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Drinking Water Quality Editorial Process · Editorial Process
PlainWater is an independent data-journalism portal that examines drinking-water-quality data from water systems across the United States. The team draws from public data provided by the EPA to offer detailed analyses and visualizations, with content that is compiled by our editorial process from official source data. The team maintains editorial independence by not accepting payment from entities it covers.
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plainwaterdata is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.
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