National Water Quality Month: Your Water is Clean, Safe and High

FEATURED COLUMNIST National Water Quality Month:

Your Water is Clean, Safe and High Quality

By Rebecca Gold Rubin

Every August is National Water Quality Month, and it’s a great opportunity to remind ourselves of how important clean, high-quality water is every day, to every person, to our environment and wildlife, and to our entire planet.

Especially in a drought, we must remember to protect the quality of our drinking water, our lakes and waterways, and our oceans.

Ensuring water quality is at the very core of the District’s everyday work. We are focused on providing safe, high-quality water to meet our community’s present and future needs.

All of the water we supply to our customers is from the Santa Cruz Mid-County Groundwater Basin, and we regularly test that water from each of our groundwater wells to ensure it is clean and safe.

In fact, we test for over 140 possible contaminants, and then report the results to the community in our annual Water Quality Report (you can see it online at soquelcreekwater.org). Any contaminants that may be found are removed or reduced to safe levels through our treatment process, in compliance with State and Federal Drinking Water Standards, before water is pumped into the distribution system.

We’re proud to report that the water delivered to you meets or exceeds all of those standards. And, we are committed to maintaining those high standards, as water quality regulations continue to evolve and become even more stringent.

You can read our 2020 Water Quality Report at soquelcreekwater.org/210/ Water-Quality-Report.

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