DIY: Water Test Kit for Testing Drinking Water at Home
We have received a lot of queries on how to test the drinking water at home.
We have already discussed how to find the TDS of drinking water in full detail.
Finding only the TDS level is not enough.
TDS is only one of the factors that we need to look at. There are several other impurities commonly found in drinking water in India.
In this post, we will be talking about how you can test your drinking water for impurities like bacteria, pesticides, lead, chlorine, hardness, pH, and more.
What is the Need for Testing the Drinking Water?
How can you look for a water purification solution if you are not sure of what impurities are present in your drinking water?
The frequent occurrence of waterborne diseases is a clear sign that the water you are drinking is contaminated.
Smell trouble with your drinking water?
Get it tested at a water testing lab to know about all the contaminants.
In the last few years, the Govt. of India has done a very good job of setting up water testing labs across the country.
We understand, that in some cases, you may not find a water testing lab near your home.
Wouldn’t it be better if you have some way to test the water yourself at home?
Thankfully, there are several ready-to-use water testing kits available in the market that you can use yourself.
How to Test Drinking Water at Home?
There are several ways and kits available to test the presence of one or more impurities in water. In this post, we will try to look at one such water testing kit ‘Watersafe Drinking Water Test Kit’.
This kit provides you with preliminary and approximate results of water contamination.
This kit shouldn’t be used to certify water as safe or unsafe for drinking. You should get the water tested at a lab if the screening test using this kit is positive.
Watersafe Drinking Water Test Kit
This water test kit is designed to test for ten common contaminants like bacteria (both Coliform and Non-Coliform), lead, pesticides, copper, iron, nitrates, nitrites, chlorine, pH, and hard water.
This easy-to-use kit comes with all you need to test your drinking water. You get results instantly in minutes.
This water testing kit is quite costly as it is imported from the USA.
Manufactured by Watersafe, USA, a brand that has around 25 years of experience in making water testing kits. Having sold millions of water testing kits, Watersafe can be trusted for quality and reliability.
Watersafe’s rapid lead test has been validated in an EPA-certified laboratory to detect lead in drinking water.
This test kit contains everything you need to find out easily and accurately if your water contains unsafe or undesirable levels of ten common water contaminants.
The tests are measured as per EPA (the United States Environmental Protection Agency) standards for drinking water (given below).
The kit comes with a detailed instruction manual for performing all the tests for all 10 contaminants. Simply follow the given instructions and compare the results to the desired values.
Drinking water which tests outside the desired values for any of the contaminants can be harmful to your health.
Here is a very useful video, of how to use this kit, that we found on YouTube.
We hope the above information will be useful for many users like you.
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A water test kit can be a useful tool for testing your drinking water at home. By testing your water regularly, you can ensure that it is safe to drink.
Water is the most essential content of our body and we need to be very clear what kind of water we are drinking. At last, its effect on our body functioning. I hope this water test kit will help to select a suitable water purifier.
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