As controversy continues to swirl around the water crisis in Flint, MI, where that city’s public water supply has been contaminated with toxic levels of lead, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced that 99% of the state’s approximately 2,500 Public Water Systems (PWS) are in compliance with federal lead standards for drinking water. DPH’s Drinking Water Section (DWS) oversees the administration of state and federal drinking water regulations for those systems, which provide water to roughly 2.9 million Connecticut residents and visitors on a daily basis.
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