As the old saying that I just made up in my head goes, you can’t chase waterfalls if you are the water.  

This week our team has been working diligently to set intentions, expectations, and tasks to ensure our success. After meeting with our liaisons from Duke this week, we have officially reduced our solutions to two, Pellet reactors and Ion exchanger. Both solutions remove the hard calcium and magnesium molecules in the water, which is the goal. As a team, we have divided ourselves into these two technologies with three team members in each to ensure we get accurate information in a timely manner as our March deadline approaches.

For those curious, Florida ground water is hard and not is a cool way. This means that it contains quite a bit of those calcium and magnesium molecules, often in the form of carbonates, which are large. Thus, this hard water can often be too rough for pipes, machinery, and even our skin! That’s why our job is to make hard water soft.

Smooth water! No ridges, lumps, valleys or bumps! #SoftWaterGoals