Perform a Water Quality Test - PEP BB plumbing.sand.waterquality

I used this water test from the examples above: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DMF8SH6/

It was super quick and easy to use.

The test results show my water's hard, and appears to have higher than average alkalinity. But none of the other factors are outside the "established" limits.

(Edit, add water source, it's my tap water. I'd attached the picture originally, I must have messed something up.)

The water test kit I used was "Ultimate Drinking Water Test Strips, 14 Parameters," purchased from Amazon.

Here's the contents of the kit.

Source to be tested was kitchen tap water.

Dipping the test strip into my water sample.

Results were read after 60 seconds. I jotted them down as quickly as I could.

Our tap water is municipal water, so I didn't expect any problems. Still, I've been curious. Of the heavy metals, my water was negative for mercury, lead, iron, and manganese. The test showed trace amounts of copper, aluminum, chromium, and zinc. pH was 7. Water hardness tested soft (50 mg/L). No nitrates or nitrites and small amounts of fluoride and chlorine were present.

The kit came with 50 test strips, so I plan to test filtered water from our Berkey, also our rainwater because that's what we give the animals.

I think that meets the badge requirements!

I tested the water in the spring on my property.  I bought my kit at Lowe's.  The water looks good, if not a little hard.

updated

I sent my water sample to http://www.sunnlab.no, a local laboratory specializing in water quality testing.

  Getting the results back we have a higher level of coliforms than is healthy, and the lab specifies in an email that our water is "not to be considered good drinking water". As we`re working towards a market garden and there are requirements for properly clean water for this, stuff needs to be done! Our plan is installing a UV filter system. It is a bit pricy, but will last for a long time, needs little supervision and will not use a lot of power. Optimally our choice would be a more natural way of filtering the coliforms away, but with the way we are getting our water this is not feasible without an immense amount of work. Maybe in time. But for now we`re going with the tech-option.

Everything written in the forms are in Norwegian - if any confusion arises I will be happy to provide translation in a follow up post.

EDIT for Edge Case clarity: Our water source is a river bringing snow/glacier melt water from the nearby mountains to us. I am told that the intake is not far from our farmstead, but it is not accessible for me. I can provide pictures of the building I believe contains the intake, but not the intake itself, or at least the river, if that will get my closer to my BB.