Open dataset

U.S. drinking water — every contaminant, every federal limit, in one dataset.

Every number on this site is transcribed from a utility's own annual drinking-water report and compared to the federal limit. Free to read, free to query, free to redistribute. CC BY 4.0.

1,633
Water systems
approved + on the map
46
States
and counting
180
Contaminants
10 families
89,341
Measured values
reports 2012–2026

Most-measured contaminants

Browse every contaminant, A–Z → — each defined, with every system that reports it.

See the PFAS Hotspots leaderboard → — every U.S. system over EPA's finalized PFAS limit, from the UCMR5 lab dataset.

Get the data

How the data is built

Every U.S. public water utility is required to publish an annual Consumer Confidence Report. We collect those PDFs, transcribe each contaminant measurement into a structured row, and surface it on a per-city page alongside the federal limit. The source document is archived and linked from every page so any figure can be checked.

Contaminant rollup logic, the "over the limit" threshold, and the federal-standard preference rules are documented in the code and on the API page.

Related dataset

Microplastics in LA tap water →
A separate lab-counted dataset: particle counts in samples we ran under a microscope. No federal limit exists yet.