Water Testing Kits for Drinking Water: 125 Strips 16 in 1 Well and Drinking Water Test Kit, TESPERT Water Test Strips with Hardness, pH, Lead, Iron, Copper, Chlorine, and More

As far as this type of water testing kit goes, this one is probably as good as any on the market. Repeatability on the tests is good, with each test showing approximately the same levels of contaminants. However, a really accurate test would be to send a water sample to a lab; which is expensive. So I would see these test strips as a first screening. If high levels of any dangerous chemical is indicated on a test strip, a water sample should be sent to a water testing lab.

The instructions are simple and easy to follow, even for someone with no prior experience. It analyzed a wide range of contaminants, including lead, chlorine, hardness, and more. The results were clear and easy to read, and I appreciated how quickly I got them. I think it's something we should have at home to regularly check the quality of the water we're using. It's a good price for the number of test strips it comes with.

SO you have a bunch of water quality tests all bundled into a single test strip. Great. And it comes in a bottle with 125 strips so you can do 125 tests over the next three months at a single water source, or test 125 different water sources once each, very nice. BUT...The way it works is: dip the stick into the water for 2 seconds, then wait 15 seconds, then compare the color on the stick to the colors on the chart on the side of the bottle. This has a number of problems, which I'll list for you here:1. The chart is on the outside of the bottle. Over time, the colors fade. So if you keep the bottle more than 6 months, the scale is no longer correct. Throw it out and get a new bottle. Or try to find a new color scale chart somewhere for this exact test strip.2. The increments (measurement tick marks) on the scale chart are too far apart, it's not very precise and you'll end up GUESSING at the exact result, like "oh we have lead in our water, somewhere between 20 and 40 ppm but I'm not sure if it's closer to 20 or 40" ... so don't use it if you need an EXACT result.3. The maximum and minimum they use for the color scales are stupid, they DO NOT correspond in ANY way to the "safe limits" for drinking water. They're completely arbitrary. For instance, lead has a "safe limit" of 0.015 ppm. But the color scale STARTS at 20 ppm. When any result over 0.01 would be a cause for concern. So the lead test is basically useless because it ALWAYS makes you think the result is "I have lead in my water!!" since it won't show you the range between 0 to 19 ppm. Similarly, if your pH is above 9 you'll never know it because the scale only goes up to 9. "Safe level" is 8.5 but physically it is possible to have pH up to 14. Anything over 12 will basically melt your skin off if you touch it. In Texas the city of College Station has drinking water with a pH of 10.5. Because it costs too much money to fix it. So some of the tests are kind of useless because the scale limits are so bad.4. Given how they arranged the limits of the tests and all that, it is clear to me (as a water quality professional) that this test kit is intended for INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER or INDUSTRIAL PROCESS WATER testing. NOT for drinking water testing. DO NOT buy it if you want to test the drinking water or shower water at your house. DO buy it if you want to test the water going into your company's electroplating bath, or coming off of your company's sewer treatment outflow.If you really want to test the water at your home, call your town or city office and ask to speak with their water utility department. They'll have some better suggestions for how to cheaply, quickly, and easily test your home drinking water instead of using this, which is just NOT designed for home drinking water testing.

I loved it because it's very useful for the home, since sometimes we don't know the quality of the water we consume. I liked it because it's very easy to use.

This water testing kit is easy to use and a good value for my money. I was able to quickly test for a wide variety of contaminants such as chlorine, iron and lead. This water test gives fast results and answered questions about my water.

I tested our water for lead but this product is not sufficiently sensitive to reveal if you have low but dangerous levels of lead. (Federal rules require public water systems to take corrective action if their water delivers over 15 ppb of lead. This product only detects down to ppm of lead.) It also requires the user to make a subjective interpretation of a color change.This is not a bad product for an inexpensive quick, crude analysis of 16 possible contaminants in your water. But it isn’t sensitive enough to determine if your water has unsafe levels of lead.5-stars for inexpensive, easy-to-use for a variety of contaminants1-star for usefulness for determining unsafe levels of lead

Just toss in water and read outcomes by comparison with reference bottle. I don't think I'll be able to use them all so I hope the reference colors do not fade by the time I need to use them again.

Super easy to use, reading the results is a cakewalk. This is enough to test a LOT of water, or a continual monitoring procedure.