Water quality testing blog

ITS president Ivars Jaunakais is quoted in the March edition of Water Technology Magazine. Please click here to read the entire story.

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ITS products help Haitians with clean drinking water

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NY Times looks at “Toxic Water”

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President Ivars Jaunakais wrote an article on Iron and Phosphates in Pool environments for Canadian Pool and Spa Marketing Magazine. He’ll be speaking about the subject indepth next weekend at the 2009 World Aquatic Health™ Conference in Atlanta.

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Tuesday the EPA issued rules requiring airlines to test and disinfect the tap water served to passengers and used in plane bathrooms, an attempt to remedy bacteria contamination found in onboard water. The rules schedule for how frequently airlines must flush and disinfect the water systems on planes and test for coliform bacteria. The rules [...]

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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 healthy environment for aquarium and pond fish is essential to good health. the new eXact® Micro 7+ Aquarium and Pond Water Test Kit from ITS, the perfect solution for water quality testing. Now any pond or aquarium owner can get exact, reliable and fast results using a professional meter at an affordable cost.

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Our friend Debroah Barrie sent an email about an interesting lawsuit in California regarding activated carbon water filters and Arsenic. Proctor & Gamble’s and Omnipure’s “activated carbon” filters release arsenic into water and the companies are not warning consumer of it, the Center for Environmental Health claims.
“Arsenic is present in the activated carbon used in [...]

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – In the first ecological study of its kind in the world, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher has uncovered the unique finding that groundwater and airborne manganese in North Carolina correlates with cancer mortality at the county level. The study found that groundwater manganese appears to be positively associated with [...]

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