Water quality matters. We often take our drinking water and running water for granted, but when it is taken away, life changes significantly. This fact is just a foretaste of how floods affect water quality. The United States suffers from… Read More
Archive for the ‘Disinfection of Water Systems’ Category
Water Treatment vs. Wastewater Treatment Plants
Our water systems are quite simple, really. Although the processes themselves might be complex, the cycle of bringing safe water into homes and businesses and draining used water away from them is actually pretty straightforward. You might have heard of… Read More
Cleaning Maryland’s Water Systems
Jet Blast Inc. helps Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C., to keep their streets, stores, and homes clean and supplied with safe running water. How so? Although municipalities and companies ultimately build and operate the water and sewer… Read More
A Map of Municipal Waterworks
Public waterworks are part of a municipality’s domain. They form the network of pipes, reservoirs, and drains that allow clean water to get to your faucets and dirty water to return cleanly to its source. Let’s take a look at… Read More
Is Tap Water Safe to Drink?
Tap water is the main source of drinkable water in the United States. It is a marvel that in many homes, you can turn on the faucet and have drinkable water come out of it within your comfortable, temperature-controlled home…. Read More
What Is Water Dechlorination?
If you have ever noticed water spewing from a local fire hydrant with no one around and wondered what was happening, you are not alone. You might be familiar with water chlorination, which is how we have clean drinking water,… Read More
How Municipalities Clean Water
Municipalities, the authorities in charge of managing the public works of a given city or town, control the water supply. Each town has its own water system, supplying potable water for drinking, washing, watering plants, etc. How exactly do municipalities… Read More
Where Does Stormwater Runoff Go?
You might be asking this question during a sleepy, rainy day or during the height of summer on a beautiful, cloudless day. When it rains, sleets, hails, or snows, the water that enters the storm drains begins a journey, its… Read More
Prevent Pollution in Local Streams This Spring
In Maryland, it is hard to tell what the weather will be like from one week to the next. In 2023, spring is beginning to spring earlier than usual this year. (That doesn’t mean there’s no chance of snow, though!)… Read More
Where Does Tap Water Come From?
The water that comes to our homes allows us to drink, wash, bathe, and water simply by turning on the faucet. Where does tap water come from? Our municipalities take water from natural resources to supply millions of gallons of… Read More