From Treatment to Tap: Why Water Quality is a Housing Issue with Ron Blutrich CEO & Founder of CLEAR скачать в хорошем качестве

From Treatment to Tap: Why Water Quality is a Housing Issue with Ron Blutrich CEO & Founder of CLEAR

In this episode of Place as Medicine, we sit down with Ron Blutrich, CEO and Founder of CLEAR, a water technology company focused on whole-building water purification. Ron traces his work back to a single bad cup of "filtered" tap water while traveling — an experience that upended his health and sparked a deep dive into the science of what can happen between a treatment plant and your faucet. Together, we unpack the risks most of us rarely consider: aging distribution pipes, building plumbing that can harbor biofilms, and contaminants ranging from bacteria like Legionella to heavy metals and "forever chemicals" like PFAS. Ron shares eye-opening field stories from a new Florida condo with alarming lead levels to an affordable senior housing property where a centralized UV system dramatically reduced bacterial contamination. And, the conversation gets practical: how to think about testing your own water, why one-size-fits-all filters don't exist, and what it takes to make water quality a core part of healthy housing.