Archive For The “Lead” Category
Water Metals Test Kit Ordinarily when a water treatment facility’s product tests positive for too great a concentration of a heavy metal such as lead, copper, iron, mercury, etc. all sorts of people — especially environmental watchdog groups — lay the blame on the doorstep of the water treatment facility. But not this time. Environmental [...]
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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 [...]
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Earlier today we posted an article about free lead in water testing in NYC and since then our comment form has blown up with questions about the program. Below you will find information about the program, its goals, etc. If you want the full story, though, as in the official version as written by officials [...]
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Lead in Water Test Kitfrom WaterSafe Another story about lead in water? Really? Yes. We will keep posting stories about elevated levels of lead in drinking water until we stop finding them. Today’s lead in water story comes to you from New York City. Apparently the results of random water tests conducted earlier this year [...]
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Since we started this blog articles about ‘new’ dangers posed by lead in water have come up from time to time… and we have posted articles about them as soon as we became aware of them. Does that make us sensationalists or couriers of messages and news intended to make people cognizant of potential dangers [...]
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We get asked this a LOT. Quite a few people write in ask things like, “I have city water, but it tastes funny. Should we test it?” or “The water in my town tastes different on different days. Is that a problem?” All-in-One Water Test Kit Water Quality Test Kit In both cases, and so [...]
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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, [...]
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Water Quality Test Kitfor 15 Different Water Parameters No one would dare question the belief that industry has a way of making messes and leaving them for others to clean up… or just leaving them and hoping no one ever realizes a mess got made in the first place. Some folks in a New Jersey [...]
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Yesterday we mentioned that health officials suspected that a college community’s water supply may have gotten contaminated with bacteria (Bacteria Found in College Water Supply) and gave examples of undersink and countertop filters that effectively reduce levels of such as bacteria (i.e. E.Coli, Cholera, Shigella, Salmonella, etc.) cysts (i.e. Giardia, Cryptosporidium, etc.), chlorine, lead, and [...]
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The fact that problems involving city (municipal) water testing high for lead will continue to pop up from time to time… but that does NOT mean we ought to ignore them because we keep hearing about them. In fact, we believe it means people ought to pay MORE attention to news about lead in water [...]
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