Each person daily consumes water. It is important to make sure that it rather clean to take care of the health. So, it should be taken into account ways of definition of purity of drinking water.
Instruction
1. Request the consumer report on water in your area of residence. Municipalities have to send similar data to residents of times a year now. This document will help to define quality of water which comes to your house.
2. Pour a little tap water in a transparent glass and attentively look at it under good lighting. Transparent it or muddy? Whether there is a deposit there?
3. Feel a water smell. If there is a weak aroma of chlorine (for example as in the pool), then it is quite acceptable for water supply of the city. But if you feel any other smell, for example, musty, then it indicates that this water needs to be checked carefully in vitro.
4. Check regarding serviceability and safety drains, pipes and sinks in the house/apartment. Ask local public health department or service housing and public utilities to test water quality on an object. If at the place of residence such inspections are carried out constantly, then water will be always stable quality, and you will not need to check it every year.
5. Buy in household shop the home filter for water purification from under the crane. Though such filters are less exact, than test in special laboratories, but they cost much cheaper. Also filters from nano-carbon which have several steps of cleaning are now used. If health is expensive to you, spend for a certain bag better.
6. Be especially attentive to water quality if you have a private water supply. For example, well or column. Full responsibility for quality of this water is taken by you.
7. Carry out the analysis of well water regarding availability of herbicides and insecticides as soon as you drive to the house. Then make it two more times in a year (in the early spring and late fall) for identification for intestinal bacteria and nitrates. Further - once a year for lead level assessment, rn and the general content of the dissolved solid substances.