Archive For November, 2009
Every once in a while you will hear about a community receiving a ‘boil water’ order from its local health officials. Most often these orders get issued because some event, usually an accident of some sort, has resulted in the introduction of unwanted bacteria into the drinking water supply. A water main breaking or traces [...]
While the idea of a shower head changing colors in response to a change in water temperature sounds kind of amusing, we think people ought to consider installing a shower head that will improve the quality of their shower water rather than the lighting in their shower stall.
Again, we find the following ‘technology’ rather cool… [...]
We don’t know anyone that would LIKE the idea of drinking water containing human waste… except those two girls from that nasty ‘2 girls, 1 cup’ viral video that circulated for a while. Nasty. Just plain nasty.
At any rate, people installing a new well should make sure to place it no less than 100 feet [...]
China makes the news once more, and this time it looks like some public officials may wind up in a lot of trouble with the Chinese Ministry of Health if they don’t straighten up and fly right when it comes to telling the truth about the number of H1N1 cases and H1N1 related fatalities in [...]
Anyone who knows the authors of Water Testing Blog knows how much they love to drink beer… so it ought to come as no shock that an article involving a brewery AND pristine spring water would catch their attention.
St. Paul, Minn. — Long before glaciers rolled through Minnesota, a massive pool of water circulated throughout [...]
Recently an article in a Pennsylvania newspaper credited New York City with knowing a very interesting ‘fact’… and apparently that ‘fact’ warrants attention on both sides of the NY/PA border.
New York City has one thing right: We are what we eat and drink, and the water used in Marcellus Shale gas drilling is not sounding [...]
While no simple testing methods exist (yet) for detecting ‘bad’ Chinese Drywall, a person CAN make their life a little easier when trying to determine whether or not sections of already installed drywall may have come from China. Depending upon what a person needs to do in order to get a look at the back [...]
“Invasion of the Giant Jellyfish!” sounds like the title of a hastily made Godzilla era Japanese film where people dressed in torn bedsheets float around in a pool killing innocent swimmers. Ironically, though, giant jellyfish really HAVE invaded Japanese waters and some scientists blam changing (rising) water temperatures. This year’s jellyfish swarm is one of [...]
According to a study conducted in Australia involving 300 households where half received real filters to filter the collected water and half used fake filters which contained no filtration media, scientists detected no real differences in health or general wellness between those who filtered the rainwater and those who did not.
Does this mean you can [...]