This EASY At-Home Test Reveals PFAS (Forever Chemicals) in Your Water

[@troyallen8223]

Pretty cool... The thing that bothers me is from experience in testing water on an hourly basis was my job for 15 years and during high traffic it was every half hour(all above the minimum standard of 2 hours) by the rules in my locality. I noticed during the change of seasons water coming out of the taps was usually coming out measuring 3.0 for chlorine when at any other time it was a lot less around 1.0. Now with pfas there's no telling when a spike could occur, or if there's an influx of many pfas. It seems it can be as arbitrary as the weather. 🤔🤷🏼👀. Do you think there'll be a meter in the future that'll be able to measure this in real time? How far away are we to have this coming to fruition? 👍🏼

[@waterfilterguru]

This is a great point. To be honest, I have no idea. As of now, samples have to be manually analyzed at the lab. Until we address the source of PFAs, I think your point that levels of contaminants in any water source will always be subject to fluctuation

[@troyallen8223]

@@waterfilterguru 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@latviangypsy]

Could you test the water sticks for shower filtration? Going absolutely bonkers trying to find a showerhead that actually cuts down on hard water. My hard water is at 310 😱

[@waterfilterguru]

Honestly I'm not aware of any showerhead filters that are capable of reducing hardness - most really only reduce chlorine and disinfection byproducts. Now of you find a product that uses action exchange resin, it will be able to address hardness. The best way to deal with hardness is with a point of entry water softener.

[@latviangypsy]

@@waterfilterguru The Watersticks supposedly use resin, and you recharge with salt every month I believe. But I just purchased a portable RV water softener to put into my shower. It'll be a little bulky but I hope it works! Thank you for the reply! Love your videos!

[@Maximoussssse]

CAN we expect tests on pitchers ? Like the clearly filtered one, they’re saying it removes PFAS but haven’t seen a test for this yet

[@waterfilterguru]

We may start including PFAS testing in all our test projects, but our initial pitchers testing project kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpzRlK1thdR1fNU where we tested 8 pitchers unfortunately did not include PFAS. That said, the Clearly Filtered pitcher is certified by the WQA to NSF/ANSI 53 for the reduction of PFOA/PFOS, two of the most common PFAS compounds. Certification is best proof a filter will perform as claimed, and the testing for certification is much more rigorous than my own limited, real-life testing I do for my projects.

[@Gunner1000]

Have you ever tested Radiant water filters?

[@waterfilterguru]

We have not yet

[@skitsotrader141]

1 part per trillion accuracy... wow. EPA allowable standard is 4 parts per trillion. Interesting