Clear ownership and limits
About Utah Water Quality
The site translates public drinking-water records into source-first, location-aware pages without inventing safety scores or hiding uncertainty.
What does this site cover?
Utah Water Quality explains public drinking-water provider matches, reported status, advisories when available, Consumer Confidence Reports, reviewed measurements, limitations, and source freshness. It does not certify water at a tap or replace a utility, regulator, laboratory, or health professional.
Who owns each part?
Rails owns authoritative data ingestion, normalization, spatial matching, status semantics, provenance, and canonical routes. Astro owns the accessible static presentation. answer.cloud hosts the site and generates its answer-engine layer and first-party chat/search feature.
What is outside scope?
Recreational water, lakes, fish consumption, conservation, billing, and water rights are separate domains. Editorial links may point to their authorities, but those topics are not combined with the drinking-water backend.