Better Water Today

08/07/2025

Less than 10 days until TEDxFolsom.

WQA CEO Pauli Undesser is stepping onto the TEDx stage to spark a critical conversation: Why are we still treating water like it’s 1925 in a world that’s building smart cities for 2050?

Her talk, Smart Cities Can’t Afford Dumb Water, dives into how outdated infrastructure is wasting resources and missing the mark and why bolder, smarter solutions can’t wait.

This is more than a speech. It’s a call to rethink, redesign, and reimagine how we treat water in the U.S.

🎤 August 16 | Folsom, CA
🎟 Tickets: tedxfolsom.com

02/17/2025

If you rely on a private well, testing and treating your drinking water is your responsibility. Nebraska is working to reduce high nitrate levels in drinking water, but public awareness remains a major barrier—even with free well testing available, fewer than 3,500 of nearly 29,000 private well users have taken advantage of it.

Learn more:

In 2023, nearly 29,000 households scattered across rural Nebraska received postcards instructing them how to get their drinking water tested, free of

02/14/2025

💧 Fun Fact Friday! 💧 Chocolate and water go hand in hand! Producing one pound of chocolate requires around 2,000 gallons of water—from growing cocoa beans to processing. 🍫💦

02/07/2025

💧 Fun Fact Friday! 💧 At any moment, the atmosphere holds about 37.5 million billion gallons of water—more than all the rivers on Earth combined! This water fuels the weather and keeps the water cycle moving. 🌧️☀️

01/29/2025

🐍 Happy Lunar New Year! 🎊

Wishing everyone prosperity, wisdom, and success in the Year of the Snake! May this year bring clarity, transformation, and strength to all.

01/27/2025

While concerns grow over LA’s water infrastructure, officials state upgrades would have had little impact during the Palisades Fire.

Read the full LA Times story here:

Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure in areas where hydrants ran dry during the Palisades fire as 'leak prone,' 'severely undersized' and not having enough flow to support firefighters.

12/27/2024

Rio de Janeiro residents ring in the new year by wading into the ocean and jumping over seven waves for good luck. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 They then walk backwards to shore, to avoid turning their back to the sea.

12/20/2024

What's the most common substance found on earth? We'll give you three guesses . . . 💧💧💧

12/13/2024

According to folk belief, spilling water behind the person who goes on a journey, or to do a job, will bring good luck.

12/11/2024

Interesting analysis of this new report from a couple weeks ago:

For more than four decades, scientists have noticed a mysterious chemical in the treated drinking water of millions of people in the United States, but no one’s been able to pinpoint exactly what it is – until now.

12/06/2024

The Mariana Trench, in the western Pacific Ocean, is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. The maximum known depth is 36,037 ± 82 ft (10,984 ± 25 meters), which is deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

11/29/2024

Water has a high surface tension, allowing some insects to walk on its surface.