How to Test and Evaluate Your Garden Water Quality

Do you know how to test your drinking water? Is the water that you are providing for your garden good water? Or is it too high in salt, minerals, or chlorine?

There are many ways to test your water, but first you need to start at the source.

Where does your water come from? Do you have city water, a well, or water delivered? Many home tests can help you determine this. We are pleased to offer our valued customers a 15-in-1 drinking water test kit that is designed to detect impurities and potentially harmful substances in your water. Our kit is a reliable and comprehensive solution that provides quick and accurate results, giving you peace of mind. 

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Our kit tests for 15 different parameters, including iron, copper, lead, fluoride, pH, cyanuric acid, total alkalinity, residual chlorine, total chlorine, bromine, ammonium chloride, total hardness, carbonate, nitrate, and nitrite. It is easy to use, and its comprehensive testing capabilities make it a preferred choice for those who are concerned about the quality of their drinking water.

We understand how important it is to have access to safe and healthy drinking water, and our water testing kit is an excellent tool to help ensure that your water is of the highest quality. We stand behind the effectiveness and reliability of our product, and we are confident that you will be satisfied with your purchase.

Such as the Drinking Water Test Kit - 15-in-1 Chlorine Drinking Water Test Strips with eBook will test for:

• Easy-to-use drinking water and tap water test kit
• One bacteria test vial
• One lead/pesticide test packet
• One nitrate/nitrite test packet
• One pH/hardness/chlorine test packet
• Each test to be used only once
• Tap water test kit shows immediate results
• Tests of water quality to EPA standards
• 2-year limited warranty

Photo: Drinking Water Test Kit

This excerpt describes the essential components of water and what they are good for:
Excerpt from http://freshlysqueezedwater.org.uk/ via What's in your drinking water?

"Many prominent scientists are alarmed by the content of some drinking water and actively seek to change the processes involved. The practice of making water safe to drink actually involves adding large amounts of extremely poisonous chemicals to it. Key scientists are now providing evidence that long-term ingestion of small amounts of chemicals like these could be the cause of some major health problems.

Here is a list of just a few of the chemicals routinely added to our water supply:
Liquified chlorine
Fluorosilicic acid
Aluminium sulphate
Calcium hydroxide
Sodium silicofluoride
Even if the water leaves the source in a relatively clean state, don't forget that your water travels through pipes, which may have been underground since Victorian times. It is almost impossible for the water not to become contaminated by something undesirable.

Contaminants in Tap Water
Tap water is treated with a large number of chemicals in order to kill bacteria and other microorganisms. In addition, it may contain other undesirable contaminants like toxic metal salts, hormones and pesticides, or it may become contaminated by chemicals or microbes within pipes (example: lead, bacteria, protozoa).

Photo: Water Quality Tester

Typical Tap Water Content:

• Chlorine
• Fluorine compounds
• Trihalomethanes (THMs)
• Salts of:
• arsenic
• radium
• aluminum
• copper
• lead
• Mercury
• cadmium
• barium
• Hormones
• Nitrates
• Pesticides

Testing Your Own Water
You can assess the quality of your water by testing for Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) with a TDS meter which reads the TDS instantly and gives a read-out in parts per million (ppm) TDS. Generally, water with a TDS of 500 ppm or more is considered unfit for consumption. Most tap water ranges from 150 to 420 ppm TDS. A Reverse Osmosis system typically produces water with a TDS of 90 - 95% of the incoming water.

Fluoride in water
Another very important health hazard is fluoride, which is added by some water authorities in the UK, and is also present in many toothpastes and mouthwashes. Around 10% of the UK’s water supply is fluoridated, despite a huge and ever-growing body of evidence that the science behind this mass medication program is questionable to say the least. - For more info visit Tap Water Content by Freshly Squeezed Water