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Who Used All the Water?!?!—Understanding Your Well Recovery Rate

Who Used All the Water?!?!—Understanding Your Well Recovery Rate

If you find yourself constantly asking who used all the water and are tired of waiting for your water pressure to build back up, then you know how important it is to understand your well recovery rate. Well recovery rate refers to how quickly the water in your well will return to its static level—that level being the depth of water in your well once the flow of water from the aquifer has stabilized and before you start pumping. This rate represents your well yield, or how much water you can...

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Droughts and Your Low Yield Well

Droughts and Your Low Yield Well

Droughts and low yield wells: Well Manager looks at the negative impact extended periods without rain can have on your water pressure and offers some solutions for coping during these dry spells. How Droughts Affect Water Pressure As summer approaches and temperatures climb, we all look forward to sunny days when we can enjoy spending time outdoors. Whether it’s barbeques with family and friends, trips to the beach, or a sail on a lake, no one wants a downpour to dampen their plans. On the...

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Well Water Issues: Understanding the Differences Between Yield, Flow Rate and Pressure

Well Water Issues: Understanding the Differences Between Yield, Flow Rate and Pressure

Well water issues can present anything from annoying inconveniences to difficult challenges that impact your life. Understanding the differences between yield, flow rate and water pressure can help you identify the cause behind your issues. Yield When talking about yield, you essentially are talking about how much water your well can produce based on the source it is drawing from. It refers to the maximum sustainable rate of water that can be drawn from your well without lowering the water...

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Why You May Experience a Drop in Water Pressure While Working from Home

Why You May Experience a Drop in Water Pressure While Working from Home

Have you suddenly experienced a drop in water pressure? Has your work schedule changed? While working from home has its benefits—savings on clothes and fuel, less pollution and road congestion, etc.—it can, at the same time, wreak havoc on your household utilities: gas, electric … and water, especially if you have a low yield well. Before you made the switch from commuter to remote worker, you likely weighed the benefits of a less stressful, more relaxed lifestyle: a more flexible schedule,...

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How to Improve Well Water Pressure

How to Improve Well Water Pressure

How To Increase Well Pump Pressure? Living with low water pressure is no picnic. You’ll understand this if you’ve ever tried rinsing soap and shampoo off under a trickling showerhead or waited what seems like hours for your tub or washing machine to fill. Don’t despair. There are steps you can take to increase your water pressure even if your supply comes from a low yield well. What Causes Water Pressure to Drop? The first step to fixing any problem is to identify the cause. And that applies...

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All I Want for Christmas Is … Consistent Water Pressure

All I Want for Christmas Is … Consistent Water Pressure

Holidays are made for spending time with family and friends. For many of us that means hosting out-of-town guests. How inconvenient—not to mention embarrassing—it is to run out of water when you need it most. Your water pressure may be sufficient to meet the demands of your immediate family, but add a few extra people to the mix and you can find your faucets delivering a trickle rather than a stream. Maintaining consistent water pressure can be tricky, especially if you have a low-yield well....

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Will My Low-Yield Well Meet My Family’s Water Demands

Will My Low-Yield Well Meet My Family’s Water Demands

Will My Well Yield Meet My Family’s Water Demands? Since the dawn of indoor plumbing, flowing water is something most of us take for granted. You turn on the tap and—voila! —you have water. Sometimes, though, your water and pressure yield can be unpredictable especially when it comes to low-yield wells. What Constitutes a Low-Yield Well? The answer to that question isn’t so simple. There is no specific number that identifies a low-yield well. There are water yield rate recommendations, which...

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How Low Water Pressure Can Put a Damper on Your Home Renovations

How Low Water Pressure Can Put a Damper on Your Home Renovations

You finally took the plunge and invested in the spa-like bathroom renovation you’ve dreamed of. Now there’s nothing left to do but enjoy that fancy multi-head shower system with adjustable body massage jets guaranteed to wash away your stresses. Unfortunately, if your renovation plans didn’t account for your low water pressure issues, you may be greeted with a trickle instead of the pulsating blast you expected. Few people realize that luxury shower heads on the market today can require an...

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Drought Conditions: Time to Conserve Water & Protect Your Well

Drought Conditions: Time to Conserve Water & Protect Your Well

Water is one of those resources many of us take for granted until there isn’t any. Under normal circumstances, we turn on our taps and there it is—water for drinking, cooking, bathing, cleaning and even gardens and lawn care. However, nature sometimes has a way of reminding us that our water supply is not as abundant as we like to think it is. This is especially true when drought conditions are present. Large sections of the country are currently experiencing moderate to exceptional drought...

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The Dynamics of Water Use: Understanding Usage Habits

The Dynamics of Water Use: Understanding Usage Habits

Do you know how much water you use on a regular day? It’s not a question that many people think about. Still, because of how many of the appliances in our home require clean water to function properly, we must understand our water consumption habits so that we can save water for future generations. Here’s an overview of what appliances use the most water, what can influence our habits, and some steps which can be taken to reduce our water usage. Water Consumption and Usage Statistics Because...

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Looking for Solutions to Overpumping During Droughts?

Looking for Solutions to Overpumping During Droughts?

If you’re dealing with a low-yielding well, then Well Manager is a name you should be familiar with. With drought season as bad as it’s ever been, especially in the Western United States, your well could see more issues with overpumping, causing you to run out of water when you need it most. The following video provides some insight into how drought season can impact low-yielding wells in dry areas: https://youtu.be/vX0jHA4Yk2U Thanks to a Well Manager® system, you can be prepared for droughts...

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What is Greywater and Can It Be Reused?

What is Greywater and Can It Be Reused?

Finding ways to make our home water systems more efficient has been an age-old struggle since the inception of indoor plumbing. The water that gets used within our homes goes through multiple cycles of cleaning, purification, and general use, which in turn causes countless resources to be exerted to get that water to a usable state once again. Of these household chores and processes, some of the resulting water may look like it’s unusable until it goes through an extensive purification...

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