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For more information on drinking water testing, dinking water test kits and other issues related to drinking water safety, please feel free to browse the various articles posted on the Water Testing Blog.
Drinking Water Contaminants: Symptoms, Contaminants and Simple Tests
01/06/2009: Below please find a very simplified table of potential symptoms and testing methods for several contaminants which sometimes wind up in drinking water. This list in no way, shape or form represents the total number of potential drinking water contaminants. For a ‘complete’ list of water contaminants and their potential effects on human health, plese [...] more
MCL for Mercury in Drinking Water
01/02/2009: The United States Environmental Protection Agency set the ‘action level’ for mercury in drinking water at 0.002 ppm (parts per million), or 2 ppb (parts per billion). This means municipal water suppliers must test for the presence of mercury in drinking water on a regular basis, report their findings to the EPA, and take corrective [...] more
Information About Mercury
12/30/2008: Several of our Water Testing Blog readers have asked us to provide some basic information about mercury, its history, and how to test for it if they wanted to know if it had somehow gotten into their water supply. Below please find some very basic facts about mercury:
Mercury exists in several forms: Elemental/Metallic Mercury, Inorganic Mercury Compounds, [...] more
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