Why Bother to Test?
In the water treatment business we talk with all kinds of people about a wide variety of water quality problems. There is one thing in this business that baffles me. Why do people say they want to be sure their water is safe, spend money on testing by an independent lab, only to say they don’t care when an actual health issue is found with the water? In our geography, New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts, we have a fair amount of naturally occurring arsenic, uranium and radon. Our customers tend to be on private wells so they are free to have whatever contaminants they want to have in their water. But again, if you spend money testing for these items and they are found in non-trivial concentrations, why then would you not choose to do something about it? If you don’t believe the contaminants really pose a health risk, then why bother testing? I understand that the health risks posed by the contaminants have here are long term, but usually by the time someone tests their water they have been consuming the water for years.
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