[ # ] How Clean Is Your Water At Work?
/* Posted March 12th, 2008 at 1:48pm *//* Filed under Water */
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The other day at work, my group and I took our usually stroll down to the water cooler area. Some of us got water from the filtered water area, and some of us got hotwater, for their tea, from the hot water/coffee maker machine. And that’s when it hit me and I wondered to myself “Hmmm, How clean is this water?”.Â
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The following day, I brought my trusty HM Digital TDS Tester (i.e. water tester), ideal for all water purification applications, wastewater regulation, aquaculture, hydroponics, and colloidal silver. So, again, as my group and I took our usually stroll down to the water cooler, I took out my water tester and began testing away.
The first test was the filtered water area. The test result was a whopping 5 parts per million (ppm). For those of you that do not know that is some pretty clean water. I feel pretty good about our company’s water filtering system.Â
The second test was the tap water, which equalled 285 ppm. WTH? Such a huge difference between the tap and the filtered water. Mental note to self drink the filtered water.
 The third test was the hot water dispenser located on the coffee maker. The result equalled 10 ppm. Whoa, not bad at all, not quite as good as the filtered water area but still pretty good.
The fourth test was the drinking fountain located just outside the elevator area. The result was a shocking 220 ppm. Apparantly drinking fountains are unfiltered and is pretty much similar to tap water, either that or the filter on the drinking fountain hasn’t been changed in a long time.
 So let’s recap.
| Filtered Water : | 5 ppm |
| Tap Water : | 284 ppm |
| Hot Water : | 10 ppm |
| Drinking Fountain Water : | 220 ppm |
Mental note to self: Don’t drink the tap water.
Next to come: The work Ice Dispenser and bottled water test.
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2 Responses to “How Clean Is Your Water At Work?”
do you have a drinking fountain too? you should test that out!! I drink from the fountain at work and after i play basketball too sometimes
Funny timing, we just got a new filter installed today… lowering ppm to around 20. A few weeks ago some guy came around to test our drinking water, which had not been serviced by Sparkletts for YEARS, and the reading was at 45. He claimed it was “a little high” but still drinkable.
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