Is SAGUARO WATER COMPANY's water safe to drink?
SAGUARO WATER COMPANY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 3,243 people through 1,329 service connections.
SAGUARO WATER COMPANY's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, SAGUARO WATER COMPANY ranks 3,355th by violation burden (74th percentile) - 134 violations total, 5 health-baseds.
How SAGUARO WATER COMPANY compares within
's 244 covered systems average 11.2 health-based violations each; SAGUARO WATER COMPANY carries 5, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for SAGUARO WATER COMPANY is from 2023-01-10 (health-based: 2011-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SAGUARO WATER COMPANY's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
SAGUARO WATER COMPANY's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and SAGUARO WATER COMPANY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,355th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.