Water quality, place by place

Explore water quality across the country

PurityMap turns public drinking-water records into one connected system: a place, the utility that serves it, each measurement it reported, how that compares to the limit, and the evidence behind it. Start with your water.

How to read a record

One place, three kinds of record

PurityMap keeps them separate. A city's record is not the water at your tap.

  1. 01Place report

    A city or county

    A summary for where you live, assembled from the utility (or utilities) that serve it. The best place to start when you know the town but not the water system.

    e.g. New York City
  2. 02Supplier report · primary source

    A water system

    The utility's own monitoring record: the substances it tested for, the results it reported, and how each compares to its regulatory limit. Place reports are built from it.

    e.g. NEW YORK CITY SYSTEM · NY7003493
  3. 03Your tap · not in the record

    What we can't see

    Records describe the water a utility delivers to the system, not your building's pipes or fixtures. Only a test at your own tap measures that. We tell you which, always.

    How to test your tap →
Ways in

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