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Our podcasts are informational and have an audience of water treatment professionals. Has It’s Your Water impacted sales? Yes, our business is growing but I can’t attribute all the growth to the podcast. It lends to our credibility and we have fun doing them. So why not? The easiest part of doing a podcast is […]

We just added a page to our website! Urbans Aqua has always offered resin traps but we never thought to add it to the website until we did a podcast about them. Here are a few highlights. Advantages Prevents loss or cross-contamination of resin. Protects equipment downstream, such as valves and pumps. Can be customized […]

Urbans Aqua’s podcast, It’s Your Water, enables us to create documents which dealers can use for training purposes or at a job site. Sample – Water Filter System Troubleshooting Guide Sample – Water Softener System Troubleshooting Guide Listen to the podcast – Trouble Shooting Filters Trouble Shooting Softeners There is a huge disclaimer at the […]

We recently had a troublesome water odor problem. We used Calgon F-600AR+ activated carbon for the treatment of PFAS/PFOA in a North Carolina community. The water was odor free prior to treatment but within a couple months it developed an objectionable odor similar to H2S. After many phone calls with our frustrated dealer, we turned […]

In our latest podcast Mike Urbans and Allan Horner of Impact Water Products discuss the use of antiscalants rather than softeners. The number of whole house RO installations is rising. We hear the numbers from dealers – it’s going from 3 to 4 a month to 2 to 3 a week! Obviously, this increase is […]

Recently Michael Urbans met with Marianne Metzger to discuss the best methods for collecting water samples.  You can give a listen to the podcast It’s Your Water or read the highlights here. Meeting with the Customer Talk to the end user about what they’re experiencing. What do they see, taste, smell? Are there health considerations? Allergies […]

It’s been almost 2 years since since Urbans Aqua launched the podcast, It’s Your Water. We’ve had more than 3,000 downloads! We’ve kept our word- It’s Your Water is an educational podcast, not a sales pitch. We’ve discussed new and old products, had conversations with industry experts & technicians, and taken deep dives into topics […]

Back when I owned a company with 30 plus employees getting the product out the door was the least of my problems.  The most pressing and frustrating challenges revolved around training.  We had annual safety training, driver training, forklift training, train the trainer training, ergonomics evaluations, sexual harassment training, and then there was employee onboarding […]

 Strong Base Anion resins in the chloride form will not remove or reduce chlorides.  Why? The resin exchanges chloride for alkalinity and contaminants (nitrate, TOC, etc.). Details are as follows: Strong Base Anion resin used in the home is regenerated with NaCl (salt). As water passes through any anion resin in the chloride form it […]

Our Podcast, It’s Your Water, began March 2020.  Since then we’ve recorded 22 episodes and we’re approaching 1,500 downloads.  The top 5 podcasts are as follows:  pH Basics You Need to Know Get Pumped Up Is It High Capacity Resin Or Not? Oxidation Principals Related to Popular Filtration Media Carp in the Bathtub! We always on […]