Which water treatment do I need?
Eight quick questions about what you notice and how your home uses water. Add your ZIP for your utility's records too.
Take the 60-second quiz
Look up what your local water utility has reported to the EPA, then take a 60-second quiz about what you see, taste, and smell at home. We'll use both to recommend the right solution.
Get your water report
Enter your ZIP code to see your utility's violations, lead testing, and PFAS results from public EPA records, explained in plain English.
Data comes from U.S. EPA and Census public records. It covers public water systems, not private wells, and it isn't a test of your home's tap. If you're on a well, a free in-home test is the best way to know what's in your water.
Water self-check quiz
Question 1 of 8Hard water
Hard water has a lot of dissolved calcium and magnesium. It leaves scale on fixtures and in water heaters, spots on dishes, and makes soap lather poorly.
Chlorine & chloramine
Utilities add these to kill germs. They keep water safe on its way to you, but many people dislike the taste and smell.
Lead
Lead usually gets into water from old service lines, pipes, solder, and fixtures. The U.S. banned lead pipes and lead solder in drinking-water plumbing in 1986.
PFAS
PFAS are long-lasting "forever chemicals" found in many water supplies. In 2024 the EPA set the first national drinking-water limits for several of them.
Step 2
Your recommended solution
Based on your water report and quiz answers.
How the quiz decides
Scale and spots point to hardness and a softener. Chlorine taste or smell points to whole-house treatment. Concerns about drinking water point to reverse osmosis. A private well, or answers that don't add up, point to a free in-home test first.