It is frightening to think that you and your family might have been drinking tainted water. That’s what residents in Delray Beach are facing as questions regarding the maintenance of water storage tanks in the city emerge. Some residents are considering having independent water quality testing done to ensure the safety of their loved ones. 

City officials in Delray are offering reassurances but have not managed to quell fears. Perhaps because their reassurances are not backed up by scientific evidence. Part of the problem, according to a number of reports, might be what appears to be a toxic atmosphere at City Hall. (But even our most advanced indoor air quality tests, wouldn’t do much good with that kind of toxic air!)

More Trouble in Paradise

If you read our previous post, you will know that life in South Florida can be pretty hard to beat, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have clouds darken our skies and our prospects from time to time. 

According to recent reports, the discolored water that many residents experienced earlier this year was a result of sediment that had accumulated in one of the city’s water storage tanks. An investigation revealed that the tank in question, which was supposed to be cleaned every five years, had not, in fact, been cleaned for more than 30 years. 

The city manager who is largely responsible for bringing the problem to the public’s eye – after the mayor and city council members failed to act when he brought the situation to their attention – has been fired. 

If you live in Delray and would like to test the water quality in your home or business, please contact us. If you want help cleaning up the toxic environment at City Hall, however, registering to vote is probably your best option.

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Some of the residential mold inspectors at AirMD, which provides comprehensive water quality testing and indoor air quality assessments in West Palm Beach and all of South Florida, are looking forward to getting away for a little skiing this winter. And it seems like almost everyone at our environmental testing company in Boca Raton is expecting a visit from friends or relatives who live in colder climes.

This is one of the busiest travel times of the year. If you’re among the millions of Americans who will be heading to the airport sometime soon, you may want to pay attention to a study released in September by the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center and DietDetective.com.

Airline Water Quality Testing

You wouldn’t think something like this would be necessary, but since 2011, airlines have been required to provide passengers and flight crew with safe drinking water under the federal government’s Aircraft Drinking Water Rule (ADWR). Unfortunately, the Airline Water Study 2019 reveals that you can’t rely on the quality of the drinking water when you fly. The quality varies by airline, but, according to the report, many airlines have possibly provided passengers with unhealthy water.

The study ranked 11 major and 12 regional airlines primarily based on the quality of water they provided onboard their flights. Criteria included things like:

• fleet size
• ADWR violations
• positive E. coli water sample reports
• positive coliform water sample reports
• cooperation in providing answers to water-quality questions

“Alaska Airlines and Allegiant win the top spot with the safest water in the sky, and Hawaiian Airlines finishes No. 2,” says Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH, the editor of DietDetective.com and the executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center. The airlines with the worst scores are JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, the study shows.

To be on the safe side, the experts behind the study recommend that you:

• NEVER drink any water on a flight that isn’t in a sealed bottle
• Do not drink coffee or tea onboard
• Do not wash your hands in the bathroom; bring hand-sanitizer with you instead.

Here at AirMD, a South Florida air quality and water testing company where our experts understand just how disturbing the results of the study are, we’re not going to let concerns about water quality testing stop us from hitting the slopes and we hope you don’t let it stop you from traveling this winter. We just plan on taking our own water bottles with us.

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