Your go-to source for reliable water test results, because there's far more in your glass than you'd ever think.
There is no single independent source in the world that tests drinking water and publishes the results openly, for everyone.
Thousands of separate authorities, each with its own methods, its own parameters, and its own rules about what the public is even allowed to see.
There are many standards in the world, and they're all different. Some allow high levels of metals, others don't, and most countries don't even account for emerging contaminants like PFAS and microplastics. So which standard is the “best” one?
You can check the weather anywhere on earth. You cannot check your water. You cannot compare one region to another, or verify what a bottle label claims.
Without a baseline, there's no early warning. Contamination gets discovered after people are already sick.
The tools to measure water already exist. What's missing is someone independent willing to do the hard part, go region by region, test in the open, and publish everything: the clean results and the worrying ones.
Six years ago I started out in water alongside my dad's filter business in Armenia. Curiosity took me from there to a camera and cities around the world. Now I test and I tell you what's really there, without any biased opinions.
Read my full story →When I say there's more to water than you think, I mean there's waaay more to water than you think.
Tap each one to see what can hide inside. Some you can taste, some you can see, and most you can't.
Region by region, city by city, tested honestly and reported in the open, so anyone can see exactly what's in their water.
You can't fix what you can't see. So I go, I test, and I show you everything.
Six countries tested and filmed, dig into any of them on my channel.
As I travel, I input results from real tests, no AI, no strip tests, just reliable answers. I do this so you can be sure of exactly what's in the water you're drinking.
Each contaminant is graded against its limit, then blended into a single number, the higher the score, the lower the risk. A dangerous reading like lead or bacteria can push it straight to High risk on its own.
Beyond a single map, I want to show how water can be treated as a national resource, a foundation for healthier living, stronger local economies by raising awareness about clean water to make it available to everyone.
Fresh results, region by region, straight to your inbox.
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Core field readings for every stop, screened against four standards at once. Full 19-parameter breakdown plus lab-only extras live on each stop's page, click a row.
| # | Stop | Marz | Source | Status | ARM | WHO | EU | EPA | Matches all? |
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Which sources are low risk? Which are high? Ranked by the Weighted Arithmetic Index against the standard selected up top.
The kit, the method, the standards, and the honest limits of field testing, all laid out plainly.
It starts with Armenia, my home, and a country with a deep relationship to water, from mountain springs to the taps in our kitchens.
Armenia is made up of 11 regions, and I've chosen a main city in each as a starting point. But I won't stop there, wherever a source matters to the people who drink from it, I want to test it.
My main focus is tap drinking water, since it's what most of us consume every single day, but I'm not limited to it. When it helps tell the truth, I'll also test springs and the original source feeding a town, so we can see whether a problem comes from the pipes on the way to your tap, or from contamination upstream at the source itself.
A single glass can carry dozens of different things, a few you can taste or see, most you can't. They fall into a handful of families:
Hardness · Total Iron · TDS · taste, colour & odour, what you notice at the tap.
Lead · Arsenic · Copper · Iron · Manganese · Molybdenum · Aluminum · Chromium (VI).
Nitrate · Nitrite · Ammonia · Fluoride · Sulfate.
E. coli · total coliforms · bacteria, invisible, and the most urgent.
To measure all of this honestly, I invested in a proper field kit. Not the throw-away colour-guess strips, these are Bluetooth photometers and quantitative reagents that give an actual number you can hold against a standard. Quality in, trust out.
The quick, reliable basics I check first at every stop, before the photometer readings.
The honest limit: even with all this, there are many parameters I can't measure in the field. They need an accredited lab. My goal is to reach the point where I can send every sample to a lab for the full panel. That's costly, and I need your help to draw sponsors and truth seekers.
Today Armenia largely follows the Russian SanPiN standards, but it's working to move toward EU standards. Digging in, I noticed something strange: for some parameters SanPiN is actually stricter than the EU, while newer, emerging threats like microplastics and PFAS are almost completely ignored by both. I didn't want to pick one rulebook and quietly hide the gaps. So every reading is screened against four independent standards at once, and shown side by side, so you can compare clearly and judge for yourself.
Every contaminant gets its own 0 to 100 "cleanliness" grade based on how far under the health limit it is. I average those grades into one number, the dangerous stuff counts more, and if anything health-critical goes over its limit, the water is flagged High risk no matter what.
Every reading sits comfortably under its limit.
Way under the limit → close to 100. At the limit → 0. Over it → also 0. Lead reads 2 against a limit of 10, so it scores 80.
Contaminants with very low limits, lead, arsenic, carry more weight in the average than sulfate, so a problem there pulls the score down harder.
Bacteria must be zero: present = 0, absent = 100, and it is weighted heavily.
Neutral is the target. The closer to 7, the better the grade.
If lead, arsenic, chromium-6 or bacteria is over the limit, the water is High risk automatically, even if the average looks fine.
So it's basically a weighted report-card average, with a hard "fail" rule for the truly dangerous contaminants.
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Field results are a powerful, honest screening, but laboratory results are always more accurate and more complete. My goal is to send every sample to an accredited lab for the full panel, including the emerging contaminants a field kit simply can't see. That's costly, and I can't do it alone, which is where sponsors and supporters come in: partners who believe people deserve the truth about their water.
Subscribe to the newsletter and I'll send the latest results and region-by-region summaries as they're finished. Every subscriber helps make accredited lab testing possible, and helps attract the sponsors who fund it.
Join me on the journey of traveling across the world to do reliable water test, region by region, city by city. We start with my beautiful homeland, Armenia 🇦🇲
There are so many misconceptions about water. It's complicated for most people, yet it's the single most important thing we put into our bodies every single day. And worst of all, there's no independent, unbiased, trustworthy source actually reporting what's really in it. So I decided to become one, starting right here in Armenia.
I will document my travel journey on my social pages.
I have invested in a reliable water testing kit with which I will do the testings and report all findings on the map part of the website, comparing it with other trusted standards like WHO, EU and EPA.
Lab results are far more accurate, but that require more backup by sponsors due to high costs.
Become a sponsor →Other than water quality tests, caring about the environment is a big part of who I am. I came to understand that a lot of the time, the water gets contaminated due to human activity, and I covered a few episodes. Watch here.
Get the latest results first, and help make accredited lab testing possible. A growing, honest audience also draws in the sponsors and partners who care about the same thing we do: the truth.
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Deep dives on what's really in the water, country by country, contaminant by contaminant.
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