What Does Your Water Quality Report Say?
I found a link to a page on the EPA's website that allows you to lookup the water quality report for your area. Just click on your state and then on your city from the list that comes up on the next page. If there is a water quality report for your area available online, it will be available for viewing or download. Here's the link:
Water Quality Reports
I'm not sure how often this page gets updated, so some of the links may be broken. If you find this to be the case, just call your local water company and ask them to send you the latest update for your water quality report. It should be free. All you need to do is ask for it.
For those of you that own your own home you can find this information in with your monthly water bill. Apartment dwellers that don't pay a separate water bill should just head on over to the management office and ask them who provides water to the complex. Either way, it only take a few minutes to find out.
For those of you that don't understand the importance of reviewing your water quality report, allow me to recap. The water quality report shows current and average levels for various contaminants across a certain period of time. All water quality reports must contain a minimum amount of this information as required by the EPA and other regulatory agencies.
Since my site deals with shower filters, I usually recommend checking this report to find out if there is free chlorine or chloramine being used to disinfect the water in your area. The efficiency of most shower filters will be directly related to which disinfectant is used. All the shower filters in my comparison were tested on a 100% chloramine system. That's what my results show. For those of you that haven't been switched over to chloramine yet may find your results with a particular brand may be a bit better.
The only two units in my comparison that should perform equally well with either regular free chlorine and the newer chloramine are the Sprite (chlorgon) and the Vitamin Shower (vitamin c). This is because these two units use active reduction agents, such as calcium sulfite and ascorbic acid/sodium ascorbate respectively.
Anyways, enough for now. I need to get something to eat before I start to get grumpy.
Best of luck!
Water Quality Reports
I'm not sure how often this page gets updated, so some of the links may be broken. If you find this to be the case, just call your local water company and ask them to send you the latest update for your water quality report. It should be free. All you need to do is ask for it.
For those of you that own your own home you can find this information in with your monthly water bill. Apartment dwellers that don't pay a separate water bill should just head on over to the management office and ask them who provides water to the complex. Either way, it only take a few minutes to find out.
For those of you that don't understand the importance of reviewing your water quality report, allow me to recap. The water quality report shows current and average levels for various contaminants across a certain period of time. All water quality reports must contain a minimum amount of this information as required by the EPA and other regulatory agencies.
Since my site deals with shower filters, I usually recommend checking this report to find out if there is free chlorine or chloramine being used to disinfect the water in your area. The efficiency of most shower filters will be directly related to which disinfectant is used. All the shower filters in my comparison were tested on a 100% chloramine system. That's what my results show. For those of you that haven't been switched over to chloramine yet may find your results with a particular brand may be a bit better.
The only two units in my comparison that should perform equally well with either regular free chlorine and the newer chloramine are the Sprite (chlorgon) and the Vitamin Shower (vitamin c). This is because these two units use active reduction agents, such as calcium sulfite and ascorbic acid/sodium ascorbate respectively.
Anyways, enough for now. I need to get something to eat before I start to get grumpy.
Best of luck!
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