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Who do you ask? There's conflicting information. Plus rivers are long and it may be safe upstream but not downstream. Is there a government office I can just call. If so is that the one useful thing the government does?

This river I'm looking at one site says there's poop and insecticides in the water. The other says the fishing is great!.

How do I get to the bottom of this without spending years studying chemistry and biochemistry and testing the water myself?

Who do you ask? There's conflicting information. Plus rivers are long and it may be safe upstream but not downstream. Is there a government office I can just call. If so is that the one useful thing the government does? This river I'm looking at one site says there's poop and insecticides in the water. The other says the fishing is great!. How do I get to the bottom of this without spending years studying chemistry and biochemistry and testing the water myself?

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Look for bugs in the water, fish and birds also I would go online and see if you can find any reports. Sometimes they'll say what the water is like. Never drink unfiltered water that's for sure. Well you can just make sure that it's literally coming out of the mountain or coming out of the glacier.