What is it ? « Drinking Water Project

What is it ?

Out of sight and out of mind. The cleaning of water storage tanks remains one of the most overlooked health concerns today. I have been showing this video to every person I can for years. I just cant get to enough water utility managers, water board members, mayors and city council people to make a difference. Information is power, the right people just don’t have the right information to make the right decisions. Everyone is cutting back and it is easy to cut back on a maintenance budget. Tell the water utility manager to do the inspections himself. So year after year the water tank is inspected without seeing the inside floor of the tank. Because a inspection contractor with a underwater camera was not in the budget. So the sediment goes unseen and unnoticed year after year. Inspections and cleanings would only be one or two percent of the budget. But the money never gets allocated because the people in control do not understand the importance of it. Has the economy gets worse fewer tanks will be inspected and cleaned while more and more people will return to drinking tap water.

I need your help.

We have all seen the silly or funny ”viral Videos” that make their way around the world. This one deserves to be shared so that more people who have influence on the way water systems are managed will understand the problem. Tanks need to be inspected, if they are dirty they should be cleaned. It is a very simple message and one that I have spent everything I have made in since 1997 trying to get across to water managers. Please share this video with your friends and encourage them to pass it on to their water utility, city council person or water board. Managers just don’t know what is going on inside their water storage tanks. Having them inspected by a professional with underwater camera equipment will let them know if they have a sediment problem. If they have sediment, removing it is a cost effective way of maintaining the public health of that water system.

This web site is about spreading this message and educating people about the importance of inspecting and cleaning their water potable storage tanks.

Thanks for your help,

Ron Perrin

Ron Perrin Water Technologies has been inspecting and cleaning potable water storage tanks since 1997. We serve the mid-west and southern United States. For more information see our web site at www.ronperrin.com or

call us toll free at

1-888-481-1768.

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Also see our page at http://www.current.tv If you don’t know about Current TV it is a cable channel and web site that is viewer created. If your video gets enough votes they put it on TV. My mission is to show as many people as I can the health concerns of sediment in Public Water Supply storage tanks. This would be a great way to get my message to thousands of people at a time. Click on my link below and VOTE me UP! on the right side of the page! By helping to spread this message YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFRENCE! Thanks for your help!
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Comment by Ron Perrin | July 24, 2008 | Reply

The value of clean public drinking water

By Ron Perrin, Fort Worth Texas

Although we have come to take it for granted, there is nothing as valuable as fresh water. In simple terms, it provides life. Our life. Our generation, and in many cases for many generations, Americans have enjoyed fresh clean healthy water right out of a tap. Getting a drink of water from the kitchen sink or bathroom before you go to bed is something that is seldom thought about. It wasn’t always that way. Here in the west, bloody range wars were fought over water rights. Water has been fought over since biblical times. In the future, many say it will become more valuable than gold because there is only so much on the planet and atmospheric changes could change the amount of H2O that is fresh and consumable.
For now, we must maintain what we have, make it last, and keep it healthy. That is what this blog is about. Our public water systems are aging. Some modern looking water towers are now 50 years old. All water storage tanks & towers should be inspected yearly to confirm that the inside wter storage area is clean and free from the build up of sediment that can harbor harmful and sometimes deadly contaminants.

I invite you to read these articles about inspecting, cleaning, and maintaining water storage tanks. Here you will find ideas and answers of how you can maintain a healthy water system regardless of it’s age, while at the same time saving money, time, and possibly more important, fresh drinking water. Visit our company web site for more information www.ronperrin.com

Photo: Ron Perrin inspecting a Water Storage Tower in Mission Texas 2004.

Photo: Inspector climbing 750,000 gallon water storage tower.

Diver being washed down with chlorine solution

Diver wearing a Dry suit and Kirby Morgan EXO line air mask is washed down with a chlorine solution before entering the water plant in Arlington, Texas 2007.