Water quality testing blog

A new article published today lists common contaminants found in drinking water. We have tests for EVERY parameter listed, please visit our website for details. “New studies have found a host of nasties in H2O. Women’s Heath investigates what’s really flowing from the faucet.” Click here to read the article.

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We’d like to share this customer testismonal with you from Bill Horan, President of Operation Blessing International. Bill leads one of many relief efforts in Haiti with a focus on delivering clean drinking water. He is using our eXact Micro 7+ and Chlorine photometers for field testing. Port-au-Prince Haiti Dear Ivars, It was such a great [...]

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ITS’ patented aperture (window) technology allows for the lowest sensitivity possible on a test strip.

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Another environmentally friendly and off beat story in swimming pools, A Minnesota company, Creative Water Solutions, envisions will keep tens of thousands of swimming pools clean while drastically reducing the use of chlorine by adding sphagnum moss to pool water. Moss keeps a pool’s biofilms under control, using less chlorine  – just enough to kill [...]

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A study published this week by Alfred Bernard, PhD, of Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, examined 847 students aged 13 to 18 who went swimming in outdoor and indoor chlorinated pools. He found Chlorine may contribute to risk for asthma and nasal allergies to children. His report was published in the Sept. 14 [...]

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Chlorine analysis has wide commercial applicability, and is useful for testing drinking water, pool and spa water, aquarium water, industrial and environmental water, and for other types of water testing. The eXact® Micro 7+ Advanced Photometric System (US Patent #7333194), which uses DPD for touch-free chlorine analysis in a test strip form, was granted U.S. [...]

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A new method using a water proof meter with built in photo cell and reagent delivery device (test strips) was presented at the 5th Annual World Aquatic Health™ Conference in Colorado Springs October 17th.   Our president and founder, Ivars Jaunakais traveled to Colorado last week. He presented a new method for pool water testing [...]

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The majority of farms draw the water used to irrigate their fields from wells so WHY would they ever need to test for the presence of chlorine? Simple: Every once in a while those wells might get ‘shocked’ with an oxidizer such as chlorine in response to unforeseen events such as regional flooding or the contamination of nearby [...]

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