Elements in Your Glass

What's actually in your water?Most people never find out. They either trust the tap blindly — or they get scared at their own kitchen table by a salesman holding a color-changing test kit and a four-thousand-dollar answer.This book is the third option: know.Written by Steve, who spent a lifetime in the water business — starting at a small bottled water company, filling bottles and changing filters, then the wholesale trade, then years of residential and commercial sales from a water treatment showroom — Elements in Your Glass walks you through the 39 elements that turn up in drinking water, one plain chapter at a time:- What the element is, in plain English- How it gets into your water- What the federal limits actually say (and what they don't cover)- What genuinely removes it — and what doesn't, no matter what the brochure claimsYou'll also learn how to read your own water report, what a micron rating really means (absolute vs. nominal — the difference matters), how city water and well water play by different rules, and the one rule that runs through everything: test first, and never guess.Includes a full periodic table map of the 39 elements, a master table of every element at a glance, and a plain-English glossary — including why a "e;water conditioner"e; is not a softener, whatever the salesman told you.No scare tactics. No sales pitch. Just a working man's field guide to what's in your glass — and what to do about it.Check the pH, then filter.