Your local water authority may publish their test results, including their testing to detect such forever chemicals. Mine does: https://mcwa-wordpress-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/upl...

I am skeptical of reports published by the cities. There is incentive for the reports to skew positive, since otherwise individuals can lose elections/jobs/contracts.

So I looked back at the 2014-2016 reports from Flint, Michigan to see if they correctly predicted the water crisis.

They did, but only very subtly.

In 2014, there was a single violation of too many total trihalomethanes: https://www.cityofflint.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CCR-2...

In 2016, there were no declared violations, even though the 90th percentile sample of lead concentration (20 ppb) was over the 15 ppb limit: https://www.cityofflint.com/wp-content/uploads/City-of-Flint...

Also note that while in the US the lead concentration limit is 15 ppb, Canada has recently reduced its limit from 10 ppb to 5 ppb. Nearly every US city I've looked at exceeds 5 ppb.

Yes. Start with the EPA’s list of state laboratory certification programs here https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-03/state-cer... then find a lab from the list for your state. Then you generally just mail them a sample using their kit.

Keep in mind that these measurements are not straightforward. Large background signal due to these compounds literally being EVERYWHERE!

The testing is probably already done for you!

https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/

I would take their data with a grain of salt. It's basically a viral marketing site for filter manufacturers and they're biased toward showing scary numbers. My city has two water sources depending on where you're located and they don't break down the figures to that level of detail but the county water quality report does.