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An AI Agent Is Now a Normal Visitor. Here's What I Changed on My Sites.

2026-09-18

Google-Agent ignores robots.txt, so the server log is the only place you'll see it. I pulled 14 days of logs from both my sites, found 30,000 AI crawler hits and zero Google-Agent, and changed five things anyway.

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Every Water Regulation Ends at Your Property Line

2026-09-07

The Safe Drinking Water Act covers more than 90 contaminants — right up until the water crosses onto your building's property. After that, nobody's testing anything.

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1.7 Billion People Have a Water Problem That Isn't Chemistry

2026-09-06

Most of the world worries about pathogens in water. We worry about parts per trillion. Both are real problems — but knowing which one you have changes what you should do about it.

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The WHO Says Microplastics Aren't a Health Risk. I Sell Water Systems Anyway.

2026-09-05

The biggest fear-based talking point in my industry doesn't hold up — and the honest case for better office water is stronger without it.

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Your Breakroom Is Sized for a Building That Doesn't Exist Anymore

2026-09-04

Most office water setups were built for a headcount that stopped showing up years ago — and nobody went back and fixed the math.

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Your Water Passes on Average. September Is the Part That Averages Out.

2026-09-04

Drinking water compliance is built on annual averages and 95th percentiles — which is good policy and still tells you almost nothing about what came out of the tap in your breakroom last Tuesday.

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Bottled Water Is Food. Tap Water Is Infrastructure.

2026-09-03

The water in your office cooler jug and the water in your building's pipes are regulated by two different federal agencies under two different rulebooks — a distinction that rarely comes up when the water order gets placed.

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Your Office Has Two Water Problems. They're the Same Problem.

2026-09-03

Contamination and dehydration get treated as separate issues. In practice, the first one shapes the second.

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One State Has a Legal Definition of Microplastics. The Other 49 Don't.

2026-09-02

California wrote one of the first regulatory definitions of microplastics in drinking water. Everywhere else, the word doesn't legally mean anything yet — and that's the whole problem.

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UCMR 5 Sampling Is Finished. Go Look Up Your Building.

2026-09-02

One of the largest PFAS datasets ever collected in the U.S. finished sampling. Most people responsible for a building still haven't looked up their own numbers.

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Nobody Actually Agrees on How Much Water You Need

2026-09-01

The U.S. and the EU publish different hydration targets, and the gap between them is wider than most people would guess.

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The EU Regulates 20 PFAS Compounds. We May Be Down to Two.

2026-09-01

EPA is proposing to pull back standards for four PFAS chemicals while Europe's broader rules phase in — and your office breakroom sits on the wrong side of that split.

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