Drinking Water Test Kits

Fact #1 -- Water leaving a water treatment facility will (usually) contain no harmful impurities... but after travelling through miles of pipe and the plumbing in your home, it had plenty of time to pick up contaminants along the way.

Fact #2 -- Heavy rains, periods of drought, unusually high demands on the aquifer, and a host of other things can radically affect the quality of water pulled from a well.

So whether you have city water or get your drinking water from a well, you have plenty of good reason to test the quality of your water on a regular basis.

Below you will find the most recent entries from the Water Testing Blog, a site which provides information about water test kits, water quality testing information, water quality issues and drinking water filters.

Recent Updates on the Water Testing Blog

Kansas Residents Concerned About Bad Smelling Well Water -- Pentek US-1500 Water Filter SystemNSF/ANSI STANDARD 053 for VOC Reduction Many people believe well water cannot become tainted by contaminants because it typically comes from locations far beneath the surface. Water Testing Blog strongly suggests that you DO NOT BUY INTO THAT LINE OF THOUGHT. We ‘yelled’ that last bit for a reason. Unwanted and [...]... read more

posted 02/01/2012

 

Liquid Reagent Turns Yellow in Presence of Chlorine -- Today’s inquiry came to us from ‘Kishore’ who asked a question about a liquid test reagent that turned yellow when added to a sample of water containing chlorine-based water disinfection tablets. Dear Sir, I mixed chlorine tablets(water purification Tablets) in water. my friend taken water in Test tube. mixed one drop of liquid then water [...]... read more

posted 01/31/2012

 

Deeply Discounted Water Testing in Stamford, CT -- In the past we wrote about water quality issues in Stamford, CT possibly resulting from contaminants buried beneath a local field. Suspected contaminants include pesticides and volatile organic contaminants. Hundreds of Stamford residents have registered for the health department’s new water testing program scheduled to launch early next month, leaving about a third of the [...]... read more

posted 01/27/2012

 

River of Blood Flowing Into the Trinity River? -- OK, so if THIS does not tell you that owners of private wells should perform periodic testing of the water pulled from their wells, then we wholeheartedly doubt we will ever find a better reason. A hobbyist drone (unmanned aircraft) pilot in the Dallas, TX area captured a rather disturbing image of what looked like [...]... read more

posted 01/25/2012

 

Science Fair Project: Testing for Arsenic in Apple Juice? -- With so many news outlets discussing recent findings of arsenic in bottles of apple juice bearing brand names it comes as no surprise to us that we would receive an inquiry like the one we just got from ‘Hadiah’ who asked, “I would like to know exactly what arsenic testing kit i could use for [...]... read more

posted 01/24/2012

 

Orange Hair From Tap Water? Too Much Iron in the Water! -- Can you get orange hair from tap (or well) water? Some residents in the Boulder Hill area of Illinois have presented their local water department with evidence that it can happen… and have water test results documenting the presence of three times the normal level of iron in their tap water. Last week, residents complained [...]... read more

posted 01/18/2012