No citywide exposure assumptions
A utility result does not prove the same condition at every household, and a ZIP code does not establish the water supplier.
Editorial responsibility
Zero Trace Water Research Team
The team responsible for public-water-system identification, source review, city and ZIP research, treatment education, source citations, and corrections on IndianaWaterFiltration.com.
What the byline means
A documented research process—not an invented expert persona.
Pages credited to the Zero Trace Water Research Team are compiled from utility Consumer Confidence Reports, Indiana IDEM records, EPA public-water and UCMR resources, official utility pages, geographic references, and clearly labeled third-party comparison links.
The byline does not claim that every page was reviewed by a physician, toxicologist, engineer, laboratory scientist, or attorney. A named professional reviewer will be added only when that person actually reviews the content and approves public attribution.
Editorial work separates system-level evidence from address-level conclusions, identifies raw-water versus finished-water results, preserves dates and units, and avoids presenting a city name or ZIP code as proof of the serving utility.
Editorial safeguards
What the team will not claim without evidence.
No unsupported treatment promises
Reduction claims must be tied to the complete model, contaminant, standard, capacity and maintenance conditions.
No invented local presence
The regional site does not fabricate offices, phone numbers, employees, licenses, ratings or reviews.
No hidden corrections
Material corrections are documented through the corrections page and reflected in the page's reviewed date.
Evergreen review cadence
Methodology pages are designed for an 18–24 month review window.
The research method, source hierarchy, attribution rules, and editorial safeguards remain valid until a material source, regulatory, technical, or business-process change requires an earlier revision. City and utility pages keep their own reviewed dates because serving systems, reports, links, and sampling records can change on a different schedule.
Before making a property decision, confirm the current utility, PWSID, newest Consumer Confidence Report, and any property-specific test results. The site documents a research process; it does not claim real-time monitoring.
Review the method
See how the evidence is selected and corrected.
Read the research standards, report an error, or request a water review based on the property’s actual source and goals.