft water service.

If they survive the portable exchange tank delivery position, they get to move up after a time (we are fortunate to be growing).  They train with 5 of the world’s best water treatment technicians.  When your technicians stop by your home: they are the best in the world; they care and they will perform their work with great excellence.

I humbly present to you the finest water treatment technicians (and customer service agents) in the rental water treatment service.  I say to you with humility.  We work hard and effectively for you.

When you call us and see us I hope you will feel like the Dutch brothers creed. 

We like to do life this way:

The Dutch bro’s creed

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.

Give yourself so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.”

Here are some areas in which we work and what we do there:

Nuvo – citrus acid filtration Buckeye, AZ

We work on BR Industries Water Softeners and reverse osmosis units in Maricopa, AZ

We work on Aqua Science water softeners and reverse osmosis units in Maricopa, AZ

Mark’s Quality Water, Tucson AZ – we can help you find help for your water softeners and reverse osmosis units

Pelican whole house water treatment unit Tempe AZ

Pelican whole house salt-free conditioner Chandler Arizona

Pelican salt-free whole house water treatment Gilbert Arizona

I have done this all my life; to build my parent’s great water treatment company (to honor my mother and father) and to create and look for intrinsic value in all things.  We pay close attention to the sentient nature of how we conduct our business at your home (we want you to feel good about our work with you).  We want you to feel there is great value in the work we perform at your home. We want you to know that you have selected the best water treatment company that provides you with the best water at the best price. We want you to feel your important contribution continues our great legacy. Your involvement in our history will have a great impact on AZh2o.

Thank you for your trust and loyalty in our company.

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett

text is best 602.291.4157

hayden@azh2o.com

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If you live in Phoenix Metro (East Valley) Arizona 90% of our wastewater is recycled; some of it is going to your faucet.   

In The Valley, water officials are turning wastewater into drinking water, just like officials in San Diego did.

Wastewater contains nitrogen and phosphorus from human waste, food, and certain soaps and detergents.

In wastewater, there is also E.Coli, pathogens, and coliform.

This is the most popular to disintegrate E.coli, pathogens, and coliform from your drinking water:

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Will carbon filters on your refrigerator disintegrate E.coli, pathogens, and coliform?  No.

Will refrigerator carbon filters remove the prescription drugs in all drinking water?

Samples taken from various Arizona water supplies show levels of contaminants from opioids.

Will a refrigerator filter (granular activated carbon media) remove the salt from your phx metro, east valley AZH2O?  No.

Boyett’s family reverse osmosis rental service will remove all the salt from your water. 

Why is there salt in your phx metro, east valley az AZH2O?

The main water purveyor in our valley is SRP (Salt River Project).  They call it the salt river because it runs through salt riverbeds from the Saguaro Dam to your home.

This is a picture of the salt deposits when the water receded.

This is an image of the salt riverbed.  The white deposits are salt.  Much salt is in your phx metro, east valley drinking water.  Boyett’s family water treatment has specialized in removing this salt from your AZH2O since 1966.

Here is a short story of how reverse osmosis was developed.

Two UCLA engineering graduate students, Sidney Loeb and Srinivasa Sourirajan, made that process possible, with research starting in the late 1950s. The pair created the first practical RO membrane using cellulose acetate. They filed for a patent on the new membrane in 1960.

These two scientists were experimenting with pig bladders; reversed the osmosis process to provide us with pure water.

This technology is utilized in our United States submarines to take sea water and make this drinkable.

Some countries will not have enough water; so they utilize the reverse osmosis process and take water from the sea (take out the salt – purify this water with reverse osmosis) and provide this to the people.  We may perform this same process in the Sea of Cortez for our Arizona people.

The process of reverse osmosis performs the water purification function so well – it makes the water slightly acidic. 

Is drinking slightly acidic water healthy?

Having low levels of magnesium may contribute to high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, and conditions that cause irregular heartbeats. Mineral water rich in magnesium may therefore help lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Our water contains a slight amount of magnesium. 

Because the reverse osmosis process leaves the water slightly acidic; we utilize a magnesium oxide crystal (add this to an empty filter canister after the RO water stream).

This is an image of the empty filter canister.   We place the crystal material magnesium oxide (Corosex made by Clack Corporation).

Here is an image of a magnesium oxide crystal

We fill this empty filter canister with this magnesium oxide. 

By neutralizing the free carbon dioxide in water, Corosex can correct acidic water conditions and render it less corrosive. Corosex, being a highly reactive magnesium oxide, is used most effectively where pH correction is substantial or high flow conditions are in use. pH correction and media consumption are affected by a number of water chemical variables. Being soluble to acidity, Corosex will slowly dissolve and will need to be replenished periodically.

This video shows the magnesium oxide ingredient:

Why are people selecting these units?

Because these rental reverse osmosis units provide Phoenix Metro area and East Valley AZH2O that is delicious, abundant, safe (good for AZH2O) – affordable +Mg+pH+h2o.

Most of the clients we work for rent their units (which saves you at least $1,000 over a 5-year period).

AGE OF a ro unit

Manufacturer Warning for Filter Canister

CAUTION: All filtration systems contain other parts that have a limited-service life. Exhaustion of the service life of those parts often cannot be easily detected. Commonly, it is only after the leakage has been observed or water damage has occurred that one is made aware that the service life has been exhausted.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To prevent costly repairs or possible water damage we strongly recommend that the bowl or sump of all plastic housings be replaced periodically: every five for all outside filter cannisters. If your sump (filter canister) has been in use for more than the recommended period, it should be replaced immediately. Be sure to date any new or replacement filter canisters for future reference and indicate the next recommended replacement date.

If you don’t change your filter canisters (sumps) periodically…. we recommend you change your filter canisters (sumps) every 5 years to prevent failure.

Because of plasticity

Plasticity is the propensity of a material to undergo enduring deformation under load when compressed. It is the quality or state of being plastic; especially the capacity for being molded or altered. The plasticity of a material is directly proportional to the ductility and malleability of the material.

All the plastics on your reverse osmosis unit can crack and break.

This canister caused a serious flood at our new client’s home.   Out of sight – out of mind.

We heard a story recently that said:

Because of a reverse osmosis plastic canister leak – caused a flood; because of black mold, they had to tear the entire home down.

When the plastics get old, they can break and cause a serious leak and flood in your home.  You might be required to tear your home down because of black mold caused by a reverse osmosis leak.

We never want our units to cause you inconvenience or problems (we exchange our rental RO units every year at no charge).

On all our reverse osmosis unit installations since 2006 we have installed a leak control device.  If a leak is caused by our RO units’ moisture will be detected and shut off the water production to the RO unit.

This is an image of the flk pad

If moisture is detected under your sink; this gauze pad will expand and turn the water off to your reverse osmosis unit.

We install this leak control device on all our reverse osmosis work to prevent any leaks and floods.

This is a story how we developed our alkalinity reverse osmosis rental service and this began the journey to provide +magnesium – alkalinity reverse osmosis rental service.

One of our VIP clients walked into our office and asked us if we can provide her alkaline water.

We learned the alkalinity water technology since in 1960’s.  Boyett’s family water has provided alkalinity water to your for many years.  We utilize a material known as calcite crystals.  Because the RO water is slightly acidic we run the water over the calcite crystals (our alkalinity water Ph is between 8.5- 9.5). 

Here is the rest of the story about how we developed our alkalinity reverse osmosis service in 2009.

Marina, Honey & Hawkeye *Health claims of alkaline water are unsubstantiated with scientific research. Let the testimonials speak for themselves. Notable Quotes: “Many ecological studies report an inverse (i.e. protective) association between cardiovascular disease mortality and water hardness, calcium or magnesium levels; however, results are not consistent.”* “Higher calcium intakes have been related to higher bone mass in children, young adults and postmenopausal women in most (64 out of 86) observational epidemiological studies and clinical trials of calcium supplementation (Heaney 2000). However, most individuals do not consume adequate intakes of calcium.”* *Calcium and Magnesium in Drinking-water Public health significance. World Health Organization Summary. 2009. “We have noticed significant health improvements Testimonial: Marina, Honey & Hawkeye “I would like to think this amazing product was developed for us just because we asked. We already had the reverse osmosis installed and were happy with that, although, my concern about the high acid in our drinking water made me seek a solution. I contacted Hayden and Troy at Boyett Family Rayne Water Company, and their research and development department went into action. To our surprise, at our next service call, Boyett’s installed this calcite filter. We have had it for 6 months now and have noticed significant health improvements in ourselves and our dogs, which enjoy the water as well. In our case, since the reduction of acid in our water my hip pain has disappeared, which allows me to be more active and lose weight (my size 8’s look great, thanks). Another benefit was when I wore costume jewelry my skin would turn green, this no longer happens. As for our wonderful pets, we have two 7 year old Beagles— Honey and Hawkeye. As long as I can remember, Hawkeye has always – after drinking water – thrown it up, until now . NO MORE CLEAN UPS, and he is so much more hydrated. Our other dog, Honey, suffered with hip pain. Since filling her watering station with the Boyett water she no longer limps. The pain is gone, and she runs around like a puppy again! So THANK YOU RAYNE, for all that you do for the health of our family and your GOING GREEN movement! Honey and Hawkeye thank you too!* -Marina Nov. 9, 2010 THE REST OF THE STORY… Please refer to my the Nov 8th, 2010 google review titled Nick. I would like to thank The Boyett Family Rayne Water Team for the continued excellent service, I love the idea of a new clean system and filters at the time of my service, as well as, appreciate the reminder calls and flexibility of the appointment coordinator due to my busy business schedule. The service technician Marco, that came out to the house was prompt, professional and he made sure the area was clean and in order before he departed. Thank you Marco and Troy! Oh, and thanks to the leak detector that the Rayne Team installs with the reverse osmosis system under the sink, I had been warned early that the under-the-sink garbage disposal had a crack and was leaking badly….I was able to call the Rayne team and they helped me reset the system to assure that I was drinking the reverse osmosis alkalinity water once more. In my opinion, all water things in the whole house should have a leak detector and shut off mechanism….Okay research and development department at Boyett Family Rayne Water a new challenge for you! Thank you for taking great care! Since my last review, some of my personal bucket list accomplishments have been fulfilled due to the Alkalinity water I drink. Not only have I kept off the weight, still in size 8… It is really nice to have my yearly well visit with my physician and get a clean bill of health. I have been able to work out and train more….so much more, that last summer I finished a triathlon, The Tin Man in Honolulu…..and so many fundraiser runs like the Pat Tillman Run, P.F Chang, Breast Cancer awareness marathon and so on…. My family and pets are enjoying the alkalinity water and doing well. My two beagles are more puppy like…they still run with me approaching 9 years of age. So once more Boyett Family Rayne Water team..Thank you again for years of excellent service, attention and the health of my family! – Marina Apr 18, 2012 Marina is the owner of Coach Works, Inc. Your Full Service Automotive Repair Facility Collision – Insurance Claims Experts – Paint – Customization Mechanical – Tires – Restorations – Free Estimates www.coachworksautobody.com | 602.377.5639 | ASE Certified This company helps maintain our fleet of trucks and they do a good job. They are honest and their prices are fair. ~ Brian Hayden Boyett

When Marina, Hawkeye, and Honey brought to our attention that we have this powerhouse product – our lives were changed.  We stand on a mountaintop and brag about this alkalinity water process that we have developed.

Here is the story about how we added +Mg to our alkalinity reverse osmosis.

I was so proud of our company for specifically developing this alkalinity reverse osmosis process (Troy came up with the design and invented the mechanism to deliver this alkalinity water to you).   I began to tell everyone (I am fortunate to meet with as many as 20 of you nice people in the evening and on Saturdays). 

I was meeting with this really nice couple around their dinner table in Gilbert Arizona and she said this:

“if you can ever figure out how to add magnesium to the water; be sure to inform us.”  It turns out that ½ of us are low on magnesium.  I said okay.   Troy called the Kannapel’s (3^rd generation water treatment equipment builders in Mesa Arizona) and they told Troy this:

“Yes, you can easily add magnesium to your RO unit by adding this material called Corosex to your empty filter cannister”.  I said this: I can’t wait to tell people about Corosex.

Because of these important clients, we are now able to offer you this product (this product will raise your drinking water to a Ph of 8.5- 9.5; add 10% of your daily magnesium ‘you must drink at least 60 ounces of our water’ ; this product will also save you 85% on your RO waste):

Sources:

I give these sources all the credit for my content and words.  

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/is-reusing-wastewater-a-solution-for-arizonas-water-woes

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2017/01/24/arizona-drugs-water-supply-pharma/96960250/

Clean Water for All

Submarines spend months submerged – where do they get oxygen and drinking water from?

https://systematixusa.com/products/media/reactive_media/corosex.htm

https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-wastewater#:~:text=Wastewater%20contains%20nitrogen%20and%20phosphorus,of%20nitrogen%20and%20phosphorus%20pollution.

When you call us 24 hours a day – one of the best people in the water treatment industry will respond to your request.

Washer your car with purified ‘spot-free’ water in your garage

We have developed a spot-free rinse technique that can be installed in your garage (price range $33 – $100 each month).  We connect this RO unit to your utility sink

Reverse Osmosis – Boyett’s Family Water Treatment (azh2o.com)

We utilize this wand

And attach this to our pressurized reverse osmosis tank.  We can even add a deionization filter for completely spot-free water.   Over the last several months we have received several requests for an affordable spot-free water treatment unit.

I hope I will always remind you the work that we perform and where we do it.

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finest – we always have one-person training.   We always want to be prepared when you call.

Sebastian can perform the work of 2.5 people.

I was thinking what a great feeling to find treasure.  The greatest treasures we find are in people.  We are so grateful for your trust and loyalty to us.  Thank you for honoring us with your patronage. 

When you put us all together, we have an exceptional team (I’ll always tell you I think they are the finest in the world) that will continue the Boyett’s family water treatment tradition of making you happy and giving you peace of mind by utilizing the appropriate and the most advanced, affordable and convenient water treatment techniques.

We’d like to thank all the great 6 million people here in our Phoenix metro – East Valley AZ for your loyalty and trust over these past 56 years.  We will be honored to help treat your water.

Respectfully, Hayden Boyett

Text is best 602.291.4157

hayden@azh2o.com

Here is the point that may be neglected in the service of RO units and refrigerator filters and other granular activated carbon filters:

If filters that contain granular activated media are not changed at the appropriate time – your water may be microbiologically contaminated.  This statement is based upon this link:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8740859/

We feel this is an important health detail that is being overlooked:

People now have many carbon filters in their homes (refrigerators, shower filters, RO units); if these people do not change these carbon filters on a regular basis; their water will be contaminated.  Boyett’s family water treatment utilizes a process known as this:

Indubitably changing our rental water treatment equipment.

1. We send a postcard
2. We send an email
3. We make a phone call
4. If a person does not call us – the owner of this company will pop by and ring your doorbell (knock on your door) and leave a note to please call our office (480) 969-7251.  This is really important that we exchange your rental water treatment equipment.

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