DRINKING WATER SAFETY LINKS

REGULATORY SITES:

Safe Drinking Water

This is a starting site about drinking water. “The Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW), together with states, tribes, and its many partners, protects public health by ensuring safe drinking water and protecting ground water.”

Safe Drinking Water Act

See this umbrella site for The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), which celebrates its 30th anniversary on December 16, 2004, is the main federal law that ensures the quality of Americans' drinking water. Under SDWA, EPA sets standards for drinking water quality and oversees the states, localities, and water suppliers who implement those standards.

Maximum Contaminant Level

This site contains a List of Drinking Water Contaminants & MCLs, National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, National Secondary Drinking Water Regulations, and Unregulated Contaminants

How Standards are Set

Explains how drinking water standards are regulations that EPA sets to control the level of contaminants in the nation's drinking water.

Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water

This is the main page for the EPA office of Ground water and Drinking water. There are dozens of other links on this site as well.

Lead in Drinking Water

A specific page on the EPA site which goes into great detail about Lead in Drinking Water