Counter Culture Labs:Environmental Justice Project: Difference between revisions

* members of the lab and local community members brought hot and cold water samples from their home, which we tested for common pollutant contamination using three different online-purchased water quality testing strips, comparing the efficacy of each test in the process. As of right now, citizens who are concerned about their home water quality must send in samples to local government entities for testing, which is a time consuming and money consumingopaque process that may not ultimately lead to any solutions. We hope to elucidate the efficacy of cheaper home methods while beginning to make the case for increased surveillance of home water quality.

* takeaways: Due to the small sample size, this was more demonstrative of the relative capabilities of each test strip, but we hope to continue validating these test strips to determine the best one to later use in a larger scale workshop, which we would aim to capture more data points to determine more about the relative water quality of our community's home water supply. The test strips themselves displayed results that indicated some unspecific level of contamination in our home water, demonstrating both the need of the average citizen to have cheap and readily available testing solutions as well as the current lack of a viable standard for home testing in the commercial industry.