“The 35-year-old federal law regulating tap water is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose what scientists say are serious health risks — and still be legal,” The New York Times reported Thursday.

In a special report showing the variance between health guidelines from various federal agencies and the federal clean drinking water standards, The Times breaks out water supply systems city by city, county by county and state by state.

Only 91 contaminants are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, yet more than 60,000 chemicals are used within the United States, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates. Government and independent scientists have scrutinized thousands of those chemicals in recent decades, and identified hundreds associated with a risk of cancer and other diseases at small concentrations in drinking water, according to an analysis of government records by The New York Times.

Based on their comparisons, Seattle area water supplies have tested fairly well, at least in recent years. Read here for the Seattle report.

In fact, most of the state got pretty clean marks in testing recent years.  Click here for results of testing from across King County. And here for results statewide.