| If you own a home, private well, or pool you should | | | | testing kits. The kits will help determine the pH levels |
| consider water quality a top priority. Most | | | | of your water and also tell you what is in it. |
| communities will have a benchmark standard you can | | | | Dropper Water Testing Kit: |
| use to gauge the quality of your water so that you | | | | A dropper water testing kit makes use of an |
| are confident when you go to drink it, swim in it, or | | | | eyedropper and specific reagents. You must isolate a |
| bathe in it. When you have your water tested | | | | sample of your water supply in a clear glass or Petri |
| regularly you are helping to protect the environment, | | | | dish and use the dropper to place the reagent in the |
| the people who use your water, and yourself from | | | | sample. If the reagent turns the sample a different |
| harmful pollutants and contaminants. | | | | color it is an indication that the substance you are |
| To have your water quality tested you can bring a | | | | looking for is found in your water sample. |
| sample of it to your local water treatment facility and | | | | Test Strips: |
| pay the lab technicians there to run it through a | | | | There are many kinds of test strip water quality test |
| battery of tests or you can perform a few simple | | | | kits and each of them focuses on a particular |
| tests at home using at home test kits. At-home | | | | substance. All you have to do to use a test strip kit |
| water quality tests will give you a good indication of | | | | is purchase a strip that looks for the mineral or |
| what chemicals and minerals are in your water and | | | | chemical you are worried about and expose the strip |
| whether it is safe to drink, but it is always a good | | | | to your water source. If the substance your looking |
| idea to have a professional take a look. | | | | for is found in the water sample you provide the |
| There are two main forms of water quality test kits: | | | | strip will change color. |
| the dropper water testing kit and the test strips | | | | |