New York state reveals state of your water

Use your zip code to dive into data about your drinking water Canandaigua’s drinking water is the best tasting in the state, the New York American Water Association determined this year for the second time in four years. But what exactly is in that treated Canandaigua Lake water quenching 35,000 people? A new online water portfolio has the answer. Not just Canandaigua drinking water, but all public drinking water statewide is broken down into what it’s made of at “What’s In My Water?” Think contaminants like nitrates, coliform, bromomethane, strontium, cobalt and trichloropropane — they’re in the data you can pull up for your drinking water supply by putting in your zip code. Megan Ahearn is program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) that unveiled the project Tuesday. The tool gives New Yorkers “an interactive, easy to navigate resource about the state of their drinking water,” Ahearn stated in a release. The site includes information on the presence of contaminants found through state and federal laboratory testing, and the location and nature of some potential threats to local drinking water, all searchable by…

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