Talk:Water pollution in the United States

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Contamination of treated drinking water is different from water pollution
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies: lakes, rivers, oceans, etc. This article is about pollution of U.S. water bodies. Some of these water bodies are drinking water sources; others are not. The focus of the article is on what kind of pollution it is (e.g., organic chemical waste, nutrients, etc.), who/what caused the pollution (industry, agriculture, urban runoff) and what can be done to prevent it or treat it (e.g. wastewater treatment, oil spill cleanup, etc.).

Contamination of treated drinking water—after the water has left the drinking water treatment plant and is delivered by pipes to customers—is a different phenomenon. The focus is on the drinking water utility and what it did (or didn't do) that caused the contamination problem. There are several articles that discuss this.
 * In particular there is Drinking water quality in the United States and Drinking water supply and sanitation in the United States. These articles which overlap a bit in coverage.
 * Also Lead service line and Water purification.
 * There are also articles about specific instances of drinking water contamination in the US: Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water, Flint water crisis, Pittsburgh water crisis and Newark water crisis.

If you have information about contamination of treated drinking water that you wish to contribute to Wikipedia, please review the above articles and add your material there if appropriate, or perhaps create additional articles. Thanks! Moreau1 (talk) 18:22, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Article revised per above comment. Moreau1 (talk) 16:17, 1 August 2020 (UTC)