Abstract: Water quality varies from state-to-state, but there are apparent differences compared throughout multiple cities in Alabama. Turbidity was found to be higher in city parks than residential parks throughout Alabaster, Hoover, Birmingham and Chelsea. While the overall clearness of the water was more, PH balances were higher in surrounding areas of Birmingham than the surrounding areas of Hoover. PH was taken from multiple locations of city parks and residential parks, allowing the data to be further stretched. Dissolved oxygen was higher in residential parks than city parks in Alabama while water temperature was lower for sunny residential parks in Alabama than cloudy parks in Alabama. The data was collected from an excel spreadsheet made between all of the students in my BIO102 lab. We went out into the field and sampled water sites from all over Alabama, ranging from Mobile to Birmingham and even up into the northern part of the state. The purpose of this was to collect and compare data from site to site and to test the overall water quality in different areas and bodies of water. We learned that water quality varies importantly in each city, with each city in Alabama having its own standard for water quality. Water quality is extremely important because it affects our day-to-day life, from the water we drink to the organisms that call it their home. I concluded that while water quality is a pressing issue, there are certain cities in Alabama that need more immediate focus on their water quality issues.