There are some simple precautions you can take to protect yourself and your family from drinking contaminated water.

Florida Home Water Purification Systems: Some areas of the country are prone to flooding. Where flood waters cover a large area and may contaminate the ground water, well water, and drinking water in general there will be a directive from the local authorities to boil your water. That’s the usual course of events.

If the flooding has occurred in your yard and the authorities have no jurisdiction there, or aren’t aware of the problem, there are some simple precautions you can take to protect yourself and your family from drinking contaminated water.

“If you are the owner or operator of a daycare center you can get the water tested easily.”

Free Water Testing – Lifetime Water Solutions: Do you run a small daycare center? Does your child attend one? If it’s a larger facility in a public building there will be testing done in most cases and the city, county, or state health departments will be aware of the water quality in your child’s facility. [..more..]

Your drinking water’s quality is important. It may look nice and clear to you and it may even taste great.

There could be minuscule bacteria or other undesirable elements lurking that you can’t necessarily see. Testing yourself at home can be the first step in determining what to do about it.

If there is anything in your water that doesn’t belong there, you can usually install a water filtration system in your house that will take care of most of the problem, if not all.

“There are contaminants that are that the EPA requires testing for.”

Lifetime Water Solutions: Drinking water in any form should be tested to see what’s in it. Even bottled water can contain contaminants albeit in very minor and legal limits. There is no real health risk, of course. The Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, is the agency that sets the standards for the acceptable levels of toxins in water. [..more..]