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Want to be Safe from Water-Borne Diseases? Test Your Water

As human beings, we need to use and consume water all the time. We need to drink it to replenish the water content of our bodies and to keep ourselves healthy. We need water to maintain the cleanliness of our surroundings and to attend to our personal hygiene. We also utilize water for recreational purposes. [...]

How to Make your Drinking Water Safe and Lead-Free

One of the ways to protect your family from lead poisoning is to check your water supply. Generally, water that leaves the reservoirs of your local water supply and passes through the distribution pipes is treated and free from lead. However, lead often gets into tap water through home service pipes, lead solders in plumbing [...]

Leading Facts on Lead Poisoning

Lead poisoning, also called plumbism or painter’s colic, is a serious medical condition resulting from exposure to extreme levels of lead from the environment. It can cause irreversible neurologic and multiple systemic complications and even death. The effects of lead have been known throughout the centuries as it used to be a thriving industry and [...]

Main Causes of Lead Poisoning

Benjamin Franklin once said – “The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance” and this holds perfectly true for lead poisoning. With years of knowledge on toxic effects of various lead heavy metals, they persist to be used extensively in various products of common use found in and around our homes posing threat to [...]

10 Common Signs and Symptoms of Lead Poisoning in Children

Testing for lead in your home is a very important task that you may have to undertake when you have young children or pregnant women living in your home. The presence of lead in your drinking water or in your house paint can poison you over time. In young children and in unborn babies, lead [...]

10 Common Pesticides Tested in Drinking Water

Test for Pesticides in Drinking Water It is highly recommended for people to test for pesticides in their drinking water even if they live deep in urbanized areas and far away from farmland. That is because pesticides can seep into the soil and travel to other areas. Pesticides can cause various health problems when ingested [...]