The Water Guy

Remember these numbers: 82 and 8. They represent the distribution of how the United States receives its drinking water. Most people don't realize that the United States has over 50,000 community water systems serving over 300 million individuals each day and that 82% of them serve only 8% of the population. That is because the majority of systems, the 82%, serve smaller communities with populations of 3,300 or less. At the other end of the spectrum, 8% of the water systems are large (serving populations over 10,000), and collectively they serve approximately 82% of the population.