Who needs source water protection when drinking water is treated to meet health standards?
The first reason is, treatment sometimes fails. For example, in May, 2000, the community of Walkerton, Ontario was devastated by E. coli contamination of their drinking water, which killed seven people and hospitalized about 2,300 people. The incident occurred because a number of barriers failed simultaneously. If manure spreading had not been permitted around the well, the failure of the other controls would not have had such a tragic outcome. Beyond this, treatment is expensive. The cleaner the source water, the less the water system and its customershave to pay. Clean, abundant source water is important to everyone, and is a major selling point for communities interested in attracting investment.
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