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For many years now, we’ve been hearing about potential problems with our drinking water.  Here’s what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has to say about this important issue:

“Every living creature needs clean and safe drinking water.”

Most sources of drinking water are subject to contamination and require appropriate treatment to remove disease-causing contaminants. Contamination of drinking water supplies can occur in the source water as well as in the distribution system after water treatment has already occurred.

The presence of contaminants in water can lead to adverse health effects, including:

• Gastrointestinal illness,
• Reproductive problems, and neurological disorders.
• Infants, young children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people whose immune systems are compromised because of AIDS, chemotherapy, or transplant medication, may be especially susceptible to illness from some contaminants.

You Need to Take Control

If you are on a public water system, special issues can arise caused by

• The age of the distribution system
• The type of plumbing in your house and its age
• Your location relative to the water line
• Things out of the control of the public water system such as droughts or floods

Water Testing Can be Costly

When you want to test your drinking water to make sure it’s safe, you’ll either try to test it yourself or find a lab that can do it for you.

While you can test for some contaminants yourself…

…you need to rely on a professional lab to test for volatile organic compounds and non-common toxic metals and other inorganic chemicals.

Most local labs are very qualified to give you accurate results, however…

• They charge for each contaminant or parameter you want tested.
• This can cost you several hundred dollars.
• If you have them come to your property to draw the water samples, it adds to the overall testing cost.

There Has to be a Better Way and There is…

• Our tests are priced based a fixed set of contaminants or parameters.
• By standardizing our tests to a specific set of parameters, we save on setup time.
• As a result, our testing process runs like a well oiled machine
• We minimize our overhead because we control the costs.

We pass these savings onto you.

We have highly qualified and experienced lab technicians using state-of-the-art test equipment who have performed over 65,000 drinking water tests. This has enabled us to determine, with a high level of confidence, which parameters, in particular, have the greatest probability of showing up in drinking water sources. If you have a problem with one of these parameters and you treat for it, you are also treating for other related contaminants that are not explicitly being tested for.

Our ‘Bang-for-the-Buck’ Essential Indicator Water Test, covers at least 149 health-related contaminants known to cause various cancers and damage the nervous and immune systems.

• 8 Bacteria (you test for bacteria—see why here)
• 85 Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
• 37 Essential Elements and Heavy Metals &
• 19 Inorganic Chemicals

Once you place your order, we ship you a kit that contains water vials and detailed instructions. You simply fill the vials with water and send them back to us using regular mail.

Once we receive your water sample back in our lab it takes about 6 business days to run the battery of tests and email (or fax) the results to you.

NOTE:

You will test for pathogenic bacteria (CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE) because it’s a much better way than sending the sample back to the lab for testing—bacteria have a short holding time and are sensitive to changes in temperature. We provide you with a simple way to do this test yourself.

That’s all there is to it!

How much does this cost?

The total cost, including postage both ways*, is only $149

 * shipping only included for continental U.S.; if outside the continental U.S. please inquire about additional cost.

¹  If the volatile organic testing performed on our mass spectrometer identifies the presence of what are called ‘non-targeted’ compounds, we then conduct a search for these compounds. We do this by matching the non-targeted compounds against a database of over 250,000 compounds published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Think of this as a ‘facial recognition’ search where the shape of un-targeted compounds found by the mass spectrometer are compared to those in the library.

That means our “Bang-for-the-Buck” water test evaluates your drinking water for 149 targeted contaminants PLUS a library search, if warranted, for additional non-targeted contaminants.

To be perfectly honest, we very rarely find any non-targeted compounds that warrant a search. That’s why we DO NOT add any of these ‘ghost’ parameters to our total parameter count.