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Old 09-01-2011, 09:44 AM
 
Location: Houston, Texas
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... the filter! Just horrible!!! So many of us AND our kids drink that stuff on a daily basis...
Well, like I said, it's normally not this bad. That filter shown in the picture is the worst I have ever seen it. It's got to have something to do with the drought causing extra amounts of sediment/sludge in the water supply.
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Old 09-01-2011, 10:02 AM
 
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Houstonians and Texans have consistently shown that they don't pay enough attention to water quality and monitoring. The water companies know this, and will continue to cut corners (for their benefit, not ours). They know they can - and will - get away with things that would have us alarmed if we had more information. Who really knows what they do and what's in our water? They do, but they'll guard that at all costs. No accountability or disclosability whatsoever.

Just another case of the growing powerlessness of the public. And with the public's apparent blessing too (silent as a mouse).

Last edited by Sunderpig2; 09-01-2011 at 10:32 AM..
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Old 09-01-2011, 11:08 AM
 
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I'll second that.
Don't get me started on the air. In Dallas, every time the numbers were due to be turned in the city said oops, our machine is broken. That went on for years.
A friend and I are trying to account for the willful ignorance that lets this stuff happen.
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Old 09-01-2011, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Houston and Old Katy
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Does the water smell all the time? Or only when you run hot water? Might be related to hot water heater if you only smell it during a shower.
No, cold water coming out of the faucet outside the house that is right at the water line that enters the house. I have a PVC line that goes from the meter to the house.
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Old 09-02-2011, 11:44 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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A division of a Houston company called PowerMax Green Technologies (which may or may not be related to this Florida company with a similar name and similar products) is hoping to set up a manufacturing plant in Hitchcock to build atmospheric water generators, or machines for extracting drinking water from humid air.
According to Galveston County Daily News the site the company is interested in as the former Blimp Base at 7526 Blimp Base Rd., just off FM 2004 — where the Navy once developed and stored blimps for spotting German submarines in WWII, and which is now an approved Foreign Trade Zone.
Officials with the Green Environmental Management have been meeting with area officials about their plans to build 2 facilities totaling 160,000 sq. ft.
Pulling water, jobs out of thin air? (http://galvestondailynews.com/blog/6590/ - broken link)

About Blimp Base: The Blimp Base - About

This 1944 photo from the online collection of the University of North Texas shows how big the hanger was, and what little remains (the four huger corner posts)…
[Four K-type airships docked in the hangar at Hitchcock Naval Air Station] : The Portal to Texas History

BTW: Rice University is going to collect A/C condensation and recycle the water.
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Old 09-03-2011, 04:30 AM
 
Location: A little suburb of Houston
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A division of a Houston company called PowerMax Green Technologies (which may or may not be related to this Florida company with a similar name and similar products) is hoping to set up a manufacturing plant in Hitchcock to build atmospheric water generators, or machines for extracting drinking water from humid air.
One wonders how this could be considered "green" technology and what effect it would have on local weather patterns.
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Old 09-03-2011, 07:12 AM
 
Location: TX
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I can't imagine how much energy must be required to extract a sizable amount of drinking water from air. "PowerMax" is probably an appropriate name for the company.
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Old 09-03-2011, 07:23 AM
 
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Does all of Houston area have trouble with their water quality? Are some places better than others? Bottled water has it's own downsides and is often just tap water anyway but is put into plastic bottles with bpa and other nasty chemicals. I have *refused* to buy bottled water or any kind of drink in those plastic bottles for quite some time now. There HAS to be a better option....

Take care,
Kris
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Old 09-04-2011, 07:04 AM
 
Location: TX
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KHOU aired a special last night on radiation in the tap water that was pretty interesting. Not sure if it was new or repeated. But I noticed during the special there was a commercial for Ozarka. Great advertising for them, and it makes me wonder how biased the story was. Bottled water company sponsors report on radiation in tap water. Hmmmm
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Old 09-04-2011, 07:33 AM
 
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My friend sells tv advertising. There is no conspiracy, here. TQEC, that's another story.
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