Articles Tagged with ''water well drilling''

In years gone by, my father and I sold a number of cartridge-type filters to customers who had rusty water. After several years, we began to investigate other types of filters that would work on ferric or visible iron.

The driller has to not only find and identify the producing formations, he also has to minimize damage to the formation.

Looking at a water map of the U.S. recently, I noticed that most of the Great Lakes states — which include Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, plus the non-Great Lakes state of Iowa — all have groundwater that is classified as very hard.

There's undeniably a crisis affecting large swaths of the U.S., and a lot of urban and suburban Americans don't see it.