Pesticides Articles

If you live near agriculture, should you be worried about your drinking water? Explore your potential contaminant risks, along with how to best test and treat your water.

Beyond the immediate chaos and destruction of mass flooding, floodwaters bring a host of other hazards. While suspended sewage and oil slicks are clear indications of contamination, it is always...

The Signs, Symptoms, and Solutions for Algae-Contaminated Water

Given the 80,000+ chemicals out there, it's no surprise that there are many we just don't know much about. "Emerging contaminants" enter drinking water in a variety of ways. But...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are everywhere. From industry, agriculture, transportation, and everyday household products–once they contaminate drinking water, they can be hard to remove. Learn what VOCs are, how to...

Read to learn what level of arsenic is considered dangerous, which foods and drinks may increase your arsenic exposure, and easy steps you can take to reduce the risk.

You can’t smell them, taste them, or perhaps even pronounce them, but phthalates are everywhere. Therefore, due to leaching, weathering and disintegration, they can (and do) make it into many...

Do pesticides cause water pollution? They sure do. Learn about the risks and human health issues related to pesticides in drinking water as well as how to test and measure.