How do I make sure my tap water is safe?
With concerns about microplastics in bottled water bubbling up alongside worries over lead and PFAS in tap water, how do you make sure the water you drink is safe?
Clean water
Together we can protect the waterways that sustain our communities and our health.
Our waterways should be safe for swimming, fishing and drinking. But weak regulations and lax enforcement allow many of our rivers, lakes and streams to become so polluted they are no longer safe. This pollution, along with outdated infrastructure – like lead pipes in our schools – puts our health at risk. We need to work together to make sure our water is treated like the life-giving resource that it is.
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New products added to Colorado’s “no PFAS list”
New toolkit helps parents ensure school drinking water is lead free
New report: Schools have homework to get the lead out
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Getting the lead out, 10 years after Flint
The Biden administration has taken the most significant step toward protecting our drinking water from lead since the start of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis a decade ago.
Supporters celebrate new bill to protect health, water supply by phasing out toxic ‘forever chemicals’
Colorado ranks in top five states for tackling PFAS pollution
Progress toward a future safe from PFAS “forever chemicals”
Dangerous PFAS chemicals are common in drinking water and household items – but these recent victories are making a safer future possible.
New report: Colorado schools have homework to remove lead from drinking water
Analysis finds many fountains, faucets in Colorado that tested positive for lead still need remediation a year later.