New Orleans, LA 70112 · Utility tests 2013–2023
New Orleans’s tap water has 34 contaminants, 15 above health guidelines.
- Water quality score
- 4out of 10Poor
Counts contaminants above an EWG health guideline, weighted by the harm the guideline protects against. 8 and above is good; 5 and above is fair.
- Above a health guideline
- 15of 34 found
- Linked to cancer
- 11above guideline
- In the SGS test program
- 5of 34 found
Contaminants found here that SGS measured the Sans Water Purifier against.
Water data: EWG Tap Water Database, utility test results 2013–2023. Guidelines are EWG health guidelines set by federal or state public-health authorities; legal limits differ.
What’s in the water
Level found: 20.9 ppb
Health guideline: 0.06 ppb
348×Removed by RO
Level found: 20.8 ppb
Health guideline: 0.1 ppb
208×Removed by RO
Level found: 21.4 ppb
Health guideline: 0.15 ppb
143×Removed by RO
Level found: 6.06 ppb
Health guideline: 0.06 ppb
101×Removed by RO
Level found: 14 ppb
Health guideline: 0.2 ppb
70×Removed by RO
Level found: 4.78 ppb
Health guideline: 0.1 ppb
48×Removed by RO
Level found: 14 ppb
Health guideline: 0.4 ppb
35×Removed by RO
Level found: 0.508 ppb
Health guideline: 0.03 ppb
17×Removed by RO
Level found: 1.4 ppb
Health guideline: 0.1 ppb
14×Removed by RO
- PFAS
Level found: 0.911 ppt
Health guideline: 0.09 ppt
10×Tested · >98.8%
10 of 34 contaminants
Tested: measured by SGS on the Sans Water Purifier, the lab’s own figure. Removed by RO: listed by EWG as reduced by reverse osmosis, the purifier’s filter type. Not tested: neither.
Where this report applies
Utilities serving zip 70112. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What the Sans Water Purifier is tested to reduce
SGS, an ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory, measured the purifier’s reduction of 19 contaminants (Dec 2023 to Mar 2024). These are the worst in New Orleans’s water that were in that program.
- Perfluorooctanoic acid>98.8%Maximum measured reduction
- Perfluorooctane sulfonate>99%Maximum measured reduction
- Hexavalent chromium98.6%Maximum measured reduction
Figures are the laboratory’s own, measured under test conditions. Your tap water differs from the challenge water.