Boil water advisories in Rhode Island
We do not read this state's advisories
We read Rhode Island Dept of Health's page and did not find a list of active advisories on it: it points to one at a different address instead. We do not read that list into this page, so open it directly for what it shows now. That is one page on one day, not a statement about what Rhode Island Dept of Health publishes. Advisories may still be issued by your utility or your county directly.
Open Rhode Island Dept of Health's site
Open the list Rhode Island Dept of Health's page links to
CORRECTED 19 September 2026. The programme page we checked on the table-wide date is a hub and carries no list, which is what this row recorded — but it is one click above a page that does. RIDOH's 'Public Water Emergency Information for Consumers' page reads 'See the table below for ongoing and recently lifted drinking water notices in the state', sorts by column header, and gives each notice a type, Do Not Drink among them. ⚠️ THE TABLE IS JS-RENDERED: the served HTML contains zero <tr> elements, so a byte-level check calls this page empty, exactly as it does West Virginia's. It was found by reading the prose, not the markup. ⚠️ A SINGLE-PAGE CHECK CANNOT FIND THIS CLASS AT ALL — the 2026-08-22 pass checked one page per state, and a state may publish a perfectly good list one click from the page it points you to. Any re-verification must crawl one level deep on link labels.
This is not a statement that your water is safe. We do not read this state's advisories, so this page cannot tell you whether one is in force. Your utility is the authority for your own water.
Where to check instead
Our database holds 57 public water systems in Rhode Island. That is a count of what is in our database, not a count of every public water system in the state.
The largest systems we hold data on here, by the population each one reports serving:
- PROVIDENCE-CITY OF
- PAWTUCKET WATER SUPPLY BOARD VEOLIA-NA
- KENT COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY
- WARWICK-CITY OF
- BRISTOL COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY
- EAST PROVIDENCE-CITY OF
- WOONSOCKET WATER DIVISION
- NEWPORT-CITY OF
- WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT
- NORTH ATTLEBORO WATER DEPT
Or start from a ZIP code:
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Enter a ZIP code and we will show you the water systems we hold for it, and what the state agency's list said about each one when we last read it.
Questions about this page
- Does this page list every boil water advisory in Rhode Island?
- No. We do not read Rhode Island Dept of Health's advisories into this page, so nothing on it is a list of what is in force. What this page carries instead is where those advisories are published and which water systems our own database holds.
- Where are boil water advisories for Rhode Island published?
- Rhode Island Dept of Health publishes the guide this page links to first, and that guide points to a separate list at another address, which this page links as well. We do not read either of them into this page, so open the list directly. CORRECTED 19 September 2026. The programme page we checked on the table-wide date is a hub and carries no list, which is what this row recorded — but it is one click above a page that does. RIDOH's 'Public Water Emergency Information for Consumers' page reads 'See the table below for ongoing and recently lifted drinking water notices in the state', sorts by column header, and gives each notice a type, Do Not Drink among them. ⚠️ THE TABLE IS JS-RENDERED: the served HTML contains zero <tr> elements, so a byte-level check calls this page empty, exactly as it does West Virginia's. It was found by reading the prose, not the markup. ⚠️ A SINGLE-PAGE CHECK CANNOT FIND THIS CLASS AT ALL — the 2026-08-22 pass checked one page per state, and a state may publish a perfectly good list one click from the page it points you to. Any re-verification must crawl one level deep on link labels.
- How many water systems does this page cover?
- Our database holds 57 public water systems in Rhode Island. That is a count of what is in our database, not a count of every public water system in the state. Advisories are counted by water system, keyed on the system's federal identifier, and never by the number of separate notices one system has been given.
- Is anything on this page a verdict about whether the water is safe?
- This is not a statement that your water is safe. We do not read this state's advisories, so this page cannot tell you whether one is in force. Your utility is the authority for your own water.
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