Media Trap


Posted September 30th, 2016

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The media trap is to be installed after your backwashing or “in/out” tank style filter. Its function is to protect your home’s plumbing fixtures from particles of filter media that might escape from the filter tank. This usually doesn’t happen, but the media trap will provide protection if it does.

The filter trap has no cartridge to change, although you might eventually need to remove the clear bowl and clean the metal screen. When installing, please note the directional flow arrow.

The filter trap is so light that your pipe will support it. There’s not need for a mounting bracket.

Pure Water Products furnishes a media trap free with each of our backwashing or simple in/out filters.

 

Scientists are protesting the damming of “the last big, wild river in Europe outside Russia”

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The Vjosë, the last big, wild river in Europe outside Russia, is in danger of being dammed

“A developing country cannot be a museum.”

Europe’s last wild river is about to be tamed. But it won’t go without protest.

More than 200 scientists from 33 countries  called for the Albanian government to halt plans to construct the first dam on the Vjosë, which flows out of northern Greece through remote Albanian mountain canyons to the Adriatic Sea.

Scientists say the river is of “global significance,” particularly for birds that breed on the huge islands downstream of the proposed 25-metre-high dam at Poçem. Once completed, the dam will dictate flows downstream according to electricity demand rather than the needs of river ecosystems.

“The Vjosë is the last big, wild river in Europe outside Russia,” says Ulrich Eichelmann of campaign group RiverWatch, which organized the scientists’ petition to save the river. “We are trying to stop these projects and instead establish the first European Wild River National Park.”

The river already has a small dam on one of its Greek tributaries. But hydrologists say its flow downstream through Albania remains mostly unchanged and its ecology largely unexplored.

Despite past election pledges to protect the river, the government in May awarded contracts to Turkish companies to build the dam. Energy minister Damian Gjiknuri told news agencies in July that the government was determined to proceed. “A developing country cannot be a museum,” he said. “Hydropower has drawbacks, but every development has a cost to the environment.”

Development also threatens a major body of freshwater in neighbouring Macedonia, where Europe’s oldest lake, Ohrid, and its unique ecosystem is at risk because of tourism.

Reference: New Scientist.

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Water News


Posted September 15th, 2016

Recent Water News

HOOVER DAM, AZ - MARCH 30: A 'bathtub ring' surrounds Lake Mead near Hoover Dam, which impounds the Colorado River at the Arizona-Nevada border, on March 30, 2016. The white ring shows the effects of a drought which has caused the level of the lake to drop to an historic low. The ring is white because of the minerals which were deposited on the previously submerged surfaces. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

With the western US drought it its fifth year, Lake Mead sank to its historic low. The “bathtub ring” shows the dramatic decline of the water level.

Coca Cola announced that it now replenishes as much water worldwide as it draws from natural sources to fuel its production. Exactly how this is accomplished is not clear.

August 28 to September 2 was World Water Week in Stockholm. Joan Rose received this year’s Water Quality Champion prize.

A body was recovered from the McMillan Reservoir that provides much of the drinking water for Washington, D.C.

Over the past two years Texas has received record-breaking rainfall, recording the most rain since 1942.

The FDA issued a rule banning 19 specific chemicals in liquid and bar soaps, including triclosan (commonly used in liquid soap) and triclocarban (used in bar soap). The agency says manufacturers have not shown that these products are any more effective than plain soap and water in preventing illness or stopping the spread of certain infections.

A group of dairy producers in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin announced that it will pay more than half the cost of drinking water purification systems for residents whose wells have been polluted by animal waste.

Vermont has lowered the drinking water allowable from 35 to 3 parts per million for the pesticide TFM which is used to control the sea lamprey in state waters.

Six members of a Sioux tribal group called Standing Rock Water Protectors were attacked by dogs and pepper spray while demonstrating against continued development of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The EPA has fined the U.S. Army $100,000 for continuing to operate illegal cesspools in Hawaii.

New York state has an ambitious project that recycles old toilets to create oyster reefs. The reefs will not only serve as habitat for oysters but will also provide erosion protection for wetlands and natural filtration of sea water.

A Florida teenager has won an annual open-water swimming competition off the Florida Keys.

Seventeen-year-old Noah Zhang of Jupiter, FL won the Swim for Alligator Lighthouse open-water swimming competition, completing the 9-mile swim in 3 hours and 46 minutes.

About 980 million liters of contaminated water leaked into Florida’s main underground source of drinking water after a huge sinkhole opened up under a phosphate fertilizer plant near Tampa.