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Today, most people in the United States take safe and inexpensive drinking water for granted. Everyone simply assumes that all water coming out of a tap is safe to drink, without thinking about the infrastructure, treatment, planning, monitoring, repair, maintenance, and myriad of other requirements for providing safe and adequate drinking water supplies.
But the successful implementation of treatment processes that provided safe drinking water had an unintended consequence. It took away focus on protecting the sources of drinking water.
And that means the picture is once again changing.
And that means the picture is once again changing.
For many years, in most cities and towns, it was cheaper to treat water than to protect the sources from which it came. This is no longer true. Times have changed, in a number of significant ways. Read on!
Did you know . . . ?
The major contributors to the increased life expectancy achieved during the past century are water treatment, sewer systems, and safer food.
Water hasn’t always been “safe” in the United States. Before drinking water treatments were developed and put into widespread use, illnesses and deaths associated with contamination were common.
Between 1920 and 1935, for example, as chlorination was integrated into the public water supply process, cholera was reduced by 90% and typhoid by 80%.