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How Important is Hydration? Why Drinking Enough Water is Key to Your Health
Discover why staying hydrated is vital for your health! Learn how drinking enough water supports energy, focus, and overall well-being.
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Stop Drinking Rainwater Without Filtration – Here’s Why
Have you spent years confidently drinking rainwater? Convinced you don’t need filtration? Do yourself a favour and think again.
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What is the difference between hard and soft water?
Find out the differences and how your water can be impacting your skin, hair and your home.
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How whole house filtration can help the environment?
Discover why embracing whole house filtration can be a game-changer for both your home and the planet.
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How to remove PFAS in your water with water filtration
Also known as ‘forever chemicals’, PFAS is the collective term for thousands of PFOA and PFOS man-made chemicals, which are persistent in the environment and can accumulate in the human body. PFAS are commonly used in non-stick cooking items, water-resistant clothing and firefighting foams, and have been bioaccumulating in the environment since the 1940s. Although limited studies have been conducted on their effects on humans, the World Health Organisation has recently classified them as carcinogenic to humans.
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Want Healthier Skin and Hair? Add Filtration To Your Bathroom!
Have you ever stepped out of the shower and your skin feels instantly itchy? You wonder why, and can’t help but scratch? You then check your skin in the mirror and you spot redness and dry patches? Or notice your hair becoming increasingly dry with dandruff and looking lacklustre? What if we told you the culprit behind these common problems might be lurking in your own bathroom?
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Reverse Osmosis Filtration. Solutions for Fluoride, PFAS and heavy metals.
Is your tap water friend or foe? Are you worried about hidden nasties lurking in every sip? The addition of fluoride to water supplies is a topic of considerable debate, with diverse opinions and scientific perspectives shaping the discussion. Reverse osmosis (RO) filter system, which filter out fluoride, are taking the water filtration world by storm.
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Puretec Introduces the Revolutionary FilterWall™ F Series: Redefining Home Water Filtration
Puretec, at the forefront of water purification technology, is thrilled to unveil the FilterWall™ F Series, an innovative solution in whole house, mains water filtration, now available across Australia and New Zealand.
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WATERNEWS: Taumata Arowai Rules and Regulations
Taumata Arowai has been formed to take responsibility for the regulation of water suppliers to ensure all communities have access to safe drinking water. Including an oversight role in protecting the environment from the impacts of wastewater and stormwater.
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Case Study - Rymill, Coonawarra, SA
Water quality plays a big part in the success of winemaking, variations in water profile can impact not only the plant and equipment operation and life but also the taste and aroma of the wine. Using filtered water ensures the winemaker has better control and consistency, key for any premium product.
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WATERNEWS: Microplastics
Microplastics are small pieces of plastic that can be found in any environment, as a direct result of the disposal of plastics which are formed from carbon and hydrogen atoms bound together on polymer chains. These plastics can also contain various chemicals that leach into the surrounding environment.
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Building Wellness & Energy Efficiency
The movement in healthy buildings and standards are changing the way we view water filtration. Puretec is delivering solutions that refine the relatedness between buildings and health, productivity and wellbeing.
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Case Study - Rangeview Development, Papua New Guinea
Puretec worked with Lamana Development Limited to create the right filtration solution for both applications, ensuring that the sediment issue was addressed with maximum flow.
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WATERNEWS: Australian Floods 2022
As floods have been devastating parts of Queensland and New South Wales, health warnings have been issued by the state governments on the dangers of contaminated water caused by wild weather and flash flooding.
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Case Study - Private Dwelling, Oropi NZ
Before any system recommendation could be put forward the Puretec Water Treatment Team advised the new home owner to conduct a thorough water test (via an independent laboratory) and provided the owner with a guide to water analysis and laboratory contact details.
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Case Study - Eden Health Retreat, Currumbin Valley
The Customer. Eden is known for their personalised approach to relaxation and self-care to restore vitality, health and wellbeing and are Australia’s longest-running luxury health retreat. The Water Challenge. Although Eden’s water supply is beautiful natural spring water, as with all unfiltered water supplies, there is always the risk of contamination along the catchment area.
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Why do you need a whole home water filtration system?
When thinking about why people buy water filters, the first thing that comes to mind is the purity and taste of tap water. But if filtering water is just about the water we drink, why would anyone need a whole house water filtration system? The answer to this question is pretty simple: Filtered water has benefits that go well beyond drinkability.
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How to Choose the Best Whole House Water Filter?
Discover advanced filtration solutions for pure, clean water from mains or rainwater. Ensure every tap delivers pristine water for your home.
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Best Water Filter For Your Home
Before you purchase a filter, you need to know the answers to these questions: How much filtered water do you want access to? Which rooms in your home require filtered water? What do you want filtered out of your water?
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What is Ultraviolet Sterilisation? The Chemical Free Way to Treat Your Water
Puretec Ultraviolet Sterilisation is a process by which water is sanitized using ultraviolet light. This method is effective at killing 99.9% of bacteria & parasites, and when used alongside a proper filtration system, the combination can rid your rainwater of toxic contaminants.
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The Puretec HybridPlus Series
Introducing the Puretec HybridPlus range; all-in-one pump, Filtration & UV Sterilisation systems for an even easier and neater way to have safe, pressurised water throughout any home or facility that are on rainwater or mains/rainwater supplies.
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How Important is Water Filtration?
Water filters are a great way to help do your part in saving the environment! <br><br>Water filters can help avoid the mass production of plastic bottles and allow access to safe and healthy drinking water. In Australia alone, over 400,000 barrels of oil are used per year to manufacture plastic bottles.
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Bottled Water Alternative - Pay less than 1c per litre
Need an alternative to going out and buying bottled water Filtered water is the ultimate solution, it saves time, energy, and the savings speak for themselves. Enjoy endless, pure water straight from your tap for less than 1c per litre!
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Ash/Smoke - Fire Affected Water Supplies
With the widespread devastation of the current Australian bushfire disaster, we have been inundated with questions from households with fire-affected water supplies. This article is designed to inform and advise dealers on how to assist with these enquiries.
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Rainwater Treatment Maintenance Guide
Rainwater collection is a great practice and becoming increasingly popular. However, it’s essential that water is collected and stored correctly and then maintained regularly so that it’s fit for consumption. The following sections of this guide will provide some advice on how to ensure your water is pure and safe to use.
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The NEW PureMix Z6
The PureMix Z6 system uses Ultra Z Filtration Technology to reduce unwelcome elements in your water. With 3 levels of filtration, the PureMix Z6 filters out sediment down to 0.1 micron* as well as filtering out bad taste, odour, chlorine and protects against cysts and bacteria such as E. coli. Leaving you with healthy, great tasting, clean, safe and pure water.
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Know Your Water - Rainwater
Rainwater collection is great practice. It’s free from the sky, it tastes great, it’s reasonably consistent in terms of quality and there generally aren’t many things that need to be treated before it’s ready for drinking or using throughout your home. One of the first issues we come across with is sediment. Sediment is inevitably...
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Know Your Water - Mains Water
Many people receive their water from a mains or town water supply; the benefit with this water supply is that usually, the local government authority has a water treatment plant in place to get that water to a condition where it meets drinking water guidelines and is safe to drink. The reality is that most homes are several kilometres...
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Why is Chlorine in our drinking water?
Many people wonder why chlorine is added to our drinking water. Chlorine tastes and smells horrible! Unfiltered tap water is a lot less appealing to drink than chlorine free filtered water – so naturally you’ll tend to drink more water if its chlorine free. Also, with no chlorine, ice blocks taste a lot better in drinks and in the bathroom showering...
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Tanksafe – The best way to disinfect your rain water
Along with a selection of sediment filters, carbon filters and neutralising treatment systems, Puretec offers Tank safe as part of its range in treating rainwater, surface water or underground water. There is a growing need for these as more alternative sources are needed for treating water...
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Why Watermark is important for water filters
When you looking to purchase a domestic water filtration system for your home it is important that the system you select carries the Watermark approval. For water filters to be legally installed in accordance with your plumbing regulations getting the watermark certification is
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Naegleria Fowleri: The Brain Eating Amoeba
Naegleria Fowleri, also commonly known as the “brain-eating parasite”, is a free-living, bacteria-feeding amoeba that can be pathogenic, causing a fulminant brain infection called the primary amoebic meningoencephalitis or PAM. This microorganism is typically found in bodies of warm freshwater such as ponds, lakes, rivers...
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River Water Quality Issues Including Blue Green Algae Blooms
Many households in in Australia and New Zealand draw directly off rivers and channels and use the water throughout the home. Unfortunately, as those households well know, the water generally contains suspended solids, high levels of organics or tannin’s, some chemicals...
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Simple fix for your alternative water source during the drought
In the areas of severe drought in NSW & QLD the little water remaining is deteriorating in quality. We recently received a call from Rolleston, QLD inland from Rockhampton in the Central Highlands region. They live on a 20000...
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