Drinking Water: Consumer Concerns
Low pressure? Poor service? Is your water cloudy or colored? Does it smell bad? Is your supply contaminated? Identify the problem. Find out if it could affect your health. Learn more about notices or reports from your supplier.
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Bottled Water
In order to produce bottled water in Texas, the system must meet PWS requirements; this gives informmation about those rules. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Fluoride in Drinking Water: Is It Safe?
Answer copied by permission from the American Water Works Association's "Plain Talk About Drinking Water" (2001). |
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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. |
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Relative Risk to Public Water System Customers from Disinfection Byproducts
Explains the relative risk to Public Water System Customers from Disinfection Byproducts. |
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Rules for the Submetered or Allocated Billing of Utility Services
Links to Title 30, Texas Administrative Code, Subchapter H, Utility Submetering and Allocation. |
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Understanding Chemical Analysis Results
How to read and interpret the results of chemical analyses reported to you by a drinking-water laboratory. |
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Water and Wastewater Submetering or Allocation
A description and explanation of submetered and allocated utility billing. |

