Protect your family, customers, and employees from unknown microbial issues.

Centralized Water Treatment cannot guarantee biologically safe water 100% of the time.

Why should you consider proactively filtering your potable water for microbial issues?

Microbial contamination of our water supply occurs for various reasons and is often not discovered in time to prevent illness. While centralized water treatment can address these issues at the water treatment plant, the infrastructure is the weak link!

The risk factors from infrastructure distribution and transmission failures should be sufficient information for every potable water home or business to preventively install treatment that protects their premise potable plumbing supply from dirt/sediment and microbial contamination as it enters the building – which is especially true before, during, and after a PWS has issued a Boil Order Advisory!

Whether it’s the water used to clean fresh fruits and vegetables, drinking and ingredient waters for our food and beverages, or aerosols generated by shower heads and aerator-style faucets (which can cause respiratory illness), one must consider proactively treating these waters for microbial reduction.

Suppose your potable water premise plumbing is exposed to microbial contamination. In that case, it builds biofilm and colonies of organisms that can cause serious illnesses caused by bacteria such as E. coli, legionella spp., and many other pathogens. Proactively filtering the water you drink, shower, swim, wash vegetables, and use other water-using appliances can drastically reduce your risk of illness or death.

These pathogens entering homes from private and public water supplies negatively impact businesses, schools, and industry.

Private water supplies from wells, lakes, ponds, etc., are tested when installed, but most do not get periodic testing for these pathogens. Most do not have any disinfection installed to protect their homes/businesses.
Public water supplies face more challenges since they treat the water at the central plant and transport it through miles and miles of underground piping to your location.

Statistics show that 20% of disease outbreaks in the U.S. were associated with distribution system deficiencies! With an average age of ~ 200 years and an expected life of 75-120 years, the infrastructure in the U.S. continues to challenge water utilities to provide safe drinking water to the end user.

The FDA site shows over 49,000.000 foodborne illnesses per Year!

We can read about Boil Order Alerts from public water utilities daily due to the risk of microbial contaminants in our drinking water. However, these public notices are always after the contamination or possible contamination has already exposed our homes and businesses.

Microbial Solutions

The good news is that we have the technology to address microbial contaminants.

Waterline offers filtration solutions for homes, businesses, schools, and industries for point of use (POU) & point of entry (POE) using our CMF technology (Charged Membrane Filtration). CMF technology uses electro-absorptive filtration to capture and retain organisms within the filtering media throughout the system’s life. Since most organisms and proteins have a gram-negative charge on their surface, this technology has a strong positive charge to attract and retain them without relying on small pore-size filters. The result is a filter with a low-pressure drop that allows it to be installed as the final barrier before using the water, resulting in water virtually free from pathogenic organisms.

Waterline offers several home, school, or business options to safeguard your family, customers, and employees.

We suggest installing microbial filtration at the point of entry for your facility’s cold water supply and after the hot water system. These systems are designed for hot or cold water and have stainless steel outer vessels that house our microbial filters.

Another option is to install point-of-use microbial filtration at high-risk areas within the facility. The systems are available for cold-only water and hot-/cold-water filtration.

A partial list of High-Risk areas within home, schools and business facilities that can be impacted from microbial contamination.

Showers
Whirlpool / Hot Tubs
Stored Hot Water Tanks
Decorative Fountains
Any Faucet That Produces an Aerosol
Non-steam Generated Humidifiers
Misting Stations

Drinking Water
Food Preparation Ingredient and Cleaning Waters
Ice Makers
Low Use Fixture Due to Stagnant Water
Dead Legs Within Plumbing Systems

Point of Entry Product Selection Guide

This published article provides an overview of Point-of-Entry Microbial Treatment.

Select the stainless-steel filter vessel based on the estimated flow rate. It is best to oversize if you are unsure of the flow rate.
1. 1. Available flow rates from 5-380 GPM per vessel
Select the exact CMF filter cartridge and the number required for the filter vessel selected. See the product data sheet for the filter vessel.
1. 1. Cartridge flow rates from 5-20 GPM per cartridge depending on the length
The CMF technology is a sub-micron filter with a long life (6-12 months) between cartridge change. Since most water supplies have dirt/sediment, a 1- 5 micron pre-filter is recommended to protect the CMF filter from short life.

Hot or Cold Water for Drinking and Potable Water for Premise Plumbing

Flow Rates 25 – 380 gallons per minute

EH FILTER VESSEL SINGLE

EH FILTER VESSEL MULTI

CMF SERIES CARTRIDGES

CMF SERIES PERFORMANCE DATA

Point of Use Product Selection Guide

Cold Water Only Systems

Select system based upon flow rate for POU deviceSome text

POU CMF Filter – 1.5-2.0 gpm flow rate, see data sheet for details
Model DWS-CMF417-2.5

PRODUCT DATA SHEETS

Use Model DWS-CMF-HFC-1000 for protection before, during and after boil order advisory Built in pre-filter (.5 micron) using our carbon based system which is also certified for Chlorine taste/odor, lead, PFOA/PFOS, VOC and THM chemicals.
- 1.5-2.0 gpm flow rate, see data sheet for details

PRODUCT DATA SHEETS

PERFORMANCE DATA

Hot Water Supply

Must use a stainless steel filter vessel for water >100 degrees F!
Select stainless steel filter vessel based upon flow rate of device.

5 or 10 gpm sizes available
Select CMF filter from data sheet below
NOTE: If you point of use devices uses > 10 gpm you can install filter vessels in parallel flow for 20 gm\pm or step up to one of our multiple round filter vessels.

3 Stage Multi-Barrier 4 LRV Disinfection Skid System Flows from 20-480 gpm flow rates
Validated performance for bacteria, cysts and virus disinfection that meets and exceeds the Safe Drinking Water Act for Public Water primary disinfection
High dose Ultraviolet stage – 186 mJ/cm2
All three stages are controlled via PLC
Fully assembled with powdered coated skid and 304 SS interconnecting piping

PRODUCT DATA SHEETS

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Turbidity (Dirt and Sediment)
Non-pathogenic Organism
Pathogenic Organism

Market Drivers – Water Purification

The funding gap to repair and replace the aging infrastructure used for distribution of drinking water by public water utilities continues to grow. Reports showing the gap will be in excess of $500 billion over the next 20 years is alarming. This leads to problems for every user that rely on a public water system for their drinking water.

The result is that drinking water is being distributed from the public water utility that passes the US EPA Safe Drinking Water regulations at the treatment plant but fails the smell test at the end of pipe. Customers are then left with the question- “Is their water safe”?

Greater than 99% of boil order alerts issued are for concerns of microbial safety. These alerts can go undetected for years before they are identified and repaired.

Prior to the alert the facility is subjected to unknown microbial contamination of entering their plumbing systems.

One can wait for the problems to be fixed or they can take necessary action to safeguard their facility and provide secondary treatment for microbial intrusion to their potable premise plumbing system.

From simple particulate filters to complex multi-barrier disinfection systems. We can design a solution to protect your employees, customers and product. These microbial contaminants can result in serious illness and even death due to breathing in aerosols, drinking and eating. Waterline Technology can recommend treatment solutions to solve these issues. Please review the products below and give us a call to discuss your concerns.

Waterline offers filtration solutions for home, business, schools and industry for point of use and point of entry treatment methods using our CMF technology (Charged Membrane Filtration). CMF technology uses electro-absorption filtration to capture the organisms and maintain them throughout the filter life. Since most all organism and proteins are gram negative charged on the surface this technology works a bit like a magnet in the since its charge is a strong positive charge to attract the organisms rather than relying on pore size filters.