Tuesday, April 21

Cross Connection and More...

Today's Water Tip:
Underground sprinklers and timers can help save water. Don't get caught with your sprinkler water running down the street! (Sprinkler systems fed by domestic drinking water can be a source of contamination. Make sure you have the proper backflow assembly installed on your system to protect the quality of the drinking water served to you and your neighbors).

Spring is a very busy time of year, along with the usual spring chores, our phone has been ringing off the hook. It's the Cross Connection programs, implemented by the cities that trigger this rush. Backflow assemblies everywhere need to be tested annually, and now's the time. This is a very important program which helps keep your drinking water safe.

I did recently find time to attend a class in Ellensburg, WA on Sanitary Survey of public drinking water systems. Cross Connection was a part of the class picture, but more importantly it covered water system maintenance, requirements, and operation as a whole. A reminder of how important water is in our lives and how we can not risk taking chances with it, and boy o boy, do people take chances. Sanitary Survey's are conducted by government employees, engineers and and companies like ours to make sure that public drinking water systems are operated in a way that is safe for the water users in that community or neighborhood. Water borne bacteria and contamination can cause illness or even kill.

The class was comprised of a diverse group, water professionals, utility workers, engineers, health district workers, private contractors (like me), along with representatives from Dept. of Health. It made me think about how water impacts people in every walk of life, and how many are involved with water in their professions. The lessons taught were something I wish everyone could learn and form a better understanding for a healthier future.

This class was sponsored by the Sate of Washington Dept. of Health, Office of Drinking Water. The instructor was Mr. Dan Sander, an excellent teacher who has worked in the water field for many years, and who's expertise was apparent to everyone there. Although he is an expert in his field, he is down to earth, funny, and easy to understand. The quality of the instructor and content of the class (along with lunch and goodies provided by Dan) shows me the commitment of our government to our knowledge, health and safety. Our state is committed to clean drinking water and a healthy future.

Please contact us @ Trout's Quality Water for more info on Cross Connection and backflow assemblies @ jettrout@gmail.com or 509-609-5676 .
Have A Waterful Day!! I welcome your comments

Tuesday, February 17

How Strong is Water?

Today's Water Tip:
Wash your veggies in a dishpan, and then reuse the water in your dishpan to water your house or patio plants. Every little bit of conservation helps. If we all start using smart conservation practices, we will save a lot of water.

How Strong is Water?
All is well here in Waterland. Along with our normal duties of water system management we have been busy working hard on survey and cross connection jobs...AND we started a new division called Trout Water's Specialty Gifts and Baskets. We are taking orders for custom gift baskets. We offer food, wine, spa products, themes, etc.

Along with having a fun creative outlet for our business, we will be promoting things like recycling, reuse, conservation and preservation of our natural resources, we want to generate public awareness for some very important aspects of life. Clean water, fresh air, wholesome food and personal care products, things that we all want.

There is a lot to be said for the power of nature. The power of water alone is overwhelming. It's power in a flood, or the strength it has as it supports a ship. It's life support abilities in nourishing a human, creature, or plant. The power of water is something under estimated by so many, which has resulted in neglect. Water can sustain life, it can cut steel, it can also kill, with it's power and quality. It can support an agricultural community, it can sustain an underwater world of fish and sea life. It's worth is so huge that we can not even fathom its magnitude.

Where would we be without water? It's protection is crucial to our future. We can all help by learning and gaining awareness. Conservation is big, using things like sprinkler timers and hose nozzles to control water usage will help a lot. Also don't let gallons and gallons of water run down the street when washing your car. Turn the water off when brushing your teeth. Use the water you washed veggies in to water house plants. These are all just ideas for saving water. These ideas used along with smart practices, like installing backflow devices to protect the public drinking water, all play a huge part in the survival of our water supply.

Please email me for more information on backflow devices or Cross Connection.

Have A Waterful Day!! I welcome your comments

Sunday, January 4

A Time of Change

Today's Water Tip:
Shaving a few minutes off your morning shower can save hundreds of gallons of water over a short amount of time.

A Time of Change
The holidays are over, and now we all pick up where we left off, except now we have to get used to writing the date. It always takes me a while to get it down, old habits die hard.

Speaking of old habits, I am setting new goals for the new year. I would like to get rid of some of those old habits. One of my goals is to become aware of the waste that I am responsible for. Yes I said that "I am responsible for". Once we all start to realize that it is our responsibility to conserve, reuse, recycle, and simply protect our planet and it's natural resources, we can move forward to a new way of thinking and living.

This new way of thinking is not really new, just another aspect of life that has come full circle. Technology has helped us in so many way's, but it has also made us lazy in the way we live. We don't have to think about things like, where does our water come from? Will we have enough to finish out the day? How will we manage tomorrow? In many ways we are lucky to have this peace of mind, in other ways we have been enabled to be wasteful and careless with our precious resource, water. This could pose problems for our future generations.

Our economy is such that recycling, conserving and protecting will only help us all in the long run. It's simply time to make the realization, make the changes, and make our world a better one for the future. We will save money, save water, and help to save our planet too!

Have A Waterful Day!! I welcome your comments