Clean water a critical issue in NC

Clean water will be one of the continuing issues facing North Carolina as the population rapidly expands. A report on clean drinking water issued last year by the North Carolina Progress Board also sheds more light on this issue. The following news release touches on the urgency of this growing problem...

News and Observer

March 1, 2007
Wade Rawlings, Staff Writer

Perdue urges protection for water sources

The availability of clean water in North Carolina is likely to become a widespread problem as the population continues to increase, said participants in a conference on the future of the state's water supplies.

North Carolina is the sixth-fastest growing state in the country, and the population is expected to increase by 50 percent to more than 12 million people by 2030, state demographers say.

Along with more people, water demand is expected to increase by 35 percent to 2.2 billion gallons a day. Read more...