many people are using water test kits to determine if it’s safe to drink. These kits typically come with color-coded strips that help detect contaminants, along with testing for pH levels ...

The WQ bulletin "Why Test Your Water?", available at your extension office, may be helpful in determining which tests to run. After selecting the tests, choose a lab to test the samples. See WQ 1, ...

There are very specific water sample collection procedures ... but “unless you have a private drinking water well, a lot of those test kits aren’t that helpful,” Whelton says.

Of 1,175 “flush samples,” taken after letting the water run ... in thousands of customers – about 7,000 total – requesting lead testing kits. No students drank the water during that time frame. The ...