Archive For February, 2010
OK, so everyone knows it gets hot in the Summer… but some people do not think about the effects of humidity on the way our bodies handle heat. For that very reason hospital emergencies routinely deal with people suffering from heat exhaustion in the Summer months.
Ironically, some of the people admitted to hospitals started to [...]
In a recent newsletter we learned that National Safety Products, the company responsible for TestProducts.Com, added new devices for conducting various electrical tests to their online offerings: EMF Meter w/ Temperature Digital AC/DC Voltage Tester Clamp-On Multimeter
Although all of us at Water Testing Blog prefer that our drinking water have absolutely no taste at all, and give us nothing more than pure aqueous refreshment in each and every glass, there exists an element in society that believes water ought to have SOME sort of taste… a slightly sweet taste.
With that in [...]
Recently the North Carolina State Department of Environment and Natural Resources discovered it may have reason to test groundwater near a gas station whose tanks, they suspected, may have started leaking. While they didn’t find the chemicals they expected, they certainly did find chemicals in the water.
They found tetrachloroethylene in a family’s well water in [...]
KC had a few questions for us and wrote…
I have 2 questions that I am not finding answers to on this blog. I could be overlooking the answers. 1) is there a home test kit for THM’s and HAA5? 2) I purchased some property & I would like to test a pond [...]
We spend the majority of our time talking about water quality issues affecting drinking water and sometimes we get sidetracked and discuss water quality issues pertaining to swimming pools. Today we would like to discuss a water quality issue dealing with… washing machines.
Believe it or not, a water quality issue, in this case sediment in [...]
We recently received an email from Martin in Miami and he asked,
I grew up in a household that had absolutely awesome drinking water and like so many young people I never really thought about WHY the water tasted… great.
Well now that I have left the nest (as my Mom puts it) and struck out on [...]