Knowledge Base

Info for owners of multi-residential buildings

In an extremely competitive market, wellness and security have become top priorities for owners, developers and residents of high-rise buildings. ...

How to meet the WELL v2.0 Standards for water

In production: Omicron filtration systems to deliver WELL Water Feature W01 in NYC water conditions.   The International Well Building Institut...

Questions about Triple Clear

In this post we share our opinions and ask questions about Triple Clear (website https://www.tripleclear.com/), a product line promoted as seconda...

Our differences

We are pleased to note that a lawsuit we filed against Amiad in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Case No. 1:...

Sizing correctly for fine filtration

OMICRON TWIN 21300-10(H) 316L with 42,600 cm² screen area Reliable screen filtration requires the correct alignment of these values: flow rate ...

What if all building water is filtered to bottled-water quality?

Let’s make all the water in our building bottled quality! It seems at first a worthy goal.  But in reality, there are some limitations to consider...

Size matters

Omicron 21300-10(H) 316L    21,300 cm² of screen area There are two essential values to maintain for successful automatic screen filtration at a g...

Presentation for Mechanical Engineers

The Croton Reservoir New York City is one of the few United States cities that does not filter its drinking water.  NYC water is subject to a Fi...

XL7000 distribution

BETTER WATERS is seeking to increase US distribution of our flagship filtration system XL7000. Having sold many thousands of this high performance ...
Achieving bottled quality

Why is my screen filter on bypass?

An issue regularly brought to our attention is a screen filter that went into bypass soon after installation - meaning, it stopped working.  First...

10 micron vs. 25 micron -- what to know

For building-wide filtration, today most owners and engineers want 10 micron.  After all, if you are going to the trouble of providing filtration...
Whole building / storm water

filtered is better

Program SummaryFor owners who have ordered Omicron fine particle filtration of domestic water at their projects, we are pleased to offer revenue-sh...