Customer Reviews

Watersafe WS425B Drinking Water Test Kit

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I bought this kit as well as First Alert WT1 Drinking Water Test Kit. Both from Amazon.com, thinking I would try two different kinds just to be sure. When I opened the packages. The exact same contents were inside, right down the the instruction booklet. They are made by the same company and put in different boxes. However, The First Alert WT1 Drinking Water Test Kit is only $12.99.

A very simple test kit to use in evaluating your water supply. We just put in a new well and wanted to check its quality. Followed the simple, well-written, instructions and everything came out just fine. Followed up with a double check of the results by taking a water sample to our local University. They validated the findings provided by the Watersafe kit.

Great way to check your Home Well Water System without spending major dollars for other "experts" to do something you can do yourself in a short period of time and for a whole lot less cost. The product is excellent and easy to use.

Kit is great. The instructions were easy to use, and the test were of high quality. Most of them had controls. I was surprised at the quality. Some of the test take longer the other to complete. The longest was the e-coli test, which took 48 hours.

While not marketed as such, i think this would be a great kit for a science fair project, or to each your kids about water quality.
-James

This kit was great. It looked much more complicated than it actually was and, with the exception of the bacterial test, the results were quickly obtained and easy to decipher. The kit features tests for lead, chlorine, pesticides, bacteria and water hardness, among others. In addition to giving us accurate information about the safety and potability of our water, conducting the tests was easy enough to do with my children who loved this 'science' experiment. Highly recommended.

What attracted me is the price and 7 different contaminants. Instructions are fairly straight forward, although there are some parts that seem quirky. You just have to read it a 2nd time. My lead and pesticides didn't work, nitrates didn't exactly match up on gray scale and the ph colors were actually more difficult than they should have been to match up. Maybe it's just the water we have. Overall it's okay.

Brought this to a third world country to test a newly placed water distribution system for a remote village. We were able to easily use in the middle of the forest after traversing mountains and dusty roads. I'm sure it will be that much easier in your kitchen.

Result - everything clear except for some pesticides seeping into the water - but that can be easily fixed as there is only one farm in the area so we know who to talk to.

Easy to use test and results were fast. Just follow the directions and you won't have a problem. All my test results were negative or within nominal values except the bacteria test which came out positive. Would highly recommend buying this test kit to check your water sources.

I bought this to make sure the filter I bought for the kitchen sink was really working. The tests were basically easy I just would have preferred a kit that can be used to test several subjects rather then a one time use in one area. It served it's purpose for testing the water from the filtered kitchen sink.

We used this to test the water in our vacation cabin. The test was simple and easy to use. The kids loved 'helping' me do the testing. The cold water tested positive for E. coli. The hot water tested negative. All the other components of the test were within normal bounds. We shock chlorinated the place in response.