City/Municipal Water

Municipal treatment plants turn contaminated water into potable drinking water. Your water is screened for debris and filtered, then they add either Chlorine or lately a combination of Chlorine and Ammonia, which are powerful disinfectants, to significantly reduce the risk of waterborne diseases. While the water that comes into your house is considered “safe” to drink it still contains many impurities and by-products from the disinfectants.

City/Municipal water providers are governed by the EPA (Federal) and TCEQ (State) to follow the rules of the Clean Water Drinking Act of 1974.  A lot of things have changed since 1974 and the latest amendment to this act is now over 25 years old.

By law, these providers must publish their annual Water Quality Report.  Even though the majority of these providers follow the law, there is only so much that they can/will do at the municipal/city level for the purity of your water.

The rest is up to you! We strongly urge you to read your local Water Quality Report and read our blogs about “What is in your local water” and call us with questions. If you believe that Congress/EPA are great Water Treatment Specialists – Cheers! If not, it is time to re-examine what you are drinking.

• Unregulated Substances– These are not required to be reported by either EPA or TCEQ. The EPA’s Contaminant Candidate List (currently on the 4^th revision).  Every 5 years a list is compiled and then reviewed.  From this list, contaminants are either rolled over, deletions or escalation to one of the above categories.
• Other Substances– These are not required to be reported by either EPA or TCEQ. This is the last list of items found in our water.  This is a long list and contains: acetone, calcium, lead, magnesium, potassium, radium, total alkalinity, total hardness, and more.
• Warning– 86% of our water is testing positive for Cryptosporidium.  Naegleria Fowler (Brain Eating Amoeba) is now in our municipal water.  Giardia is now in our municipal water.  All three of these have mutated and can slip by disinfection.  All Water Treatment Manufacturers are recommending UV lights on Municipal Water. You Local Consumer Confidence Reports warns (and hold the Water Provider Harmless) of Cryptosporidium.

Your local Water Quality Report must list the Regulated substances and disinfection byproducts.

We give a huge shout-out to Canyon Lake’s Water Quality Report for listing everything that is in our water.  What CLWSC reported is what is in all of our local water, but they have decided to be transparent. Thank you!