Archive For The “Water” Category
Anyone living near areas where oil well drilling or pipeline construction takes place should read this article because it brings to light yet another environmental issue that could affect not only the quality of water pulled from private wells but also the quality of water in surrounding wildlife areas. In this article residents in the [...]
Today’s inquiry comes to us all the way from the United Kingdom. ‘Okello’ has interest in acquiring DPD test reagents for sanitizer/disinfectant level testing in water and asked, “I want the Quotation for DPD1-4″ At this time we carry 100 packs of DPD-1, DPD-3 and DPD-4 in the Water Testing Blog Test Kit Store. Differences [...]
It frightened us to learn that nearly half of eighth graders all across the country cannot correctly identify the atoms in a water molecule. How can we expect today’s youth to care about the quality of water they ingest through out their lives if they can’t even figure out what atoms make up water in [...]
Over and over again we tell people to make certain the water testing lab they choose has the proper accreditation… because we know for a fact that all labs do not perform equally! As an example, check out this article on a lab in Pennsylvania that failed to comply with established procedures and as a [...]
As much as all of us at Water Testing Blog would like to THINK the items we buy from the store do not contain potentially dangerous levels of things like lead, chemicals, etc., we certainly know BETTER than to allow ourselves to believe a lie like that. Question: Who besides us remembers the tragedy of [...]
We recently received a rather interesting question from ‘Chmst411′ who asked, “Are your arsenic test kits dangerous? We want to do an experiment with the kids for a school project but fear the arsenic gas you say gets ‘liberated’ during testing. How dangerous IS that gas and what risk does that acid used pose?” Having [...]
We absolutely love finding out that local health officials and water quality experts in areas have banded together to provide low-cost testing to local residents. Today’s water testing good news came to us from Michigan where residents of Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet, and Otsego counties can take advantage of two different testing packages for nominal fees. [...]
Previously when we wrote about fracking (hydraulic fracturing) we stressed the importance of performing water quality testing on well water and ground water in the region before any fracking activity begins. Today we happily report that officials in the Sanford, NC area required baseline water quality test results get recorded before any gas companies could [...]
If you live ANYwhere near an old manufacturing facility that no made clean up properly before it shut down, a good possibility exists that your well water may contain unwanted and potentially dangerous contaminants. For the residents in Atkinson, New Hampshire that possibility has become a definite reality. State health and environmental experts performed testing [...]