If you want to avoid the stress of Christmas shopping in crowded malls, yet still end up with the perfect, unique gifts for your loved ones, you've come to the right place. This Christmas, give the gifts of clean water and clean air with Filters Fast. You may be thinking - "filters?" Okay so maybe getting a six-pack of 3M Filtrete Ultra Allergen Air Filters is a bit like … [Read more...] about Eight Unique Christmas Gift Ideas from Filters Fast
Coconut Water: The New Celebrity Craze
No need to visit the tropics to indulge your craving for coconuts - this fruit is now a part of the multi-billion dollar bottled water industry. And, like many other brands of bottled water, it even has quite a few celebrity endorsements. Touted as the natural alternative to sports drinks like Gatorade, coconut water comes from the center of young, green coconuts, and is said … [Read more...] about Coconut Water: The New Celebrity Craze
The Dangers of Splenda in Drinking Water
A fairly recent research study has found that Splenda can accumulate in drinking water after it is excreted from the human body. The reason for this is that neither the human body, nor modern wastewater treatments are capable of breaking down the artificial sweetener. If you're a lover of diet soda, this finding probably holds little significance for you. But what if I told … [Read more...] about The Dangers of Splenda in Drinking Water
A Better Solution to the Lead in NYC Tap Water
Okay, so remember how we said that NYC tap water was some of the best around? Well, that was before they discovered one tiny little detail: LEAD. New York City has recently found high levels of lead in city tap water. Lead exposure is especially dangerous to pregnant women, babies and young children. The levels are still low enough to be "not so dangerous" right now, but, of … [Read more...] about A Better Solution to the Lead in NYC Tap Water
Some of us drink recycled urine and don’t even know it
A new technology that filters wastewater into clean, ("drinkable") tap water, is currently in use in Orange County California. It's call the Groundwater Replenishment System, or GWRS, and it currently turns 90,000 gallons of wastewater into 75,000 gallons of recycled tap water, daily. This system may need to expand to other parts of the southwest in the near future, as drought … [Read more...] about Some of us drink recycled urine and don’t even know it
