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Is my water safe enough to drink? |
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Why does my water taste funny? |
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What causes the staining in my sink? |
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Do I need to worry about lead in my water? |
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If there is something wrong with my drinking water,
what can I do about it? |
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| Q1. |
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It is impossible to know whether
or not your water is truly safe enough to drink
without proper testing. Water may be contaminated
from many sources, including external sources
such as city supplies and reservoirs. Water can
also be contaminated from an internal source such
as dissolved metals in plumbing or coliform bacteria
that can often be found in well water. |
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A water characteristics test will
explain the peculiarities in tastes or odour of
your water. For example, some common complaints
and their typical causes are shown below:
| Rotten egg smell |
hydrogen sulphide |
| Metallic taste |
dissolved metals (eg. iron,
zinc, copper, lead), corrosion, or bad pH |
| Salty taste |
total dissolved solids, chloride |
| Septic, musty,
or earthy taste/odour |
total choliform bacteria |
| Bleach-like taste/odour |
chlorine |
Water testing will confirm the presence of any
of theses contaminants. |
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Water stains are the result of
minerals in your water. Most common are brown
stains due to excess iron content, and blue stains
due to excess copper. You may also notice the
water build up and staining on your dishwasher,
toilet bowls, and even by the dingy look to freshly
washed clothes. In small concentrations these
minerals may not be harmful to your health, but
they do affect taste and water quality.
Other staining contaminants are listed below:
Stained
Fixtures & Clothes |
| red or brown |
iron |
| black |
manganese |
| green or blue |
copper |
Slimy deposits |
| reddish-brown slime |
iron bacteria, iron |
Off-Colour
Water |
| cloudy |
turbidity (suspended sediments) |
| black |
hydrogen sulphide, manganese |
| red |
iron |
| brown or yellow |
iron, humic |
Corrosive
Water |
| deposits, pitting |
corrosion index, pH, copper,
lead |
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Lead pipes and lead solder on
your household pipes are the greatest sources
of the lead in your drinking water
Lead is a toxic metal known to be harmful to
your health if inhaled or digested. Studies show
that ingestion of lead at low levels over a long
period of time can cause reproductive dysfunction,
fetal damage, delayed neurological and physical
development in children, kidney damage, and heart
attacks. At high concentrations, lead is a carcinogen.
Since you can not see, taste, or smell lead dissolved
in water, testing is the only sure way of telling
whether there are harmful quantities of water
in your drinking water. |
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Depending on what the results
of your analysis tells you about the specific
nature of your problem, there are numerous options,
for example:
- filtration
- chemical treatment
- selective use
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