Different Ways Of Drinking Water Testing

By Essie Osborn


You can only find out whether the water is contaminated or not if some sort of test is performed. In order to find out what is exactly present in your water, drinking water testing needs to be done. From complex to extremely simple, various methods are used for this purpose.

A very simple to perform method is to taste it and smell it. Take a glass and cover it for a minute or two, then take off the lid and smell it deeply and drink a little bit of it so that you could feel the taste. If its contaminated you might taste a hint of chlorine and it smells like bleach.

Another simple way of testing is to buy a home testing kit. These kits are not that expensive so you can buy them easily and they are readily available in the market. This type of kit would let you know if the thing that you are drinking is hard and whether it is contaminated with chlorine or not. Hard water contains a lot of magnesium and calcium which could be hazardous sometimes.

If you are willing to spend some extra cash whilst buying the testing kit, then you should purchase a complex testing kit as it would perform the test more extensively and you could find out whether there are any complex contaminants present in your water or not. They test for complex natured bacteria and other sort of contamination that are not visible within a basic test kit.

If you do not think its feasible for you to spend money on such tests then you could simply take out as much information as you can regarding the type of drinking water in your local area. You can find all the relevant information over the web. Search thoroughly so that you are aware of everything that needs to be known in this regards.

In some cases, governmental agencies perform these tests but they only conduct these tests if it becomes extremely necessary because it is not easy for the government to fund these tests on a regular basis. Although these tests are almost the same as you would perform while using home testing kits but they are more complex in nature and are performed on a very huge scale.

Test of this nature should definitely be done either on individual or government level because otherwise you will not get aware that what you are actually consuming is good for you or not. Every year, a lot of people get affected by contamination of this nature which is not good. Some of the most common symptoms include, diarrhoea, vomiting, cramping and stomach ache.

If contamination is of complex nature, it could prove to be fatal which is not good at all. You must install a high quality filter within your home so that you are able to drink fresh and clean water all the times that is free of any sort of bacteria and diseases. Air or water borne diseases are not visible to the eyes so you might even know if its contaminated or not.




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