Pesticides Articles

If you live near agriculture, should you be worried about your drinking water? We’ll explore contaminant risks as well as how to best test and treat well water.

Learn how floods can contaminate your drinking water with chemicals, sewage, and bacteria — and discover how to protect your water supply after a flood.

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. Learn what VOCs are, how to detect them, and how can you protect your water against VOC contamination.

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.