Additional Resources
The following page provides contact information for drinking water authorities in the states of each city we surveyed, as well as watershed maps, right-to-know reports, and information about compliance with federal standards and requirements. Where available, links are also provided to comments submitted by state environmental officials regarding proposed reductions in federal clean water protections. For more about these contacts and resources, see below.

Resources and Contacts by City
Albuquerque | Atlanta | Baltimore | Boston | Chicago | Denver | Detroit | Fresno | Houston | Los Angeles | Manchester | New Orleans | Newark | Philadelphia | Phoenix | San Diego | San Francisco | Seattle | Washington, D.C.

State Drinking Water Contact Information: Use the contact information provided to obtain additional information concerning water quality in your area, and to learn about opportunities for citizen involvement and meetings of the local water supplier.

Consumer Confidence (or "Right-to-Know") Reports: These are links to water quality reports published by each city's water supplier. The reports are supposed to contain information on levels of certain contaminants in drinking water, compliance with tap water rules, water sources, etc. The quality and accuracy of these reports varies.

Watershed or Source Water Characterization Maps & Potential Polluters: Use these links to access EPA maps of the watersheds or other source water for each city. Each watershed has been classified according to its vulnerability to water quality problems based on EPA's Index of Watershed Indicators (IWI). You can find specific pollution sources by zooming in on each map and can navigate around the area using the mapping features. Once you've zoomed in on a specific area of the watershed, dots appear showing potential polluters; information on each potential polluter can be found by double clicking on the dot on the map representing the facility.

Compliance Information: These links take you to information on each water system's violations of tap water standards and monitoring and reporting requirements, as recorded in the U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS). EPA audits show that the SDWIS database, while required by federal law to be accurate, often fails to include violations known to state officials, and on rarer occasions reports violations that did not occur. Problems remain despite NRDC's repeated urging that EPA clean up the database, and despite internal reports and investigative reports showing chronic underreporting. See USA Today, "Data Stream Polluted by Inaccuracy."

State Comments on Clean Water Act Rollback: These documents contain comments submitted by state environmental officials to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers regarding a proposed rulemaking by these agencies that would reduce the number of categories of water bodies protected by the Clean Water Act. States' comments were overwhelmingly against the proposed rule, and in favor of preserving existing Clean Water Act jurisdiction for the protection of surface waters.