pfasnearmeDrinking water quality from official sources

Drinking water quality by city

Official test results for PFAS, nitrate, lead and water hardness, collected from public government sources.

472 472 of 2901 cities tested in detail have more PFAS than the health limit used in Sweden (0.004 µg/L). All of them still pass the looser EU legal limit.

Cities with the most PFAS, compared with the health limit

  1. Aubord 18.5×
  2. Brou 15.8×
  3. Poissy 15.5×
  4. Savigny 14.5×
  5. Saint-Doulchard 14.3×
  6. Bornel 13.8×
  7. Neuilly-en-Thelle 13.8×
  8. Le Mesnil-en-Thelle 13.8×
  9. Chambly 12.7×
  10. Tavaux 12.7×

Based on official measurements of the four most harmful PFAS. The bars show how many times each city exceeds the 0.004 µg/L health limit used in Sweden.

Largest cities

Paris
2,103,778 Population PFAS measured
Marseille
886,040 Population not detectable
Lyon
519,127 Population above health limit
Toulouse
514,819 Population PFAS measured
Nice
357,737 Population PFAS measured
Nantes
327,734 Population not detectable
Montpellier
310,240 Population PFAS measured
Strasbourg
293,771 Population PFAS pending
Bordeaux
267,991 Population not detectable
Lille
238,246 Population above health limit
Rennes
230,890 Population not detectable
Toulon
179,116 Population PFAS detected
Reims
177,674 Population PFAS measured
Saint-Étienne
173,136 Population PFAS measured
Le Havre
166,687 Population not detectable
Villeurbanne
163,684 Population above health limit
Dijon
161,830 Population PFAS measured
Angers
159,022 Population PFAS pending
Grenoble
156,140 Population not detectable
Saint-Denis
155,634 Population above health limit
Nîmes
151,839 Population above health limit
Aix-en-Provence
149,695 Population not detectable
Saint-Denis
149,077 Population PFAS measured
Clermont-Ferrand
146,351 Population not detectable
Le Mans
146,249 Population not detectable
Brest
142,346 Population PFAS measured
Tours
139,259 Population PFAS detected
Amiens
136,449 Population PFAS detected
Annecy
132,117 Population PFAS detected
Limoges
129,937 Population not detectable
Metz
122,572 Population PFAS measured
Perpignan
121,616 Population not detectable
Boulogne-Billancourt
119,019 Population PFAS pending
Besançon
118,489 Population not detectable
Rouen
117,662 Population PFAS detected
Orléans
116,357 Population not detectable
Montreuil
111,934 Population not detectable
Caen
109,400 Population not detectable
Saint-Paul
108,088 Population PFAS measured
Argenteuil
106,130 Population PFAS pending

All departments

01 Ain 87 02 Aisne 34 2A Corse-du-Sud 15 2B Haute-Corse 20 03 Allier 26 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence 16 05 Hautes-Alpes 11 06 Alpes-Maritimes 56 07 Ardèche 39 08 Ardennes 21 09 Ariège 14 10 Aube 26 11 Aude 29 12 Aveyron 26 13 Bouches-du-Rhône 102 14 Calvados 80 15 Cantal 9 16 Charente 37 17 Charente-Maritime 79 18 Cher 20 19 Corrèze 19 21 Côte-d'Or 29 22 Côtes-d'Armor 82 23 Creuse 5 24 Dordogne 34 25 Doubs 51 26 Drôme 48 27 Eure 49 28 Eure-et-Loir 41 29 Finistère 120 30 Gard 84 31 Haute-Garonne 115 32 Gers 14 33 Gironde 140 34 Hérault 115 35 Ille-et-Vilaine 128 36 Indre 16 37 Indre-et-Loire 55 38 Isère 156 39 Jura 18 40 Landes 41 41 Loir-et-Cher 33 42 Loire 59 43 Haute-Loire 29 44 Loire-Atlantique 153 45 Loiret 70 46 Lot 8 47 Lot-et-Garonne 32 48 Lozère 8 49 Maine-et-Loire 81 50 Manche 49 51 Marne 28 52 Haute-Marne 9 53 Mayenne 27 54 Meurthe-et-Moselle 73 55 Meuse 14 56 Morbihan 110 57 Moselle 107 58 Nièvre 16 59 Nord 240 60 Oise 76 61 Orne 25 62 Pas-de-Calais 151 63 Puy-de-Dôme 54 64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques 60 65 Hautes-Pyrénées 16 66 Pyrénées-Orientales 59 67 Bas-Rhin 100 68 Haut-Rhin 72 69 Rhône 130 70 Haute-Saône 14 71 Saône-et-Loire 41 72 Sarthe 57 73 Savoie 57 74 Haute-Savoie 90 75 Paris 1 76 Seine-Maritime 87 77 Seine-et-Marne 140 78 Yvelines 105 79 Deux-Sèvres 38 80 Somme 34 81 Tarn 40 82 Tarn-et-Garonne 20 83 Var 96 84 Vaucluse 54 85 Vendée 103 86 Vienne 47 87 Haute-Vienne 30 88 Vosges 39 89 Yonne 24 90 Territoire de Belfort 12 91 Essonne 103 92 Hauts-de-Seine 35 93 Seine-Saint-Denis 39 94 Val-de-Marne 47 95 Val-d'Oise 84 971 Guadeloupe 28 972 Martinique 27 973 Guyane 16 974 La Réunion 24 976 Mayotte 17

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