A periodic resource on source water assessment ...
These are a series of articles regarding Drinking Water Source Assessment. These articles will inform you about your drinking water and what you, the public, can do to get involved in protecting your current and future drinking water quality.

  The federal Safe Drinking Water Act's "Source Water Assessment Program" requires every state to analyze existing and potential threats to the quality of our public drinking water supplies. Most community water suppliers deliver high-quality drinking water.

As development increases in our states, it can also create threats to our drinking water. Suburban sprawl has encroached upon once-pristine watersheds, bringing with it all of the by-products of our modern life. Contamination of our drinking water occurs infrequently, but don't take our drinking water safety for granted. Greater emphasis on protecting our drinking water by you, your water supplier, and your state and local government will help keep our drinking water safe.

• Where Does My Drinking Water Come From?
• Protecting Sources of Drinking Water
• Source Water Protection
• Simple Steps to Help Protect our Source Water
• How Will Source Water Assessments Be Used? What Are the Potential Benefits?
• Grass Roots Organization Works to Protect Groundwater: The Groundwater Foundation
• Public Participation in Development of State Source Water Assessment Programs
• What to Expect from Your State's Report on Drinking Water Source Assessment
• States Working to Identify Potential Contaminants in Sources of Public Drinking Water
• Underground Injection Control
• Protecting Sources of Drinking Water: The Costs, Cost Savings, and Sources of Funding