Dies ist aus meinem persönlichen Projekt zur Leitungswasserqualität: https://www.tapwaterdata.com/ny/new-york
Es ist so konzipiert, dass es problemlos in sozialen Medien geteilt werden kann. Das Bild wird in Echtzeit basierend auf Daten auf der Website-Seite generiert.
Von neo2bin
6 Kommentare
Do one for Seattle please 😊
Not beautiful. I work in water treatment and only with that inside knowledge can I vaguely piece together what the data is showing. Why are the top rows red? Red indicates bad, but these are in acceptable limits so they should be green or blank. The bottom row of parameters are blank for 0.0 units, so why not the top row? Also, there’s no explanation or key for the abbreviations. Only someone in the industry would know that MCLG stands for Maximum Contaminant Level Goal.
And there’s just way too much blank space, you have to zoom in for this tiny print even though half the page is empty.
Is this an ad? The site seems to include filter reviews. I will also note that defining MCLG as well as adding information about MCL would be pretty helpful. MCLG is the EPA’s ideal goal, not highest level allowed.
I don’t do water quality work, but in my university courses in water quality control as well as the people I know in (especially drinking water quality) regulatory work generally, my understanding is that tap water in the US is pretty safe overall. I worry that an emphasis on tap water not being at MCLG gives off the false impression that tap water isn’t well regulated or safe (especially when compared to well water) and is more for the purpose of selling filtration products than actually educating people in their risk level
EDIT: also, they are saying that the EPA is the source for this, so it seems to just be the information that your public water authority posts already. Those reports also extra details about collection method.
Fun fact: NYC tap water is clean because it is [full of little shrimps](https://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/31/drink-up-nyc-meet-the-tiny-crustaceans-not-kosher-in-your-tap-water/)
Where were the samples taken? Is it a composite of all of the boroughs together? What’s the sample size? Let me see a comparison between Harlem and Queens or even Hells Kitchen and Yonkers
Chlorine is 0.0 but that’s not flagged?
EPA requires a chlorine residual of at least 0.2 mg/L at the farthest point in the distribution system to inhibit microbial growth.