Our mychem water

Our mychem water

Water is not the same as water.
Hahnenwasser is more or less contaminated depending on the origin.

Subuming have shown that many different substances occur, which should not be taken permanently: heavy metals (lead, copper, nickel, mercury, cadmium). Acrylamide, benzene, bor, bromate, chrome, cyanide, nitrate, selenium, uranium, antimon, antimon, arsenic or benzopyrene, floating fuels and residues from agriculture (chlorothalonil) and medication, such as antibabop pills.

Our mychem process water quality

All water that is used in our products goes through 3 cleaning levels:

1. Vollet salt system (removed metals)
2. Microfiltration 5µ (removes floating fabrics)
3. Activated carbon filter (removes organic contamination of medication and agriculture, etc.)

This ensures perfect quality in our own products. Above all ours CDS (Chlorine dioxide solution).

Extract from the Federal Office for the Environment Bafu: 2.9.2020

Groundwater protection: Good drinking water is no longer a matter of course

The groundwater is under pressure. As different studies show, the quality of our drinking water is also at risk - especially in regions with intensive agricultural use. In order to avert this risk, a consistent implementation of handy measures to protect the groundwater is required.

The quality of our drinking water is at risk - especially in regions with intensive agricultural use.

Switzerland is not used to such news: at the end of January 2020, the canton of Solothurn informed about problems with the quality of its drinking water. The authorities said that 160,000 people were supplied with water that did not meet the legal requirements. There is no immediate danger to health, but it will take years or even decades before the pesticide's pesticide has disappeared from the groundwater. Since almost all large groundwater constitutions in the canton are burdened, the Solothurn water supplies would face major challenges. In future, drinking water may have to be obtained from outside the canton via new lines.

Almost two thirds of the population without flawless drinking water! No quick solutions in sight! Costly new infrastructure necessary! This news ensured witious online comments: "Who are these fountain poifers?" Asked, for example, a concerned reader. However, the Solothurner worries with the quality of the drinking water are not an isolated case. The Wasserverbund Seeland, for example, from which, among other things, the Bernese cities of Biel and Lyss drink drinking water, had to close four out of five groundwater versions at the end of 2019 due to pesticides. "We have lost 70 percent of our performance and have a serious problem," explains Roman Wiget, Board of Directors of this water network, which provides around 100,000 people.

Problematic mining materials

The unusual drinking water problems were not caused by the use of a new pesticide, but because the authorities have taken a closer look at a substance that has been used for decades. Chlorothalonil has served farmers to protect vegetables and fruits from fungal attack since the 1970s. But only since 2019 has been specifically searched for dismantling products of this substance in the groundwater. The Federal Office for Food Safety and Veterinary (BLV) has classified chlorothalonil residues as "relevant" for the quality of the drinking water due to new knowledge. In the meantime, stricter limit values ​​for the mining products of the pesticide have come into force, and chlorothalonil itself became veils.

"Due to the new limit values, various groundwater deposits have recently been considered contaminated," explains Michael Schärer, head of the water protection section at BAFU. "According to the first estimates, the groundwater versions affected by this will provide around 1 million inhabitants with drinking water." Many of these versions would have to be shut down for the coming years. This means a “strong restriction of security of supply” in the affected regions and endangers the decentralized organization of Swiss drinking water supply.

Water is not the same as water.
Hahnenwasser is more or less contaminated depending on the origin.

Subuming have shown that many different substances occur, which should not be taken permanently: heavy metals (lead, copper, nickel, mercury, cadmium). Acrylamide, benzene, bor, bromate, chrome, cyanide, nitrate, selenium, uranium, antimon, antimon, arsenic or benzopyrene, floating fuels and residues from agriculture (chlorothalonil) and medication, such as antibabop pills.

Our mychem process water quality

All water that is used in our products goes through 3 cleaning levels:

1. Vollet salt system (removed metals)
2. Microfiltration 5µ (removes floating fabrics)
3. Activated carbon filter (removes organic contamination of medication and agriculture, etc.)

This ensures perfect quality in our own products. Above all ours CDS (Chlorine dioxide solution).

Extract from the Federal Office for the Environment Bafu: 2.9.2020

Groundwater protection: Good drinking water is no longer a matter of course

The groundwater is under pressure. As different studies show, the quality of our drinking water is also at risk - especially in regions with intensive agricultural use. In order to avert this risk, a consistent implementation of handy measures to protect the groundwater is required.

The quality of our drinking water is at risk - especially in regions with intensive agricultural use.

Switzerland is not used to such news: at the end of January 2020, the canton of Solothurn informed about problems with the quality of its drinking water. The authorities said that 160,000 people were supplied with water that did not meet the legal requirements. There is no immediate danger to health, but it will take years or even decades before the pesticide's pesticide has disappeared from the groundwater. Since almost all large groundwater constitutions in the canton are burdened, the Solothurn water supplies would face major challenges. In future, drinking water may have to be obtained from outside the canton via new lines.

Almost two thirds of the population without flawless drinking water! No quick solutions in sight! Costly new infrastructure necessary! This news ensured witious online comments: "Who are these fountain poifers?" Asked, for example, a concerned reader. However, the Solothurner worries with the quality of the drinking water are not an isolated case. The Wasserverbund Seeland, for example, from which, among other things, the Bernese cities of Biel and Lyss drink drinking water, had to close four out of five groundwater versions at the end of 2019 due to pesticides. "We have lost 70 percent of our performance and have a serious problem," explains Roman Wiget, Board of Directors of this water network, which provides around 100,000 people.

Problematic mining materials

The unusual drinking water problems were not caused by the use of a new pesticide, but because the authorities have taken a closer look at a substance that has been used for decades. Chlorothalonil has served farmers to protect vegetables and fruits from fungal attack since the 1970s. But only since 2019 has been specifically searched for dismantling products of this substance in the groundwater. The Federal Office for Food Safety and Veterinary (BLV) has classified chlorothalonil residues as "relevant" for the quality of the drinking water due to new knowledge. In the meantime, stricter limit values ​​for the mining products of the pesticide have come into force, and chlorothalonil itself became veils.

"Due to the new limit values, various groundwater deposits have recently been considered contaminated," explains Michael Schärer, head of the water protection section at BAFU. "According to the first estimates, the groundwater versions affected by this will provide around 1 million inhabitants with drinking water." Many of these versions would have to be shut down for the coming years. This means a “strong restriction of security of supply” in the affected regions and endangers the decentralized organization of Swiss drinking water supply.