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FREE PUBLIC WATER INFORMATION · EARLY PROTOTYPE

A well-th of
information.

Water questions start somewhere. Find trustworthy original sources and prepare a research prompt for your place, your question, and the evidence you need.

Explore water quality, supply, wells, drought, rivers, utilities, floods, and research.

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FIRST NATIONAL COLLECTION · USGS MONITORING LOCATIONS

Building the connections, carefully.

1,042,777distinct monitoring locations indexed
44 / 7jurisdictions exhausted / partial for this source
0observations in this collection

These are collection checkpoint counts, not a count of working wells or all private wells. Location records do not establish water availability, quality, or safe drilling.

The national location viewer is a local demo. It is not included in this public launch. The research tools below work with a small existing source catalog; they do not query the national collection.

YOUR QUESTION, YOUR RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

Prepare a useful research prompt.

Describe your area in words. This tool creates instructions you can copy into your own AI environment. It does not run a search or send your inputs to Rainfolk.

Avoid entering sensitive information. Nothing here is saved to a shared contribution queue.

FOLLOW THE ORIGINAL

A starter library of source pointers.

Search existing catalog metadata on this page. Titles and source pointers help discovery; indexing does not verify a document's findings or its relevance to your location. Check access, reuse rights, geography, and dates at the original source.

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Download the existing metadata snapshot · USGS Water Data · EPA water data

OPEN PROJECT

Help make water information easier to find.

The open-source Rainfolk research producer is published, with Rust and Python tests and an offline site example. The national USGS location corpus remains a local collection; this site does not provide it as a live feed or a complete US well registry.

Explore the Rainfolk code and contribute on GitHub

The starter catalog contains source pointers; it does not imply verified evidence for every place. Terlingua was the first case study; Rainfolk's research approach is intended for people's own places.