Drinking Water: Consumer Concerns

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Topics Under This Category:

	Bottled Water In order to produce bottled water in Texas, the system must meet PWS requirements; this gives informmation about those rules.
	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The CDC web site provides links to resources that answer common questions about drinking water and links to waterborne disease fact sheets.
	Disinfection Byproduct (DBP) Information General questions and answers.
	Disinfection Byproducts Disinfection byproducts or DBPs, are chemicals that are formed when organic carbon reacts with chlorine, a chemical used to disinfect water against pathogenic organisms.
	Fluoride in Drinking Water: Is It Safe? Answer copied by permission from the American Water Works Association's "Plain Talk About Drinking Water" (2001).
	Harvesting, Storing, and Treating Rainwater for Domestic Indoor Use Basic guidance for individuals who want to install a rainwater harvesting and treatment system to supply potable drinking water for a single household.
	Is Bottled Water Safer Than Tap Water? Compares bottled water to tap water.
	Relative Risk to Public Water System Customers from Disinfection Byproducts Explains the relative risk to Public Water System Customers from Disinfection Byproducts.
	Rules for the Submetered or Allocated Billing of Utility Services Links to Title 30, Texas Administrative Code, Subchapter H, Utility Submetering and Allocation.
	Understanding Chemical Analysis Results How to read and interpret the results of chemical analyses reported to you by a drinking-water laboratory.
	Water and Wastewater Submetering or Allocation A description and explanation of submetered and allocated utility billing.

Drinking Water: Consumer Concerns

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