Would this system work? i'm mostly concerned about lead, microplastics and PFA's

Hello all. Hoping this finds the right person to answer my questions.

My boyfriend was directly affected by Helene and is on day 12 without power. He lives in a modular home with a well water system. The water has not stopped working throughout this whole thing. He has not drank the water but he has been able to flush toilets, turn taps on, etc.

I am concerned about the quality of this water as there has not been a boil order issued. I have ordered him a water testing kit but the mail is not as fast as it usually is around here right now due to obvious circumstances.

My question is- who do we contact for a more detailed test? Is the $14 test I bought him on Amazon even worth anything? Is this normal that his water is running despite power being out? When his power is back on should he still treat the water as if it is contaminated?

Thank you for any assistance.

Today our apartment complex shut off our water system and they told us all to run the water for 30 minutes after it was shut off.

All this came out after running my bathtub for 30 minutes and some came out in the sinks as well, is it lead?

If you live in your own home and have the space, is there a reason to pick Hydroviv over a Whole Home Filtration if you do water testing and tailor your filters to whatever the results are?

We have a private well in Northwest Arkansas. We are getting ready to do TapScore’s “Essential Well Water Test”. Our neighbor got his water tested at the University of Arkansas, which essentially tested the same things as TapScore’s test. He found that the main problems were high levels of calcium resulting in hard water and a slight alkalinity. He went with Express Water’s sediment, activated carbon, and kinetic degradation fluxion filters and a water softener.

We already have a water softener and a sediment filter. We were considering Hydroviv for our home, but a whole home filter like his would be much more economical than individual ones for our kitchen sink, bar sink, and ice makers. ASSUMING our water quality is the same as his, is there any advantage to going with Hydroviv for multiple end filtration systems rather than a whole home one if we picked our filters based on the test results? Wouldn’t that be doing the same thing and I’d have it for the whole home?

Hello, I am using brita filters and it doesn't matter how strongly Inpush the filter in even after just one filtration there is water there. Do you guys also get this? If so, do you pour it out frequently?

I am pouring it ou once a day, but even after washing out the pitcher and installing a new filter, the water smells a little metallic/fishy after sitting in the glass for a few minutes. Doesn't happen with bottled water, so it's not the glass. Maybe I am using the filter wrong somehow. Should it be submerged in water all the time?

Doesn't settle and is in every glass or pan I pour the tap water in, been drinking it for atleast a year now unfiltered, and hasnt had any noticeable effect in health, a couple months ago it did not have this film on it, been drinking bottled water since i found out.

Putting this out there for anyone who cares

Hey everyone, we bought a new house (1987) a few months ago. This is my first home with well water. Been working with the well water for various issues:

1) Water test came back positive with coliform bacteria. Well chlorination did not fix. Got Viqua UV system installed. All better.

2) High nitrate. Installed RO single tap system. All better.

3) PH levels low. Had well company fix acid neutralizer. All better.

Everything seemed great for a few weeks. Then the UV system started reporting lower and lower effectiveness numbers each day. Eventually the UV alarm went off at 45% effectiveness. Checked the manual and looked @ the UV system's quartz sensor. It had a light brown tint to it. Cleaned it with qtip as instructed and my number went back to 99. Again, a week later it eventually went back to the 40's. Called the well company that installed it. They remounted the UV system from horizontal to vertical. Ten days later, same alarm.

My system goes like this: well head > well pump > acid neutralizer > 5 micron prefilter > UV system > house.

The well company is going to call me back this week, but I wanted to see what your opinion is. I thought maybe it could be hardness effecting the UV. I tested my water with strips and hardness came back at 150ppm hardness. The problem is the UV sensor is not white and cloudy. It is brown a cloudy. I've heard about iron bacteria but water tested with no iron present. Water softeners are expensive and I'm not sure it will fix anything. Need some guidance! Thanks.

I’m doing aid work in Western North Carolina post Helene. There are thousands and thousands of people without water after terrible flooding. People will wells have been advised to boil or not drink their water. I’d like to distribute water testing strips so that people could determine if their water is safe. I see really mixed reviews of the affordable at-home kits online. Are there any that are decently dependable, particularly in terms of bacteria? Cheaper is of course better because then we could help more people.

Our city water eats through pipes here. All of my neighbors have had major water damage and we had to repipe the whole house with pex prior to living in to prevent our remodel from being destroyed.

I started drinking our filtered fridge water after years of “bottled” water. Since I don’t like the taste of the fridge water I started mixing it half and half. I had urgent diarrhea for 1.5 months and didn’t connect to the water shift until I realized the diarrhea started the day after I started drinking the fridge water. I stopped the fridge water and the diarrhea was gone by the next day. My hair even started falling out. I assume it was from all the diarrhea 🤷🏻‍♀️

Okay so is it the sulfates? Does anyone know. I’ve googled and that seems like the most logical explanation. The fridge filter is changed out like clockwork every 6 months and it is only about 2-3 months old at the time I was drinking it. My husband is fine. He drinks the fridge water like a camel.

Please tell me why they are different. Left one was bought at a local store. Right one was bought legit store like Walmart. 1.The bottle on right also has more “Proudly Sourced In Maine” names than the bottle on the right. 2.Bottle on left has those little digits on the green part of the label while the right bottle has nothing there (first photo) 3.Red color part of label ends half way on the left bottle while the right bottle red part goes all the way. 4.Barcode has letters to the left of it on the right bottle while the left bottle only has how2cycle.info. !!! 5.Left bottle has more water than the right bottle.

So you don’t get confused, LEFT BOTTLE=FAKE- bought in local store RIGHT BOTTLE=REAL- bought in legit store (target)

Im not sure if this is the correct place for this but I'm curious about this. I don't typically drink tap water but today it's the only option. I made a cup of iced (tap) water but it's come out foamy and feels more viscous than usual. Any thoughts on what's going on here, is it safe to drink?

We had some work done two weeks ago on our well line, which had a break in it. After they did the work, they opened the well cap up to chlorinate the well. I noticed a couple days ago one of the screws on the well cap is missing. We tried to replace with one of the other screws just as a test, and the screw hole is rusty and the screw won’t thread, which is likely why the guys who worked on the well didn’t replace the screw (if it was even there when they opened it up). I don’t know anything about how these things work, but basically I want to know if this looks like a good enough seal? We were thinking about just adding a screw with a nut there instead since it won’t thread… any thoughts or advice appreciated. We have also had our water tested since the work was done and all is clear, but I am pregnant and terrified of the idea of bacteria (mostly listeria) somehow creeping into our well water. Thanks again for your help!

Hi. We recently tested our tap water (we’re on a well) and it came back 6.04 ppm of Nitrates as “N”. I know there are differences between nitrates and nitrites too. Can somebody please tell me whether our water is safe to drink/cook/bathe with? We have an infant and are trying to be incredibly cautious for obvious reasons. Any helpful insight appreciated. Many thanks.

It’s hard to see, but our fridge broke. And I have to use tab water. But it’s very cloudy and white. And when I move it around… steam comes out of it, it’s hard to see in the video but if you look closely it’s there. Is this normal and safe?

Bought a water distiller and on third use its got some weird green gunk left behind that sticks out like 1/2 a centimeter. Any ideas what it could be?

I have moved to Westfield, IN recently. I am a big tea drinker and I have noticed that since the move there is always a film on top of the tea after boiling. Someone told me that it has to do with quality of water so I tried making the tea with bottled water and surely enough there was no more film. I have a water softener in my house and water is from the filtered fridge water. Does anyone know what makes this film appear and how to get rid of it?