Living Waters: Jorge Canela brings a free kitchen-table water test to South Florida homes

Most South Florida homeowners never see where their tap water comes from. It is pumped from an aquifer, treated at a plant a few miles away, and arrives with a disinfectant that keeps it clean on the trip through miles of pipe. It meets the standards. It can also smell like a swimming pool, leave white scale on the faucet and send families to the store for another case of bottled water every week.

Jorge Canela's job starts at that kitchen faucet.

Test first, then talk

Canela is a water quality specialist with Living Waters. His process starts with a free, no-obligation water test in the customer's own home. He tests the water at the kitchen table, shows the results, and explains what they mean for drinking, cooking, showers and appliances. Only then does he talk about equipment, and the quote he gives is itemized before anything is installed.

He works in English and Spanish, which matters in a region where many households are more comfortable discussing a home purchase in Spanish.

Why the answer depends on your street

South Florida does not have one water supply. It has dozens. Miami-Dade's Water and Sewer Department draws from the Biscayne Aquifer and disinfects with chloramine, and it stopped adding fluoride in June 2025, according to the county. Homestead and Miramar run their own utilities and use free chlorine instead. West Palm Beach is the outlier: its water starts as rain in the Grassy Waters Preserve rather than a wellfield.

That variety is why Living Waters built a city-by-city water guide covering 80 communities in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Each page names the local utility, its source and treatment, and links to the official water quality report, so homeowners can read the facts before anyone visits.

What gets installed

• Whole-home filtration for city water, installed at the main line. Living Water describes its Puronics Clarius iGen and Goodspring systems as removing chloramine and chlorine for every tap and shower.
• Ion-exchange water softening for hard water and scale, sized for homes and for businesses such as hotels, restaurants, laundries and car washes.
• Alkaline reverse osmosis under the kitchen sink, with its own faucet for drinking and cooking water.
• Well water treatment configured from the well's own test, for iron stains, sulfur smell and sediment.

The equipment comes from Puronics, a water treatment manufacturer that traces its history to 1947. Living Water also offers financing through its financing partners: customers apply with a credit application, and a co-applicant can apply with them.

The irrigation well problem

One of the most common calls in the region has nothing to do with drinking water. Many South Florida homes water their lawns from shallow irrigation wells, and iron in that water leaves orange stains on walls, sidewalks, pool decks and cars. Canela tests that water too, and the guides on the Living Waters site walk through what causes the staining and what can be done about it.

How to book

Homeowners and businesses can call, text or WhatsApp Jorge Canela at (305) 793-5974, or request a free water test through jorgieswatersolutions.com. The site also carries plain-language guides on costs, comparisons between filters and softeners, and what happens during the in-home test.