About The Well Owner

About 43 million Americans drink from a private well. Nobody tests that water for them, and nobody tells them what the results mean.

City water comes with a utility, a lab and a yearly report. A private well comes with none of that. Federal drinking water rules don't cover private wells, so the owner is the one who tests, reads the results and picks a treatment. Most people start with an orange stain or a rotten-egg smell. Then they land on sellers who all say their system fixes everything.

The Well Owner works the other way round: symptom first, test second, product last. Every page explains what causes the problem, how to confirm it with a test, which treatments work at which levels, and when a cheap fix is enough.

Who runs this site

Haroon, Founder and editor
Hi, I'm Haroon. I started The Well Owner because clear, independent answers for private well owners were hard to find. Most pages online are written to sell a system. I write and check every guide here against EPA, state health department and university extension sources, and I keep them updated.

How we work

Sources you can check. Numbers come from the U.S. EPA, state health departments and university extension services. Each page lists its sources and the date we checked them.
No fake testing. We only say "we tested" when we did. Otherwise we tell you where the information comes from.
Cheapest working fix first. If a $30 fix solves it, we say so before mentioning a $2,000 system.
Independent. We are not affiliated with the EPA, any government agency, or any water treatment manufacturer.

Read the full editorial policy and our affiliate disclosure.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections or a well problem we haven't covered: contact us.