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47 articles on water quality and filtration
What Are Water Iron Removal Filters? How They Work
Most people only start thinking about iron in their water once brown stains appear on plumbing fixtures, laundry starts turning yellow, and the water from the tap takes on a metal…
What Are the Types of Water Iron Removal Filters? A Guide to Choosing the Right One
Many people choose a water iron removal filter by comparing manufacturers, prices, or other people's recommendations. However, iron removal systems work somewhat differently. The …
What Are the Most Popular Types of Water Filters? A Guide to Choosing the Right One
When looking for a water filter, people often expect a simple answer: which option is best? But in water treatment, there is no universal solution. A filter that effectively remov…
Fluoride in Water: Health Effects, Lithuanian Standards, and How to Protect Yourself
Fluoride in water is a naturally occurring element whose concentration determines whether it protects tooth enamel or poses a health risk. In some western and northwestern regions…
Lead in Water: Health Risks, Limits, and How to Protect Yourself
Lead in water is one of the most dangerous contaminants in drinking water, because even small concentrations build up in the body and damage the nervous system, kidneys, and child…
Reverse Osmosis: What Is It, How Does It Work, and Is It Worth Choosing?
Reverse osmosis is one of the most effective water purification technologies, letting you achieve molecular-level purity at home that ordinary filters rarely provide. Water supply…
Healthy Water: What It Is, How Much to Drink, and Which Water Is Best for the Body
Healthy water – clean water with a balanced mineral composition that supports hydration, thermoregulation, and metabolism. It has an optimal pH (7 – 7.5), low mineralization, and …
Great-tasting water: composition, properties, and how to recognise quality water
Great-tasting water is chemically clean yet mineral-rich water, with a balanced content of calcium, magnesium, and sodium ions. It has a mild taste, a suitable pH (6,5 – 9,5), and…
Smelly water – causes, sources of odor, and effective solutions
Smelly water – this is water that takes on an unpleasant odor due to hydrogen sulfide, bacteria, metal compounds, or excess chlorine. This phenomenon points to chemical or biologi…
Bad-Tasting Water: Causes, Solutions, and How to Restore Its Natural Taste
Bad-tasting water – is drinking water whose natural mineral balance has been disrupted or which contains chemical impurities. Changes in taste are most often caused by excess sodi…
Manganese in Water: Health Effects, Removal Methods and Testing
Manganese – is a heavy metal naturally found in rock formations. Under the effect of natural conditions, groundwater leaches manganese out of rock, which is why it is often found …
Iron in Water: Causes, Health Effects, and Effective Solutions
Iron in Water: Causes, Effects, and Solutions Iron-rich water is groundwater in which the concentration of dissolved iron compounds exceeds 0.2 mg/l. It has a brownish tint and a …
Ammonium in Water: What It Is, Why It Occurs, and How to Remove It?
Ammonium (NH₄⁺) is a water-soluble form of ammonia often found in groundwater, well water, and borehole water. Its presence points to chemical or biological reactions taking place…
Drinking Water for Offices
Drinking water for offices is high-quality, filtered or purified water supplied in the workplace using modern water dispensers, water coolers or filter systems. It stands out for …
7 health benefits of filtered water
When it comes to our wellbeing, we usually only start paying attention to it once we start feeling unwell. And that's a fact. Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone, but it cer…
How to Choose Water Filters?
Today, with such an enormous range of goods and services on offer, choosing isn't easy — mistakes happen often, and that puts your hard-earned money at risk. Naturally, every cons…
How to Soften Water at Home?
What should you do when your water is hard and limescale becomes a constant headache? Although it's widely believed that water in Lithuania is of especially high quality, water tr…
Water Filters Against Limescale, and More.
Water filters against limescale are devices designed to remove or reduce the calcium and magnesium ions that cause limescale deposits. These filters protect household appliances a…
Water Hardness Test: Check Your Water and Find Out What to Do
Water hardness test – a procedure used to determine the concentration of calcium and magnesium ions in water, which is what determines water hardness. The test can be carried out …
Most Common Water Quality Problems
Most Common Water Quality Problems. Even though we live in an age when technology can solve just about every household problem and make our lives easier, giving us more time for o…
Limescale, brown water? Which filters should you choose?
How can you protect your home from the unwanted impurities caused by something that seems so simple, yet is vital to us — our water? Today there's no shortage of ways to improve w…
Water in plastic bottles – a thing of the past
On supermarket shelves you'll find a huge variety of sparkling and still mineral water. The choice is so wide because many people still choose mineral water in plastic bottles, be…
Water Filter Maintenance
Water filters are becoming a necessity in every home today. They are the most important and effective equipment for improving water quality, removing excess iron and other impurit…
Water Filters. Remove All Unwanted Elements From Water.
Water treatment – a necessity for protecting the health of you and your loved ones, your home, your work environment, and even in manufacturing and industry, for efficient and cos…
Drinking Water and Its Benefits
If you asked most people what water is, they'd probably answer – H2O. And that would be a perfectly correct answer, just phrased a little differently. That's – water's chemical fo…
Descaling Filters Will Help Soften Your Water
Limescale is the most common water problem residents face, and they usually look for a way to remove it. Limescale is a sign that the water is hard. Although we usually see limesc…
Birch and Maple Sap: Chemical Composition
Spring is approaching and nature is waking up. Soon birch and maple sap will start to flow. Some say there's nothing of value in the sap, that it's just slightly sweetened water. …
Water Softening. Why Do You Need It?
Water softening is the process of removing hardness-causing minerals from water, such as calcium and magnesium ions. It helps prevent limescale build-up in pipes and appliances, e…
A Common Water Quality Problem: Limescale Deposits
Limescale forms when too much calcium and magnesium dissolve in water, making it hard. This is the most common problem faced by almost all residents of Lithuania. Limescale is not…
Water Filters – A Way to Save
For ease and convenience around the home, we use countless appliances that eventually become indispensable: dishwashers, dryers, washing machines, refrigerators, kettles, stoves, …
Why Isn’t Bottled Water Worth Buying?
Still buying water in plastic bottles? Do you know what kind of water it is and where it comes from? More often than not, it’s the same water that runs straight from your tap — so…
Modern, Functional Drinking Water Dispensers for Every Need
Drinking an adequate amount of water at work is essential, as it gives the body energy and sometimes even more of a lift than a cup of coffee. Admittedly, at work we often forget …
Unpleasant Water Smell? What Could It Mean?
Water – the source of human life. Without it, we couldn't function properly, because our bodies are made up of water. When we don't drink enough water, we feel tired, we lack ener…
We Have Become Family Card Partners
What Is the Family Card? Since September 2019, large families and families raising a child with a disability — regardless of the child's age — can use the Family Card (Šeimos kort…
What Determines the Taste, Color, and Smell of Water?
Have you noticed changes in your water quality and wondered what might have caused them? We have all the answers to help solve your water quality concerns. So, what determines the…
Nitrates in Dug Well Water and Their Removal
Nitrates in water are chemical substances that can enter water from fertilizers, wastewater, or industrial sources. High levels of nitrates in drinking water can be dangerous to h…
Natural Mineral Waters "Birutė" and "Vytautas"
The Birštonas mineral water products "Vytautas" and "Birutė" are probably the most popular in Lithuania. This is due to decades of continuous use, their decent mineral composition…
Fast and Sufficiently Accurate Methods for Determining Iron Concentration
Spectrometric and visual colorimetric determination of iron concentration Certified and accredited water testing laboratories determine the iron concentration in water using the s…
Natural mineral water “Borjomi”
Natural mineral water “Borjomi” – a sparkling mineral water from Georgia, known for its unique composition and rich mineral content. “Borjomi” comes from volcanic springs and cont…
Natural Mineral Water “Tichė”
I will evaluate this mineral water, like other mineral waters, based on the quantities (concentrations) of minerals it contains that the human body needs. And here it's important …
Removing nitrates from water using freezing
This small study was prompted by a visitor to my website. He asked whether it would be possible to reduce the nitrate concentration in water by turning part of the water into ice.…
300,000,000 TONS.
This is how much plastic is projected to be collected from nature this year. Most of that plastic – plastic bottles, which are still used by a great many people around the world. …
30,000 Liters of Water per Year.
The World Health Organization has calculated that each person needs about 15 liters of water per day. This amount includes both water used around the home (for laundry, cooking, a…
Water Filters. Why Are They Becoming Increasingly Popular?
In Lithuania we have exceptionally good quality water, yet cases of water quality changing — that is, deteriorating — are becoming more common, and that causes a fair amount of bo…
Water Softening Filters Will Help You Save
Centrally supplied water in Lithuania contains dissolved calcium and magnesium salts. Because of this, the water reaching your home is hard. Such water poses no risk to human heal…
“Neptūnas” and “Žalia giria Premium”
„Neptūnas” and „Žalia giria Premium” are natural drinking waters produced in Lithuania. „Neptūnas” is a light, naturally pure water, often consumed for everyday thirst-quenching. …
Lithuania’s Natural Mineral Waters “Tichė”, “Birutė”, “Vaiva” and “Vytautas”
A new name has joined the famous Lithuanian mineral water brands – “Vaiva”. This is the name given to the mineral water extracted from a well roughly 400 m deep in Rokiškis by the…