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Clarity for home water.

Know your water, find the right treatment, and choose with confidence.

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Check local water

See what’s on record near you:

Start from what you notice

What are you noticing at the tap?

Pick what sounds familiar. We’ll show what usually causes it and where to look next.

Taste or smell

Most taste and smell changes come from treatment or plumbing rather than danger, but a few are worth a closer look.

Know the landscape

Where a system sits decides what it can fix.

Tell us what you want to fix. We’ll show the kinds of system often used for it, and where in a home they sit.

What do you want to fix?Pick one or more.
ExampleThe real tools ask a little more and pick exact products.
Where water entersWater softener
Under the sinkFilter certified to reduce lead
Often used for these2 kinds of system, and where each one sits.
  • Where water entersWater softenerFor hardness and scale, at every tap.
  • At the kitchen tapFilter certified to reduce leadLead is a drinking-water concern, so it’s usually treated at the kitchen tap.
Evidence leaders

The top-rated products by Decode Score.

Each leader is scored for one function, at one exact configuration. Scores are never combined, and we never rank one kind of system against another.

We don’t have a rated leader to show here right now. Leaders appear once a product has a published Decode Score in our database.

Bottled Water Switch

Still buying bottled water?

In my home, 1 person drinks about 2 bottles a day.

That’s 2 bottles a day for your home.

Sometimes switching doesn’t pay. The Switch will tell you that too.

Estimated
Each bottle shown stands for 10.
Estimated bottles each month, 730 a year
Jan62
Feb56
Mar62
Apr60
May62
Jun60
Jul62
Aug62
Sep60
Oct62
Nov60
Dec62

730 bottles a year, estimated.

Systems you own

Already have a water system?

Tell us what you have. We’ll show what it covers, claim by claim, and which of those claims are certified.

What do you want to check?
Example home · not yours
Lead is reduced at 1 of 4 places.

This home has a softener where water enters and a filter under the kitchen sink.

It’s the hardness-and-lead example from above, installed.
1Covered
Kitchen tap
The filter under the kitchen sink reduces lead here.
1Needs checking
Fridge and ice
It depends on whether the fridge line runs through the filter under the sink.How to check
2Not covered
Bathroom tapsShowers
Nothing in this home reduces lead at these taps.
It asks what you have and where it’s installed, then shows, claim by claim, what that equipment covers, what we can’t tell yet, and what to check.
Why WaterDecoder

Built on records you can check.

Every answer is built the same way, whichever tool gives it. Here’s what’s inside one, and what each part is there to do.

  1. 01

    Evidence over marketing

    Certification and lab data outrank what a box says. Every fact carries its source and the date we last checked it, and a claim is labeled as a claim.

    Decode ScoreDrinking waterEvidence confidence: High
    Source: certification listing · date we last checked it
  2. 02

    Exact configurations

    A certificate covers one model with one cartridge. We always say which, so a result never stretches further than its evidence.

    BrandProduct name
    ModelSizeCartridge
  3. 03

    Your household, not an average

    Your water test, your taps and the people in your home shape your answers. We don’t fall back on a national average.

    Fits your kitchen tapExample: your test shows lead at the kitchen tap, and this exact configuration is certified to reduce it.
  4. 04

    Honest about what’s missing

    If we don’t know something, we say so and tell you how to find out. Missing data is never shown as all clear.

    We don’t know your incoming pressure yet. It decides whether a tankless unit reaches full output.
  5. 05

    One connected system

    Specialist tools work out sizing, pressure and running cost, and each one takes only what you choose to bring from the last.

    Starting from your Water CheckBuilt on the results you shared there.
    Check pressure first· Pressure FixCartridges and running cost· Treatment Cost
  6. Every answer, from every tool, is built this way.

Anatomy of an answerIllustrative
01 / 05
Starting from your Water CheckBuilt on the results you shared there.
Fits your kitchen tapExample: your test shows lead at the kitchen tap, and this exact configuration is certified to reduce it.
BrandProduct name
ModelSizeCartridge
Decode ScoreDrinking waterEvidence confidence: High
Source: certification listing · date we last checked it
We don’t know your incoming pressure yet. It decides whether a tankless unit reaches full output.
Check pressure first· Pressure FixCartridges and running cost· Treatment Cost
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