This guide provides a large number of helpful articles, grouped into sections, to help answer your questions related to water in your home, building, or other residence.
What is water quality?
Water quality is a pretty broad topic but mainly covers the cleanliness and healthiness of water you drink, cook with, or bathe with in your home or other residence. It also relates to how the water is treated to keep it safe and clean as well as water sources you’re exposed to in general.
Contaminants, metal, bacteria, rust or scale, and other unwanted sources of unclean or discolored water can lead to digestive discomfort at the minimum or disease, cancer, and even death in dire circumstances. Preventing this is the goal of using good water supply practices and standards.
Water quality can vary from area to area and from one municipal water supply to another but in many countries a minimum cleanliness must be met for human use according to government guidelines.
Home and building tap water topics
Where Does The Tap Water In Your Home Come From?
The water that flows out of our faucets has a long journey from its source to our home and is slightly different in each city….
Minerals or metals in your water
How To Demineralize Water At Home
If you are thinking of learning how to demineralize water at home, first you should understand the different ways to demineralize your water, and find…
How To Remove Heavy Metals From Water At Home
You wouldn’t want a drink laced with arsenic, mercury, or lead, would you? You definitely wouldn’t order a drink with toxins that you or your…
Do it yourself (DIY) water processing
Can I Distill My Own Water?
Did you know? Even supposedly “clean” tap water can have traces of bacteria, pesticides and a range of other contaminants in your water. The good…
Dirty or discolored water
What Causes Brown Water From A Water Heater?
What Causes Brown Water From a Water Heater? The most common cause of this is a dirty or clogged filter in the hot water tank….
Why Is My Toilet Water Brown?
Why is My Toilet Water Brown? There are a number of possible reasons why you have brown toilet water. Let’s dig in and cover them….
What Causes Brown Water Coming Out Of The Tap?
What Causes Brown Tap Water? When brown water comes out of your tap, it usually means that there’s been a disruption in your water main…
What Causes Rusty Hot Water At Home?
What Causes Rusty Hot Water? The reason behind rusty colored water is actually pretty straightforward. Since only iron and iron alloys can rust, any rust…
How To Test For Lead In Your Water At Home
Lead in the water can lead to serious health issues like liver and kidney issues and heart issues. For children, water in drinking water can…