In the vibrant Tampa region, ensuring access to clean and safe drinking water is paramount for maintaining optimal health and vitality. With over 60% of our bodies composed of water, it's no surprise that staying hydrated is essential for our well-being. Experts, including most doctors, advocate for the 8×8 rule, recommending the consumption of eight 8-ounce glasses of clean water daily. The benefits of adhering to this practice are substantial and backed by scientific evidence.
Here are seven scientifically supported advantages of consuming ample clean water:
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The Plumbing Services Provided by Cass Plumbing
Cass Plumbing is a family-owned and operated plumbing company based in Tampa, Florida, offering top-notch plumbing repair services to homes and businesses in the Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, and Greater Tampa Bay region. With over 20 years of experience, they specialize in sewer line repair, sewer line replacement, and sewer line cleaning. Cass Plumbing has garnered more than a thousand 5-star reviews on Google and Home Advisors, received an A+ rating from the Tampa Better Business Bureau, and has been recommended as the #1 plumber in the entire Greater Tampa Bay region by ...
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6 Tips on How to Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly
Tampa homeowners are always on the lookout for ways to save energy, especially if it helps make their home more environmentally friendly. One of the ways we can accomplish both goals is by optimizing our water efficiency.
Why Is Water Efficiency Important?
Clean, fresh water is scarce. According to the United Nations, 3.2 billion people already live in high water scarcity. On top of that, only 2% of the water on Earth is accessible fresh water we can use in our everyday activities, making it increasingly important we’re mindful of how we use water and seek ways to reduce how much we use...
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Happy New Year’s Tampa! Here Are 10 Plumbing New Year’s Resolutions You Might Want to Consider
New year’s resolutions are an opportunity to develop new habits, new ideas, new whatever-you-want. For us, the biggest thing to focus on each year is how we can better help and serve the communities we live in by providing the best response times, the latest technology, and so on. Part of our goal at Cass Plumbing is to be a better plumbing service provider, this includes working to provide better direction and advice to help the people in our community take care of their own plumbing.
On that note, we’ve put together this list of ten plumbing new year’s resolutions to help you to best take...
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Thousands of Tampa Residents are Consuming Cancer Linked Toxins in the Tap Water
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a 501 (C) nonprofit organization, has recently released an alarming report on Tampa tap water. The report reveals that thousands of Tampa Bay residents may be unknowingly consuming tap water contaminated by “an invisible toxic cocktail” of cancer-linked toxins, a new report found.
The Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) 2021 Tap Water Database revealed contamination levels of toxins like arsenic and lead, hundreds of times higher than recommended health guidelines.
The tap water tested from the City of Tampa was found to carry 18 total contaminants ...
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Hey Tampa, Does Your Tap Water Taste Like Bleach?
Due to the coronavirus, there's a shortage of liquid oxygen at local Tampa hospitals, so Tampa Bay Water is using bleach to treat tap water.
If your tap water tastes and smells strange, you can blame it on the coronavirus pandemic. Tampa Bay's water supplier is using bleach to disinfect water to save liquid oxygen for hospitals facing a shortage.
Tampa Bay hospitals are receiving twice as many COVID-19 patients as they did during the peak of last year's pandemic. As a result, the hospitals are running low on liquid oxygen needed for critically ill patients on respirators.
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Notice Your Tampa Tap Water Tasting Different? You Should.
This spring, the Tampa Water Department temporarily changed the water disinfection process for city customers.
From mid March of this year to after the first week of April, the department switched from using chloramine to disinfect the water to chlorine. Then, after April 6th back again to chloramine.
For the residence of the Tampa region this temporary change is a standard water system maintenance measure to optimize water quality and offers a sustainable alternative to losing millions of gallons of drinking water to system flushing.
One thing is for certain, custom...
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WHOLE HOUSE WATER FILTRATION SYSTEMS: TOP 10 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Last month the City of Tampa and much of Hillsborough County communities was under a boil water notice because a contractor hit a water main break. Water was gushing everywhere and many businesses throughout the area were forced to close down. Even worse, residents throughout the region were unable to drink or cook with the water from their tap. Unfortunately, this is not all that uncommon.
When the professionals at Cass Plumbing install a whole house water filtration systems, they are installed on a home’s main water supply. These are basically used to process all water which enters the ho...
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