Water at home
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Water is a vital liquid, indispensable for life itself and for maintaining health. However, water is also a scarce resource, and in many places around the world it is not easy to have. More than 2,000 million people live in countries with water scarcity, and climate change means the outlook for water resources...
If you are living in a high sediment area, then you must be aware of one of the most common household pest that just won’t go away, which is hard water scale. Water is ‘hard’ when it has high content of dissolved minerals in it. When this water evaporates, it leaves some mineral deposits behind on the...
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No matter what type of home you live in, installing an electric heater is a good idea to ensure that you always have hot water. Quick, convenient and simple. It will help you keep the water hot so that you can use it whenever you want. It is not hard to make an electric water heater work. Hoever, you need...
You may have noticed how in some places tap water tastes sour or bitter and perhaps how you may need more soap to clean your clothes in some countries. An easy pH level test can be employed to test if water is soft or hard. It is important to know the pH level of your drinking water as it isn’t optimal...
Although 70% of our Earth is water, only a minor percentage of it can be applied for household use. Governments are continuously dealing with water shortage issues to serve the masses. Cutting back on the use of water is important to conserve water, but there can be ways with which you can collect water...
You won’t believe how easy it is to make distilled water from tap water. The whole idea is to remove all the chemicals and minerals from the water. You can use distilled water in a variety of ways, including watering plants, drinking, steam ironing, filling humidifiers, aquariums or fish tanks, etc....
Surely you have heard of hard water and soft water more than once...Is that right? The difference between both comes from the lime levels it contains: hard water contains a greater amount of lime, while soft water contains less lime. This stems mainly from the geological nature of the soil and the geographical...
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