Worried about clean drinking water?

When you turn on the faucet do you wonder if the water is clean or will stay clean? Is it safe to drink or is this one of those weeks when a water alert has been issued?

An article from the Chatham Journal gives insight to how clear the future of clean water is for North Carolina. Additional information is contained in a report on Safe Drinking Water from the NC Progress Board.

Chatham Journal Weekly - Chapel Hill, NC
March 5, 2007
D. G. Martin

We’ve got plenty of water in North Carolina, so why worry so much about it?

But people are worried. They are worried even though North Carolina is more richly blessed with natural water resources than almost every other state. More folks are worried because water is at the heart of so much of what makes the good life in our state possible. If the abundant supply of pure drinking water is at risk, our good life is threatened.

Good water is one of the reasons people and businesses are moving to North Carolina in droves. Paradoxically, that growth is one of the major threats to the “good water” that is attracting new people to our state. Read more...