Archive For The “Chlorine” Category
It sickens us to read about valuable resources such as water testing kits sitting idle on shelves so long that their components age beyond expiration dates… especially when it happens in an economically depressed or otherwise challenged area such as rural India. Forget about the wasted money. Think, instead, about the waterborne illnesses that water [...]
Rude family members contribute to a lack of cold, clean drinking water? Apparently so because ‘Kaytee’ has more than a few issues with her greedy, insensitive, water guzzling family. “My husband and kids have no manners. We live in a place where temperatures hit the high 90′s for a good part of the year and [...]
Most people looking to test their drinking water for chlorine want to know the concentration of free chlorine, also called the free chlorine residual, in their drinking water. Basically speaking, free chlorine (hypochlorous acid) acts as an effective sanitizing and disinfecting agent in lower concentrations but can cause serious harm and damage to organic material [...]
We get questions about chlorine all the time. Usually people want to know if their water has any chlorine in it, how much chlorine it contains, how they can reduce the chlorine in their water, why their water has chlorine in it, and if the chlorine in their water poses a health risk. Today’s ‘question’ [...]
We always talk about the benefits of undersink filters, countertop filters and whole house filters because of their tendency to filter out large numbers of unwanted drinking water contaminants very efficiently… and today we’d like to bring to your attention a PUR Water Pitcher Filter that comes with a really nice feature: the NSF Certified [...]
After posting the short article on cholera the other day we knew that someone would definitely ask us if we knew of a water filter or water filter technology that could effectively remove cholera from drinking water. Test for Iodine Test for Chlorine The simplest way to make sure drinking water contains no cholera, bacteria, [...]
We received a second inquiry from ‘Michael’ regarding an indoor swimming pool, ORP readings and Taylor Test Kit readings. Details of the email below: Should a pool be checked daily using The Taylor Kit and Chemtrol unit , while the pool is closed because of a chemical imbalance reading from the Chemtrol unit? The ORP [...]
We received an email recently from ‘Michael’ who asked us a question about pool water. He asked, What does .25/.25, and .5/1, in the free/total column from the Taylor Test Kit represent in a pool log, are these levels safe for swimming. If not what levels from the Taylor Test Kit would be normal. What [...]