How to Check Your Water Quality: The Ultimate Guide

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I hate to break it to you, but since we live in an extremely toxic world, your water probably sucks.

Regardless of whether you’re on well or city water, it’s likely contaminated with countless man-made chemicals.

This guide is dedicated to giving you as many tools and resources as possible to find out what’s in your water.

Testing Your Water Quality

If you don’t currently know what’s lurking in your water, it may be time to figure that out…

Here are a few options for water testing:

• My Tap Score Lab Testing: This lab provides the best water tests I’ve been able to find. They also present the data in a modern way that’s easy to digest.

• TDS Meter: These meters can be useful for testing the efficiency of RO and distilled water filtration systems.

Useful Water Contamination Links for Municipal Water

• EWG Drinking Water Standards: This PDF from EWG lists numerous compounds and their federal limits compared with EWG standards. Hint: Go with the EWG standards, and even then, many of these compounds shouldn’t be there at all.

• EWG Tap Water Database: If you’re on municipal water, and you’re not filtering it… it’s been tested, figure out what’s in it and see if you still feel comfortable drinking it.

• My Tap Water Database: An alternative source to EWG’s database.

• Tapp Water European Database: The best European water database I’ve been able to find.

• CDC My Water’s Fluoride: Find out if fluoride compounds are added to your water source.

• Fluoridation by Country: Find out if your country participates in water fluoridation.

USA Water Contamination Maps

Here’s a collection of United States maps for your water contamination viewing pleasure!

US State Specific Water Contamination Maps

Here are a list of maps pertaining to specific states within the USA.

This is what I’ve found thus far, I will add to this list as time goes on. If you have any resources I’m missing, please don’t hesitate to send them my way!

Alabama

Alaska

California

Iowa

Kentucky

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Mexico

North Carolina

Ohio

Texas

Canada Water Contamination Maps

Here are a few water maps I’ve found for Canada!