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Trust Your Tap: Get to Know Your Water System
Safe, clean drinking water is critical to public health, welfare and safety in Utah and an important part of sustainable growth.
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Sandy City Drinking Water Update
DEQ’s Division of Drinking Water (DDW) continues to evaluate drinking-water sample results from Sandy City. Drinking Water Director Marie Owens issued the following update on sampling results on February 24, 2019.
Read MoreWater System Classifications
A Water System is all lands and related facilities owned by a single entity, which are deemed necessary or convenient to deliver drinking water from a source to the service connection of consumers.
Read MoreDEQ, Schools Partner to Keep Kids Safe from Lead in Drinking Water
By Marie E. Owens We have all heard about the lead contamination in Flint, Michigan’s drinking water. Some of you may have wondered if anything like this could happen here in Utah. While the natural water chemistry in Michigan is different than we have here, the major cause of that city’s problem was a combination …
Read MoreDrinking Water: Boiling Water Woes
By Kim Dyches Following the recent news coverage about communities boiling their water, water customers may want to know if this contamination could have easily been prevented. The answer is YES. These contamination events were the result of a cross-connection between someone’s pressurized irrigation system and the culinary water line into their home. Contaminated water …
Read MoreWater Cycle: From Cloud to Tap
Dec. 22, 2014 By Kim Dyches It’s easy to take our drinking water for granted—we turn on our tap and just like that, we have clean water. In fact, Americans drink more than 1 billion glasses of tap water a day! But strict regulations to protect the quality of that drinking water are a relatively …
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