Annual Water Reports (NI)

[kilianw]

Hi,

In hindsight this is blindingly obvious but the annual water reports get updated every year!

https://www.niwater.com/water-quality-results/

It was 'interesting' to note that there are enough differences between the years to be worth a review.
Now, if one knows how to locate the (bi-?)carbonate value on a report I would very grateful.

Kilian.

[Tom]

I missed this the first time round, too. Even went as far as emailing NI Water!

So, type in your postcode, and the box that comes up immediately after with dishwasher settings and so on, has the information that the homebrewer needs.

Clark English degrees, so 1 °Clark = 14.25 ppm Calcium Carbonate.
French Degree slightly easier to convert at 10ppm.

Hope this helps.

[kilianw]

Ta very much, Tom. That was exactly what I was looking for.

[Will_D]

Thats a brilliant reporting system. Now I know what my parcel motel people in Newtownabbey are drinking!

Pity fekkin Irish water cant do the same!

[redshift]

The thing is though, it doesn't give an alkalinity value which is the most important, so you'll still have to test for that.

[kilianw]

Would you count that as being under the Hydrogen Ion ?
(I'm quickly googling the difference between ph and alkalinity :-) )

[redshift]

Nope, alkalinity is a measure of buffering capacity, in other words the higher the alkalinity, the more acid is required to reduce pH. Unfortunately NI water doesn't test for this, but you can do so yourself with a salifert KH test kit.