Water quality testing blog

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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The residents of Midland, Texas are battling well water contaminated with hexavalent chromium, a known human carcinogen. It’s the same carcinogen found in Hinkley, California’s water that environmental activist Erin Brockovich successfully fought. The potable water is testing at extremly high levels.   Here’s a link to the story and another link to the Daily Kos blog post.
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A quick and affordable solution for testing metal concentrations in drinking water.
Industrial Test Systems, Inc. (ITS), located in Rock Hill, SC, announces the release of SenSafe™ Water Metals Check test strips, an easy, accurate and inexpensive way to determine metal levels in drinking water.
This patented test uses an indicator that develops red in the [...]

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This month’s edition of Water Quality Products has an informative article about when, where and how to test well water. Written by Marianne Metzger with National Testing Labs, it should be required reading for anyone testing well water. Read Testing: Onsite, Laboratory or Both?

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Here’s an easy, safe and economical way to test for the most common contaminants found in drinking water from Industrial Test Systems, Inc. The Water Quality Test Kit uses test strips from recognized test methods. The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) recommends testing home drinking water at least once a year. Regular testing is important [...]

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Rachel Gallegos • Iowa City Press-Citizen • June 25, 2008
Residents whose drinking water comes from private wells should have their water tested if their wells were covered by or were close to flood water, according to a news release from the University of Iowa Hygienic Lab.The University Hygienic Lab distributed hundreds of water testing kits [...]

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