Akron — the former Rubber Capital of the World — draws its drinking water from reservoirs fed by the Cuyahoga River system, a watershed that famously caught fir…
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Bakersfield sits at the southern end of California's Central Valley, where the collision of massive oil production, intensive agriculture, and chronic drought c…
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Buffalo's drinking water comes from the Niagara River and Lake Erie — sources shaped by Love Canal's toxic legacy, heavy industrial history, and the ongoing cha…
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Columbia draws drinking water from the Saluda River at Lake Murray and the Broad River, navigating a legacy of textile mill contamination, proximity to the Sava…
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Dayton sits atop the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer — one of the most productive groundwater sources in North America — but PFAS contamination from Wright-Pa…
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Des Moines operates the world's largest nitrate removal plant — a $4.5 million-per-year machine that runs whenever Iowa's farm-drenched rivers spike beyond safe…
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Fort Wayne sits on the Maumee River — the single largest contributor of phosphorus to Lake Erie and the primary driver of the western basin algal blooms that sh…
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Grand Rapids draws drinking water from Lake Michigan — one of the world's largest freshwater sources — but West Michigan's furniture and manufacturing industrie…
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Hartford's drinking water comes from the Metropolitan District Commission's reservoir system — well-protected source water in the hills west of the city. The ch…
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Huntsville draws its drinking water from Wheeler Lake on the Tennessee River, but PFAS contamination from Redstone Arsenal and rapid suburban expansion create g…
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Knoxville draws its drinking water from the Tennessee River and Fort Loudoun Lake, but the region's coal ash legacy, proximity to Oak Ridge's nuclear facilities…
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Little Rock draws its drinking water from the Arkansas River and Lake Maumelle, navigating agricultural runoff from across Kansas and Oklahoma, natural arsenic…
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Mobile's drinking water comes from Big Creek Lake, but the city's water quality story involves paper mill pollution, PFAS contamination from the former Brookley…
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Montgomery draws its drinking water from the Alabama River, a system affected by agricultural runoff and upstream industrial activity, while the city's aging wa…
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Oxnard sits on a coastal plain wedged between the Pacific Ocean and Ventura County's agricultural heartland, where seawater intrusion threatens coastal aquifers…
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Providence draws from the Scituate Reservoir — one of the largest unfiltered water supplies in New England — but thousands of lead service lines and Narraganset…
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Rochester draws its drinking water from Lake Ontario, but decades of industrial contamination from Eastman Kodak and thousands of remaining lead service lines c…
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Shreveport's drinking water comes from Cross Lake, a reservoir struggling with nutrient loading and algal growth, while the city's aging distribution system and…
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Spokane drinks from the Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer — a massive, highly permeable gravel aquifer that recharges so rapidly it delivers some of the best groundwater…
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Stockton sits at the heart of California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where agricultural nitrate contamination, the banned pesticide DBCP, drought-driven gro…
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Syracuse drinks from Skaneateles Lake — one of the cleanest municipal water sources in America — but lives in the shadow of Onondaga Lake, once called the most…
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Worcester is connected to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's Quabbin-Wachusett reservoir system — among the finest drinking water sources in New Engl…
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Arlington's 400,000 residents rely on Trinity River reservoirs for drinking water, but algal blooms, disinfection byproducts, and infrastructure strain raise qu…
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Aurora's water supply stretches across three river basins and hundreds of miles of infrastructure, but PFAS contamination from Buckley Space Force Base and expl…
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Connecticut's largest city inherited a century of industrial contamination — from ammunition factories to brass works — and now contends with lead service lines…
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Burlington's drinking water faces PFAS contamination linked to the international airport and military firefighting foam, with levels reaching 72,000 ppt in some…
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Davenport is one of the few major Mississippi River cities without a permanent flood wall — and its drinking water intake pulls from a river carrying nitrate an…
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Northwest Arkansas is booming — and its drinking water source, Beaver Lake, is under growing pressure from the same poultry industry that drives the regional ec…
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Gainesville draws its drinking water from the Floridan Aquifer — one of the most productive aquifer systems in the world — but nitrate contamination from septic…
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Gary was built by US Steel and shaped by its decline — and the city's drinking water carries the burden of both, from chromium-6 in Lake Michigan to lead pipes…
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Greensboro's drinking water comes from reservoirs fed by streams carrying decades of textile industry waste, 1,4-dioxane contamination, and emerging PFAS concer…
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Kern County's water supply is caught between two massive industries — agriculture and oil production — both of which have contaminated the underlying aquifer wi…
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Long Island's 2.8 million residents depend entirely on a sole-source aquifer that's increasingly contaminated with PFAS from military bases, industrial sites, a…
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Modesto sits in the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, where decades of intensive agriculture have left nitrate, DBCP, and 1,2,3-TCP in the groundwater t…
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Orlando's 2 million metro residents draw water from the Floridan Aquifer — one of the most productive in the world — but PFAS contamination, rapid development,…
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PFAS from Naval Air Station Pensacola has contaminated groundwater wells in surrounding neighborhoods, while the city's sand aquifer system faces growing pressu…
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Peoria draws its drinking water from the Illinois River — a waterway that collects agricultural runoff from millions of acres of corn and soybean country plus t…
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Riverside's water supply contends with perchlorate from Cold War-era rocket manufacturing, PFAS from March Air Reserve Base, and increasing pressure on the Sant…
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Santa Fe's water supply faces a triple threat: naturally occurring arsenic in the aquifer, chronic drought reducing surface supplies, and growing demand in one…
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Beneath Scranton lies a maze of abandoned anthracite coal mines — and the acid mine drainage they produce has been contaminating streams and groundwater for ove…
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South Gate's water supply carries the legacy of decades of heavy industry in southeast Los Angeles County, with ongoing concerns about chromium-6, nitrates, and…
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Springfield sits atop Ozarks karst geology where sinkholes and caves connect the surface directly to the aquifer — making the city's drinking water uniquely vul…
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Florida's capital city draws drinking water from the Floridan Aquifer, but hundreds of thousands of septic systems, urban development, and PFAS contamination fr…
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In August 2014, Toledo told half a million people not to drink their water after microcystin from Lake Erie algal blooms overwhelmed the treatment plant — and t…
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Topeka draws its drinking water from the Kansas River, which carries atrazine and agricultural runoff from some of the most intensively farmed land in the count…
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Wilmington was the headquarters of DuPont for over two centuries — and the chemical giant's PFAS contamination legacy, from Teflon manufacturing to GenX compoun…
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Youngstown's steel mills closed decades ago, but their legacy lives on in contaminated soil, polluted groundwater, and a Mahoning River watershed that still car…
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Boise has some of the best drinking water in the West, drawn from deep volcanic aquifers and the Boise River. But Treasure Valley's explosive growth, agricultur…
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Charleston's rapid growth in the Lowcountry collides with rising seas, saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers, military PFAS contamination, and flooding that…
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Colorado Springs has excellent mountain-sourced drinking water, but PFAS contamination from five military installations, the devastating 2012 Waldo Canyon fire'…
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Columbia's drinking water comes from Lake Murray and the Broad and Saluda Rivers, but Fort Jackson PFAS contamination, the devastating 2015 flood, and aging inf…
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Corpus Christi sits at the center of Texas's petrochemical coast, where refinery contamination, saltwater intrusion from the Gulf, drought, and harmful algal bl…
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Durham draws drinking water from Falls Lake and Lake Michie, but the Research Triangle's rapid growth, nutrient pollution driving algal blooms, and heightened P…
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Elkhart's identity as the RV Capital of the World comes with a manufacturing legacy that's left industrial solvents in the groundwater. Multiple EPA investigati…
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Fort Wayne sits at the confluence of the St. Marys, St. Joseph, and Maumee Rivers. The city draws from both rivers and groundwater, but PFAS contamination, indu…
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Greenville's drinking water starts in the Blue Ridge Mountains at Table Rock reservoir — some of the cleanest source water in the Southeast. But the city's text…
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Hartford draws drinking water from protected reservoirs in the hills west of the city, but aging lead infrastructure, industrial contamination from Connecticut'…
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Laredo pulls its drinking water from the Rio Grande — a river that serves as both an international boundary and a water source under increasing stress from drou…
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Lexington's drinking water comes from the Kentucky River and its reservoir system, but upstream coal mining, agricultural runoff from the Bluegrass Region, and…
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Lubbock sits on the southern High Plains where the Ogallala Aquifer — once seemingly infinite — is being pumped dry. Nitrate contamination, water scarcity, and…
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Reno's rapid growth in the high desert collides with limited water resources, naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater, and emerging PFAS contamination — crea…
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Salt Lake City draws pristine drinking water from Wasatch Mountain watersheds, but the shrinking Great Salt Lake, historic mining contamination in nearby canyon…
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Savannah draws from the Floridan Aquifer — one of the most productive aquifer systems in the world — but decades of heavy pumping have triggered saltwater intru…
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Tacoma's drinking water comes from the pristine Green River watershed, but the city's ASARCO copper smelter Superfund legacy, military PFAS contamination, and C…
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Albuquerque has spent decades addressing arsenic in its groundwater, a rapidly declining aquifer, and a massive fuel and chemical plume spreading from Kirtland…
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Anchorage's drinking water flows from Eklutna Lake and Ship Creek — glacier-fed sources with some of the purest water in America. But PFAS from military install…
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Baton Rouge sits on one of the largest freshwater aquifer systems in the country — but saltwater intrusion, industrial contamination from the petrochemical corr…
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Birmingham's water comes from some of the purest surface sources in the Southeast — but aging infrastructure, lead pipes, and disinfection byproducts mean what…
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Chattanooga's drinking water comes from the Tennessee River — a waterway shaped by TVA dams, surrounded by coal-fired power plants, and carrying the legacy of h…
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Des Moines operates the world's largest nitrate removal facility because its rivers carry so much agricultural contamination that standard treatment can't keep…
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When the EPA adds a contaminated site to the National Priorities List, it triggers federal cleanup authority and funding — but for residents living near a new S…
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Fresno sits at the center of California's agricultural heartland — and its groundwater shows the consequences. Nitrate contamination, the pesticide byproduct 1,…
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Grand Rapids draws clean water from Lake Michigan, but the surrounding area has some of the worst PFAS contamination in the country — legacy pollution from Wolv…
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The Navy's Red Hill fuel storage facility contaminated Honolulu's drinking water in 2021, forcing well shutdowns and triggering the largest military water conta…
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Jersey City's rapid growth is straining a water system built over a century ago. With lead service lines still in the ground, PFAS in the supply, and disinfecti…
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Little Rock's drinking water comes from Lake Maumelle — a protected reservoir in the Ouachita foothills. But agricultural pressure, aquifer depletion across the…
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Madison sits on an isthmus between two lakes and draws all its drinking water from deep underground wells — but PFAS from Truax Field, agricultural nitrate, and…
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New Haven's water comes from pristine reservoirs in the Connecticut highlands — but lead service lines, emerging PFAS concerns, and aging infrastructure mean re…
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Norfolk is home to the world's largest naval base and is one of the most flood-vulnerable cities in America — and both of those facts have direct implications f…
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Omaha's drinking water comes from the Missouri River and a vast wellfield — but thousands of lead service lines, agricultural runoff, and emerging contaminants…
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Providence Water serves over 600,000 Rhode Islanders through a system dating back to 1871 — and the age of that infrastructure means lead pipes, disinfection by…
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Richmond draws its drinking water from the James River — a waterway with a long industrial history, combined sewer overflows, and emerging contamination concern…
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San Jose's tap water comes from a mix of imported surface water and local groundwater — and both sources face growing challenges from drought, chromium-6, and P…
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Spokane's drinking water comes from the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer — one of the most productive and protected aquifers in the West. But military co…
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St. Petersburg was one of the first cities in America to embrace water reuse — but PFAS in reclaimed water, aging infrastructure, and saltwater intrusion now ch…
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Trenton draws its drinking water from the Delaware River — a waterway that has improved dramatically from its industrial past but still carries contamination fr…
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Tulsa draws its drinking water from lakes that face algal blooms, taste and odor issues, and growing contamination from both agricultural runoff and industrial…
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Wichita's drinking water comes from a mix of the Equus Beds Aquifer and Cheney Reservoir — a dual-source system that faces agricultural contamination, chloride…
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In 2017, Wilmington discovered its drinking water had been contaminated for decades with GenX — a PFAS replacement chemical discharged by a chemical plant upstr…
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Austin is one of the fastest-growing cities in the US, and its water supply from the Highland Lakes faces mounting pressure from drought, PFAS contamination, an…
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Boston's water comes from the protected Quabbin Reservoir — one of the best sources in the country. But lead pipes in older homes and emerging PFAS concerns sti…
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Charlotte's water from the Catawba River faces threats from Duke Energy's coal ash contamination, North Carolina's PFAS crisis, and explosive growth in the Caro…
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Cincinnati draws from the Ohio River — one of the most heavily used waterways in America. But the city's water utility has been a national leader in treatment i…
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Cleveland draws drinking water from Lake Erie but faces lead service line challenges, harmful algal blooms threatening source water, and century-old infrastruct…
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Columbus draws from the Scioto River and faces lead service lines in older neighborhoods, harmful algal blooms from agricultural runoff, and rapid growth strain…
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The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex draws from reservoirs fed by the Trinity River. PFAS from military bases, aging infrastructure, and explosive population growth…
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Denver's water system faces PFAS contamination from nearby military bases, a massive lead service line replacement program, and growing drought pressure on its…
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El Paso faces a depleting aquifer, shares water across the border with Ciudad Juárez, and operates the largest inland desalination plant in the US. It's a deser…
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Hartford's water from protected MDC reservoirs is high quality, but lead pipes in some of New England's oldest homes and Connecticut's emerging PFAS contaminati…
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Indianapolis faces PFAS contamination, tens of thousands of lead service lines, and one of the nation's largest combined sewer overflow problems threatening wat…
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Jacksonville has PFAS from NAS Jacksonville and other military bases, draws from the Floridan Aquifer, and has one of the highest concentrations of septic syste…
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Kansas City draws from the Missouri River and faces lead service lines, PFAS from military and industrial sources, and the complexity of a metro area spanning t…
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Las Vegas depends on a shrinking Lake Mead for nearly all its drinking water. But aggressive conservation and recycling have made it one of the most water-effic…
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Louisville draws from the Ohio River, downstream of industrial sites and upstream communities. PFAS, lead pipes, and Chemical Valley's industrial legacy define…
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Memphis sits on one of the world's purest natural drinking water sources — the Memphis Sand aquifer. But PFAS contamination, industrial legacy sites, and urban…
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Miami's drinking water comes from the shallow Biscayne Aquifer — one of the most vulnerable in America. Rising seas, saltwater intrusion, and PFAS contamination…
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Minneapolis draws drinking water from the Mississippi River and faces PFAS contamination linked to decades of 3M manufacturing, plus thousands of lead service l…
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Nashville draws from the Cumberland River and faces lead infrastructure challenges, emerging PFAS contamination, and explosive growth straining its aging water…
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Oklahoma City depends on reservoirs up to 100 miles away and faces naturally occurring arsenic, severe recurring drought, and infrastructure stretched by rapid…
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Portland's water comes from the pristine Bull Run watershed near Mount Hood — among the cleanest sources in the US. But lead in schools, aging pipes, and a rese…
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Raleigh draws from Falls Lake, impaired by nutrient pollution for over a decade. Combined with North Carolina's PFAS contamination crisis and explosive Triangle…
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Sacramento draws from the American and Sacramento Rivers but faces PFAS contamination from former McClellan AFB, Delta water politics, and aging infrastructure…
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Salt Lake City depends on Wasatch Mountain snowmelt for drinking water. Climate change, the shrinking Great Salt Lake, and PFAS contamination from Hill Air Forc…
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San Diego gets barely 10 inches of rain a year and has historically imported over 80% of its drinking water. Now PFAS contamination from MCAS Miramar and a bil…
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San Francisco's drinking water from Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is among the purest in America. But PFAS contamination near SFO, aging pipes, and earthqua…
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Sarasota has experienced repeated wastewater spills into Sarasota Bay, devastating red tide events, and growing pressure on the Floridan Aquifer that supplies m…
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Seattle's water comes from the protected Cedar River and Tolt River watersheds in the Cascades — among the cleanest sources in the US. But lead pipes and emergi…
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Tampa Bay relies on surface water, groundwater, and the largest desalination plant in the US. PFAS from MacDill Air Force Base and aging infrastructure create o…
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Tucson depends on Colorado River water and a depleted local aquifer. PFAS contamination from Davis-Monthan AFB threatens groundwater, but the city leads the nat…
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Virginia Beach faces PFAS from multiple naval installations, depends on a 76-mile pipeline from Lake Gaston for water supply, and has a coastal aquifer vulnerab…
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The EPA has added the Gelman Sciences site in Ann Arbor to the Superfund National Priorities List. A 3-mile plume of 1,4-dioxane has been contaminating groundwa…
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Atlanta's water and sewer infrastructure has been under federal consent decrees since 1998. Decades of neglect led to raw sewage overflows into the Chattahooche…
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For more than 30 years, up to 1 million Marines, family members, and civilian workers at Camp Lejeune drank water contaminated with industrial solvents and fuel…
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PFAS contamination from military firefighting foam has spread into drinking water supplies near Colorado bases including Peterson and Buckley Space Force Bases.…
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Detroit operates one of the largest water systems in America, serving 3.8 million people across southeast Michigan. But mass water shutoffs, lead pipes, and agi…
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The Flint water crisis became the most notorious drinking water disaster in modern American history. After 11 years under an EPA emergency order, the city final…
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Houston's water problems are a collision of geology, weather, and infrastructure. Decades of groundwater pumping caused land to sink, hurricanes overwhelm the s…
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Los Angeles imports most of its drinking water from hundreds of miles away while PFAS contamination has shut down local groundwater wells. Drought, aging pipes,…
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Memphis has some of the best-tasting tap water in America, drawn from a massive underground aquifer. But contamination from industrial sites and development pre…
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Nearly two decades after Katrina, New Orleans still struggles with failing water mains, lead service lines, and boil advisories. The Sewerage and Water Board fa…
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Ohio EPA has released a draft wastewater discharge permit for a proposed data center, establishing new effluent limits for cooling operations. It signals growin…
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A new analysis from RCAP and NRWA examines how voluntary regional partnerships could help small and rural water systems tackle aging infrastructure, workforce s…
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South Texas College is launching a new wastewater operator training program to help fill a growing workforce gap in the Rio Grande Valley — part of a nationwide…
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St. Louis has an estimated 56,000 lead service lines — among the highest concentrations in the country. Older neighborhoods on the north side bear the heaviest…
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A Wisconsin sewerage district just proved that choosing watershed conservation over expensive treatment plants can generate verified carbon credits — the first…
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With an estimated 400,000 lead service lines — more than any other US city — Chicago faces a massive challenge under new EPA replacement requirements. Here's wh…
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Jackson's water system has been in crisis for years — from the 2022 Pearl River flood that left 150,000 without safe water to ongoing infrastructure decay. Here…
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Newark's lead contamination crisis began in 2016 when elevated lead levels were found in schools. By 2020, over 200,000 residents were affected. Here's what hap…
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With EPA PFAS limits now in effect, water systems across the country are rethinking their treatment approach. Ion exchange resins offer roughly 10 times the rem…
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Pittsburgh Water has been actively replacing lead service lines since 2016. Here's what homeowners should know about lead in Pittsburgh's drinking water and wha…
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When a 60-year-old, 72-inch sewer pipe collapsed in January 2026, it sent 243 million gallons of untreated wastewater into the Potomac River — one of the worst…
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A broken connector on a 14-inch force main sent approximately 14,000 gallons of raw wastewater into Sarasota Bay on March 1, 2026 — the latest in a series of in…
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Baltimore's water mains average 75 to 80 years old, and the city experiences hundreds of breaks every year. With an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 lead service line…
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Milwaukee has an estimated 65,000 lead service lines — one of the highest counts of any US city. The city has committed to replacing every single one by 2037. H…
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Philadelphia's water infrastructure includes pipes dating back to 1824 — among the oldest in the nation. With 3,300 miles of mains, 20 miles replaced per year,…
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Phoenix has something most major US cities can't claim: no known lead service lines. But the desert city faces its own set of water challenges — from naturally…
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San Antonio Water System manages 9,000 miles of water and sewer mains with no known lead service lines. The utility is shifting to condition-based pipe replacem…
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Across Northern Minnesota, most community water systems keep fluoride levels around 0.7 mg/L, but in places where natural groundwater fluoride exceeds safe leve…
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Cloudy or milky tap water doesn’t encourage you to drink it, and it’s not something you want to do. Is it really dangerous to drink cloudy water?
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Has it rained for days, and is your yard flooded? When you turn on the faucet in your home, does brown water come out? If so, you must take it seriously and not…
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Giving your lovely fur babies a bath, washing your all-important clothes, a refreshing glass of water for your dinner guest — you use water for everything. And…
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If you read my last article, you know that I believe the core of local marketing starts with a professional website and a Google Maps listing. This routine setu…
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Digital marketing has become extremely popular over the past 10 years. A lot of different industries have adapted to the digital marketing age and they’ve start…
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Arsenic is a naturally occurring mineral commonly found in the rocks and soil throughout all of Minnesota. It makes total sense that we would find arsenic in a…
Read articleBemidji, “The First City on the Mississippi”, is a medium-sized city located in northern Minnesota. It lies on Lake Bemidji about 150 miles northwest of Duluth.…
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Brainerd is the largest city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Prior to the building of the large concrete water tower at the corner of Washington and 6th, the pe…
Read articleDuluth is the fourth-largest city in Minnesota and is at the center of the second-largest metropolitan area in the state. – Wikipedia
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UV water purifiers use ultraviolet light to destroy harmful microorganisms in drinking water. Here's how the technology works and whether it's right for your ho…
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There are many claims on the internet that the reverse osmosis water purification systems are bad for our health. We live in the information age where a lot of…
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Chlorine kills harmful bacteria in your water supply, but many people want to know if drinking chlorinated water is safe long-term — and how to remove it if the…
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