Significant Increase In Legionellosis From Building Water Systems
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), during the period between 2000 and 2018, the rate of reported cases...
Codes & Standards: What’s the Difference?
Codes and standards are two important aspects of establishing the national infrastructure, yet the two are often confused. The fact that many...
How Products Get Certified
My colleague Terry Burger has written about the relationship between codes and standards. The goal of this article is to help people...
Mixing Valves
They say time flies when you are having fun, and I sometimes find it hard to believe that I am rapidly approaching...
Is Change a Good Thing?
As with so many questions we ask in the cross-connection industry, there are both simple and complicated answers to this question. The...
Temperature Control Devices
Safety is a main focus of this edition of Working Pressure. One category of safety equipment used in plumbing systems are those...
How ASSE 12000 Meets the Motto “Prevention Rather Than Cure”
In 1906, Henry B. Davis and some 25 plumbing inspectors from cities across the United States gathered in a meeting hall in...
Clarifying ASSE 12000 Scopes
At ASSE International headquarters, we receive calls and correspondence from people not certain of the differences within ASSE/IAPMO/ANSI Series 12000-2021, Professional Qualifications...
What’s the Difference Between ASSE 1017 and ASSE 1070?
As my colleague Terry Burger mentioned in his article, "Temperature Control Devices," devices that are certified to ASSE 1017, Temperature Actuated Mixing...
New EPA WaterSense Draft Specification – Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems
Reverse Osmosis (RO) is the process of purifying water by using a semi-permeable membrane and water pressure. It is used by...