If you use municipal water, you most likely have chlorine and other harmful substances in your water. In order to check how clean and safe your water is water test kits are used. Combining accuracy, sensitivity, affordability, and ease-of-use, water test kits bring the accuracy of a laboratory within the reach of every homeowner and non-technical user. Water test kits identify harmful levels of eight different common contaminants in water: Bacteria, Lead, Pesticides, Nitrates, Nitrites, Chlorine, pH and Hardness.
Find out if your water has harmful levels of these common contaminants:
Lead: Lead consumption and poisoning has been linked to many serious illnesses, especially in young children lead can harm mental and physical development and may cause brain abnormalities, kidney damage and hypertension. As with other water contaminants, the risk of lead damage are much greater for children than for adults. Families should be particularly concerned about the health of the water supply.
Pesticides: Pesticides are deadly chemicals used to eliminate weeds, insects and other harmful elements in crops. Their pervasive use, however, has produced its own harm. Now it is not uncommon to find pesticide contamination in our drinking water. Pesticides are linked in scientific studies to increased cancer rates and chronic illnesses.
Nitrates/Nitrites: When animal and human wastes or field fertilizers come into contact with water, they show up as nitrates and nitrites. Both are serious contaminants because they affect the very core of human life - birth - and the development of your life.
Chlorine: The consumption of Chlorine in very small amounts most likely will not cause you serious harm. However, regular drinking of tap water with high levels of Chlorine by products increases the risk of some forms of cancer.
pH: If the acidity of your water is too high, corrosion can leach out lead from pipes. Even low levels of lead have been linked to learning disabilities in children and hypertension in adults. So it is important to know if your pH level is corrosive.
Hardness: Water hardness is primarily caused by calcium and magnesium compounds. Hard water can be the reason of lime membrane and clogging and uneconomic cleaning remedies’ usage. Magnesium and calcium, the components which are blamed for water hardness, may eventually damage plumbing and water heaters.
Iron: High levels of iron may give water a metallic taste, cause a reddish or yellowish color and also result in other water quality problems. Iron-contaminated water can stain pipes, sinks, and damage laundry.
Knowledge of the contaminants and amounts in your water is the first and most important step to removing them. You can choose a treatment method and equipment size based on the accurate information produced by water test kits.