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Common Tap Score Report Terms: What Do They Mean?
Read this to for a breakdown of common terms, acronyms, and concepts that you’re likely to encounter in a report from a Tap Score mail-to-lab test kit
Read this to for a breakdown of common terms, acronyms, and concepts that you’re likely to encounter in a report from a Tap Score mail-to-lab test kit
The basics of where your water comes from—from groundwater and surfacewater to rainwater supplies—along with pollution risks
Corrosion and scaling. What are they? How are they related? And what can you do to prevent expensive failures in your water pipes and fixtures?
A guide to everything you need to know about water hardness, total dissolved solids (TDS), pH, and alkalinity
There are thousands of acronyms used by the EPA, water engineers, and public health practitioners. This article provides clarity on important water-related acronyms
An in-depth guide detailing how the Tap Score algorithm evaluates the potential health, aesthetic, and plumbing effects of your water sample
Does water quality impact fruits and vegetables? A guide to understanding how water quality impacts your vegetable garden and how lab testing your tap water can help
Laboratory certification in the water quality industry is as important as it is confusing. Here we try to disentangle the many threads of laboratory accreditation and certification so that you...
All laboratory testing instruments and methods have an inherent minimum detection level–a concentration below which an instrument fails to measure something reliably. If you’re doing a laboratory water test then...