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Is Bottled water safe?
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justinfreeman
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Is Bottled water safe?
Change of plans. I want to test different brands of bottle water to see if they are really safe. What could i test for and how could i preform the tests? thanks for your help.
Ive came up with the topic of "How does alcohol affect the body" and thought about doing a flame test to show how it would affect the body compared to water, coke and tea. How would i conduct this expeirment?
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Hi Justin,
That's quite an interesting topic, and also an extremely complicated one. There are many, many regulated drinking water contaminants. Here is a list of the ones regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency:
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/mcl.html#mcls
Many of the analyses for these potential contaminants are very expensive
One approach you could take would be to focus on a particular contaminant for which you are able to find a cheap analysis method. Microbes and nitrate are some of the more popular tests which are available in some commercial kits (try google for "nitrate test kit").
That's quite an interesting topic, and also an extremely complicated one. There are many, many regulated drinking water contaminants. Here is a list of the ones regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency:
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/mcl.html#mcls
Many of the analyses for these potential contaminants are very expensive
One approach you could take would be to focus on a particular contaminant for which you are able to find a cheap analysis method. Microbes and nitrate are some of the more popular tests which are available in some commercial kits (try google for "nitrate test kit").