Acceptable TDS Meter Readings Do Not Guarantee Safe Drinking Water
In a recent article by Andrew Zeigler in Water Conditioning & Purification Magazine, we found the following statement intended for dealers of drinking water treatment systems which we certainly do...
View ArticleTHM’s May Affect Pregnant Women and Their Unborn Children
Not many people actually enjoy the taste or smell of chlorinated drinking water, but did you know that recent studies have unofficially linked birth defects to chlorinated drinking water? It seems as...
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Question: What is EPA Limit for Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water?
We’d like to thank “Trinity” for asking the following question about trihalomethane levels in drinking water: “In school we recently learned that chlorine added to drinking water by water treatment...
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Question: Is Well Water Better Than City (Tap) Water?
We recently received an email from Emma in North Carolina and she wrote, We’re building a new house right on the edge of where the local water plant stops delivering water and want to know if we will...
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Urine, Sweat, Skin and Cosmetics in Pool Water May Cause Cell Damage
Taking a leak in the swimming pool… now shown to potentially cause harmful cell damage. As if the whole ‘Ewwwww! GROSS!!!’ factor shouldn’t have ALREADY given people incentive not to do it, right? Well...
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Removing/Reducing Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water
As the debate over the benefits and problems associated with use of free chlorine ( EPA Approved test strip for free chlorine ) as a disinfectant in public and private drinking water systems rages on...
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Filter to Remove Chloramines
Not a fan of chloramines in your drinking water? You now have a means of removing those pesky chloramines! Chloramines? What are chloramines? Take a look at this earlier Water Testing Blog entry on...
View ArticleNSF/ANSI Standard 53 for VOC Reduction
First off, we’d like to thank each and every one of you that pointed out a glaring omission in our last posting: We failed to list the VOC’s (volatile organic compounds) that water treatment systems...
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What is the Difference Between Total Residual Chlorine and Free Chlorine?
Simply put, the total chlorine concentration in a water sample includes all available free chlorine plus all the chlorine that has already oxidized (acted on) contaminants in the water and become...
View ArticleDo You Offer a Test Kit for Trihalomethanes?
Earlier this week we received an inquiry from 'Stuart' who asked, "I would like to test the water at home for trihalomethanes. Is this something you do and can you provide me with the associated...
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