Archive For February, 2010
Who would have ever thought that an international water tasting event would take place… in West Virginia? Certainly not anyone here at Water Testing Blog, but then again, we never claimed to know everything… and we never will.
February 27, 2010 – A municipal water from the Ohio was named Best Municipal Water in the World [...]
While very critical to monitor water quality parameters such as pH, what happens when one group’s tests indicate that a body of water has a ‘problem’ with its pH level and another group’s readings indicate the exact opposite?
People in Gastonia, NC will get the chance to live out that exact scenario in the coming weeks.
Gastonia’s [...]
Next we have an interesting question from Jan, a jogger planning to move to the South… “Once again my family is moving because of my husband’s career in the military. This time he’s getting stationed at a base in South Carolina. This will be my first time ever living in the South and all my [...]
After all the talk about BPA and other potentially dangerous compounds leaching out of portable water bottles it comes as no surprise that companies like Klean Kanteen have started producing stainless steel portable water bottles.
Advantages of stainless steel water bottles like the K18PPS water bottle include a zero percent chance of the bottle leaching BPA [...]
Used by a number of relief organizations around the world when disaster strikes, The Doulton W9361122, SS-2 Gravity Fed Water Filter provides clean drinking water to communities that would otherwise go without. used by many of the world’s leading relief organizations to provide clean water in times of emergency.
While many other emergency water filters rely [...]
This next question through us for a loop. We actually had to go and watch an episode (or 12) of one of those ghost hunter type shows to figure out how best to answer the following question: “Not sure if you can help, but my wife and I think we need to test for ghosts [...]
Yes, you read that right. We recently came across a short article on a news channel’s site in the Bethesda, MD area which stated that a local pizzeria used a water filtration system — and that some people believe its pizza tasted more like pizza from New York because of the purified water.
Some say its [...]
Steve from Illinois wrote in and asked, “Hey, I don’t know if you guys really answer anyone, but I’ll ask anyways. My friends and I want to make ourselves a kegerator for the basement bar and those pre-made ones won’t do what we want, which is keep our mugs cold, too — and keep the [...]
As the cold air continues to hang around this Winter and we keep the fires burning in the fireplaces and stoves that we need to make sure all vents and chimneys contain no blockages. Why? Because carbon monoxide kills people every year as a result of blocked vents and chimneys. How Does Carbon Monoxide Kill? [...]