Texas Drinking Water
How safe is Texas Drinking Water? What are the laws governing Drinking Water in Texas? Where are the main Water Resources in Texas (Example: springs, lakes, desalination plants, etc.? Are there commercial Water Resources that sell Drinking Water in bottles or tanks?
4 million Americans could be drinking toxic water - and never know it. Read our investigation of a 'tiny Flint' in Texas, and the big problems with small utilities
Utilities serving a few thousand people or less, like the one in Ranger, Texas, which experts have called a "Tiny Flint," don't have to treat water to prevent lead contamination until after lead is found. And even when they skip safety tests or fail to treat water after finding dangerously high levels of lead, federal and state regulators often do not force them to comply with the law. Because the nation's drinking-water enforcement system doesn't make small utilities play by the same safety rules as everyone else, millions of Americans face potential lead contamination, a USA TODAY Network investigation finds. Ref. USAToday.
Corpus Christi, Texas, water ban lifted after chemnical leak
Residents can now use tap water for drinking, bathing, washing dishes and infood preparation, Mayor Dan McQueen said on Sunday. City officials placed the city under a water use ban late Wednesday night after they learned a chemical tank containing an asphalt emulsifying agent leaked into water lines in the industrial district. Ref. USAToday.